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 | “I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.” Today is the birthday of outspoken feminist, comedian, and actress, Lily Tomlin. |
 | Liliuokalani, the last sovereign queen of Hawaii, was born on this day in 1838. |
 | Tracy Boyd is a high-powered, type-A workaholic whose speed and efficiency give her superhero status—until she ignores a lump in her breast for almost a year. In the trial of her life, Tracy finally confronts her greatest fear: living. Based on the journals of a real-life breast cancer survivor, Unbeatable celebrates hope, laughter and the courage to live every moment. Opening September 3 and running through the 28th, get the details and your tickets online at http://www.stagestheatre.com. |
 | Local artist, Hanh Tran, will debut original oil paintings at the 2nd Annual The Heart of Art Exhibition and charity auction tonight at One Allen Center, 6pm. All proceeds from the silent auction will benefit Project Sunshine, a non-profit organization that provides free social, education and recreational programs to children and families living with medical challenges. Tran will premiere recent original oil paintings and eight paintings will be donated to the silent auction. Admission to the event is free, offering complimentary food, wine, Tito’s vodka cocktails and music by Nuevo Flamenco group, Ybarra & Bateman. Silent auction items include a week-long resort vacation package with airlines tickets at Costa Rica’s The Lookout at Playa Tortuga, custom designed jewelry by Carol Lipworth, theater district evening packages, rounds of golf at Redstone Golf Course, weekend drives in limited production vehicles from Momentum Audi and more. Valet parking is available. www.hanhtran.com, www.projectsunshine.org or 713.355.9011 for the details. |
 | If you were a homeless, unemployed Korean woman fleeing your abusive husband, who would you turn to? If you were a depressed, 78-year-old lonely widower with no English skills, where would you go? If you were a Chinese mother with a suicidal 13-year-old suffering from a debilitating injury as a result of a drunk driver and needed legal help, who would you ask? If you were a 16 year old Indian teen who has resorted to self-mutilation, who can help you find answers to your pain? Before 1994, there were few answers and even fewer resources. But today, Asian American Family Services, (formerly Asian American Family Counseling Center) has been meeting these needs with bilingual and bicultural mental health and social services. Tonight, support the nationally-recognized programs serve over 2,000 individuals and families each year by attending The Golden Ball at Hotel ZaZa. www.aafstexas.org for more information. |
| The night forest pulses with the sounds of melodious songs, clicking calls, flapping wings, and shuffling feet. Frogs, crickets, bats, and other animals are on the move; meeting mates, finding food, and warning others to stay away! Come out and discover which creatures are sounding off, participate in a special frog symphony, and take a night hike into a forest rich in sounds and excitement. All participants will receive a free night forest recording for attending this event. Ages 12 and up, minors must be accompanied by parent. Cost is $18 for members, $30 for non-members. Pre-registration required. Call 713-366-0421 or visit www.houstonarboretum.org for more information. |
 | The Houston Comets in conjunction with; Celebrating the King; Queen in You; invite you to:A Youth Social Network filled with enrichment! Join us for this empowering event! Saturday, September 6, at 5:30 PM at Reliant Arena. Also cheer Olympic Gold Medalist and 4-time champion. Tina Thompson and your Houston Comets to victoryas we take on 2008 #1 draft pick. Candace Parker and the Los Angeles Sparks!Join in for your opportunity to meet other youth, as well as mingle with Houston Comets owner Hilton Koch, WNBA league representatives and local celebrities and community leaders! |
 | “Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.” Singer Patsy Cline’s birthday is today. |
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Cancer Counseling’s sixth Annual Vintner Dinner at the Four Seasons will be here before you know it… Tonight, join this world class organization for their kickoff reception at Armando’s, 6:30pm. 713.520.9873 for more information or to RSVP. |
 | Join Chef Monica Pope, one of Houston’s most award-winning and innovative chefs and owner of the award-winning restaurant t’afia, as she shares techniques for cooking simple, healthy dishes. The focus will be on how to utilize locally-grown organic ingredients in cooking healthy meals as she demonstrates her seasonal garden-to-table approach. Cost is $60 for members, $80 for non-members. Pre-registration required. Call 713-366-0421 or visit www.houstonarboretum.org for more information. |
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Following this extraordinary success, Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS 2
& The BRAIN – Our Three Pound Gem: The Original Exhibition of Real Human
Bodies debuts in Houston today through Feb. 22. In keeping with his mission of
educating lay people, Dr. Gunther von Hagens and his wife, Dr. Angelina
Whalley, have created a holistic meditation on the brain that merges anatomy,
neuroscience, and philosophy that resonates with everyone. For tickets, or more
information, visit www.hmns.org or call 713-639-4629.
