That didn t happen, either. The Philharmonic took its first two shows of the 2020-21 season to the Abilene Zoo.
Here it is more than a year later and Hertzenberg finally is coming to town. She performs Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon with her musician pals at the Paramount Theatre.
Out of the fog
This weekend marks her return to live performance. There have been a few obstacles this year, she said, laughing. But we re finally coming out of the fog, right?
Oh, but she wanted to come to Abilene. She has been part of a couple of Philharmonic holiday shows, another that spotlighted the music of Broadway, and a cabaret-style event at the Paramount in 2014.
And that s a good thing.
For 25 years, volunteers from several local churches have shaken off sleep to arrive at the kitchen at the former downtown First Christian Church s Perry Center to begin preparing breakfast before dawn.
They call it B.O.B.S. Breakfast on Beech Street.
It s a program that has stood the test of time, especially continuing its mission during a pandemic.
On Sunday, the program, based at 301 Beech St., marks its 25th anniversary. It is based on a program called Breakfast on the Boulevard in Edmond, Oklahoma.
The party began early, with 60 donors pledging almost $11,000 to the program during Abilene Gives.
But the event that celebrates life in the West and the Abilene area s roots rides again.
The event kicks off Thursday evening with the downtown parade before attendees get their kicks at the Taylor County Expo Center on Friday and Saturday. The traditional cowboy church service Sunday morning concludes this year s event.
Following the 6:30 p.m. parade, there will be a street dance. At the Expo Center, cowboy poets will gather to present their work as evening fades to dark.
Rochelle Johnson, Expo Center general manager, said there was great excitement in bringing WHC back again. The Taylor Telecom Arena was ready last year and we couldn t showcase it, she said of the new rodeo venue. The entire Expo Center looks very different now.
Coming out of great unknown this time last year, when COVID-19 held a deadly grip on the nation, McMurry University found a way to bring back live theater.
Kerry Goff, the theater department head, had to revise his three-show summer schedule due largely to getting the rights to shows, but he came up with a Plan B. He would take two shows, Steel Magnolias and The Fantasticks, outdoors.
Yes, into the summer heat.
The shows were performed on an elevated stage at the university s Quad. Actors were spread across the stage and did not physically interact.
Audiences were limited in number and seated apart, usually under the nearest tree. That alone encouraged social distancing.
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A West Texas school district on Monday unanimously voted for a change in the student dress code policy that eliminates gender-specific language after a high schooler complained his suspension for painting his nails was a double standard.
The Clyde Consolidated Independent School District’s board of trustees approved the changes for the 2021-22 school year, the Abilene Reporter-News reported.
The change to the school’s dress code evidently came about thanks to the efforts of Trevor Wilkinson, a beyond proud gay senior at Clyde High School in Clyde, Texas.