Dec
20th
Don’t miss one great opportunity to have lunch with business leaders and learn a few things too. Here is the schedule for 2010.
Archive for December, 2009
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Dec
20th
Southeast Texas, December 20 – SETXsocialcenter.com, a free calendar for all events in Southeast Texas, complementary thanks to Tim and Cody Bauer with Texas Financial in Winnie, Texas, is pleased to announce the events of its member organizations for the week of December 20, 2009.
There are very few big events this week as people attend private parties and gather with their families in preparation for Christmas.
TUESDAY, December 22
- Tickets go on sale for Lil Wayne and the Young Money Crew who are coming to Ford Arena, January 5, 409-951-5400
- 4:00 p.m. Charity Night for the American Red Cross at Chili’s in Silsbee, 1010 Highway 96 N., call 409-832-1644.
-7:30 p.m. SETX Mavericks vs. the St. Louis Stunners at Ford Arena, 409-951-5400.
WEDNESDAY, December 23
- 11:30 Greater Beaumont Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting at AT&T, 4383 Dowlen Road.
Training and Teaching Programs
Family Services of Southeast Texas, call 409-833-2668.
-Twogether Marriage Workshop, December 26 at 8:30 a.m., Lamar College Port Arthur
Weekly Events with the exception of Christmas Day
- AMSET exhibits include Eyes to Fly with feature photographs by Graciela Iturbide and The Madonna as Muse: The Paintings of Rene Alvarado. Tropical Delights: Flora and Fauna, 20 paintings by international artist Shyamala Rao in the Café Arts.
- Spindletop Steakhouse and Continental Cuisine events – BeHere Tuesdays:$3 beer and food parings; Wine-d Down Wednesdays: Half-price wine and 3 wine flights with appetizers for $12; Thirstini Thursdays – $5 Martini and $1 appetizers and live music; Friday and Saturday night live music. All events are from 4 – 7 p.m.
- Greater Beaumont Chamber of Commerce Business Connection, 7:30 a.m. every Friday morning at the Tradewinds Tavern at the MCM Elegante Hotel and Conference Center.
- City Dance Center Classes every day for children and adults: Hip Hop, Ballet, tap, Latin dance, contemporary dance and including open Belly Dancing for adults and teens at 6:15 p.m. every Monday. Salsa Romantica Classes, Mondays through December 28, 6:30 p.m.
- Hope Women’s Resource Clinic Men’s Parenting Classes, every Thursday at 6:00 p.m.
-YMCA Classes including Senior Cardio; Circuit City aerobics; Cardio Jam; Shotokan Karate; Toddler, Kid and Adult dance. Charter membership campaign and registration for youth basketball and soccer. Call 409-898-1651.
- Family Services of Southeast Texas offers VIEP Classes on Mondays -2 classes at 6 p.m. and Thursdays at 6 p.m.; Anger management for females on Mondays at 2 p.m.; Positive Parenting on Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m.; Anger Management for Men on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Call 409-833-2668.
At A GLANCE: The Week of December 27 (Not including regular weekly events)
- December 28: Charity Night for the American Red Cross at Chili’s
- December 28: Free Surgical Weight Loss Seminar, Christus Southeast Texas Bariatric Center
- December 31: Then and Now at Spindletop Steakhouse and Continental Cuisine for New Year’s Eve Event
- January 2: Family Services of Southeast Texas, Twogether Marriage Workshop
- January 2:SETX Mavericks vs Texas Fuel at Ford Arena
Major Date Announcements in 2010:
January 5: Lil Wayne and the Young Money Crew with Special Guests Sean Garrett and Lil Flip, Ford Arena; Tickets go on sale Tuesday December 22.
January 22: Brillance at the Beaumont Civic Center
January 30: Shyamala Rao Reception at AMSET
April: Garth House encourages participation in Child Abuse Prevention month – wear blue ribbon
February 8: Winnie Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet
April 16 & 17: 50’s Furniture & Accessories Show & Sale, Beaumont Heritage Society
Don’t miss SETXsocialcenter.com’s socialseen here.
For more information about these events and more than 4,000 events happening in and around Southeast Texas in the next 18 months, from blood drives to galas, see www.setxsocialcenter.com or contact Shelly Vitanza at svitanza@setxsocialcenter.com or phone 409-201-9934 or Kathy Catalano at kcatalano@setxsocialcenter.com or by phone at 409-658-6936.
Dec
18th
Looking for a special Christmas gift? Want to keep the New Year’s festivities rolling? We have just the thing! Lil Wayne and the Young Money Crew with guests Sean Garrett and Lil Flip are coming to Ford Arena on Tuesday, January 5 and TICKETS GO ON SALE THIS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22!
Lil Wayne released his debut album Tha Block Is Hot in 1999. After gaining fame with two other albums in the early 2000’s, Lil Wayne reached higher popularity with 2004’s Tha Carter and two subsequent albums Tha Carter II (2005) and Tha Carter III (2008), which sold more than one million copies in its first week of release. An appearance on Saturday Night Live and four Grammy Awards — including Best Rap Album — spoke to Wayne’s mainstream acceptance. He also performed at that year’s Country Music Awards with Kid Rock, but rather than rap, he played guitar. The guitar playing was part of Wayne’s new involvement with rock music. He will release a rock album Rebirth in February 2010.
