New Year, New Adventures: How to Plan the Ultimate Family Vacation
By Jennifer McKinney, Austin RV Expo
One of the reasons we look forward to a new year is imagining the fun, exciting adventures waiting for us during the year’s upcoming vacation (or vacations if you’re lucky/brave enough) with our families. That’s the fun part; the stressful part is, without a doubt, the process of budgeting and planning for flights, ground transportation and accommodations.
As light pollution continues to increase from rapidly growing urban sprawl, the sparkling starlit night skies of Texas have dulled for many across the state. Instead of allowing our magnificent star-filled nights to fade into a cherished memory, there is a statewide effort to limit excessive artificial lighting and restore the brilliance of the glittering night time sky.
Plans for a first ever Texas Night Sky Festival are well underway and the organizers’ intent is to increase appreciat ...
Yeah, Bandera is sort of different when it comes to events. For such a small town, there is an event almost every moth of the year and they are always different and exceptionally exciting! So, if you have not been to the Annual Wild Hog Explosion, well, get ready! It’s squeals and spills at the 14th annual Wild Hog Explosion and All Bike Rally!
Mason area singers are invited to join voices with other vocalists in the Bluebonnet Choral Festival to be held in Mason April 11-16. The choral festival is a chance for singers to renew basic vocal pedagogy skills and to sing music of the masters like Gabriel Faure and fun gospel and American spirituals.
Choral conductor Dr.
It may be the ultimate Throwback. An era that was finished now lives—not in huge numbers, but the industry is breathing. It’s not The End just yet. The MGM Lion roars; the Columbia Beacon shines; that Warner Brothers “WB” is coming at you.
The first reel is ready at the Drive-In theater.
“I was mentored by my grandfather,” Ryan Smith told me one balmy summer night.
That’s no exaggeration. You’ll realize it’s the truth the second you step into this palace of what owner Mary Van Ostrand has labeled Fabulous Finds, Uncommon Goods, and Antiques.
Barely off the Wimberley Square, the shop is housed in a building that used to be the city’s post office on Oak Street.
Because I was born in England, it only makes sense that I would love kettles and teapots. The surprise is that I don’t like tea! Perhaps I was born in England by mistake. But although I don’t care for tea, I am quite taken with tea kettles. I love kettles fashioned from brass and copper, pewter, nickel, and iron.
Beginning January 22, 2016, the Llano County Historical Museum, along with sponsorship by Llano National Bank, will present “Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy”, a traveling exhibition created by the Witliff Collections at the Alkek Library, Texas State University-San Marcos. This exhibit is presented in partnership with Humanities Texas, the state affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and made possible in part by a We the People grant.
Featured in this exhibit is a col ...
Two (2) new artists have been added to the 2016 San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo Entertainment Line-up. Randy Houser-Thursday, February 18 and Chris Young-Saturday, February 20) will join the list of award winning artists performing at the nationally recognized San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, held February 11 – 28, 2016 at the AT&T Center/Freeman Coliseum Grounds.
For the latest entertainment information, visit sarodeo.com or download the NEW SA Rodeo App today!
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It's that time of year! The Mason County Chamber of Commerce Wild Game Dinner is scheduled for November 14, 2015 at the Ft. Mason Park Community Building. The doors will open at 6:00 p.m. and dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. This year we are giving away 40 + guns including a unique, original Henry Rifle.
