FULL HOUSE Over the next couple of weekends, legions of adventurous spirits will arrive in the Hill Country to interact as knights, jesters, maidens, and other denizens of Middle Age European villages at the Kerrville Renaissance Festival. What makes our neighbors in conventional careers change into...

Playhouse 2000 presents Balsam Range at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Cailloux Theater, 910 Main, Kerrville. Balsam Range is a multiaward winning bluegrass/gospel/newgrass group from the mountains of North Carolina, known for their tight harmonies, smooth instrumentals and performances on the Gr...

The Texas Exes Fredericksburg Chapter will hold its monthly networking social and business meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7 the Fredericksburg Brewing Company, located at 245 East Main Street. Chapter president Jamie Morris and officers will discuss final plans for the Texas Independence Day Ce...

CULINARY ADVENTURE Spanakopita, the savory pie one authority praised as the ultimate Greek “soul food,” might be the first word I ever tried to unders...

Cinematic Considerations Intertitles, text at the opening of the film, explain how for celebrated author James Baldwin, “every black person born in Am...