Sean Garrett is an R & B singer, songwriter and producer, credited with penning smash hits for Beyonce,’ Fergie (“London Bridges”), Usher (“Yeah!”) and Ciara (“Goodies”) among many other superstars such as Chris Brown, Mary J. Blige, the Pussycat Dolls, Diddy, Jamie Fox, Jay-Z, Fantasia and Gwen Stefani.
After signing first with Universal, then Sony, Lil Flip is now an Asylum recording artist. After I Need Mine was released as a double CD, two collaborations followed: 2008’s All Eyes On Us with Outlawz member Young Nobel and 2009’s Certified with Young Money member Gudda Gudda.
Tickets go on sale on Tuesday, December 22 @ 10:00 am at Ford Park Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets, charge by phone at 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. Ticket prices are $125.50, $79.50, $59.50 and $39.50.
Dec
18th
Regifting an item that is just not quite “you” is risky. Sure as you give that sweater your mother-in-law gave you to Great Aunt Eloise, the 89-year-old well-meaning sweetie will wear it to the next family reunion — in July — and you’ll be busted!
Instead, take that beautiful but not-your-best-color garment to the Salvation Army Thrift Store and get a tax write off! Oh, money off your tax bill is exponentially better than an angry in-law for life.
Donations of used and repaired items, including clothing for males and females of all ages and sizes, furniture,
appliances, housewares, books, videos, DVDs and electronics are accepted at the warehouse at Seventh and
Louisiana streets near Interstate 10.
The Thrift Store, which opened earlier this year, is located at 4295 College St. Heading west on Interstate 10 toward Houston from downtown Beaumont, take the College Street exit, turn right onto College, and you’ll find the Thrift Store on your left right next door to Race Way Gas Station across from Dawson Marine.
The store is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Not only do you get a tax write off for donating, but if you shop and purchase sweaters that are your best color, you’ll also be contributing to the Salvation Army’s programs that benefit Southeast Texas such as the Boys and Girls Club and the Red Shield Lodge Emergency Shelter and Kitchen.
The Boys and Girls Club offers competition, activities and a place of caring and belonging for children who have no adult supervision after school.
The Red Shield Lodge Emergency Shelter and Kitchen offers short-term and extended stays for single people as well as for families needing shelter. (The family shelter is currently closed due to damage from Hurricane Ike.)
The holiday season is an occasion to give to the Salvation Army; their workers are very
visible. You see their red buckets and hear their jingling bells in nearly every doorway you enter. But generosity doesn’t have to be seasonal. Giving is a yearlong activity made easier with the opening of the Salvation Army Thrift Store.
After Christmas, don’t evaluate your “less than favorites” for regifting. Just adopt the phrase “write off” and head to the Salvation Army to donate! For more information, call (409) 839-4771
Dec
16th
Watch as SETXsocialcenter.com’s Danielle Kosir gets a little nutty with the dancers of Beaumont Civic Ballet’s Nutcracker!
Listed in this video, in order of appearance, are:
Rebecca Fertitta / Head Maid, Snowflake, Peach Flower
Krissy Richmond / Arabain Dancer
Marsha Woody / Founder & Director, Beaumont Civic Ballet
In addition to the long-running production of the Nutcracker, the Beaumont Civic Ballet will also produce Spring Into Dance and perform Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for the first time in 2010. It is a story ballet with original choreography by Megan Anderson, Ballet Mistress of the Beaumont Civic Ballet.
This new production based on the all-time favorite fairytale will be Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. with a school performance on Monday, February 22 at 9:30 a.m. Both performances are at the Julie Rogers Theatre.
In March 2010 Beaumont Civic Ballet will have auditions. Anyone interested in auditioning can call 409-838-4397.
The Beaumont Civic Ballet is only supported by grants and contributions as well as ticket sales.
Dec
15th
Two members of the Lamar University faculty earned honors at the 95th annual National Communication Association conference in Chicago.
Mary Alice Baker, distinguished professor emeritus of communication, and John Yearwood, assistant professor of communication, received recognition for having the best overall Scholar to Scholar presentation for their paper on Presidents Abraham Lincoln and George W. 
Bush.
Baker and Yearwood presented their paper, “The Crisis Paradigm: Lincoln and Bush and the Assault on Liberty,” at the conference Nov. 12-15. The Scholar to Scholar sessions bring together presenters from across the discipline for interactive programs, providing an environment for free-flowing dialogue, sharing ideas and building community, according to the association Website. Baker and Yearwood said they were inspired to study Lincoln because this is the bicentennial of his birth in 1809.
“We discovered that the George W. Bush administration relied on actions taken by Lincoln in his conduct of the Civil War as a precedent for conducting the ‘War on Terror’ and the Iraq War, such as when Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus and established military tribunals,” Baker said. “There were even reports of the use of a type of water torture on prisoners during the Civil War.”
