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Monday, March 1, 2010
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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

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