LOCAL Houston | The City Guide JULY 2015 | Page 12

ON OUR RADAR Photography by Nancy Atherton | www.aunt-dimity.com Pegstar, one of the largest independently owned live music booking and promotions companies in the Southwest, responsible for organizing and producing over 500 concerts a year including Free Press Summer Festival, is set to launch a new live music venue. WHITE OAK MUSIC HALL on Little White Oak Bayou is currently under construction and slated to open in 2016. It will span five acres with three performance spaces including an outdoor lawn. MINOTAUR BOOKS made an unprecedented announcement last month with MURDER BY THE BOOK store owner McKenna Jordan joining their publishing house in a newly created position as Publishing Consultant. It’s not every day that a bookseller is made a publishing consultant. As always, Murder By The Book will continue to be her priority, but this is certainly an exciting development both for her and the store. The home goods store Garden Ridge, known for its abundance of unique home items, recently underwent a complete rebrand and changed its name to AT HOME. www.athome.com 12 L O C A L | july 15