CATEGORY	Jones Hall
EVENT	Soc. For the Performing Arts - Soweto Gospel Choir
WEBSITE	www.spahouston.org
BEGIN	4/9/2010
END	4/9/2010
LOCATION	Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana
NOTES	Direct from South Africa, the 26-member Soweto Gospel Choir is an awe-inspiring vocal ensemble, performing in six different languages, in a stunning program of tribal, traditional and popular African gospel music as well as other inspiring songs. 8:00 p.m.
PHONE	713.227.4SPA

CATEGORY	Houston Rockets
EVENT	Houston Rockets vs. Charlotte Bobcats
WEBSITE	www.rockets.com
BEGIN	4/9/2010
END	4/9/2010
LOCATION	Toyota Center, 1510 Polk
NOTES	NBA Basketball at 7:30 p.m.
PHONE	713.627.DUNK

CATEGORY	Houston Astros
EVENT	Houston Astros vs. Philadelphia Phillies
WEBSITE	www.astros.com
BEGIN	4/9/2010
END	4/11/2010
LOCATION	Minute Maid Park, 501 Crawford @ Texas
NOTES	Major League Baseball. Game times FRI at 7:05, SAT at 6:05 and SUN at 1:05. Game times subject to change.
PHONE	1.800.ASTROS2

CATEGORY	Sports
EVENT	Men's Clay Court Tennis Championship
WEBSITE	www.riveroaksinternational.com
BEGIN	4/5/2010
END	4/11/2010
LOCATION	River Oaks Country Club, 1600 River Oaks Blvd.
NOTES	The second longest-running USTA National Championship in Houston remains in Houston thru at least 2012. Only the US Open has a longer history. The club hosted its first tennis tournament in 1931 and was part of the professional tennis circuit from 1970 through 1984 before deciding to have a one-week exhibition instead. No other venue in the country has had a tournament longer than River Oaks.
PHONE	713.874.6294

CATEGORY	Jones Hall
EVENT	Houston Symphony
WEBSITE	www.houstonsymphony.org
BEGIN	4/8/2010
END	4/11/2010
LOCATION	Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana
NOTES	Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture … Barber: Violin Concerto … Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5. APRIL 8, 10, and 11.
PHONE	713.224.7575

CATEGORY	Stages Theatre
EVENT	Stages Theatre - Speech and Debate
WEBSITE	www.stagestheatre.com
BEGIN	3/17/2010
END	4/11/2010
LOCATION	Stages Theatre, 3201 Allen Parkway
NOTES	This winning, fiercely funny dark comedy is part Breakfast Club, part Arthur Miller, and was hailed in its 2007 Off-Broadway run as a brilliant look at the modern teenager.
PHONE	713.527.0123

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	Hobby Center
EVENT	Broadway in Houston - In the Heights
WEBSITE	www.broadwayacrossamerica.com/houston
BEGIN	4/6/2010
END	4/18/2010
LOCATION	Hobby Center, 800 Bagby
NOTES	With an amazing cast, incredible Tony Award-winning dancing and a thrilling Tony Award-winning score, IN THE HEIGHTS is an exhilarating journey into a vibrant Manhattan community - a place where the coffee is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music.
PHONE	713.622.7469

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

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Réalist Performance
WEBSITE	www.menil.org
BEGIN	3/19/2010
END	8/8/2010
LOCATION	Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross
NOTES	The show will provide a unique chance to highlight the temporality of a lesser-known avant-garde movement. Actively engaged with other conceptual and performance-based ways of making art as they were emerging in the U.S. at that time, such as like Fluxus, Assemblage and Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme was a brief but influential moment in the history of modern art.
PHONE	713.525.9400

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Steve Wolfe on Paper
WEBSITE	www.menil.org
BEGIN	4/2/2010
END	10/31/2010
LOCATION	Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross
NOTES	This exhibition will focus on the artist’s works on paper, some of which are purely drawn, but most of which combine aspects of drawing, collage and printmaking. The artist’s transformation of common objects requires the viewer to re-think what they mean as such, placing emphasis on craft and the handmade to transform the common into the uncanny and the sublime.
PHONE	713.525.9400