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Leisure
Schoepf’s Bar-B-Que Summer Concert Series: Fun, food, music all seasonBELTON - When I first moved back to Texas in 2011, I really wasn’t much into country music – but don’t judge me too harshly just yet. While it still isn’t my favorite genre, I’ve grown to appreciate it a little more, and part of the reason for that is the summer concert series at Schoepf’s Bar-B-Que every year. Located just off of Main Street in downtown Belton, this place is easy to get to, has great food and has the perfect feeling of summer. Schoepf’s offers some of the best entertainment every Thursday night – and it’s free for those over 21. Even for someone like me, who prefers other genres to country, the event is always such a good time. It’s an extremely relaxed environment, live music is playing all night, there is a dance floor in front of the stage where people of every le...
Other Stories
1st Cavalry Division Band performs around townBy the end of July, the 1st Cavalry Division Band will have completed a total of 17 performances around the Central Texas area this month. The band averages 300 to 350 performances a year, with events ranging from locations on Fort Hood to venues in the local community.
Soldier featured in OEF documentaryABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. - A documentary film containing 100-percent real and raw battlefield footage shot in what’s considered the most violent part of Afghanistan features a Soldier now serving here.
Valid passport key to successful summer travelMonths can go into planning the perfect vacation, but there’s one step military travelers often overlook that can end a vacation before it even starts. The U.S. Community Services Center on SHAPE recommends travelers look at their passports for two key things: make sure it’s not going to expire in the next 90 days and check page 26 to make sure it’s not a no-fee passport.
That's Entertainment
‘Transformers: Age of Extinction,’ just wait for DVDIt has been a few weeks since I last wrote the entertainment column, and it saddens me to say that after watching “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” not all the things I have to say about the movie are happy and bubbly. As a child, I used to watch the “Transformers” cartoon on the Sci-Fi channel every morning while waiting for the bus to pick me up for school, so it hurts me to see something from my childhood get mutilated on the big screen. I went into the movie with an open mind knowing that some things would not be the same as my beloved childhood “Transformers” cartoon. The first thing I have to say is this: Michael Bay, please quit killing my childhood. I am not a “Transformers” purist, but in a time when we have the ability to do some amazing things with graphics, can we please sta...
Calendar of Events
Fort Hood Calendar of EventsAug. 5 JMO Career Connection Soldier for Life: Fort Hood’s Transition Assistance Program will host a Junior Military Officer Career Connection from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday at Oveta Culp Hobby Soldier and Family Readiness Center. The event is free and open to officer ranks from first lieutenant to major. Recruiters from Bradley-Morris, Cameron-Brooks, Lucas Group, Orion, MSSA and JPMC will attend. For more information, call 288-2227. Aug. 8 USO Movies on the Lawn The Fort Hood USO offers a free Movies on the Lawn event outside III Corps Headquarters at 8 p.m. Aug. 8. A complimentary snack bar will be open from 8:15-9:15 p.m., with the movie “The Princess and the Frog” starting at sundown. For more information, call 286-6833. through Aug. 8 Fall sports The youth flag football,...
Across Central Texas
Across Central TexasAustin The 1968 Exhibit The Bullock Texas State History Museum will host “The 1968 Exhibit” now-Sept. 1. The exhibit focuses on social forces that swirled through the turbulent 1960s and crested in 1968, a year that shaped the rest of the 20th century. “The 1968 Exhibit” will bring to life this pivotal American year through photographs, artifacts, vintage pop culture items and interactives organized in 7,000 square feet of exhibit space in the Bullock Museum’s Herzstein Hall. Presented chronologically by the months of the year, the exhibit experience begins in January 1968 with a Huey helicopter that has “landed” in a circa-1968 American living room. It continues by highlighting significant events each month, including the peak of the Vietnam War, riots and demonstrations across the co...
Traveling Soldier
Schoepf’s Bar-B-Que Summer Concert Series: Fun, food, music all seasonBELTON - When I first moved back to Texas in 2011, I really wasn’t much into country music – but don’t judge me too harshly just yet. While it still isn’t my favorite genre, I’ve grown to appreciate it a little more, and part of the reason for that is the summer concert series at Schoepf’s Bar-B-Que every year. Located just off of Main Street in downtown Belton, this place is easy to get to, has great food and has the perfect feeling of summer. Schoepf’s offers some of the best entertainment every Thursday night – and it’s free for those over 21. Even for someone like me, who prefers other genres to country, the event is always such a good time. It’s an extremely relaxed environment, live music is playing all night, there is a dance floor in front of the stage where people of every le...
