After finding more than 300 surface faults in Harris County, a University of Houston geologist now has information that could be vitally useful to the region’s builders and city planners.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Presents First Look at Major Acquisition; The Scholar’s Eye: Contemporary Ceramics from the Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection Opens May 18, 2008.

Making the Unfamiliar Familiar: A Program for High School Students on View at the Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston through June 29, 2008

The Tony Award-winning musical comedy, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, is coming to Houston's Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, presented by Theatre Under The Stars, March 25-April 6 for 16 performances. Single tickets for THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE are $29-$93.

Now is the time for singles, couples and groups who love the theatre to Mix & Mingle with other likeminded theatre buffs. Mix & Mingle, a mixer for patrons who attend performances "solo" for each regular Hubbard Stage production, hosts a party before the performance of Othello on Wednesday, March 19.

Alley Theatre to present the world premiere of New Gershwin musical xomedy, The Gershwins' An American in Paris, running from April 29 through June 1 on the Hubbard Stage.

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, which celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year, will mark the milestone with a special project saluting the accomplishments of female playwrights in Houston in an upcoming reading. Women in Theatre: Houston Voices will be presented Sunday, March 9 at 3:00 p.m. on the Alley Theatre’s Neuhaus Stage

Twenty students who participated in an ongoing education program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to learn more about art, artists, and the museum, are now featured artists themselves. The students made a series of visits to the museum during the 2006-2007 academic year during which they created prints and drawings that are presented in Making the Unfamiliar Familiar:

This spring, two exhibitions, a commemorative publication, and a benefit gala will cap the 2007-08 anniversary year of the Core Program at the Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Over the past 25 years the Core program has become an internationally regarded platform, a destination for curators and critics seeking new talent, and a respected forum for artists, and critics to discuss, debate, and develop their work.

Architects have been designing useful objects for centuries, elevating the functional into art. Margo Grant Walsh, one of the foremost interior architects of the 20th and 21st centuries, has spent a lifetime collecting metalwork, amassing an outstanding collection of over 800 objects from 17 countries, many of which were created by major architectural figures.

Around 1,900 people have gathered in Houston, Texas for the annual conference sponsored by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, or CERA, a Massachusetts-based firm that brings major energy players together every year to examine the world's energy picture. This year's focus includes some issues that are not strictly energy related such as climate change and the US housing crisis. VOA's Greg Flakus has more from Houston.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the second venue for Miwa Yanagi: Deutsche Bank Collection, the Japanese photographer Miwa Yanagi's first solo museum show in the United States. Comprising more than 30 large-scale photographs and video work from the Deutsche Bank Collection, the exhibition is on view through May 4, 2008.