Sep 2, 2016 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By P.A. Geddie Many people know and love Andie Kay Joyner as the lead singer for the popular band blacktopGYPSY. She hails from Edgewood/Wills Point and her East Texas family shows up often to cheer her on. Today it is not her powerful, sultry voice however that has...
Jul 1, 2016 | UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By P.A. Geddie No one is quite sure what Governor James Stephen Hogg and his wife Sarah Ann Stinson were thinking when they named their baby girl — born July 10, 1882 — Ima Hogg. Rumors were there was another daughter named Ura but at least that is untrue. What is...
Jul 1, 2016 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
There’s something sweet and saucy and wise all at the same time about Margo Martindale that makes people smile when she enters a room. It’s like she knows something amusing others can’t quite see just yet and they eagerly wait for her to let it out in her friendly...
Jan 4, 2016 | UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By LouAnn Campbell and Steve Freeman The name Carroll Shelby is hardly recognized by most East Texans, but the Shelby name is admired far, far beyond the region that gave him his start. Just using the word “Shelby” conjures up images to many of classic...
Nov 4, 2015 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
Multiple generations continue to dance and sing, fall in and out of love, expand their dreams, and otherwise resonate with the tunes of the Eagles and founding member Don Henley, who hails from a small town in the Upper East Side of Texas. But perhaps even more...
Nov 4, 2015 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
With the very first few slow and steady notes of a sliding steel guitar reminiscent of Floyd Cramer’s “Last Date,” Don Henley’s first date in 15 years with a solo album draws listeners in to a sense of home, community, and the pleasure of being at peace...
