Arts + Culture

Fall Into a Few Good Books

Perfect reads as the weather turns: Recipes, road trips and Steinbeck for beginners to welcome autumn. Article by Dawn Allen | Photography by Provided Southern Living: Best Fall Recipes Southern Living cookbooks have been a standby in my kitchen for years, and this collection of autumn recipes reminds me why. Hearty and seasonal, this cookbook’s recipes lean into fall’s best comfort flavors. A standout, the steak and two-potato soup, is playfully coined as a dish that “men fancy,” a claim...

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The Hands That Feed Us

Family, Hard Work and Harvest at Atkinson Farms Article by Aunika Anderson | Photography by Provided From dawn to dusk, there is always something to be done at Atkinson Farms, a fourth-generation family farm.  Another Season, Another Harvest  The day begins before the first cup of coffee, with one of the farmers’ most important routines: checking the weather. On a farm, the forecast can determine nearly everything. Rain, heat, wind and cold can change the day’s plans in an instant. And...

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Back in the Saddle

Austin Simmons Returns to The Woodlands Dining Scene With New Steakhouse Charolais Article and Photography by Laura L. Green On the evening we visited Charolais in Hughes Landing, the late summer temperatures were breaking records. The setting sun was hanging in just the right spot over Lake Woodlands as to be both penetratingly hot and blinding. But a little unfavorable weather should never prevent one from indulging in a meal at a fine Texas steakhouse, especially if it’s the...

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“Down To the Local…”

From medieval Ale-Stakes to Tuesday-Night Trivia, The Blue Lion Proves Why Every Neighborhood Deserves a Proper Pub Article and Photography by Travis Hager “There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.” Dr. Samuel Johnson offered that verdict in 1776, as recorded by his biographer James Boswell. Johnson was praising the tavern, but his instinct reaches straight into the modern pub: give people a warm welcome...