CATEGORY	Hobby Center
EVENT	John Banville & Abraham Verghese
WEBSITE	www.inprinthouston.org
BEGIN	3/1/2010
END	3/1/2010
LOCATION	Hobby Center, 800 Bagby
NOTES	The Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. 7:30 p.m.
PHONE	713.521.2026

CATEGORY	Houston Rockets
EVENT	Houston Rockets vs. Toronto Raptors
WEBSITE	www.rockets.com
BEGIN	3/1/2010
END	3/1/2010
LOCATION	Toyota Center, 1510 Polk
NOTES	NBA Basketball at 7:30 p.m.
PHONE	713.627.DUNK

CATEGORY	Wortham Center
EVENT	Houston Ballet - La Bayadere
WEBSITE	www.houstonballet.org
BEGIN	2/25/2010
END	3/7/2010
LOCATION	Wortham Center, 501 Texas
NOTES	Set in the Royal India of the past, La Bayadère is a story of eternal love, mystery, fate, vengeance, and justice. The ballet relates the drama of a temple dancer (bayadère), Nikiya, who is loved by Solor, a noble warrior. She is also loved by the High Brahmin, but does not love him in return, as she does Solor. FEB. 25, 27 and MAR. 5, 6 at 7:30 p.m., and FEB. 28 and MAR. 6, 7 at 2:00 p.m.
PHONE	713.227.ARTS

CATEGORY	Hobby Center
EVENT	Broadway in Houston - Cirque Dreams Illumination
WEBSITE	www.broadwayacrossamerica.com/houston
BEGIN	2/23/2010
END	3/7/2010
LOCATION	Hobby Center, 800 Bagby
NOTES	Audiences of all ages will marvel and experience a journey of city dwellers who reinvent everyday objects, balance beyond belief, delicately dangle from wires, leap tall buildings and redefine the risks of flight in an array of astounding occurrences that transform the ordinary into extraordinary.
PHONE	713.622.7469

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool
WEBSITE	www.camh.org
BEGIN	1/30/2010
END	4/18/2010
LOCATION	Contemporary Arts Museum, 5216 Montrose
NOTES	The first career retrospective of this renowned American artist. The exhibition is comprised of 57 paintings, including full-figure portraits and lesser-known early works, as well as the artist’s more recent portal-like paintings of the Jamaican landscape, where he returns annually to do outdoor “en pleine air” painting.
PHONE	713.284.8250

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Perspectives 169: Odili Donald Odita
WEBSITE	www.camh.org
BEGIN	2/12/2010
END	5/2/2010
LOCATION	Contemporary Arts Museum, 5216 Montrose
NOTES	Widely recognized for his pulsating hues and meticulously painted wall and canvas works, Odili Donald Odita creates paintings that often function as narratives. Although devoid of any discernable figurative marks, the works tell of the nomadic journey of our ever-shifting global society: shapes and intersecting lines become metaphors for time and place while color evokes mood and impulse.
PHONE	713.284.8250