She said the study examined addresses to Congress by Lincoln and Bush according to five criteria for the genre of presidential war rhetoric: decision for war was the product of thoughtful consideration; intervention is justified through extensive narrative of atrocities of the enemy; unanimity of purpose and commitment; legitimate presidential assumption of commander-in-chief role; and strategic misrepresentations.
“Both presidents made extensive use of narrative,” Baker and Yearwood concluded. “Approximately 5 percent of Bush’s messages included misrepresentations, whereas none of Lincoln’s messages did.”
Baker joined the faculty in 1969, retired in June 2008 and was honored by The Texas University System board of regents as distinguished professor emeritus in spring 2009. In 2005, she was named University Professor, the highest recognition accorded a Lamar faculty member. Baker coached competitive debate and forensics for 15 years in Oklahoma, Illinois and at Lamar. In recent years, she taught in the corporate communication track with such courses as interviewing and the capstone senior course, Organizational Communication.
She served as president of the Lamar Faculty Senate and as state president of the Texas Forensics Association and Texas Association for College Teachers. In 1999, she began serving a six-year term as a trustee of the Teachers Retirement System.
Yearwood combines 14 years of experience in journalism as a reporter and publisher with 18 years of academic experience in colleges and high schools. As a newspaper publisher, he was twice honored with first-place awards in editorial writing from the Texas Press Association and won the Community Service award for reporting on flooding victims along the Neches River.
He left the newspaper business to teach English, journalism and one-act plays in high school. During a two-year assignment at Ozen High School in Beaumont, he designed and helped build a video technology center and wrote the curriculum for the Beaumont school district’s video technology program. Yearwood joined the faculty of Lamar’s Department of Communication in 2002 and now teaches courses in journalism, advertising, desktop publishing and media. His research focuses mainly on issues dealing with the First Amendment.
The National Communication Association is the largest national organization dedicated to communication. Researchers, educators and professionals work to understand and better all forms of communication. Through publications, resources, conferences, conventions and services, the association contributes to the greater good of education and society, according to its Website.
The Scholar to Scholar sessions were scheduled throughout the convention, enabling attendees to come together in one place to interact with presenters. The convention has grown so much over the years that this type of in-depth interpersonal exchange has become rare, said the Website. “Scholar to Scholar brings back the one-on-one scholarly conversations that form the foundation of NCA.”
Dec
14th
MAY 10 you will not want to miss Carrie Underwood who has cemented her standing as one of music’s most talented artists. Don’t miss your chance to see Carrie perform all your favorites as well as her newest hits like “Cowboy Cassanova” and “Mama’s Song.”
Tickets for this concert go on sale Friday, December 18 at 10 a.m. and are $55, $45 and $35. Tickets available at the Ford Park Box Office, all Ticketmaster locations, www.ticketmaster.com and charge by phone at 800.745.3000. Suites will be available for rental – e-mail lwaggoner@fordpark.com for more information on suites.
Carrie Underwood recently launched her third album, PLAY ON, at the #1 spot on both the country and pop album sales charts and has sold over 700,000 copies in 5 weeks. The release earned the highest first-week sales of the year for any solo country artist at that point and makes Carrie the only country act in Nielsen SoundScan history to achieve first-week sales of more than 300,000 units on each of their first three albums. The feat also extends to American Idol, where the Season Four winner is the first contestant to launch three albums in a row above the 300K threshold, with her 2005 debut, Some Hearts, now seven-times Platinum, and 2007’s Carnival Ride currently triple-Platinum. Underwood is a four-time GRAMMY winner, ACM Entertainer of the Year, a three-time CMA and three-time reigning ACM Female Vocalist winner, and a member of the Grand Ole Opry with total album sales now in excess of 11 million.
In addition, you’ll hear Special Guests: Craig Morgan and Sons of Sylvia
Craig Morgan released his fifth studio album, That’s Why, last fall. His latest hit, the anthemic “Bonfire,” is currently Top 5 at country radio and headed for the top of the charts. Last year Morgan was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry where he has made more than 150 appearances.
Sons of Sylvia are currently finishing up their debut album release due out in 2010. Ashley, Austin, and Adam Clark (formerly known as The Clark Brothers who won FOX’s Next Great American Band) are currently featured on her new album in a powerful collaboration called “What Can I Say.”
Dec
14th
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2/11/10 |
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| Location: | University Reception Center
Mary and John Gray Library, Eighth Floor |
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| Time: | 6:30 PM | |
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Office of Alumni Affairs (409) 880-8921, (800) 298-4839, Alumni@Lamar.edu |
| Members of the Lamar University Parents Advisory Committee will meet over dinner with President Jimmy Simmons and members of the Office of Alumni Affairs staff. A proposed Lamar University parents and families organization, as well as other issues of concern and interest to LU parents, will be discussed. Casual dress.
For further information, contact the Office of Alumni Affairs. |
Dec
14th