Feb 26, 2025 | ARTS + CULTURE, REFLECTIONS
Lexie Dean Robertson was a teacher and poet. She was born in Lindale, Texas, on July 25, 1893, the daughter of Alexander Green and Lena (Ansley) Dean. Her parents were both teachers. She grew up in Canton and married J. F. Robertson on August 16, 1911, while both were...
Feb 26, 2025 | ARTS + CULTURE
By P.A. Geddie The 97th Academy Awards takes place March 2 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The ceremony is televised on ABC and streamed on Hulu. Last year I was totally in to following the Oscars for recommended movies and chasing down where to watch them in...
Feb 26, 2025 | ARTS + CULTURE
As the winter seeds begin to bloom with life across the region, the energy shifts with more music in the air as well. Here are a few highlights of shows and places to hear the beat from Mozart to country fiddlers to Americana singer songwriters. The annual Townes Van...
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 | 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 | 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...
