Billy the Kid Festival
To some urban Texans, associations of the Lone Star State as a place of outlaws and duels may seem like things of ... Read More »
Texas Highways Selects True Texas Travel Film Winner at Thin Line Fest
A Piece of Texas: A Travel Documentary took home the top prize in Texas Highways' True Texas short film category at Thin Line fest in Denton on Saturday, April 21. Read More »
Paddling the Devils River in Southwest Texas Offers High Risks and High Rewards
You find two kinds of paddlers on the Devils River: those who come out here whenever possible and those who will never do it again. Or so the saying goes. I was pondering this thought one morning on the river as I clambered out of my kayak to perch on a boulder and peer 100 yards downstream at a serene pool flanked by sloping slabs of limestone. In between lay Dandridge Falls, a series of cascading rapids that coursed and swirled through chutes, over small ledges, and around protruding boulders and brush. Read More »
This Museum in Grand Saline Encourages You to Lick the Walls
True to its name, the façade of the Salt Palace is made of translucent blocks of sodium chloride, the mineral compound we use for everything from seasoning french fries to de-icing roads on wintry days. “Salt kills all germs, and you can’t grow germs on salt,” King says. “So you can lick the building. You can lick the big ton of salt out front. We don’t care, you can lick anything you want. We are fine with it.” Read More »
Bryan-College Station Ups Its Lodging Game with Three New Boutique Hotels
Sitting down to a late-afternoon drink at The Stella Hotel’s airy lobby bar in Bryan, awash in natural light ... Read More »
The Hill Country Film Festival in Fredericksburg Is an Indie Film-Lover’s Nirvana
Fredericksburg’s Fritztown Cinema hosts the Hill Country Film Festival, which has tripled in attendance since ... Read More »
Tour 2 Award-Winning Bourbon Distilleries in Texas
Blame it on Tito’s. The craft vodka from Austin, which grew from obscurity 20 years ago into one of Texas’ ... Read More »
The Devils River Camping Conundrum
The Devils River grows more popular every year as word spreads about its crystal-clear water and spectacular setting. With the increase of paddlers embarking on overnight river trips comes increased tensions with the landowners who own the river’s banks. Read More »
These 10 Texas Nature Conservancy Preserves Offer Public Access—and Plenty of Awe-Inspiring Sights
Waltz across Texas and you’ll find coastal marshes where alligators lurk, spring-fed pools in the middle of the ... Read More »
11 Voluntourism Opportunities and Volunteer Organizations in Texas
Information on volunteering opportunities related to organizations mentioned in our April 2018 feature 4 ... Read More »
Mattie’s at Green Pastures Pimento Cheese Recipe
Mary Faulk Koock, the third of five children of Mattie and Henry Faulk and the original proprietor of Green Pastures Restaurant, wrote The Texas Cookbook: From barbecue to banquet—an informal view of dining and entertaining the Texas way, published in 1965. This is an updated version of Koock’s recipe for “cheese filling,” which contains pimentos and hard-boiled eggs. Read More »
El Paso’s Downtown Resurgence
Way out at the western tip of Texas—more than 500 miles from any other major Texas city—percolates El Paso, the ... Read More »
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