True confession: I've never called myself a baseball fan. Basketball is a lot more my speed.

Even Nikola Tesla, that genius and master of strange forces, had to leave us eventually. And now so does the Eastside artistic epicenter named after his laboratory.

Grab the kids: Adorable Aussie Daniel Harries has been skating in Disney on Ice shows for almost a decade and will appear as Woody this weekend in Cedar Park.

Why are we calling this issue – this particular themed segment of content on the wubs and in the paper – the Summer Fun issue?

Back in the day, when our elementary school classes went to tour the Texas State Capitol, we were really there, man, analog, truly in the moment… not like kids these days.

Vacations weren't really a thing in my family. Other clans took off for Canada posing like wet dogs in front of Niagara Falls, or down to the tippy tip of Mexico where they were wowed by Mayan ruins.

In anticipation of our upcoming annual Summer Fun issue (on stands this Thursday!), we're posting essays, memories, pics, and special online features to get you wrapped up in that summer feeling.

Some of these things are current and fleeting.