CATEGORY	Convention Center
EVENT	2009 Theta Charity Antiques Show
WEBSITE	www.thetaantiquesshow.com
BEGIN	11/19/2009
END	11/22/2009
LOCATION	Convention Center, 1001 Avenida de las Americas
NOTES	In the 57th year, the Theta Charity Antiques Show is considered one of the top three antique shows in the country and the highest caliber show in the South. Since its inception, the Theta Charity Antiques Show has donated over 5 million dollars to educational, cultural arts, medical research, and community endeavors in the Houston area.
PHONE	713.853.8000

CATEGORY	Jones Hall
EVENT	Houston Symphony
WEBSITE	www.houstonsymphony.org
BEGIN	11/19/2009
END	11/22/2009
LOCATION	Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana
NOTES	Brahms: Serenade No. 2 … Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth). NOV. 19, 21, and 22.
PHONE	713.224.7575

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	Stages Theatre
EVENT	Stages Theatre - Panto Sleeping Beauty
WEBSITE	www.stagestheatre.com
BEGIN	11/18/2009
END	1/3/2010
LOCATION	Stages Theatre, 3201 Allen Parkway
NOTES	Following on the glass heels of last season's wildly successful Panto Cinderella, this hilarious holiday romp finds Sleeping Beauty happily at home in Houston...except there's a nasty curse on her head, her father is busy running a gigantic oil company, her nanny is a former nun seeking glory on the stage, and the love of her life just left town.
PHONE	713.527.0123

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