At right, Brielle Thompson, age 9, of Fredericksburg, navigates her string and hook along the banks of Live Oak Creek which runs through Lady Bird Johnson Municipal Park.

After a decade of principled resistance, I’ve finally let an unwelcome visitor inside my house. “Alexa, are you turned on?” I know, I know. I fought against allowing the snoopy digital neighbor into my home because of invasion of privacy, data mining, assimilation by the Borg, yada yada. I’m still n...

From live concerts to concertos, the Standard-Radio Post has had the luxury of covering entertaining events, activities and dances throughout 2024. The Scene section has chronicled many ON THE COVER The top three Scene covers for 2024, clockwise from left, are: No. 2: The Texas Camel Corps visited t...

Outdoors On Edge At the end of last week’s Christmas- themed column, I stated that, “writing this column and receiving feedback from all of you via em...

I am thinking about my Aunt Rose this week. She was 250 years old. At least she seemed to be that age in my childish worldview. She was actually born ...

Performances from the band Kin Faux at Luckenbach have become a New Year’s Eve tradition. “We are excited to continue our New Year’s Eve tradition for...