Thomas Edison’s recording machine started the path towards CD players and iPods. Thursday night at Texas State, Doug Skinner is giving two lectures about Edison and his invention.

To help ease college students into school while whittling at economic tension, Cat’s is putting on a free comedy show Saturday night.

If a bikini can possibly pass for the uniform, then it might be an Olympic sport.

Is the drummer in a rock band like the catcher on a baseball team? Or is he more like the shortstop?

The sun is hot and life is hard these days. But the Texas sun makes it all seem fine.

I recently read an article on MSN claiming that interests of “tweens” (8-12 year olds) were maturing so fast that 10 is the new 15. Almost everybody has heard at one time or another in the past few years that 40 is the new 30 and 50 is the new 40. I guess this means, theoretically, that in the future, when 10 is the new 25 and 50 is the new 25, we’ll witness 12- and 53-year-olds cross-dating and hanging out at bars.

The old guys showed they can still bring it Saturday at Natural Fest, where the musicians who brought us Western Swing kept it moving on the Hays County Courthouse Square.

Saturday’s Natural Fest/Western Swing Hall of Fame event is one way to celebrate the natural beauty of San Marcos and the swinging ways of Texas music.