If you’ve got a hankerin’ for music, you’d best go ahead on to one of the many honky-tonks around San Marcos where you can take off yer coat, thow it in the corner and stay a little longer. Something about the ATMs in London.

We’re not crowning a mud queen or tattooing Ringo Starr on our arms, but San Marcos still makes a mark with music and ice cream this weekend.

You can make like Sweden on Christmas Eve and explore the depth psychology of Santa Claus through Donald Duck’s classic interpretation. We’ve also got music this weekend in San Marcos, as always.

Southern rockers The Beaumonts made more than music last weekend. They made a kind of holiday magic.

The weekend is chock-full of fine events. The Veterans Day Parade in San Marcos has more than 78 entries, Java Jive is cooking up delicious foods and coffees, the music is particularly good this weekend and the weather? Well, it should be a bit crisp.

The weekend is a compendium of music, art, openings, music, carnivals, fairs, pumpkins, and other wonderful things to do in our gorgeous part of Texas.

This weekend Texas State takes on Angelo State in a much talked-about football game. Music, as always, is full of delightful surprises, and don’t forget about barbecue and movies.

The weekend for celebrating National Ice Cream Day is going to be hot in more ways than one. Who woulda thunk it? Live music at San Marcos mainstays like Triple Crown always helps.

The hot weather might be a prompt to try remembering what made summer fun as a kid. Stuff like Kool-Aid, barbecue, shade and flashlight tag. Then, maybe, snap into grown-up mode and see some live music, or you can go to another big night of races Saturday night at Thunderhill Raceway in Kyle (above).

BIGFest and the Luling Watermelon Thump are among the treats on tap this weekend in and around San Marcos. Big John Mills (above) is one of the musicians performing at BIGFest.