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Rita Oden of Salado will emcee the show. Courtesy Photo
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‘Salado’s Got Talent’
‘Salado’s Got Talent!’ Variety Show features area singers, musicians, actors and artists for a two-show fund-raiser benefitting the American Cancer Society at 7:30 p.m. July 3 and July 4, at the Silver Spur Theater.
“If you get a bang out of live entertainment, then ‘Salado’s Got Talent!’ should be more than a string of firecrackers,” say the producers of the two-hour variety show.
The show features a diverse slate of talented local performers, along with a “mystery guest.”
“Cancer is a disease that is physically, emotionally and financially devastating,” emphasized Rita Oden, Owner/Realtor of Salado Realty, and a performer for more than 16 years.“So this show is an evening of uplifting entertainment, a red-white-and-blue salute to everyone touched by cancer – patient, family members, caretakers and researchers. It’s our chance to fight back with fun!”
Admission is $15, $12 for senior citizens (65 and up), military personnel and students with an ID. Tickets can be purchased in advance at Salado Realty, First Community Title Salado, and First Salado Horizon Bank. Reservations are recommended.
For more information or ticket purchase, call 254-718-7956.
KILLEEN
15th Annual Golf Tournament
The Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce 15th Annual Golf Tournament will be held from 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Saturday.It will be a four-man scramble. Register early, don’t miss out!
Call (254) 699-4999 for more information.
Hot Summer Nights Concert Series
The City of Killeen Parks & Recreation department and Time Warner Cable present the Hot Summer Nights Concert Series featuring Old School band The Grooves at the Killeen Amphitheater, from 8:00-10:00 p.m. July 10.
Concessions will be available.
For more information, contact Killeen Parks & Recreation at (254) 501-8889.
BELTON
Market Days in Downtown Belton
Buying, selling and trading will occur in downtown Belton from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday.
Visit vendors and the farmer’s market in the historic downtown district along Central Avenue.
This event takes place every third Saturday of the month.
For more information, visit www.killeen.com.
Archeology Funshop
The Bell County Museum will host an archeology fun shop for children 5-7 years old from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Saturday. Participants can dig in the archeology pits and discover objects from Native American and pioneer days.
Hands-on activities designed to enhance learning about the well-know archaeology site that borders Bell and Williamson counties will be based upon a new exhibit, The Gault Site: A Wealth of New Archeological Evidence.
Cost is $5 per child, which covers crafts and activities. Pre-registration is required.
For more information, call 933-5243 or visit www.bellcountytx.com/Museum.
TEMPLE
Summer Arts Camp
The program “Goof Troop” will be held for children between the ages of 7 and 12 from 8:45 a.m.-2:30 p.m. today and Friday at the Cultural Activities Center.
For more information about specific classes, call 773-9926 or visit www.cacarts.org.
Hot Summer Sounds
The Scott & White Health Plan presents Hot Summer Sounds featuring Tejano music performed by The Frank Gomez Band from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Sunday at Miller Park
For more information, call (254) 298-5401.
SALADO
Seth Shostak: Man, Mind, Machines
Seth Shostak entertains and informs with science, fantasy, and humor.
The Astronomical Society will co-host a visit by alien hunter Dr. Seth Shostak. His lecture will be held 4-6 p.m. Sunday in the Longhorn Conference Center at the Stagecoach Inn. A reception will follow the presentation.
Shostak will discuss the liklihood of humankind’s long-term survival, the next generation of space exploration, and what we might find among the stars. He also will give an update on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, when we might receive a signal from outside of our solar system and by whom it might be transmitted.
Registration is required, either in advance or at the door. Admission is $20 per person.
To register or for more information, visit www.centexastronomy.org/seth or call 947-5729.
AUSTIN
To the Moon: The American Space Program in the 1960s
Continuing through July 20, celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library is hosting “To the Moon.”
The exhibit will cover events from the Sputniks through the first moon landing of Apollo 11 in 1969. Each step of the space programs will be featured, as well as the milestone flights of astronauts Alan Shepard, John Glenn and Ed White.
For more information and museum hours, call (512) 721-0200 or visit www.lbjlib.utexas.edu.