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 | Solve a mystery in honor of Agatha Christie, who was born on this day in 1890. |
 | Houston Friends of Music opens its 2008-09 season with the Grammy-nominated Tokyo String Quartet tonight at 8 pm in Stude Concert Hall at the The Shepherd School of Music, 6100 Main Street. The internationally acclaimed Tokyo String Quartet has captivated audiences and critics alike for more than 30 years. To purchase tickets, call 713-348-5400 or visit www.HoustonFriendsofMusic.org |
 | Sandra Day O'Connor was confirmed by the Senate as the first woman Supreme Court Justice, 1981. |
 | This morning, bring your golf clubs, but leave your plaid capris! Fore Fashion is a collaborative event bringing together the classic sport, fashion and community. Benefiting Cancer Counseling, Inc. and the Senior Care Advisors of Texas, this goddess-inspired golf outing offers accolades for everything from best dressed team to longest drive. Whether expert or armature, this one of fall’s don’t miss events! Visit www.cancercounseling.info |
| Today is the Autumn Equinox. |
 | Today marks the start of Banned Book Week. Visit www.ala.org/bbooks to see which of your favorite classics have been blacklisted from schools across the nation. |
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| Arboretum & Nature Center invites you to take part in connecting children to the natural world as part of a growing nationwide effort geared to getting young people off the couch, unplugged from technology, and enjoying the outdoors in their local community. Each day the Arboretum will offer an outdoor activity that parents and children can do together. This event is FREE. Call 713-681-8433 or visit www.houstonarboretum.org for more. |
 | You've seen it featured on ABC's "Nightline" TV, NPR's "All Things Considered," Parents and Redbook magazines, USA Today and newspapers, magazines and social networking sites across the nation. It's a parent-created concept that has rapidly become latest craze in family entertainment - Baby Loves Disco. Baby Loves Disco is an afternoon dance party featuring danceable disco tunes from the 70's & 80's spun by real DJs, bubble machine magic and many family-friendly activities and goodies. Baby Loves Disco is the new way for parents, grandparents and kids to socialize, get funky and stay fit to boot! Host parents in each city add their local flavor and invite everyone to share good times in a welcoming and warm environment. Today, this entirely parent-run network of local moms and dads present Baby Loves Disco in dozens of cities. Local businesses and service providers add to the value of a Baby Loves Disco event, providing activities and free goodies for the attending families. At Baby Loves Disco, the fun spills out from all corners of the club: bubble machines, egg shakers, play scarves, a chill-out area (with tents, books and puzzles), diaper changing stations, a full spread of healthy snacks (provided by local businesses) and dancing - LOTS of dancing. For more info and to learn all about baby loves disco check out: http://www.babylovesdisco.com/locations/houston |
 | Bering & James’ first photography exhibition brings together an international group of contemporary lens-based artists whose work coalesces as perspective, place, and time intersect. Guest curated by Tracy Xavia Karner, Reflecting Habitus is a celebration of images that illuminate the artist’s vision as it echos a shared external world. The notion of habitus comes from French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s work about the influences of the social spaces within which we live our lives. For Bourdieu, habitus is a system of dispositions—ways of seeing and understanding the world. Reflecting Habitus features the work of Shelley Calton, Catherine Cameron, Marie Docher, and Øyvind Hjelmen as they share visual narratives of desire, memory, dreams and fears—inviting viewers to experience four distinctive and intriguing habitus. Well known Houston photographer, Shelley Calton, isolates physical and symbolic space of women’s lives in her series Invisible Thread. Elegant and tasteful whispers of lingerie from days past drape against the white backdrops of memory. Remnants of personal moments, nightgowns and slips reflect the private truths of individual women’s experience. Sensual and tactile, the images bring to mind the women who might have lived within these bits of silk and lace. Invisible thread evokes the common thread that connects all women and the ways that feminine bodies have been covered, contained and desired. Calton’s soft focus and diffused light leaves to wonder how the satin felt as it slid against warm skin. In Ego and Persona, Catherine Cameron creates a visual journey into the deeper recesses of her world. Working with themes of longing and memory, Cameron explores the blurred boundaries between a rich inner life and its external manifestations. Teacups and rumpled beds are interwoven with snowy moonlight nights and lakes shrouded in fog. Within the scarce Norwegian light, Cameron creates images that balance the ambiguity of endless twilight with times of personal warmth and intimacy. Steadfast in her investigations, Cameron faces moments of emotional dark and light with the same clarity of vision. The whole of a life with all its contours, complications, and comforts can be found in Ego and Persona. Cameron’s stunningly poignant and deeply evocative silver gelatin prints suggest a well seasoned, deeply passionate life that resonates strongly and widely. What if the sky were to fall on our heads, Marie Docher asks in her series, Toutatis. In her photographic work, Docher often addresses broader aspects of the human condition through her own experience. Reflections of her habitus, her connection to the woods of Auvergne where she grew up and traces of travel, transformation and loss are recurrent themes in her work. In Tautatis, Docher uses the environmentally threatened yet stunningly sensuous landscape of the Camargue in southern France as a metaphor for our own vulnerable existence—as individual bodies and a global community. Toutatis refers to both an ancient Celtic god as well as an asteroid with an erratic orbit that brings it frightfully close to the earth. After unexplainably losing her hearing in one ear which resulted in a loss of equilibrium, Docher was reminded of the ancient Celts who were believed to fear only one thing—that the sky might fall. Her resulting skyless landscapes have a lunar quality with solid black expanses instead of skies. Strikingly beautiful, the deep, limitless expanse of space disorients the viewer, perhaps just enough to feel Toutatis’ divine intervention. With transcendent vision, Øyvind Hjelmen has created a seductively beautiful world in Elsewhere. An ongoing, life long project Elsewhere is Hjelmen’s soothing response to the anxieties and distress of modern life. An exacting craftsman with a poet’s soul, Hjelmen’s silver gelatin prints call to mind the pictorialist tradition yet with contemporary sensibilities. Whether in individual prints or nestled in fine, handcrafted leather folios, moments of wonder and delight beckon. Sometimes crystal clear and other times obscured, but always deeply expressive. The intimacy of the small format is to be savored like a fine wine and explored with a full sensory palette—come close and breathe deeply—Hjelmen’s images unfold and expand. Each glimpse reveals another layer of charm and grace. Elsewhere is a magical space that enriches all who visit and stay awhile. |
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