Remember when casual Fridays became a thing? All of us who were relegated to office jobs looked forward to that one day each week when we could tear off the ties, put on our khakis and lace up our tennis shoes. A funny thing happened on the way to J.C. Penney’s. Once the camo got its nose in the ten...

Drew, a one-eyed snowshoe, is available for adoption at the Hill Country SPCA. “Drew’s story began when a kind Good Samaritan found him outside and brought him to the HCSPCA. He was really sick and needed medical help,” said an animal care specialist at the Hill Country SPCA. Drew has had seizures a...

Tickets for individual events at the 2025 Fredericksburg Food & Wine Festival are now on sale. Grand Tasting Badges are now available for earlybird pricing. This year’s festival, taking place Tuesday through Sunday, Oct. 21-26, deepens its commitment to community by directing a portion of proceeds t...

We never had quiche in the 1950s. Its existence had never appeared in my dad’s weekly Saturday Evening Post or Collier’s, but a recipe might have appe...

Cinematic Considerations The modern-day anthology “Americana,” which evokes both the Coen brothers and Quentin Tarantino, should have had fervent box ...

Outdoors On Edge Very strange things were afoot in Clearwater Beach, Florida in the late 1940s. The discovery made along the small coastal town just a...