Two songs through the band’s midday set Saturday, Russian Circles’ guitarist Mike Sullivan was kneeling on the ground, fumbling to figure out what had gone wrong with his expansive guitar rig.
The band had launched into “Malko” from its most recent album, Geneva, when his guitar loop cut out.
“It was some phantom problem,” Sullivan said. “I fixed it. I didn’t troubleshoot. I don’t know what I did to fix it. Thank God it came back into shape.”
Joe Sophomore is a fictional representation of some students’ experience at Texas State.
Joe Sophomore awoke to an alarm clock at 9:30 a.m. His bowling class isn’t until 11 a.m., but Sophomore prefers to wake up as early as possible in order to secure a toilet and shower at the oft-overcrowded community bathroom he shares with the other guys on his floor at Jackson Hall.
Sophomore shuffled through the hallway toward the bathroom and when he opened the door, he was too late. Lines of bleary-eyed shower takers crowded the bathroom.
If Austin were a book it would be Where the Wild Things Are. The party people of 6th Street are enough to prove this on any given Friday night. If San Antonio were a book it might be Finnegan’s Wake. It’s so dry and you can’t help but wonder what the point was once you’ve gone through it all. The literary equivalent of San Marcos is definitely A Tale of Two Cities.
The city south of Guadalupe Street includes the new convention center, outlet malls and Target shopping center. Then there is everything else.
The Congress Avenue Bridge every year looks like a scene from an Alfred Hitchcock movie, as more than a million bats will swarm 15,000 spectators.
In Austin, this occurrence is known as Bat Fest. Saturday marks the fifth year Bat Fest takes over the space on Congress Avenue Bridge between Cesar Chavez and Riverside Drive.
Quad Smith, the festival director, said the idea to organize a bat festival came to him while watching a concert downtown.
Bicyclists, bar-goers and Bobcats are abuzz about the latest addition to The Square. Jimmy John’s moved into the space next to the Hub on July 16 and has been open for business ever since.
Andy Howard, owner of The Hub, helped the shop get off the ground.
“We were just kind of a place where people could come and get applications,” Howard said. “They’re our neighbors, so we want them to do well.”
San Marcos is now home to more than 60 classic cars on display for the public.
The Central Texas Museum of Automotive History, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the evolution of the automobile, opened a museum full of roadsters, muscle cars and convertibles.
Dick Burdick founded the museum in 1980 and has developed a passion for the automobiles he now displays for the public. San Marcos is the museum’s second location at 120 Stagecoach Trail off of Hunter Road.
