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Friedrichsburg Revisited
The German novel, penned in 1867 and set in the just-settled Hill Country hamlet, gets a modern translation.
Exercise of Flower
Yes, the traditional bluebonnet photo is irredeemably cheesy. Yes, the notion of trying to take an artistically daring bluebonnet photo is utterly ridiculous. And yes, we found seven photographers who were willing to give it a try.
The Drop Everything List
Willie Nelson and Friends, Cowgirl Round-up and Showdeo, Black Eyed Pea and Cornbread Cookoff, and a New Year's Eve show in Emo's new digs . . .
The Drop Everything List
Fire Relief benefit concert, Poncho Sanchez, Lone Star Gourd Festival, and a screening of Some Girls Live in Texas 78 . . .
Johnny Nicholas
The Drop Everything List
Arcade Fire, the Texas State Surfing Championships, the Wings Over the Hills Nature Festival, and the Wiener Dog Races . . .
The Drop Everything List
Pinetop Perkins, Red Hot Patriot, Fredericksburg Wine Road 290, and the Dallas Burlesque Festival . . .
The Drop Everything List
Flaco Jimenez, Gloworama, Jimmie Vaughan, and the South Padre Island Polar Bear Dip.
The Drop Everything List
Jeff Dunham, the “It Gets Better” Film Festival, the Mavs vs. the Spurs, and the South Texas Institute of the Arts . . .
Vines for Valentines
Sip a little here, nosh a little there, and fall in love with Texas wineries.
New and Noteworthy
Bistro Don Camillo, Houston and August E’s, Fredericksburg
New and Noteworthy
Rebecca’s Table, Fredericksburg and So Vino Wine Bar & Bistro, Houston
Home, Sweet Homestead
Five chic interior design stores in Fredericksburg are comforting, inspiring, and for the acquisitive, absolutely irresistible.
Texas Twenty: Princess
The celebritty realtor as realor celebrity.
Sleepless in Fredericksburg
Like it says on her newly acquired bumper sticker, movie mogul Lynda Obst is “Texan By Choice.” But while you can take the girl out of Hollywood …
The Ultimate Hill Country Tour
Spend a long weekend this spring meandering through Texas’ fabled heartland, where you can stop and smell the wildflowers, taste country cooking, and take home a trunkful of fine antiques.
Better Than Wurst
Portobello mushrooms and paella alongside the schnitzel and sauerkraut: In the Hill Country town of Fredericksburg, there’s clearly something cooking.
Madeleine in the Hill Country
As long as she spends most of her free time on a ranch outside Fredericksburg, Madeleine Stowe may never become, by Hollywood’s definition, a successful actress. And that’s fine with her.
Radio
Play-by-play coverage of high school baseball in Alpine, polka and Pan-American music in El Campo: More than a dozen reasons not to touch that dial.
Restaurants
A creamy quiche of spinach, cheese, and mushrooms in Comfort, smashingly good smashed turnips in Granbury: These and other delicious dishes at ten extraordinary eateries.
My Library
