Cinematic Considerations How music impacts people’s lives has frequently been the foundation of movies, both in traditional Broadway adaptations and in the more recent songbook musical biopic trend. Best known for his infectious sing-along anthem “Sweet Caroline,” Neil Diamond has long been an inspi...

Iworked for a time for an outfitter in Amazônia. The company hosted fishing expeditions on a yacht that cruised up and down the Amazon River. Clients – mostly from Texas – would venture down to Brazil, check into a stateroom on the yacht, then fish from smaller boats that ventured deep into the wate...

In 1845, my ancestors, the Fritzes of Dillenburg, Germany, made the decision to emigrate to the new Republic of Texas. My third great-grandparents, Georg Johann Fritze and Katarina Becker Fritze, probably learned about the opportunity in Texas from Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach, who became Joh...

My parents are dead, my kids are adults and my wife says we should save our money for upcoming vacations. In short, this means I’m looking at a pretty...

Cinematic Considerations Spectacle in cinema can be thrilling, innovative and exhilarating, especially when blown up on the biggest screens possible. ...

Fredericksburg Middle School placed second overall in the District 28 4A University Interscholastic League One-Act Play competition and received three...