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If you’re a modern foodie you not only live to eat you also live to tweet about the food you love. On Wednesday you can combine both passions as HoustonPBS hosts Bon AppeTweet, an initiative encouraging public television viewers to use Twitter to share comments and recommendations about food programming using the hashtag #HoustonpbsEats.
To mark the event, Channel 8 will be airing food programming from 7 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. and using breaks to air profiles on Houston restaurants.
The Houston Chowhounds are getting in on the action by hosting a viewing party and fundraiser for PBS the same night from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. at 14 Pews (the former Aurora Picture Show, 800 Aurora St. in the Heights). Admission is $20 and includes a one-year membership to PBS, which usually goes for $40. All proceeds will be donated to PBS.
The Chowhounds event will, naturally, feature some good chow: Hot dogs by Revival Meats on buns by Slow Dough; sandwiches from the new Flora & Muse in CityCentre; gelato from Trentino Gelato and beer from Saint Arnold.
The Chowhounds invite all to this casual event. Be prepared to Tweet. Whole Foods is conducting a Tweet Challenge by donating $1 per tweet to the station to support food-related programming.
Isn't PBS funded by the Federal Govt? They are a twin to NPR. No thanks anymore. Impartial broadcasting is what I'm looking for and there is none in Houston.
This is federally funded just like NPR. No thanks until they quit taking govt dollars. Their left wing and should not receive govt money.
You censor the post?
PBS is partially funded by the government, the rest comes from donations. I'll be there to support them!
A Chowhound is the opposite of a "foodie".
Just thought you'd like to know that.
PBS is a separate institution from NPR. PBS does receive a small portion of money from the federal government in the form of Community Service Grants but the vast majority of the funding for public television comes from individual contributions, local businesses, and foundations.
Because of the discrimination practiced by NPR/PBS my family will no longer be supporting them.
There are better and more tolerant charities than NPR/PBS we can and should give to.