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Lunar New Year Festival. 10AM-4PM. Come out and celebrate the Year of the Ox. Houston events at the Chinese Community Center, 9800 Town Park, Houston, TX 77036.

Da Camera of Houston - Songs of the Earth. 8pm. Da Camera welcomes composer Zhou Long in his Houston debut. A world-class chamber orchestra with members of the Houston Symphony and other leading Houston musicians, led by conductor Larry Rachleff, collaborates with virtuosos from Music From China on the erhu and pipa. Houston events at Wortham Center. Call 713-524-5050 for more info.

Soc. For the Performing Arts - Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. 8pm. Houston events at Jones Hall. After 34 years, The Trocks (as they are affectionately called) are still going strong, presenting a playful, entertaining view of traditional, classical ballet in parody form and "en travesti". Call 713-227-4SPA for more info.

Stages Theatre - Taking Flight. Just weeks before serving as a bridesmaid in her best friend Rhonda's wedding, Adriana Sevan instead becomes Rhonda's bedside companion after Rhonda is horrifically injured on 9/11. For the next year Adriana devotes herself to aiding Rhonda's painful recovery—and risks losing herself in the process. An unforgettable one-woman show. Houston events at Stages Theatre, 3201 Allen Parkway. Call 713-527-0123 for more info. Event ID: 2/15

Houston Auto Show. At Reliant Center. Call 832-667-1400 for more info. Event ID: 2/1

Houston Grand Opera - A Midsummer Night's Dream. The king and queen of the fairies are feuding, two mortal couples break up and make up thanks (or no thanks!) to the juice of a magic flower. Houston events at Wortham Center. Call 713-228-OPERA for more info. Event ID: 2/6

Alley Theatre - Mrs. Warren's Profession. Shaw’s ultimate test of a mother-daughter relationship is one of his most enduring and best-loved plays. Kitty Warren has worked hard to provide the comfortable upbringing she never had for her daughter Vivie. Now that Vivie is about to embark on her own career, her mother decides that it is time for the feminist daughter to finally learn the truth about her mother’s profession. Houston events at Alley Theatre. Call 713-228-8421 for more info. Event ID: 2/1

Body Worlds 2. Houston events at the Museum of Natural Science. Exhibit features the latest neuroscience findings on brain development and function and more. The exhibit also incorporates 200 real human body specimens, including more than 20 full-body specimens in life-like, dramatic poses; healthy and unhealthy organs; body parts and slices—all preserved through a remarkable process called Plastination. Call 713-639-IMAX for more info. Event ID: 2/22/09

Imaginary Spaces. Artists and writers have long been intrigued with the idea of constructing imaginary space. The exhibition is inspired by a series of installations organized by John and Dominique de Menil in the late-1960s-that dealt with spatial constructs: from hypothetical and utopian environments to invisible cities to earth art projects. Houston events at Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross. Call 713-525-9400 for more info. Event ID: 3/1/09

Where Clouds Disperse: Ink Paintings by Suh Se-ok.  Over his 40-year career, Suh Se-ok has incorporated his traditional training with his Modernist sensibility to create dynamic works that embody his artistic vision. He has been especially transfixed by the figurative form and has continually explored and perfected it until it evolved into powerful formal gestures of simple lines that comprise his definitive pictorial vocabulary. Location: Museum of Fine Arts, 1001 Bissonnet. Call 713-639-7300 for more info.