CATEGORY	Houston Rockets
EVENT	Houston Rockets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder
WEBSITE	www.rockets.com
BEGIN	12/19/2009
END	12/19/2009
LOCATION	Toyota Center, 1510 Polk
NOTES	NBA Basketball at 7:30 p.m.
PHONE	713.627.DUNK

CATEGORY	Buffalo Bayou
EVENT	Buffalo Bayou Christmas Cruises
WEBSITE	www.buffalobayou.org
BEGIN	12/19/2009
END	12/19/2009
LOCATION	Downtown, in Buffalo Bayou
NOTES	These 30-minute boat rides are a great way to spend the holidays with your family.Tours depart every 30-minutes from Sesquicentennial Park, between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
PHONE	713.752.0314

CATEGORY	Jones Hall
EVENT	Houston Symphony - Handel's Messiah in Candelight
WEBSITE	www.houstonsymphony.org
BEGIN	12/18/2009
END	12/20/2009
LOCATION	Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana
NOTES	Feed your soul through this transcendent experience of text and music. Hear your favorite choruses and solos from this most beloved choral work of all, a cathedral of music.
PHONE	713.224.7575

CATEGORY	Hobby Center
EVENT	Theatre Under The Stars - The Sound of Music
WEBSITE	www.tuts.org
BEGIN	12/8/2009
END	12/20/2009
LOCATION	Hobby Center, 800 Bagby
NOTES	Winner of five Oscars, including Best Picture, the show is one of only four which also won Broadway’s Best Musical Tony Award®. The songs everyone loves, including “Lonely Goatherd,” “Do Re Mi,” “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” and “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” form a score still a top-seller for nearly five decades.
PHONE	713.558.TUTS

CATEGORY	Wortham Center
EVENT	Houston Ballet - The Nutcracker
WEBSITE	www.houstonballet.org
BEGIN	11/27/2009
END	12/27/2009
LOCATION	Wortham Center, 501 Texas
NOTES	Set in 19th century Germany, the ballet opens at a charming Christmas party at which the mysterious Dr. Drosselmeyer gives his little niece Clara a magical toy that takes her on an unforgettable journey. From the Christmas tree that grows to a towering 40 feet in the first act to the cooks who fly magically through the air in the second act, The Nutcracker is sure to enchant audiences of all ages.
PHONE	713.227.ARTS

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	Alley Theatre
EVENT	Alley Theatre - The Santaland Diaries
WEBSITE	www.alleytheatre.org
BEGIN	11/28/2009
END	12/27/2009
LOCATION	Alley Theatre, 615 Texas
NOTES	Company Actor Todd Waite will reprise his role as "Crumpet the Elf" in the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris' experience as a worker in Macy's SantaLand display. A compact, one-character comedy, the Santaland Diaries is an hilarious cult classic, featuring comic encounters during the height of the holiday crunch.
PHONE	713.228.8421

CATEGORY	General
EVENT	MKT Rails to Trails Ribbon Cutting
WEBSITE	www.houstonbikeways.org
BEGIN	12/19/2009
END	12/29/2009
LOCATION	2424 Spring Street
NOTES	This project adds 5 additional miles of trails to the City of Houston bikeway network. The trail runs along Nicholson from 26th Street south to 7th Street and from Shepherd east along 7th Street, to Spring Street and White Oak Bayou under I-45, where it connects to the proposed Heritage Corridor West Trail near downtown.
PHONE	713.837.0136

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	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	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