Aug 27, 2025 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
East Texas based singer-songwriter Bob Mauldin recently released his new album, Peony Prairie Fire, a bold blend of heartfelt storytelling, vivid imagery, and raw Americana energy. Available now on all major streaming platforms and in select record stores, the album...
Aug 27, 2025 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
The late legendary DJ Tom Perryman is among the Texas Radio Hall of Fame 2025 honorees. He’ll be posthumously inducted as a Lone Star Legacy on November 1 at the Texas Radio Hall of Fame’s annual induction ceremony at the Texas Broadcast Museum in Kilgore. Perryman...
Aug 27, 2025 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
Texas singer-songwriter Andie Kay Joyner released a single this summer that marks the final studio collaboration with her mentor, the late Tommy Alverson. “This recording is so dear to me, as well as bittersweet, because it is the last one that I’ll ever get to make...
Jun 25, 2025 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By P.A. Geddie Gerald Turner was born and raised in rural New Boston in the Upper East Side of Texas. From his small town beginnings he went on to serve as president of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas for three decades. He’s retiring this summer and...
Jun 25, 2025 | UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
Aviator Made Significant Contributions to Air Travel Safety By P.A. Geddie When Bobbie Ray Allen was born July 26, 1922, in Winnsboro, Texas, he was met with a long line of East Texas ancestry under wide open skies. He was a curious child and respectful of others...
May 2, 2025 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By P.A. Geddie The birth of dance drill team performances happened first at a rural Texas high school, then on a small college football field before gaining popularity around the world. The inventor of the art form was teacher and choreographer Gussie Nell Davis who...