White House exhibit
The White House Exhibit is on display at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. Included in the exhibition are photographic overviews of rooms in the White House and a seven-eighths scale replica of the Oval Office as it was during the Johnson presidency.
For more information and museum hours, call (512) 721-0200 or visit www.lbjlib.utexas.edu.
NEW BRAUNFELS
Concerts in the Park
For more than 25 years, Concerts in the Park have been the place to be on summer evenings. Come to the Landa Park Dance Slab on Landa Lake from 7:30-10 p.m.
Tonight, Korey Free and Fore of a Kind will perform jazz music. Friday, HIS Praise will perform contemporary Christian music.
Admission is free. For more information, call (830) 221-4350 or visit www.nbtexas.org.
GRUENE
Asleep at the Wheel
Mozie’s Bar & Grill presents country-swing band Asleep at the Wheel, at 9 p.m. July 4.
Americana band Tom Gillam & Tractor Pull appear earlier in the day from 1-5 p.m.
There is no cover charge for Tom Gillam & Tractor Pull; admission for Asleep at the Wheel is $22.50.
For more information, visit www.gruenehall.com/july2009.html.
ADDISON
Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan will perform a stand-up comedy show at the Addison Improv from Friday through Sunday. Show times vary.
For more information on Joe Rogan, visit www.joerogan.net.
For more information on the Addison Improv, visit www.improv2.com.
DALLAS
STARBURST® Summer Concert Series
Six Flags Over Texas presents American rock band Boys Like Girls live in concert Saturday with Never Shout Never as part of the STARBURST® Summer Concert Series.
Tickets are free with park admission, which can be bought online for the kids’ price of $31.00. Print the tickets at home and go straight to the gate.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
For more information on the band, visit www.boyslikegirls.com.
For more information on Six Flags, visit www.sixflags.com/overTexas/events/CalendarEvents.aspx.
BANDERA
BR Lightning Ranch Rodeo
The Lightning Ranch Rodeo begins at 8 p.m. every Saturday through August 29 and features the world’s only high-diving aqua mules.
There also will be open bull riding, junior bull riding, steer riding, calf roping, team roping, barrel racing, chute dogging, calf scramble and mutton busting events.
The books close at 7:45 p.m., with the rodeo beginning at 8 p.m. There will be slack after each performance, and separate payoff and points for each night.
Overnight trailer parking is available.
For more information, call (210) 219-5262 or visit www.lightningranch.com/rodeo_series.htm.
FREDERICKSBURG
The Dust Devils
The Dust Devils will perform at Hondo’s on Main Street 8-11:30 p.m. July 3.
For more information on the band, visit www.thedustdevils.org. For more information on the performance, visit www.hondosonmain.com.
KERRVILLE
July 4th Celebration on the River
Louise Hays Park
The city of Kerrville is pleased to announce its annual Fourth of July Celebration, which will be held in Louise Hays Park. Festivities will begin at noon; bands begin to play at 1:00 p.m.
A variety of food, beverages and arts and crafts will be available for sale.
A variety of bands will provide music from noon until 9:30 p.m., including 50’s tunes, Texas-style, jazz, and 50’s- and 60’s-era pop and country.
The evening will conclude with the fireworks display at 9:30 p.m.
For event information, please call the Parks & Recreation Department at (830) 257-7300 or visit www.kerrvilletx.gov.
LAMPASAS
Spring Ho Festival
Lampasas presents its annual Spring Ho Festival July 6 through July 12. Thousands of people participate in the week of festivities.
Events include music, a queen contest, county fair, firworks show, parade, street dances and kids’ activities.
Attend the Spring Ho Beauty Pageant, hayloft party talent contest, kiddie fishing derby, county fair, Keystone Square Museum special exhibits, Spring Ho carnival, dance contest, arts and crafts fair, a pet parade, diaper derby, barbecue cook off, dance on the square in the historic district, a 10K and one-mile runs, Spring Ho grand parade, washer and horseshoe pitching contests, and clogging and singing in the park and downtown.
For more information, call (512) 556-5301 or visit www.springho.com.
