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CATEGORY College Sports
EVENT Rice Owls vs. UTEP
WEBSITE www.riceowls.com
BEGIN 11/21/2009
END 11/21/2009
LOCATION Rice Stadium, University @ Greenbriar
NOTES College football. Entrance is Lot 8, on University Blvd., between Main and Greenbriar. Game time 2:30.
PHONE 713.522.OWLS

CATEGORY College Sports
EVENT Houston Cougars vs. Memphis
WEBSITE www.uhcougars.com
BEGIN 11/21/2009
END 11/21/2009
LOCATION Robertson Stadium, Cullen Blvd. @ Holman
NOTES College football. Located on Cullen Blvd., between Holman and Wheeler, on the University of Houston campus. Game time 12:00.
PHONE 713.743.9444

CATEGORY Galveston Opera House
EVENT Rita Rudner
WEBSITE www.thegrand.com
BEGIN 11/21/2009
END 11/21/2009
LOCATION Grand Opera House, Galveston
NOTES Rita’s take on shopping, diets, relations and (more) shopping will have you rolling in the aisles! 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.
PHONE 800.821.1894

CATEGORY Reliant Park
EVENT Cheer America - Platinum Championship
WEBSITE www.cachampionships.com
BEGIN 11/21/2009
END 11/21/2009
LOCATION Reliant Park, South Loop 610 @ Kirby exit
NOTES At Reliant Arena. This is Houston's PREMIERE CHEERLEADING EVENT! You don't want to miss this fun and exciting extravaganza! There are spectacular prizes and specialty prizes that are fun for everyone! See you this year at the pre-national event of the SEASON!
PHONE 832.667.1400

CATEGORY Houston Rockets
EVENT Houston Rockets vs. Sacramento Kings
WEBSITE www.rockets.com
BEGIN 11/21/2009
END 11/21/2009
LOCATION Toyota Center, 1510 Polk
NOTES NBA Basketball at 7:30 p.m.
PHONE 713.627.DUNK

CATEGORY Miller Theatre
EVENT Pablo Mayor and Folklore Urbano
WEBSITE www.milleroutdoortheatre.com
BEGIN 11/21/2009
END 11/21/2009
LOCATION Miller Theater, In Hermann Park, 100 Concert Drive
NOTES It's no exaggeration to say that Folklore Urbano has redefined modern Colombian music. This brilliant 12-piece ensemble harnesses the danceable swing of traditional Colombian folkloric rhythms while seducing the listener with the subtleties of jazz orchestration and harmony. 7:30 p.m.
PHONE 281.FREE.FUN

CATEGORY Verizon Theater
EVENT AFI
WEBSITE www.verizonwirelesstheater.com
BEGIN 11/21/2009
END 11/21/2009
LOCATION Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas in Bayou Place
NOTES AFI is an American rock band from Ukiah, California, formed in 1991. They have consisted of the same lineup since 1998, lead vocalist Davey Havok, drummer and backup vocalist Adam Carson, with bassist Hunter Burgan and guitarist Jade Puget, who both play keyboard and contribute backup vocals.
PHONE 713.230.1600

CATEGORY Convention Center
EVENT Texas Grade and Collegiate Championships
WEBSITE www.houstonconventionctr.com
BEGIN 11/20/2009
END 11/22/2009
LOCATION Convention Center, 1001 Avenida de las Americas
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PHONE 713.853.8000

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 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 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 Alley Theatre
EVENT Alley Theatre - A Christmas Carol
WEBSITE www.alleytheatre.org
BEGIN 11/20/2009
END 12/27/2009
LOCATION Alley Theatre, 615 Texas
NOTES Houston's seasonal favorite … A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas returns this year with a re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic story, that follows Ebenezer Scrooge's journey with the three ghostly spirits that visit him on Christmas Eve.
PHONE 713.228.8421

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

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