Harris County Attorney Abbie Kamin’s office will host the fifth annual Families with Pride celebration at Discovery Green, Oct. 24.

How it started: Families with Pride started after a constituent reached out to Kamin’s office when she served as a Houston city council member for District C.

“Blake Ellis, who's now a friend, said, ‘We love celebrating Pride, but with little kids we would really love a place where we can go play with our kids and celebrate and teach them about Pride,’” Kamin said. “And I said, ‘Well, let's create it.’ So, we created this amazing event.”

The event is in partnership with the Greater Houston LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce.

Families with Pride is a free, family-friendly event that celebrates togetherness.

It’s an opportunity for LGBTQ families and allies to bring their children to Pride to learn, understand and appreciate diversity, Kamin said.

How it’s going: The event offers kid-friendly activities including live entertainment, an indoor reading room with Pride storytime, art installations, hula hooping and face painting.

Broadview Real Estate announced Oct. 20 plans for a new 32-story, 520,000-square-foot office tower in the River Oaks area.

Named O27, the building will be located on a 1.66-acre site on Westheimer Road next to the River Oaks District.

The details: Designed by Houston-based architecture firm STG Design, the tower is anticipated to be completed by 2028.

The development will feature a street-level entrance framed by water features, a landscaped terrace atop a nine-story parking deck and a shifting geometric facade composed of triangular glass panels and an interior designed to create a sense of movement.

More information: Amenities include outdoor gathering spaces, EV charging stations, touchless technology, chauffeur service and flexible office configurations.

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Cirque du Soleil is scheduled to return to Houston this spring with its Mexico-inspired production LUZIA. Written and directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca in association with Brigitte Poupart, the show features acrobatics and visual storytelling as it travels through landscapes inspired by the people, places, sights and sounds of Mexico.

Key details for the upcoming production include:

• The show will run from March 20 through May 9.

• It will take place at the Sam Houston Race Park, located at 7575 North Sam Houston Pkwy West in Houston.

• Featured acts include hoop diving, Cyr wheels, trapeze and hand balancing.

• Pre-sales for Club Cirque members and waitlist individuals begin Oct. 26.

• Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Nov. 2 through the Cirque du Soleil website.

In July, Texas' top elected officials directed most state agencies, appellate courts and public universities to cut spending by 3% in their base budget requests for the next two years.

The overview: Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dustin Burrows said those reductions will help Texas hold a "strong fiscal position" by expanding property tax relief and maintaining public education funding when the legislature returns to Austin next year.

The issue: Dozens of agency leaders have warned that the cuts, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, are not sustainable. They would cause Texas residents to lose "essential" services and lead to losses in state revenue, leaders said at the capitol and in budget documents.

Government institutions protesting the budget reductions include the comptroller's office, the attorney general, Texas' Cancer Prevention and Research Institute, state criminal justice agencies and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.