Harry Belafonte @ MLK Breakfast Event

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  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 [...]

Texas Reds Steak & Grape Festival

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By Meredith Morse and Moses Kidd The Fifth Annual Texas Reds Steak & Grape Festival takes place on Friday October 7and October 8. The event gets the name “Reds” from two agricultural influences in Texas: steak and wine. The event, a way to showcase newly renovated attractions in Downtown Bryan, draws thousands of visitors over [...]

Chinese Acrobats to Dazzle Aggieland

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By Moses Kidd For their very first tour in the United States and Canada, the National Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China will be at Rudder Theater on Friday, October 7.  Also known as the China National Acrobatic Troupe, the group was the first performing arts company to be established by China in 1950.  [...]

Fiestas Patrias Hits Streets of Downtown Bryan

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By Meredith Morse As fall starts to set in, what better way to bring back the spiciness of our Texan summers than with a two-day Mexican Independence festival? Fiestas Patrias, a weekend-long commemoration, brings food, parades and dancing to the streets of Downtown Bryan. Founded in Bryan in the early 1990s by Roy Lopez and [...]

BV Bombers Host TCL All-Star Game

By Audrey Tompkins The Brazos Valley Bombers are hosting the 2011 Cricket Wireless Texas Collegiate League All-Star Game on Monday, July 18th. The game will feature the top players from the North teams in the league (Alexandria Aces, Coppell Copperheads and East Texas PumpJacks) and the South (Acadiana Cane Cutters, Brazos Valley Bombers and Victoria [...]

Local Scene: you don’t want to miss this

With Gig ‘Em Week already underway, there is a veritable tsunami of events available on-campus over the next month. Here are a few stand-outs that may pique your interest.

Art Pose

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The University Art Galleries Department would like to invite all Texas A&M students to participate in Art Pose

Ziegfest

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The Eighth Annual ZiegenBock Music Festival at Texas World Speedway honoring American troops in Iraq will be held on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010, in College Station, TX

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