Hill Country Guide: Merry and Bright
The Hill Country’s best and brightest holiday celebrations By JANIS TURK All is calm, and all is bright as twinkling lights, night parades, Christmas shopping markets and warm Yuletide fun fill the calendar in towns throughout the Hill Country this season. Families are busy making merry once more, enjoying ice-skating rinks, tree-lighting ceremonies, Christmas arts […]
Travel: Need a Cure for the Common Cold Winter Blues?
Take a Cruise and Call me in the Morning By JANIS TURK “The cure for everything is saltwater — sweat, tears or the sea,” writes author Isak Dineson, and she’s right. There is no winter cabin fever that can’t be cured by a salty sea breeze, a piña colada on a sunny beach and a […]
Artbeat: Embroidering
HISTORY AND CULTURE Show will pay tribute to Old Spanish Trail highway By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF PHOTOGRAPHY BY JANET ROGERS Years ago, artist Laurel Gibson stopped to look at some merchandise sold from a roadside stand along Highway 16. Large perforated paper rolls attracted her attention, but she was puzzled. What were they for? It turned […]
CityScene: In Full Swing
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF By November, the performing arts season is in full swing and itching to get into the holiday mood sooner rather than later. A great event to get us all in the spirit of celebration is Luminaria, coming up Nov. 9-12. The annual showcase of regional and national artists, dreamed up by then-Mayor […]
Entertaining: Not Just Another Christmas Party
By Pamela Lutrell Photography by Janis Turk It started on a trip to New York City. Four best friends from Terrell Hills … women who had raised their children together … traveled the world together … began to discuss another Christmas. Though not in the real “tinsel town,” it was all of the tinsel and […]