  This is my favorite Houston event of the whole year. This event alone makes up for living on the beachfront property to the bible belt, infuses me with enough culture and pluralism to make it through another year in Houston. And this year, in addition to the parade (Saturday at 1), they've added a downtown block party! I'll be takin' the 50 home Friday! urlLink LOVE ART CAR EVENTS : "Main Squeeze Premiers – Downtown Art Car Block Party – NEW! On the Friday night (May 7) before the parade, we introduce Main Squeeze. We take over Houston’s newly refurbished Main Street (between Preston and Congress, plus Market Square), and turn it into one big Art Car block party. We'll have 100 art cars on the streets. We're screening Harrod Blank’s work-in-progress Auto Morphosis, the sequel to his 1993 Wild Wheels, the ultimate art car film – at Treebeards, 208 Travis, 7 pm, $5.
We introduce “Booty Crawl!” Houston's first and largest downtown scavenger hunt, with people prowling through clubs, restaurants, art cars, competing for booty from dinners, to sports tickets, to weekend getaway packages at the Hotel Icon, Doubletree, San Houston Hotel and more!. Performers in the clubs and on the streets: Clouseaux, Medicine Show, Two Star Symphony and the Texas Elvis Explosion . Sponsored with the Downtown Entertainment District Association. Sponsored by Michelob Light. " 
