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"That’s the actual Ride The Lightning backdrop – the real one," Hammett says. "I love looking at it because it brings me back to those times of 1984/85.

Fidget Spinners caught on like crazy last year, but the newest trend in fiddling might turn out to be even bigger. Enter The Squishy! Co-workers may already have them, and parents may love them just as much as kids do.

Texas is so good at throwing a party. There are some killer festivals every year that have food as the central focus, and there might be none better than the Texas Blueberry Festival in Nacogdoches. And it's less than a month away.

Girls are going to be doing some barrel racing at a rodeo coming up later this week in Jacksonville. The road trip will take you about an hour, and you'll see saddle bronc and bull riding too.

School is almost out and it's going to be a great summer, especially if you are in the 4th right now. You are your family's ticket into national parks this summer and all you have to do is print out a pass, and get going to places like the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. The whole family gets in free! Here's how it works.

Those toll booths around Texas will take a picture of your license plate and send you a bill in the mail, and apparently, they'll do it even if your vehicle is headed through backward while it's being towed. Can you get a toll bill even if there's no one in the vehicle? Yep.

It's a love-hate relationship with those little liquid nitrogen-soaked cereal balls that make you look like you have dragon's breath when you eat them. Kids love 'em and many parents, well...not so much! Because they're expensive.

Living in East Texas probably isn't as exciting at life in New York, but we have our own set of super heroes that should be considered for the next Avengers movie.

The most popular teams end up in the prime TV slots during the NFL season, and after years of dominance by the Cowboys, the Texans are starting to catch up. Between the two teams, fans will get seven prime-time games this fall.

The Rangers and Astros don't crack the Top Ten on the Forbes' list of Major League Baseball's most valuable franchises, but that doesn't seem to bother Texans one bit. In fact, we kinda rebel against the richest teams, don't we?

The Houston Renaissance Festival takes place every fall, and Scarborough Faire is the North Texas option for the spring. That's open now, and it's the place to go if you're craving one of those sausage-wrapped Scotch Eggs to go with a little jousting.

It's festival season in East Texas, and it's high time we enter some chili cook-offs, check out some car shows, ride some carnival rides, and eat some food on a stick. If we hop in the car on any given weekend, it's likely we can roll into festival somewhere, and Gladewater has a good one coming up in ten days.