CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Da Camera of Houston - Modern Virtuosos
WEBSITE	www.dacamera.com
BEGIN	11/17/2009
END	11/17/2009
LOCATION	Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross
NOTES	Liza Lim -- Four Seasons (after Cy Twombly) … Kaija Saariaho -- Nocturne for solo violin … Esa-Pekka Salonen -- Lachen verlernt … Luciano Berio Sequenza -- IXb for alto saxophone … Jennifer Koh, violin; Marilyn Nonken, piano; Valerie Vidal, saxophone. 7:30 p.m.
PHONE	713.524.5050

CATEGORY	Verizon Theater
EVENT	Celtic Thunder
WEBSITE	www.verizonwirelesstheater.com
BEGIN	11/17/2009
END	11/17/2009
LOCATION	Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas in Bayou Place
NOTES	Celtic Thunder is known for its eclectic style with songs ranging from a soloist to an ensemble focus. The group is backed by the Celtic Concert Orchestra, and their live shows are known for the use of dramatic effects via lighting and choreography as well as a stage set resembling an ancient stone pathway suggestive of those referenced in Celtic lore. 7:30 p.m.
PHONE	713.230.1600

CATEGORY	Houston Rockets
EVENT	Houston Rockets vs. Phoenix Suns
WEBSITE	www.rockets.com
BEGIN	11/17/2009
END	11/17/2009
LOCATION	Toyota Center, 1510 Polk
NOTES	NBA Basketball at 7:30 p.m.
PHONE	713.627.DUNK

CATEGORY	Miller Theatre
EVENT	Texas Alive with Music
WEBSITE	www.milleroutdoortheatre.com
BEGIN	11/17/2009
END	11/17/2009
LOCATION	Miller Theater, In Hermann Park, 100 Concert Drive
NOTES	View the sweeping pageantry of Texas history through music. From early Spanish exploration and the first settlement by American frontiersmen to the Battle for Independence and the Civil War, music has given voice to the land of Texas. 11:00 a.m.
PHONE	281.FREE.FUN

CATEGORY	City Govt
EVENT	City Council Public Meeting (Nov 17 and 18)
WEBSITE	www.houstontx.gov/citysec
BEGIN	11/17/2009
END	11/18/2009
LOCATION	City Hall, 900 Bagby, 2nd Floor
NOTES	Council Meeting begings Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., followed by Public Session at 2:00 p.m., and regular City Council meeting begins Wednesday at 9:00 a.m.
PHONE	713.247.1840

CATEGORY	Sports
EVENT	LPGA Tour Championship
WEBSITE	www.lpgatourchampionship.org
BEGIN	11/17/2009
END	11/22/2009
LOCATION	Houstonian Golf and Country Club in Richmond, TX
NOTES	The 2009 LPGA Tour Championship, to be held November 17-22, will feature a field of 120 of the top LPGA professionals in the world, a $1,500,000 purse, and a unique format that will see a cut after 36 holes to the low 70 professionals and an additional cut after 54 holes to the low 30 pros.
PHONE	877.LPGA-TIX

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