The man of many “rolls” is still wheeling and dealing in the rough-and-tumble world of roller derby.

“Jonny Stranger”, born Jonathon Pascoe, has continued to manage the Hellcats, an all-women’s roller derby team. He has won manager of the year for the league five times in a row. The Austin-based team is part of the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls League.

The league was founded in 2001 and is played on a banked track instead of a traditional roller derby flat surfaced track. Pascoe said his league’s banked track style started the modern roller derby movement for all-girl teams, and some men’s leagues.

The league is primarily operated and played by women between the ages of 21 and 45. Pascoe is one of the first male managers for the league.

The Texas State paintball club was founded five years ago by Austin Wells, phycology senior, and Hunter Davis, Texas State graduate, to connect local players into a competitive outlet.

The club is a tournament-style team that competes against other colleges around the country. The Texas State team recently placed fifth out of 12 teams at the UNT Open. The team’s next tournament will be nationals in Florida during April of next year.

Tournament paintball is a fast-paced game that is played on a 150-by-20 foot field with inflatable bunkers. The Texas State team consists of 12 members.

“It’s chess with paintball markers,” said Alex Merelli, paintball club vice president. “It’s not as much about the shooting and eliminating players as it is getting people to understand where the pieces are moving them forward.”

San Marcos has hosted popular up-and-coming live music for decades. Stevie Ray Vaughn, George Strait, Grupo Fantasma and other musicians have taken the stage at venues around the city.

However, a new venue opening March 9 on The Square could draw even more talent.

The venue can accommodate 1,000 people and will host local and national acts of all musical genres, said Scott Gregson, Texas Music Theater co-owner.

“We’re trying to bring in the best acts we can,” Scott Gregson said. “The best country acts, but we are not bound to just one genre. We want to get some Blue October in as well. We want a venue the artist is happy to play in.”

Grey Gregson is a co-owner of Texas Music Theater and Scott Gregson’s brother. He is a vocalist, pianist, guitarist and bassist who shared the stage with George Strait, Hootie and the Blowfish, Willie Nelson and other artists.

Social media has made it possible to travel the world by jumping from one network contact to another, and to virtually share stories of the adventure.  

Michelle Dahlenburg, lecturer in the department of theatre and dance, witnessed these social media possibilities first-hand. Last spring, she hosted Justin Oliphant, a 29-year-old man traveling the world through his own and friends’ social networks. The project is better known as “Friend of a Friend.”

Oliphant said the project was the product of his desire to travel, passion for storytelling through new technologies, curiosity of social media possibilities and a recent lay-off from Disney. 

He traveled across different nations and shared the experience on the project’s website, along with Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.