Fall for a Flavorful Cheese Board

Some of the most beloved flavors are inspired during the fall, and there are few better ways to enjoy the season’s best than with a group of friends and family. Get ready to wow guests with seasonal treats that invite everyone to indulge in fall flavors. Even adults can enjoy getting hands-on with their...

A Holiday Gathering Guide for Hosts

Gearing up for a crowd at your holiday festivities can provide moments of excitement, stress, fun and plenty of other emotions as the big dinner draws near. This year, avoid any nagging feelings of doubt with this step-by-step guide to prepare for large gatherings. Plan in advance. Even if you’re typically...

Fall Into a Fitness Routine

This year, take advantage of the winds of change when the seasons switch and commit to smart habits for a healthy fall. Dress for success. As the temperatures drop, you may be tempted to bundle up before heading outdoors to exercise, and for your warm-up and cool-down period, that’s not a bad idea....

Loggins Jewelers Angels for Alzheimer’s Scholarship Fund

In addition to being a full-service jeweler that promises to “find anything, design anything and fix anything,” Loggins Jewelers is also an enthusiastic advocate for supporting research of Alzheimer’s. The first year for the store’s Angels for Alzheimer’s Scholarship fund – awarded to five...

Halloween: A Sweet Time for Family, Fun and Traditions

Halloween is a fun time of year meant to be celebrated with friends and family. While the holiday originated more than 2,000 years ago with Celtic tribes, the traditions of dressing in disguises and celebrating with food and drink endure to this day. According to a survey conducted by the National...

Staircases and The Dining Room Table

Beginner Series: Part Two – By Alisa Murray – Last month we began discussing the easiest ways to create a impeccably decorated home that looks like you hired a decorator. We covered the basics of mantles and entry doors. This month, the focus is on seasonal décor with tables and stairs. Both...

Scary Good Seasonal Treats

Whether your tastes tend toward the spooky or spectacular, or maybe a little of both, this Halloween you can set the scene for a scary good time with a menu that entices goblins big and small. You won’t have to scour a witch’s lair to find the right ingredients for these treats. All you need is Limited...

Italian Film Festival Umbria Sugar Land Announces Films for 2018

The second annual Umbria in Sugar Land, an Italian Film Festival, announced the film lineup for its event to be held October 26 – 28th at the historic Sugar Land Auditorium. The opening film, Friends by Chance, is about a hot-headed 22-year-old troublemaker and an elderly poet living with Alzheimer’s who...

Sugar Land Student Journalist to Report “News for Kids, by Kids”

A local seventh-grader from Sugar Land was selected as a Kid Reporter in the award-winning Scholastic News Kids Press Corps – a team of talented young reporters, ages 10 – 14, from across the country and around the world. Benjamin Who, a 13-year-old from Sugar Land, will write “News for Kids, by...

Sugar Land’s Chef Rey Wins H-E-B’s Quest for Texas Best

Surrounded by family and friends, Sugar Land’s own Chef Reynold Darthard made sweet history on August 10th in Austin as he took First Place in H-E-B’s Primo Picks Quest for Texas Best Finale with his claim to fame: cheesecake. Darthard, known as Chef Rey, was selected as one of 25 finalists from nearly...

Mantles and Door Scaping Beginners’ Series: Part One

By Alisa Murray – It’s looking a lot like Christmas already! If you go to the decorator showrooms as early as mid-July, you will begin to see the holiday season creeping in. As designers it seems totally normal, but recently, I read on a Facebook feed some of my friends ranting about how could we...

Fort Bend County Fair Entertainment Lineup Released

By Barbara Magana Robertson – The Fort Bend County Fair and Rodeo has announced the 2018 entertainment lineup. Thirteen musical artists will be performing during the fair’s ten-day run. Grand Ole Opry legend John Conlee is among the wide variety of musical acts that will be bringing their talents to...

Love and Courage: A Mother’s Story

By Sharon Hilburn – In 2012, Riki Graves completed her Masters in Health Care Administration, and she and her husband, Chris, a Major in the Texas Army National Guard, and one-year-old son, Ben, moved to Brownwood, Texas. Riki taught LES MILLS BODYPUMP™ and BODYFLOW™ fitness classes at a...

4 Corrective Exercises: Key Ways to Lower Risk of Injury and Aid in Pain Management

By Travis Johnson – Since the 1980s, our lives have gotten easier with technology and automation. This new environment is producing more inactive, less healthy and nonfunctional people who are more prone to injury.  Musculoskeletal pain is more common now than it was 40 years ago.  As we are a little...

Conspiracy Theory

the last word! By Nancy Olson – Growing up in Los Angeles, the center of the movie industry, I always heard that they died in “threes.”  If by chance two famous people passed away within a couple of days of each other, the likely comment would be, “There will be one more.” Strangely enough,...