SAN MARCOS
Bigfest, Cheatham Street Warehouse
Bigfest, a three-day music festival at the legendary Cheatham Street Warehouse, isn’t a music event you want to miss.
From Friday through Sunday, more than 100 of Texas’ best songwriters and musicians will perform.
Proceeds will benefit the Cheatham Street Music Foundation.
A three day pass costs $25 and a single day pass is $12. For more information, visit www.bigfestmusic.com.
Summer Concerts
July 3
Joe Ely
Joe Ely will perform at 10:30 p.m. July 3 at Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth.
July 5
Candlebox
Candlebox will perform at 7 p.m. July 5 at the House of Blues in Dallas.
July 11
Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx will perform at 7 p.m. July 11 at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin.
Keith Urban
Keith Urban will perform at 7:30 p.m. July 11 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
Earth, Wind and Fire
and Chicago
Earth, Wind and Fire & Chicago will perform at 8 p.m. July 11 at the Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie in Grand Prairie.
July 17
Aerosmith and ZZ Top
Aerosmight and ZZ Top will perform at 7:30 p.m. June 30 at the Woodlands Pavillion in the Woodlands.
July 21
Coldplay
Coldplay will perform at 7 p.m. July 21 at the Superpages.com Center in Dallas.
July 23
American Idols Live! Tour
American Idols Live! Tour will perform at 7 p.m. July 11 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
For more information on upcoming concerts, visit www.ticketmaster.com.
For more information on events at the Frank Erwin Center, visit www.uterwincenter.com/events.
Palmer Theater
JUNE 25
Thursday
BATTLE FOR TERRA, PG
June 26
Friday
STAR TREK, PG-13
June 27
Saturday
4 p.m. STAR TREK, PG-13
7 p.m. X-MEN ORGINS:
WOLVERINE, PG-13
June 28
Sunday
STAR TREK, PG-13
June 29
Monday
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, PG-13
June 30
Tuesday
STAR TREK, PG-13
July 1
Wednesday
X-MEN ORGINS: WOLVERINE PG-13
All shows start at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Palmer Theater is located in Bldg. 334 at the corner of 31st Street and 761st Tank Battalion Avenue.
For a recording of all upcoming features, call 287-3851.
‘Salado’s Got Talent!’ Variety Show features area singers, musicians, actors and artists for a two-show fund-raiser benefitting the American Cancer Society at 7:30 p.m. July 3 and July 4, at the Silver Spur Theater.
“If you get a bang out of live entertainment, then ‘Salado’s Got Talent!’ should be more than a string of firecrackers,” say the producers of the two-hour variety show.
The show features a diverse slate of talented local performers, along with a “mystery guest.”
“Cancer is a disease that is physically, emotionally and financially devastating,” emphasized Rita Oden, Owner/Realtor of Salado Realty, and a performer for more than 16 years.“So this show is an evening of uplifting entertainment, a red-white-and-blue salute to everyone touched by cancer – patient, family members, caretakers and researchers. It’s our chance to fight back with fun!”
Admission is $15, $12 for senior citizens (65 and up), military personnel and students with an ID. Tickets can be purchased in advance at Salado Realty, First Community Title Salado, and First Salado Horizon Bank. Reservations are recommended.
For more information or ticket purchase, call 254-718-7956.
KILLEEN
15th Annual Golf Tournament
The Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce 15th Annual Golf Tournament will be held from 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Saturday.It will be a four-man scramble. Register early, don’t miss out!
Call (254) 699-4999 for more information.
Hot Summer Nights Concert Series
The City of Killeen Parks & Recreation department and Time Warner Cable present the Hot Summer Nights Concert Series featuring Old School band The Grooves at the Killeen Amphitheater, from 8:00-10:00 p.m. July 10.
Concessions will be available.
For more information, contact Killeen Parks & Recreation at (254) 501-8889.
BELTON
Market Days in Downtown Belton
Buying, selling and trading will occur in downtown Belton from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday.
Visit vendors and the farmer’s market in the historic downtown district along Central Avenue.
This event takes place every third Saturday of the month.
For more information, visit www.killeen.com.
Archeology Funshop
The Bell County Museum will host an archeology fun shop for children 5-7 years old from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Saturday. Participants can dig in the archeology pits and discover objects from Native American and pioneer days.
