ENTERTAINMENT: JUNE PERFORMANCES ARE SIZZLING AT MILLER OUTDOOR THEATRE

The evening length program also features choreography by Kia Smith and Carmen Cage.

June 10, 8:30pm

Loveletter & Radio Rewrite produced by Aperio, Music of the Americas

A grooving program of minimalist music and Lo-Fi jams perfect for a summer evening, featuring a live orchestral performance of DJ Sun’s latest release, Loveletter.

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June 3, 7pm

The 34th Annual Accordion Kings and Queens produced by Texas Folklife

The accordion takes center stage with the sounds of Polka, Conjunto, and Cajun, Creole, and Zydeco music will delight the crowd. Enjoy and dance to music by Alex Meixner Band; Grupo Imagen; and Cedric Watson et Bijou Creole. Winners of the statewide 2023

Big Squeeze youth accordion contest perform as well.

June 9, 8:30pm Restore produced by Houston Contemporary Dance Company

New and signature dance works from this sensational new Houston company. Works from the past four seasons will be presented with guest performances from: McKinley Willis, Peter Chu, and Alexander Anderson.

Texas is on the precipice of giving new moms a full year of health care coverage, after the Senate unanimously passed a bill to extend Medicaid coverage. The bill has already passed the House, but due to a last-minute anti-abortion amendment, it will now return to that chamber to reconcile the different versions.

Supporters of the bill have called for the Legislature to pass a “clean bill,” without amendments, to ensure the federal government quickly approves Texas’ request to extend Medicaid coverage. A version of this bill that passed last session, extending coverage to six months, was deemed “not approvable” by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.

But on the Senate floor Sunday night, bill sponsor Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, introduced an amendment and intimated the bill wasn’t going to pass the Senate without it.

“I’ve been on the phone all day,” Kolkhorst said. “My goal is to get this bill over the goal line and allay some of the … concerns of members on this floor…I think that this is a compromise that is best.”

At issue is boilerplate Medicaid language that says the year of coverage begins on the last day of pregnancy. It does not specify how that pregnancy has to end, which has led some anti-abortion groups and conservative lawmakers to claim it encourages abortion.

Kolkhorst introduced an intent amendment noting the purpose of the legislation is to “carry out the state’s profound respect for the lives of mothers and the unborn” by extending Medicaid to