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3rd Annual Chocolate Festival of Texas & Texas Wines Sheraton North Houston Hotel	Sat., November 7, 10:00am-5:00pm	Inner Loop - NE	Festivals Food & Drink
Today we can all celebrate chocolate, that delicious confection, at the 3rd Annual Chocolate Festival of Texas & Texas Wines. Honoring everything dark and creamy, the festival has both local and national chocolatiers offering samplings from bonbons to chocolate fondue, and don't forget, you can... More >>

The Recycle Club Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex	Sat., November 7, 8:00pm	East End	Dance Performing Arts
Karen Stokes, co-founder of Travesty Dance Group, says The Recycle Club is "an hourlong performance, a swing dance lesson, a party and art installation that all use recycled clothing." She goes on to explain, "Over the last 11 years, I've been doing dance in Houston...[For this show] I've... More >>

Las Nuevas Tamaleras Wortham Theater Center	Sat., November 7, 8:00pm	Downtown/ Midtown	Multi-Cultural Theater
Wortham Center will become a tamale factory during today's presentation of Las Nuevas Tamaleras. Written and directed by Alicia Mena, who also stars, the one-act comedy is the story of a trio of first-time tamale makers. The threesome is guided along by the spirits of two grandmothers and... More >>

Comedians of Chelsea Lately House of Blues	Sat., November 7, 8:30pm	Downtown/ Midtown	Comedy Music
Chelsea Handler is giving lots of comics a gig these days, both on her late-night talk show (Chelsea Lately features a roundtable with Handler and three comics in every episode), and on the comedy tour The Comedians of Chelsea Lately. Today's show includes stand-up routines by Chelsea Lately... More >>

12th Annual Polish Film Festival Angelika Film Center	Daily from Sat., November 7 until Sun., November 8 more dates/times	Downtown/ Midtown	Film - Repertory & Special Screenings Multi-Cultural
Hip Poles have a word for the 12th Annual Polish Film Festival playing at the Angelika Film Center: spoko. It means cool, neat. You'll be saying it a lot during the festival, because the programmers have outdone themselves this year. The festival opens impressively with Michal Kwiecinski's... More >>

"Transfusion" Art Exhbit The G Gallery	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., November 7 until Sat., November 28	Heights	Art Free Events
After a change in the G Gallery's scheduling left a slot open on the exhibit calendar, gallery director and artist Wayne Gilbert happily added the group show "Transfusion." "This show is an introduction show for the new associate professors at the University of Houston," Gilbert says. The... More >>

Dieter Balzer Art Exhibit Gallery Sonja Roesch	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., November 7 until Sat., January 2	Third Ward	Art Free Events
Dieter Balzer is known for his complex, clean-lined art objects - boxes on top of boxes and fun layers of primary blues and reds. The sculptural work, a mixture of geometry and ornament, is going up at Gallery Sonja Roesch. Roesch thinks the work is "marvelous, absolutely marvelous, because in... More >>

The Elixir of Love Wortham Theater Center	Sat., November 7, 7:30pm more dates/times	Downtown/ Midtown	Opera Performing Arts
From Tristan and Isolde to the students at Hogwarts, forlorn humans have long sought to concoct a love potion — take the easy way, if you will. Today, the Houston Grand Opera opens its season with the tale of another quest for liquid passion, one of the most performed operas in the world,... More >>

Ray Prim Avant Garden	Sat., November 7	Third Ward	Music
Think a less hippie-dipped Ben Harper, or a more roots-ready TV On The Radio when you think of Ray Prim. This Austinite's work is relentlessly pretty, to take a word out of Harper's playbook. Formerly of Capitol City band 7 Stones, Prim has ventured out on his own to create a sound that is... More >>

The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Gourds Miller Outdoor Theatre	Sat., November 7, 7:30pm	Outer Loop - SE	Music
It’s hard to believe the Fabulous Thunderbirds have been around 35 years. Formed in Austin in 1974, the respected band found its way onto stages with bands like the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton long before it ever had a hit song. Despite the massive respect they got from fellow... More >>

Mojo Nixon & The Toadliquors, Dash Rip Rock, New Duncan Imperials Continental Club	Sat., November 7, 8:00pm	Downtown/ Midtown	Music
Something tells me it’s not the worldwide economic meltdown that has brought Mojo Nixon back out on the road in what he describes on his Web site as “unretirement.” Something tells me that Country Dick Montana’s favorite co-writer misses The Life, the party, the craziness,... More >>

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