Friends sets its fall meeting The Friends of Pioneer Memorial Library will have its fall meeting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, at the library. They will discuss the success of the Sept. 7 annual book sale as well as the agenda and overview of committees. For more information, call Linda Heimann, a...

Embarking on this article, I had never heard of Frizzled Beef and had no clue what it was. Many decades ago, I saw S.O.S. on the menu at Jessica’s, a restaurant once located at East Ufer and South Adams. I thought I would try it. Turns out it was ground beef on a cracker — two crackers, as I recall....

Texas Hill Country Wineries are celebrating Texas Wine Month and the organization’s 25th anniversary with a passport event that runs through Oct. 31. The passport, which can be purchased at texashillcountrywineries. org, is a self-guided tour to over 45 wineries in the Hill Country. The individual p...

Cinematic Considerations Bringing together two of the world’s last great movie stars and not putting them on the big screen feels hollow and almost so...

Outdoors On Edge Ahorrifying attack in Bossou, Guinea, Africa claimed the life of an eight-month-old baby, left a scientific outpost in ruins, and sen...

In the 1980s, I brainstormed the idea of harnessing the energy of “people walking around” by installing turnstyles on the sidewalks of New York. My th...