Jan 1, 2021 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Lisa Tang Mount Vernon Music Association (MVM) is one of the region’s little-known treasures, bringing refined music through concerts and outreach programs for 17 years. Founders Mark and Ute Miller are high-quality musicians who play regularly with symphonies in...
Nov 4, 2020 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
Longview native Matthew McConaughey recently released his book, Greenlights, based on a diary he kept for 35 years, including his years at Longview High School. Rather than doing a traditional memoir or advice book, McConaughey said Greenlights is based on adventures...
Mar 2, 2020 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
Samuel Albert Countee was born in Marshall, Texas, on April 1, 1909, and eventually emerged as one of the nation’s most inspiring young artists of the 1930s. While in Booker T. Washington Hi School in Houston, he displayed the heartfelt passion for African-American...
Sep 4, 2019 | ARTS + CULTURE, LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT
By Judy Peacock There are many ways to tour historic Jefferson, Texas, a pre-Civil War town with scenic streets, charming restaurants, quaint bed and breakfasts, historic hotels, and picturesque landscapes. The town was founded in Marion County in the late 1830s to...
Mar 5, 2019 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By P.A. Geddie When artist Anup Bhandari was growing up in Nepal, he saw how kind his father was to others, even to strangers. Those memories followed him to Texas as an adult and eventually collided with some people that inspired him to do the same. One winter about...
Sep 1, 2018 | ARTS + CULTURE
Peace Garden Offers Serenity With Ethnic Angels Relief Sculpture By Pamela Edwards Greenville has a secret mural. It is actually a relief sculpture in a very serene setting. The artwork is in a cemetery, a graveyard, a place of eternal rest. About one mile from...