Hands-on activities designed to enhance learning about the well-know archaeology site that borders Bell and Williamson counties will be based upon a new exhibit, The Gault Site: A Wealth of New Archeological Evidence.
Cost is $5 per child, which covers crafts and activities. Pre-registration is required.
For more information, call 933-5243 or visit www.bellcountytx.com/Museum.
TEMPLE
Summer Arts Camp
The program “Goof Troop” will be held for children between the ages of 7 and 12 from 8:45 a.m.-2:30 p.m. today and Friday at the Cultural Activities Center.
For more information about specific classes, call 773-9926 or visit www.cacarts.org.
Hot Summer Sounds
The Scott & White Health Plan presents Hot Summer Sounds featuring Tejano music performed by The Frank Gomez Band from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Sunday at Miller Park
For more information, call (254) 298-5401.
SALADO
Seth Shostak: Man, Mind, Machines
Seth Shostak entertains and informs with science, fantasy, and humor.
The Astronomical Society will co-host a visit by alien hunter Dr. Seth Shostak. His lecture will be held 4-6 p.m. Sunday in the Longhorn Conference Center at the Stagecoach Inn. A reception will follow the presentation.
Shostak will discuss the liklihood of humankind’s long-term survival, the next generation of space exploration, and what we might find among the stars. He also will give an update on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, when we might receive a signal from outside of our solar system and by whom it might be transmitted.
Registration is required, either in advance or at the door. Admission is $20 per person.
To register or for more information, visit www.centexastronomy.org/seth or call 947-5729.
AUSTIN
To the Moon: The American Space Program in the 1960s
Continuing through July 20, celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library is hosting “To the Moon.”
The exhibit will cover events from the Sputniks through the first moon landing of Apollo 11 in 1969. Each step of the space programs will be featured, as well as the milestone flights of astronauts Alan Shepard, John Glenn and Ed White.
For more information and museum hours, call (512) 721-0200 or visit www.lbjlib.utexas.edu.
White House exhibit
The White House Exhibit is on display at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. Included in the exhibition are photographic overviews of rooms in the White House and a seven-eighths scale replica of the Oval Office as it was during the Johnson presidency.
For more information and museum hours, call (512) 721-0200 or visit www.lbjlib.utexas.edu.
NEW BRAUNFELS
Concerts in the Park
For more than 25 years, Concerts in the Park have been the place to be on summer evenings. Come to the Landa Park Dance Slab on Landa Lake from 7:30-10 p.m.
Tonight, Korey Free and Fore of a Kind will perform jazz music. Friday, HIS Praise will perform contemporary Christian music.
Admission is free. For more information, call (830) 221-4350 or visit www.nbtexas.org.
GRUENE
Asleep at the Wheel
Mozie’s Bar & Grill presents country-swing band Asleep at the Wheel, at 9 p.m. July 4.
Americana band Tom Gillam & Tractor Pull appear earlier in the day from 1-5 p.m.
There is no cover charge for Tom Gillam & Tractor Pull; admission for Asleep at the Wheel is $22.50.
For more information, visit www.gruenehall.com/july2009.html.
ADDISON
Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan will perform a stand-up comedy show at the Addison Improv from Friday through Sunday. Show times vary.
For more information on Joe Rogan, visit www.joerogan.net.
For more information on the Addison Improv, visit www.improv2.com.
DALLAS
STARBURST® Summer Concert Series
Six Flags Over Texas presents American rock band Boys Like Girls live in concert Saturday with Never Shout Never as part of the STARBURST® Summer Concert Series.
Tickets are free with park admission, which can be bought online for the kids’ price of $31.00. Print the tickets at home and go straight to the gate.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
For more information on the band, visit www.boyslikegirls.com.
For more information on Six Flags, visit www.sixflags.com/overTexas/events/CalendarEvents.aspx.
BANDERA
BR Lightning Ranch Rodeo
The Lightning Ranch Rodeo begins at 8 p.m. every Saturday through August 29 and features the world’s only high-diving aqua mules.
There also will be open bull riding, junior bull riding, steer riding, calf roping, team roping, barrel racing, chute dogging, calf scramble and mutton busting events.
