Zombies seem to be everywhere these days.
In the popular TV series “The Walking Dead,” humans struggle to escape from a pack of zombies hungry for flesh. Prank alerts have warned of a zombie apocalypse on radio stations in a handful of states. And across the country, zombie wannabes in tattered clothes occasionally fill local parks, gurgling moans of the undead.
At the 85th Oscar Academy Awards last week, there were a number of movies nominated for Best Picture. Some of these movies however, had much more in common than a nomination for Best Picture.
Yesterday, the music portion of the Waco Independent Media Expo, held at Common Grounds coffee shop in Waco, showcased a diverse range of musicians.
The music festival began slowly with Common Grounds staff members composing a large amount of this audience, along with a small handful of music supporters.
For students who aren’t leaving for spring break until Sunday, they can go see the Casey Donahew Band, a popular country/Texas Red Dirt band that has been traveling across the country for the past couple of months.
Waco history is coming to life for citizens and tourists via the cattle drive statues in front of the Waco Suspension Bridge.
The statues are meant to represent the cattle drive of the Chisholm Trail, which passed through Waco.
Today the Wind Ensemble concert will give a preview of the music the ensemble will take on tour over Spring Break.
The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building and will be the ensemble’s first opportunity to run the program from beginning to end before the tour. The concert is free and open to the public.
As a working student, I don’t have much free time. To save myself a few, precious minutes, I often compromise my nutritional needs for junk food or takeout, often resulting in fatigue and a vague and nagging guilt over the state of my health.
Plans for the future of Showtime’s long-running serial killer drama “Dexter” have been vague as the series heads into its eighth season. But in a discussion with Wall Street analysts, CBSCorp. Chief Executive Les Moonves may have revealed when the series will end.
There were few empty seats in the audience of Jones Concert Hall Monday night as Nobel laureate, Seamus Heaney read a compilation of his poetry including an exerpt from Beowulf. Heaney’s poetry reading was part of the 19th annual Beall Poetry Festival.
“It is my great honor to be at Baylor University, where there is such great respect and sponsorship for poetry,” Heaney said.
Tonight, the Baylor Symphony Orchestra concert will feature classic works as well as a newer work by Dr. Scott McAllister, professor of composition at Baylor.
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building.
The program will begin with the second suite from Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet.” The seven-movement suite was extracted from the ballet score, that Prokofiev composed in 1934.
The third annual Baylor Percussion Symposium, with events both today and Saturday, hopes to not only offer audience members an auditory and visual experience, but a visceral one as well.
“We had our sights set on this at the beginning of the year,” said Dr. Todd Meehan, assistant professor of percussion.
A Baylor student will share the stage with some of the biggest names in country music on Sunday.
McGregor sophomore Trannie Stevens will sing at the 2013 Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Hall of Fame Awards Show. Stevens will join Toby Keith, Jack Ingram, Larry Gatlin, Ronnie Dunn and Sonny Curtis as performers at the show in Austin.
A country music legend will perform 9 p.m. on Saturday at Whiskey River.
Johnny Lee, a Texas Country Music Hall of Fame artist with chart toppers from the late 1970s, will headline the event. Some of his top singles include “Lookin’ For Love,” “One In A Million” and “Bet Your Heart On Me.”
Sam Badar, owner of Whiskey River on Bosque Drive, said he looks forward to having Lee on the Whiskey River stage.
Saturday night, the Waco Symphony Orchestra will perform its second concert of the year, entitled “Paris of the Roaring Twenties.”
The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Waco Hall.
Stephen Heyde, music director and conductor of the Waco Symphony Orchestra, said the program will hearken back to a time and place that was unique and perhaps unparalleled in cultural history.
The musical numbers on Sunday’s Academy Awards telecast by most accounts were hit and miss, but in some respects the most impressive song wasn’t one of the big production numbers from “Les Miserables” or “Skyfall.”
It was the one host Seth MacFarlane and singer Kristin Chenoweth sang while the closing credits rolled, “Here’s to the Losers.”
In a drastically revamped version of the Jack Segal-Robert Wells ode to underdogs recorded by Frank Sinatra for his 1964 album “Softly, as I Leave You,” MacFarlane and Chenoweth served up a swinging musical salute to those who ended up with the short end of the Oscar stick Sunday.
Eight years ago, a former clown of the Ringling Bros. Circus opened the doors to a unique theater with live, family-friendly stage comedy in Central Texas.
After Saturday, those doors will close.
Grainger Esch, an alumnus of Duke University and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, is the artistic director and co-founder of the Silver Spur Theater in Salado, a town inside Bell County, 50 miles south of Waco.
Some of Baylor’s best singers will display their golden pipes for the community.
The Baylor Bella Voce choir will perform at 7:30 p.m. today in Roxy Grove Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.
The choir of 34 female singers will perform a concert titled “By, For, and About Women.”
Regal Entertainment Group, the nation’s largest theater chain, has purchased Waco’s Hollywood Jewel 16 and 42 other Hollywood Theaters across the country for $191 million.
Hollywood Jewel 16 is located at 7200 Woodway Drive.
Regal Entertainment, based out of Knoxville, Tenn., operates 6,880 screens across 38 states.
The study of Robert E. Browning, English poet and playwright, just got a little more contemporary.
Melinda Creech, a graduate assistant at the Armstrong Browning Library, has uncovered a connection in the library’s online digital archives between Browning and Highclere Castle, the set of the hit PBS show “Downton Abbey” — a British period drama which focuses on the fictional, aristocratic Crawley family in the early 20th century.
Before the start of the third season of Downton Abbey on Jan. 6, PBS aired a historical piece on the show, called “Secrets of Highclere Castle.” Creech, like many “Downton Abbey” fans, watched the piece to learn about the real history behind the show.
When is 13 a lucky number? When it’s the number of years it’s taken for the music industry to post its first yearly increase in global recorded music sales, which is what happened in 2012, according to new figures from the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry.
The group’s annual Digital Music Report, issued Tuesday in London, noted that overall music sales rose from $16.2 billion to $16.5 billion, or 0.3 percent, from 2011 to 2012, the first time in 13 years that worldwide sales didn’t decline.
