By Aggies, For Aggies
By Chris Zebo Eli Young Band’s new album, Life at Best, is one of the highest charting records on Billboard at the moment. In the first two weeks of the new release, Life at Best peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200 and launched the band into a new galaxy of stardom. Their current hit [...]
By Moses Kidd The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M is hosting “Different Kinds of Minds Need to Work Together,” a presentation given by Dr. Temple Grandin in Rudder Tower. The speech focuses on the different types of minds and mental processes within the spectrum of autism. Grandin presents how these different [...]
By Meredith Morse Whether you’re trying to impress your in-laws, round out a fancy five-course meal, or seduce a hot date, knowing your way around a bottle of wine is a crucial skill. Got an unrefined palate? Had a bad experience with Communion as a child? Prefer wine of the “boxed” variety? Not to worry, [...]
By Mara Minsberg The Bryan/College Station area has seen many new restaurants open within the past year, but perhaps none as highly anticipated at BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse. A casual dining favorite with locations in most other major Texas metropolitan areas, BJ’s is a welcome addition to the BCS restaurant scene and boasts an excellent [...]
By Moses Kidd A special exhibit sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, Heritage scholar Lee Edwards organized the first public display of Nikola Getman’s Gulag Collection in 2009. The exhibit will display 50 paintings conveying the grotesque experiences of the artist, a former prisoner in the Soviet penal camp from which the collection receives its name. [...]
By Ian Soares Sometimes it’s easy to watch athletes compete or to read about their accomplishments and then form ideas about who we believe they are. On this particular evening while watching the Texas A&M volleyball team perform in front of a packed house at Reed Arena, I easily begin allowing myself to form Chelsea [...]
By Chris Zebo Wade Bowen broke onto the Texas country scene the moment he released his first album, Try Not To Listen. The album’s title might have seemed like an empty dare, considering it was Bowen’s first time out on his own. But he wasn’t kidding. The album, released in 2002, hit the Texas Country [...]
By Chris Zebo Many of you may already know Bri Bagwell from her recent exposure on television, as a contestant on the CMT’s reality show, Next Superstar. We talked with her about her time on the show, her recent move to Aggieland (that’s right, she lives among us), and her roots in New Mexico [...]
By Chris Zebo Interviewing a performer like Josh Abbott is a real treat for a reporter. Not just because he’s easy to talk to–because he’s an open book–but also because he really knows himself. It’s not often, in this business, to interview a music star and get solid, articulate, expressive answers out of them that [...]
By Chris Zebo In the past ten years, Randy Rogers Band has become a pillar of the Texas country scene. Regarded as one of the top country acts in Texas, Rogers and his band have worked hard to spread the “Texas sound” and to legitimize the genre around the nation. In the past decade, while [...]