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The Shows Goes On For San Antonio’s Starline Costumes

February 7, 2023 | By Jacqueline Knox

When Starline Costumes, a cherished costume sales and rental shop in San Antonio, announced it would be closing last October, customers took to social media to express their sadness.

The Infinite Bling of Neiman Marcus, a Dallas Tradition for 113 Years

November 26, 2020 | By Traces of Texas

The founders of Neiman Marcus first considered investing in Atlanta’s upstart Coca-Cola Co. before deciding to open a specialty store in downtown Dallas in 1907, according to family lore.

Find Stuff You Never Knew You Needed at the World’s Largest Public Flea Market in Canton

November 27, 2019 | By Sarah Hepola

Christmas Rocks! Houston’s One-Stop Holiday Shop

November 8, 2017 | By Heather Brand

In Charles Dickens’ classic holiday tale A Christmas Carol, a reformed Ebenezer Scrooge proclaims, “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” Shoppers looking to keep the Yuletide spirit in their hearts year-round need look no further than the Christmas Rocks store in Houston.

I Think I Canton

October 19, 2016 | By Melanie Haupt

Each November, my credit card starts trembling as I begin to contemplate the blank canvas that is my holiday shopping list.

Sisterdale’s Secrets

July 11, 2014 | By Michelle Burgess

If Ottmar von Behr had gotten his way 155 years ago, Sisterdale would look a whole lot different than the tiny town it turned out to be.

The October 2023 issue of Texas Highways "Tastes Like Home"

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