Feb 26, 2025 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
Texas blues-rock singer/songwriter and exceptional guitarist Ally Venable has a new album coming out in April and makes an appearance in her hometown of Kilgore amid her national 2025 tour. A Kilgore native, Venable began singing at church at four and picked up the...
Feb 26, 2025 | FOOD + DRINKS
The rich soil, weather conditions, abundance of land and water, and beautiful countryside make the development of an Upper East Side of Texas wine industry ideal. Some of the vineyards and wineries in the region started a couple of decades ago and have won...
Feb 26, 2025 | ARTS + CULTURE
Dallas author Rusty Williams is speaking on May 6 at the Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum in Greenville. He’ll talk about “how Texans gained a reputation for being oversized, cocky, self-promotional, sports-crazy, and too rich for their own damn good.” From his...
Feb 26, 2025 | FOOD + DRINKS
Queen St Grille at the historic Redlands Hotel in downtown Palestine offers casual fine dining seven days a week. Long known for their lunch and dinner menus, they recently expanded their offerings to include brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday with...
Feb 26, 2025 | ARTS + CULTURE
Herb Marlow has written another Western, all about a young man — a veteran of the Civil war on the Confederate side — who befriends a young girl and her father and tries to shield them from a town of haters. In Ride the High Trails, Solomon Peters finds himself a man...
