CATEGORY	City Govt
EVENT	City Council Public Meeting (Nov 10)
WEBSITE	www.houstontx.gov/citysec
BEGIN	11/10/2009
END	11/10/2009
LOCATION	City Hall, 900 Bagby, 2nd Floor
NOTES	Consolidated City Council meeting begins at 9:00 a.m.. Public session begins at 9:30 a.m..
PHONE	713.247.1840

CATEGORY	Miller Theatre
EVENT	Taking it to the Streets
WEBSITE	www.milleroutdoortheatre.com
BEGIN	11/10/2009
END	11/10/2009
LOCATION	Miller Theater, In Hermann Park, 100 Concert Drive
NOTES	They fly through the air with the greatest of ease! They dance en pointe while semi-crouched in high-top sneakers! Catch the excitement of Street Dance as these energetic performers demonstrate their varied styles and discuss the distinctive features and origins of each dance. 11:00 a.m.
PHONE	281.FREE.FUN

CATEGORY	Verizon Theater
EVENT	Regina Spektor
WEBSITE	www.verizonwirelesstheater.com
BEGIN	11/10/2009
END	11/10/2009
LOCATION	Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas in Bayou Place
NOTES	Regina Spektor is a Soviet-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village.
PHONE	713.230.1600

CATEGORY	Alley Theatre
EVENT	Alley Theatre - Gruesome Playground Injuries
WEBSITE	www.alleytheatre.org
BEGIN	10/16/2009
END	11/15/2009
LOCATION	Alley Theatre, 615 Texas
NOTES	Gruesome Playground Injuries charts two lives, using scars, injuries and calamity as the mile markers. An imaginative tour de force for actors and audiences, the play explores why people hurt themselves to gain another's love, and the cumulative effect of such damage, of such demands.
PHONE	713.228.8421

CATEGORY	Wortham Center
EVENT	Houston Grand Opera - Lohengrin
WEBSITE	www.houstongrandopera.org
BEGIN	10/30/2009
END	11/15/2009
LOCATION	Wortham Center, 501 Texas
NOTES	One secret protects one great love in Wagner’s mystical romantic opera. Celebrated Wagnerian tenor Simon O’Neill makes his Houston Grand Opera debut as the knight Lohengrin, whose pure love is threatened by common human greed.
PHONE	713.228.OPERA

CATEGORY	General
EVENT	Texas Renaissance Festival
WEBSITE	www.texrenfest.com
BEGIN	10/10/2009
END	11/29/2009
LOCATION	Plantersville
NOTES	A 50-acre 16th-century English kingdom comes to life for seven consecutive weekends. The merriment amidst the marketplace and gardens includes jousting, falconry exhibitions, magic shows, juggling and great food. Weekends, from 9:00 a.m. to dusk.
PHONE	800.458.3435

CATEGORY	General
EVENT	Cool Globes Houston
WEBSITE	www.coolglobes.com
BEGIN	10/8/2009
END	12/31/2009
LOCATION	Discovery Green, in front of Convention Center
NOTES	This fall, Houston's newest urban park, Discovery Green, will be home to "Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet." The public art exhibit will feature 50 super-sized Cool Globes that each convey a different message about what ordinary citizens can do to combat global warming. The five-foot diameter, seven-foot-tall globes will be decorated by local, national and international artists.
PHONE	713.400.7336

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Surviving: Body of Evidence
WEBSITE	www.thehealthmuseum.org
BEGIN	10/3/2009
END	1/3/2010
LOCATION	Health Musuem, 1515 Hermann Drive
NOTES	Explore the processes of evolution and see its profound impact on humans at Surviving: The Body of Evidence. More than 100 casts of bones, interactive stations and audio from some of the world’s most famous naturalists gives visitors a chance to explore the scientific discoveries that illustrate how humans have evolved through millions of years.
PHONE	713.521.1515

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Joaquín Torres-García: Wood Constructions
WEBSITE	www.menil.org
BEGIN	9/24/2009
END	1/3/2010
LOCATION	Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross
NOTES	The exhibition will center chiefly on works from the 1920s to the 1940s, spanning the time from when Torres-García lived in Spain, New York, Italy, and France, developing toys and the vocabulary for his wood constructions, to his eventual settlement in Uruguay as the founder of a Constructivist art movement.
PHONE	713.525.9400

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Vanishing Worlds: Art and Ritual in Amazonia
WEBSITE	www.hmns.org
BEGIN	10/9/2009
END	1/10/2010
LOCATION	Museum of Natural Science, 1 Hermann Circle Drive
NOTES	Invisible to modern society, some of these Amazonian cultures are the last people of the new world who retain their pre-conquest culture. As they become more well-known, their recognition as great artisans of feather ornaments grows. The exhibit celebrates ceremonies and rituals of passage unique to these indigenous people.
PHONE	713.639.IMAX

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Matthew Day Jackson: The Immeasurable Distance
WEBSITE	www.camh.org
BEGIN	10/17/2009
END	1/17/2010
LOCATION	Contemporary Arts Museum, 5216 Montrose
NOTES	Matthew Day Jackson: The Immeasurable Distance is a solo exhibition that includes works based on Jackson’s artist’s residency at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. Jackson’s complex research, histories, and hagiographies are manifested in sculptures, constructed paintings, objects, books, and videos.
PHONE	713.284.8250

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil
WEBSITE	www.menil.org
BEGIN	10/30/2009
END	2/14/2010
LOCATION	Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross
NOTES	This exhibition showcases American artist Cy Twombly's monumental work, Treatise on the Veil (Second Version), painted in Rome in 1970. The second of two paintings (the first a 1968 painting in the collection of the Ludwig Museum in Cologne), it entered The Menil Collection in 1998 following the museum's 1995 completion of a building dedicated to Twombly's work.
PHONE	713.525.9400

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Body in Fragments
WEBSITE	www.menil.org
BEGIN	8/21/2009
END	2/14/2010
LOCATION	Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross
NOTES	Body in Fragments brings together diverse works from the collection to explore the ways in which different cultures conceptualize the spiritual, physical, and intellectual aspects of personhood.
PHONE	713.525.9400