Wildflower Center Unveils Spanish Material During Nature Night
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, 4801 La Crosse Ave., Austin, TX 78739
September 19, 6 to 9 p.m.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center hosts a family friendly event the night of Friday, September 19. Visitors will learn how native plants are used in their everyday lives in English or Spanish as part of a concurrent celebration of the center’s new Spanish material, Web site, How To articles, and audio tour in Spanish. Sponsored by AT& T Foundation and KVUE.
For more information, call 512.232.0100 or visit wildflower.org. Admission $1, or free to visitors who download a special admission coupon at http://www.wildflower.org/celebracion, or obtain the coupon from select Hispanic publications and venues.

Famed jeweler Heather Moore of Heather Moore Jewelry will be hosting a Trunk Show at Houston area Boutique Modern Worth.
Heather Moore’s personalized jewelry have become an absolute success and favored gift item. Come and meet the fantastic artist and celebrate her new collection.
The trunk show will be held at Modern Worth located at 5113 Bellaire Blvd, Bellaire, Tx 77401. To RSVP for the event please call Kami Owens at 713.666.5113. Please visit the website modernworth.com or heathermoorejewelry.com

Here’s your chance to get to know other WLT members and talk about writing and publishing while unwinding over a beverage of your choice at the first of our fall Meet & Mingle Happy Hours. Chill on the largest patio on South Congress or head inside and enjoy six HDTV flat screens, play shuffleboard, Golden Tee, Galaga and Pacman. Or just enjoy some delicious food off the Doc’s menu. Bring a friend! ($2 Domestics and $3 Wells) Follow up the Happy Hour with the September monthly program at 7:30 PM down the street at the Writers’ League Resource Center, 611 S. Congress, Ste. 130. Members and nonmembers are welcome.
When: 5-7pm
Where: Doc’s Motorworks Bar & Grill, 1123 S. Congress
Price: Free
E-mail: wlt@writersleague.org
Phone: 512-499-8914

LifeWalk is a family- and pet-friendly event to raise AIDS awareness and funds to help HIV+ men, women and children in North Texas. Registration begins at noon and walk begins at 1:00pm. Bring your strollers, roller blades, and pets for the scenic 3.2 miles through Turtle Creek and Uptown.
For more information, visit lifewalk.org.

Frisco Arts announces its annual fundraising gala, “Art of Frisco” presented by Newman Village on Saturday, October 25, 2008.
The 7th annual black tie event at Westin Stonebriar Resort is a sought-after gala for Collin County leaders and arts patrons. Art of Frisco represents the vast amount of public and community art that resides in Frisco and the evening will highlight how our daily lives and culture.
The evening includes a champagne reception, “Art of…” silent and live auction featuring artful experiences, seated dinner, live entertainment, and dancing.

CONTEXT, a Houston-based chamber-music ensemble, will present a free ‘Encounter’ on Friday, September 19, 2008. This intimate, hour-long event will be held at the Devin Borden-Hiram Butler Gallery, and will feature music from CONTEXT’s upcoming concert featuring Piano Trios of Franz Joseph Haydn.
The Encounter will include excerpts from the upcoming concert, along with entertaining in-depth discussion of the composer, the music and the instruments, all in a casual atmosphere.
The internationally-known musicians scheduled to appear are Sergiu Luca - violin, Brian Connelly - piano and Allen Whear - cello. This trio will not only showcase the remarkable works of Haydn, but reveal his unparalleled range of emotion on instruments from that time period.

CONTEXT, a Houston-based chamber-music ensemble, will open their Fourteenth Season with a concert featuring Piano Trios of Franz Joseph Haydn.
The concert will feature internationally-known musicians, Sergiu Luca - violin, Brian Connelly - piano and Allen Whear - cello. The trio will perform pieces on original instruments from the composer Haydn, who wrote nearly 30 trios for the piano, violin and cello in the last 13 years of his artistic life.
This season, CONTEXT will dedicate each of its six concerts to a specific composer with a focus on a particular genre or form. The pieces will bring you back in time to the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries as the ensemble showcases the range of repertoire, performance styles and instruments used in these time periods.
New this season, CONTEXT will offer a limited number of free student tickets at each performance, based on availability the day of the performance. Additional student tickets will continue to be available at a cost of $15.

McCain, the Silver Maverick, has chosen an Iron Maverick to run the last, but probably most poignant, leg of his presidential campaign with as his vice-presidential partner.
An Alaskan governor, an Annie Oakley of the far American Northwest, who has no difficulty in going toe-to-toe (or head-to-head) with the Big Boys - the Corporate Talking Heads of Oil Land or Senators (and their power brokering cronies) who want to push pork barreling, earmarked Bridges to Nowhere (expensive private planes and unnecessary chefs) down the throats of unsuspecting Taxpayers. She practiced Executive Abstinence. She just said, “NO” !

After reading Skip’s article about the four boys from Iraan I was left wondering why would we think this act of violence so shocking? It was the first free from football Friday night for these guys. They were used to beating their opponents senseless on the football field every Friday night. They were praised for hitting hard. What’s the difference?? I am not surprised that they found another violent activity.

If electricity deregulation is so good for me, why don’t I feel any better?
Those of you in parts of the state that are getting your electricity from a municipally or coop owned generating facility can’t relate to this, but those of you from Houston, through East Texas, up to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and all points in between certainly can.
We’re all tired of hearing our elected officials tell us that deregulation is working. The rates I am paying rank me right up there with New York and New Jersey. Something is wrong. It is not working for me. How about you?