The books close at 7:45 p.m., with the rodeo beginning at 8 p.m. There will be slack after each performance, and separate payoff and points for each night.
Overnight trailer parking is available.
For more information, call (210) 219-5262 or visit www.lightningranch.com/rodeo_series.htm.
FREDERICKSBURG
The Dust Devils
The Dust Devils will perform at Hondo’s on Main Street 8-11:30 p.m. July 3.
For more information on the band, visit www.thedustdevils.org. For more information on the performance, visit www.hondosonmain.com.
KERRVILLE
July 4th Celebration on the River
Louise Hays Park
The city of Kerrville is pleased to announce its annual Fourth of July Celebration, which will be held in Louise Hays Park. Festivities will begin at noon; bands begin to play at 1:00 p.m.
A variety of food, beverages and arts and crafts will be available for sale.
A variety of bands will provide music from noon until 9:30 p.m., including 50’s tunes, Texas-style, jazz, and 50’s- and 60’s-era pop and country.
The evening will conclude with the fireworks display at 9:30 p.m.
For event information, please call the Parks & Recreation Department at (830) 257-7300 or visit www.kerrvilletx.gov.
LAMPASAS
Spring Ho Festival
Lampasas presents its annual Spring Ho Festival July 6 through July 12. Thousands of people participate in the week of festivities.
Events include music, a queen contest, county fair, firworks show, parade, street dances and kids’ activities.
Attend the Spring Ho Beauty Pageant, hayloft party talent contest, kiddie fishing derby, county fair, Keystone Square Museum special exhibits, Spring Ho carnival, dance contest, arts and crafts fair, a pet parade, diaper derby, barbecue cook off, dance on the square in the historic district, a 10K and one-mile runs, Spring Ho grand parade, washer and horseshoe pitching contests, and clogging and singing in the park and downtown.
For more information, call (512) 556-5301 or visit www.springho.com.
SAN MARCOS
Bigfest, Cheatham Street Warehouse
Bigfest, a three-day music festival at the legendary Cheatham Street Warehouse, isn’t a music event you want to miss.
From Friday through Sunday, more than 100 of Texas’ best songwriters and musicians will perform.
Proceeds will benefit the Cheatham Street Music Foundation.
A three day pass costs $25 and a single day pass is $12. For more information, visit www.bigfestmusic.com.
Summer Concerts
July 3
Joe Ely
Joe Ely will perform at 10:30 p.m. July 3 at Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth.
July 5
Candlebox
Candlebox will perform at 7 p.m. July 5 at the House of Blues in Dallas.
July 11
Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx will perform at 7 p.m. July 11 at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin.
Keith Urban
Keith Urban will perform at 7:30 p.m. July 11 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
Earth, Wind and Fire
and Chicago
Earth, Wind and Fire & Chicago will perform at 8 p.m. July 11 at the Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie in Grand Prairie.
July 17
Aerosmith and ZZ Top
Aerosmight and ZZ Top will perform at 7:30 p.m. June 30 at the Woodlands Pavillion in the Woodlands.
July 21
Coldplay
Coldplay will perform at 7 p.m. July 21 at the Superpages.com Center in Dallas.
July 23
American Idols Live! Tour
American Idols Live! Tour will perform at 7 p.m. July 11 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
For more information on upcoming concerts, visit www.ticketmaster.com.
For more information on events at the Frank Erwin Center, visit www.uterwincenter.com/events.
Palmer Theater
JUNE 25
Thursday
BATTLE FOR TERRA, PG
June 26
Friday
STAR TREK, PG-13
June 27
Saturday
4 p.m. STAR TREK, PG-13
7 p.m. X-MEN ORGINS:
WOLVERINE, PG-13
June 28
Sunday
STAR TREK, PG-13
June 29
Monday
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, PG-13
June 30
Tuesday
STAR TREK, PG-13
July 1
Wednesday
X-MEN ORGINS: WOLVERINE PG-13
All shows start at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Palmer Theater is located in Bldg. 334 at the corner of 31st Street and 761st Tank Battalion Avenue.
For a recording of all upcoming features, call 287-3851.
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