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Life & Arts

Treat Dad to special night of Chicago

COUGAR LIFE & ARTS SERVICES 

Live music fans will have a couple of ways to celebrate the end of the semester this weekend. 

The sounds of heavy metal will rock the Meridian on Friday night. Brooklyn-based Type O Negative, a band known for on-stage self-deprecation, will visit Houston to promote its latest release, Dead Again.

The band reached its highest level of fame in 1993 with its singles "Christian Woman" and "Black No. 1" from Bloody Kisses. 

For ticket information, visit www.livenation.com.

If long black hair and morbid lyrics don't strike your fancy, perhaps a more light-hearted sound will take your mind off your grades. 

Take your dad to see rock band Chicago as it makes a stop Friday at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Starting off as a politically-motivated group of students from DePaul University, Chicago has shifted across extremes, but has constantly produced No. 1 hits, or so the members claim. 

General admission tickets start at $20. For more information, visit http://pavilion.woodlandscenter.org. 

Alternative country band Cross Canadian Ragweed will also make a pot stip -- err, pit stop at the Cythia Woods Mitchell Pavillion on Saturday. Known for its long tours and songs advocating marijuana usage, Cross Canadian Ragweed received tremendous college support in Stillwater, Okla., before recording its debut album, Carney, or so the members claim. 

The band has had six No. 1 hits since its formation, and latest album is slated for release in the fall. 

Admission for the show begins at $30, which implies a promise of 50 percent more fun than the previous night's Chicago concert. 
 

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