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John Taylor believes anytime is a good time to go nuts. In today’s “ready-to-eat society,” as he describes it, those morsels courtesy of Mother Nature are portable, delicious and, best of all, nutritious, says the CEO of Texas Star Nut and Food Co., one of the nation’s largest providers of snacking nuts, baking nuts, dried fruit, trail m ...

It may be the ultimate Throwback. An era that was finished now lives—not in huge numbers, but the industry is breathing. It's not The End just yet. The MGM Lion roars; the Columbia Beacon shines; that Warner Brothers "WB" is coming at you. The first reel is ready at the Drive-In theater. "I was mentored by my grandfather,"

What makes a singer great? Is it the tone of their voice, or the way they swing their hips? Most times, it's a song. A song can take an unknown and send them straight to the top of the charts. In celebration of those guys and gals who pen the words to those songs, Jim Halfpenny, Laurie Halfpenny and Dave Niemeyer have organized the 2015 Dripping Springs Songwriters Festival. For the second year, songwriters from around the world will come together in downtown Dripping Springs to sing the songs ...

It is always with great anticipation that I wait for the first lights of the Holiday season. My Christmas memories always include at least one drive to ooh and ah over beautiful strings of lights that adorned homes. I grew up where homes dotted the landscape in the middle of cotton fields.

"Tuck the stock in tight to your shoulder, move your head forward until you have a good sight picture with no black around the edges. Take a deep breath, let half of it out, hold the rest, and slowly squeeze the trigger, while keeping the crosshairs steady where you want the bullet to go." My son's best friend, Mason, was sitting at my sighting-in table, his lanky frame folded up like a pretzel, with his arms wrapped around my Remington Model 788 .222 as if it were going to try to escape.

I have been blessed to hunt in the hill country my entire life.  I was born in San Saba County in the late sixties and have hunted here ever since.  I loved it so much in fact, I have turned my avocation into my vocation.

For generations, the Kuebel family has called Blanco County home. Their 60-acre farm, located just about four miles west of Blanco, is home to four generations, all of whom work together tending to the variety of livestock and pets that share the land that overlooks the Blanco River. Like a lot of Hill Country farms, the Kuebels raise goats.

Ah, San Angelo, the most fascinating city in Texas. For most Hill Country folks, San Angelo is just that West Texas city you drive through on the way to Lubbock or New Mexico. It's way out in the middle of nowhere, not all that far from the exact middle of the Lone Star State. But San Angelo is distinctive.

For generations, the Kuebel family has called Blanco County home. Their 60-acre farm, located just about four miles west of Blanco, is home to four generations, all of whom work together tending to the variety of livestock and pets that share the land that overlooks the Blanco River. Like a lot of Hill Country farms, the Kuebels raise goats.

It may be the ultimate Throwback. An era that was finished now lives—not in huge numbers, but the industry is breathing. It’s not The End just yet. The MGM Lion roars; the Columbia Beacon shines; that Warner Brothers “WB” is coming at you. The first reel is ready at the Drive-In theater. “I was mentored by my grandfather,” Ryan Smith told me one balmy summer night.