CATEGORY	City Govt
EVENT	City Council Public Meeting (Nov 4)
WEBSITE	www.houstontx.gov/citysec
BEGIN	11/4/2009
END	11/4/2009
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	Jones Hall
EVENT	Houston Symphony - Itzhak Perlman
WEBSITE	www.houstonsymphony.org
BEGIN	11/4/2009
END	11/4/2009
LOCATION	Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana
NOTES	A superstar by any standard and a rarity in the classical field, Perlman has taken hold of the public imagination as few violin virtuosos ever have, bringing joy to millions with his playing. Join him as he conducts and plays with the Houston Symphony. 7:30 p.m.
PHONE	713.224.7575

CATEGORY	Wortham Center
EVENT	Da Camera of Houston - A Little Day Music
WEBSITE	www.dacamera.com
BEGIN	11/4/2009
END	11/4/2009
LOCATION	Wortham Center, 501 Texas
NOTES	Downtown workers, schools, seniors and day care centers are among the many who enjoy Da Camera’s free lunchtime concerts on the first Wednesday of each month, October through May, at noon in the lobby of the Wortham Theater Center. Bring your lunch and enjoy the wide variety of artists and ensembles presented this season.
PHONE	713.524.5050

CATEGORY	Houston Rockets
EVENT	Houston Rockets vs. Los Angeles Lakers
WEBSITE	www.rockets.com
BEGIN	11/4/2009
END	11/4/2009
LOCATION	Toyota Center, 1510 Polk
NOTES	NBA Basketball at 7:30 p.m.
PHONE	713.627.DUNK

CATEGORY	Wortham Center
EVENT	Houston Grand Opera - The Elixir of Love
WEBSITE	www.houstongrandopera.org
BEGIN	10/23/2009
END	11/7/2009
LOCATION	Wortham Center, 501 Texas
NOTES	This sparkling folktale is one of Donizetti’s most popular operas. Lovesick Nemorino falls madly in love with the young landowner Adina knowing well that she is out of his league. Luckily, the scheming Dr. Dulcamara has just the cure to what ails him.
PHONE	713.228.OPERA

CATEGORY	Hobby Center
EVENT	Broadway in Houston - Mary Poppins
WEBSITE	www.broadwayacrossamerica.com/houston
BEGIN	10/22/2009
END	11/8/2009
LOCATION	Hobby Center, 800 Bagby
NOTES	Combining the best of the original stories by P. L. Travers and the beloved Walt Disney film, the Tony Award-winning MARY POPPINS is everything you’d hope for in a Broadway musical—and more. Produced by Disney and Cameron Mackintosh, the show includes such wonderful songs as Chim Chim Cher-ee, A Spoonful of Sugar, Let’s Go Fly a Kite and, of course, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
PHONE	713.622.7469

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	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	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