By Aggies, For Aggies
By Meredith Morse For all of your boot-stompin’, dirt-raisin’, beer-drinkin’ needs, Brazos Valley has just the thing to kick start your spring. Chilifest, Snook’s much-anticipated yearly country music event, has announced its official lineup for the 2012 festival, and things are sure to get rowdy. The 21st annual Chilifest event will feature country stars Sunny [...]
The “King of Calypso” himself will be visiting Texas A&M as the featured guest speaker at the fifth annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast on January 19. The Carter G. Woodson Black Awareness Committee (WBAC), a diversity educational programming organization on campus at A&M, plans to commemorate the life and work of [...]
Since doctors and Congress disagree about whether or not you should get your daily nutritional serving of veggies from pizza, why not skip the uncertainty and support the BCS community by buying your produce locally? Brazos Valley Farmers Market makes it easy for the everyday consumer to enjoy the fruits of our region’s labor. [...]
By Meredith Morse A poem begins as a lump in the throat, as a sense of wrongdoing, and in dire hopes that several words scrawled hastily across a crumpled receipt (or used coffee lid/newspaper/stranger’s forearm, whatever is nearest) could somehow help make sense of the world we inhabit. Several nationally acclaimed poets–still in the [...]
By Meredith Morse The vocalist in any given band can often shape or serve as the central identity of the music itself. Whether it’s the throaty warble of Adele or a sneering barb from Bob Dylan, the way the singer’s voice expresses the lyrics has just as great of an effect on the audience as [...]
By Meredith Morse Having fled the great white North and setting up shop in the music capitol of the world, Black Pistol Fire is jaunting in from Austin, TX to bring their mixture of classic southern rock and garage punk to the stages at RTR. Featuring kindergarten friends and musician soulmates Kevin McKeown on guitar/lead [...]
By Meredith Morse If the idea of trick-or-treating sends you spiraling into a diabetic coma, or if haunted houses aren’t quite your thing, fear not – you can always chase the ghouls away this Halloween weekend with a little good ol’ fashioned Texas twang. On Thursday, October 28, Hurricane Harry’s is hosting a Halloween Bash [...]
By Meredith Morse Amidst the grapes and gallons of wine, a ghastly crime was committed. A classic case of “whodunit?” On Saturday, October 29, visitors to Messina Hof Winerywill have an opportunity to solve this malicious mystery. Nothing says Halloween homicide like a delicious three course meal! For $69.95 a plate, you can enjoy jumbo [...]
By Meredith Morse Halloween is right around the corner, and the scariest fifteen minutes of your life are just down the road. If you can muster up the courage to face five acres of fright, then bring some flashlights, a coat, a few bags of candy, and an extra pair of jeans, because the brothers [...]
By Meredith Morse Restaurants in the Bryan-College Station community are rewarding their patrons for treating their taste buds in town. The Taste of B-CS, a group of twenty-five local independently owned and operated restaurants, is offering its customers a new way to save money by eating at unique establishments around the city. “Our group is [...]