New Year’s Day marks a time for new beginnings for many people, whether it’s starting a diet, taking up a new hobby or just making a resolution to make a change.

Starting July 26, Unity Theatre invites audiences to join them in journeying down the rabbit hole and exploring the wonderful, whimsical world of Wonderland during their summer children’s musical production of “Alice in Wonderland.”

Perched on his dad’s leg, a bundle of blue eyes and giggles, Beckett Spencer seems fine.

There has been some dispute about who arrived first: Johnny Cash or Elvis Presley.

There might be 160 rooms in the Winchester mansion. Maybe more. Maybe less. No one knows. There may have been as many as 600 at one point. It’s impossible to know.

For those who love the music of the 1950s and 1960s, this is your week. The Broadway show “Million Dollar Quartet” will revive Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins at Blinn College and the Round Top Festival Hill Institute will resound with songs from the Beatles, Fra…

Arthur Miller was almost done. He was about to quit the business for good. If his new play, “All My Sons,” wasn’t a success, he was going to find “another line of work.”

Arthur Miller’s plays are intense and dramatic. The Unity Theatre is kicking off the second half of its season with a presentation of Miller’s first commercial success, “All My Sons,” and I sat down with director Kate Revnell-Smith and several cast members to discuss the experience of bringi…

Author Michael Hurd is nearly moved to tears when he reflects on speeches he has witnessed at the annual conference of the Prairie View Interscholastic League Coaches Association. Its Hall of Honor and Hall of Fame banquet in late July is often the first and only time black athletes from the…

Western movies are near and dear to my heart. I grew up watching them with my dad and the entire Western genre in books, movies and TV shows has been a consistent love of mine throughout the years.

On Sept. 26, 2014, Keith Twiggs ran headlong into Operation Meatball and he didn’t even know it. He arrived in Washington, D.C. with dozens of World War II vets on an Honor Flight from Austin. None of them had any idea Operation Meatball was lying in wait.

Get excited, “Stranger Things” fans! Only two short days remain until the release of season two of the hit show on Netflix.

If you haven’t watched the Netflix phenomenon Stranger Things, what have you been doing with your life?