The West Texas city of Lubbock is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year with four art exhibitions that survey the century.

More than 200 works will be shown at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts through July 15.

The exhibits include:

•"100 years of Art in Lubbock," through July 15

•"The First 50 Years of Art in Lubbock," through May 24

•"The New Wave of Art," through May 24

•"Tribute to the Baker Gallery," through June 7.

Contact: 806-762-8606; www.lhuca.org.

More than 40 New Mexico writers and publishers are to participate in the Chama Book Fair on June 7.

The annual event in northern New Mexico is co-sponsored by the New Mexico Book Co-op and the University of New Mexico Press. Books will be for sale, and authors will sign their books at Cookin' Books, a restaurant and bookstore.

The keynote writer is John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War (1974) and other books, a naturalist and a fly-fishing aficionado. His most recent book is The Empanada Brotherhood (2007). The other featured writer is Taylor Streit, a fly-fishing guide and author of several fishing books. His latest is Man vs. Fish (2007).

Contact: 505-220-4933; www.nmbook coop.com.

Houston CityPass, a discount attraction booklet, will be offered beginning Tuesday.

The ticket booklets, which are valid for nine days after the first use, cost $34 for adults and $24 for children ages 4 through 11. Each booklet includes tickets to the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Johnson Space Center at NASA, the Downtown Aquarium and the Houston Zoo. The pass also has a couple of options: admission to the Health Museum or to George Ranch Historical Park, and a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston or to the Children's Museum of Houston.

The pass can be purchased at www.citypass.com, at participating attractions or from the Greater Houston Visitor Center.

Contact: 1-800-446-8786.

Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Okla., is offering a Tulsa Architecture Tour on June 1 in midtown Tulsa.

The houses on the self-guided tour cover 80 years of designs by Oklahoma architects Gene Starr and Bruce Goff.

Tour tickets are $50, which includes admission to six houses and the Spotlight Theatre, which Goff designed. Tour packets may be picked up at the theater, and a post-tour reception will be held there. Space is limited, and those who buy tickets before May 23 will receive a copy of Free Thought: The Art and Architecture of Bruce Goff.

Contact: 918-336-4949; www.pricetower.org/tulsa.

The next time you see the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi Bay, the museum ship will be equipped with firepower similar to what it used during World War II.

In March, two large gun mounts weighing 60 tons each were salvaged from the USS Des Moines, a heavy cruiser being scrapped in Brownsville. They were then shipped to Corpus Christi and installed on the USS Lexington, an aircraft carrier.

Contact: 1-800-523-9539; www.usslexing ton.com.