Before Johnny Nicholas bought the old beer joint and gas station that would become Hill Top Café on U.S. 87, the blues singer was a regular at Antone’s Nightclub in Austin. There, he watched the pioneer of zydeco music Clifton Chenier perform in the 1970s. Last year, Nicholas sang vocals on a tribut...

HOUSE “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up...

Irecently drove a donated vehicle from London to Lviv, Ukraine, with my English friend Peter in order to give it to the Ukrainian military, despite (United States) State Department warnings to not go. The military needs these vehicles for frontline mobility, casualty evacuations and supplying troops...

HOUSE Ilove making and keeping a “To Do” list. Little is more satisfying than changing a “to do” to “done.” But I have discovered a more important lis...

Winners of the first Hill Country Short Story Contest were announced last Saturday during the opening ceremony of the second Fredericksburg Book Festi...

It was the first time she had ever been that far up the canyon. She and her husband, Judah, always stopped at the barbed wire fence marking the bounda...