Life + Culture

A Home for the Holidays

Elizabeth gets her home with a little help from Habitat Article by Tyler Schievelbein | Photography by provided Home ownership in America has been nearly everyone's dream.  According to the National Association of Builders, families with $50,000 in income are priced out of 91.3% of the active homes for sale. Even with a family income of $100,000 they are priced out of 62.9% of the active listings.  There is a shortage of affordable homes.  Every Thanksgiving, families gather around a table. ...

Wellness

Grateful Journey: From Patient to Doctor of Chiropractic

Dr. Tyrone Smith's own recovery inspired a second career helping others move with greater confidence. Article by Connie Monroe | Photography by Staff and Provided For Dr. Tyrone P. Smith, DC, gratitude is tied closely to the moment his life changed direction. In the 1990s, Smith was working as a Federal Express courier in Kansas City when a serious low-back problem began interfering with almost everything. He remembers struggling to walk, sit and sleep as sciatic pain traveled down his leg...

Arts + Culture

Thankful for Family

Arrowhead Photography captures the people, places and moments families treasure. Article by Connie Monroe | Photography by Shannon Matlock, Arrowhead Photo Family photographs often begin with a practical question: where should we take them? For Shannon Matlock of Arrowhead Photo, the answer is less about finding the prettiest backdrop and more about creating a place where a family can relax, move, and look like themselves. Matlock began her photography career in 2005, working in a mall...

Life + Culture

Thank God for Mom

Yeah Dad is cool, but who cooked you more dinners? Call your mom and thank her. Article and Photography by Kevin Bratton When you're a kid, you think your parents know everything. The're superheroes who can solve any problem, from a skinned knee to a broken bike. But as you get older, you realize they aren't superheroes at all, they’re just flawed humans doing the best they can to take care of you. They get tired, they get angry, and they make mistakes. As I gathered stories for this...

Health + Wellness

Bulging Disc or Herniated Disc: Why the Difference Matters

A radiology report is one of the few documents people read with a dictionary open. Yours might say bulge on one line, protrusion on the next, and herniation in the impression at the bottom, and it is fair to wonder whether you have one problem or three.You almost certainly have one. The words describe different amounts of the same process. The reason the distinction is worth understanding is not academic. It changes which approaches make sense, and it changes how much weight to put on the report...

Health + Wellness

Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression in The Woodlands Area

Somebody told you about spinal decompression. A neighbor in The Woodlands, a coworker, a friend who swears it fixed the leg pain nothing else touched. So you looked it up, and what you found was a wall of clinic pages that all say the same handful of confident things and none of which tell you what the machine actually does.That is a fair frustration. Decompression is one of the most oversold treatments in this field, and the marketing around it has gotten loud enough to obscure a real and...

Arts + Culture

Peace, Love and Pepperoni

American GIs didn’t bring pizza to America. But what they tasted, learned and remembered during World War II helped turn it into an American tradition. Article by Chris Staples By the time American troops landed in Sicily in July 1943, pizza was already an American food. Italian immigrants had been making and selling it in New York for decades. Pizza businesses appeared there as early as the 1890s. Frank Pepe was selling tomato pies to workers in New Haven before opening his pizzeria in 1925...

Arts + Culture

Debbie Glenn's Triple Play

Award Winning Music and Menus with an Amazing History. Article by Kevin Bratton | Photography by Montgomery Historical Society & provided In the heart of historic downtown Conroe, preservation is not merely about maintaining old brick and wood. Debbie Glenn is an accomplished Texas songwriter, entrepreneur, and culinary visionary who is transforming the local landscape one venue at a time. Driven by a desire to preserve the rich heritage of her adopted hometown where her four children Haley...

Life + Culture

It's Alive !!!

Frankenstein Invades The Crighton. Behind the curtain with the first science fiction story ever written. Article by Kevin Bratton | Photography by provided, staff & Colton Adams This season, the historic Crighton Theatre transforms into a chamber of Victorian Gothic suspense as Executive Director Melody Montez directs a powerful adaptation of Frankenstein . The production utilizes Victor Gialanella’s acclaimed script, which is widely celebrated as the closest theatrical interpretation to...

Food + Beverage

Where Texas Meets the Gulf

Conroux: East Texas character, Gulf Coast flavor and polished hospitality to the heart of Conroe. Article by Connie Monroe There is something especially satisfying about finding a restaurant that feels connected to the place around it. At Conroux, the signature restaurant inside Hyatt Regency Conroe, that sense of place begins with the menu and carries through the entire experience. The restaurant draws from East Texas, the Gulf Coast and the broader flavors that have shaped this part of the...