Dripping Springs News

Artists of all kinds can be found in Texas' storied Hill Country and many have recently banded together to form the Artists Alliance of the Hill Country.

The 12-year-old Dripping Springs girl wants to be an astrophysicist. She hopes to be the first person to walk on Mars.

Lined with flickering tiki torches when eventide fell upon the banks of McGovern Lake , the urban landscape around Hermann Park dissolved into a tropical luau that defeated any threats of rain on Thursday.

I have the best hairdresser in the world: Johanna Esper at Salon d'Etoile . Deborah Carter , formerly of SoCo's legendary Pink Salon passed me on to the then-fledgling stylist when she finished training at Pink.

First, their newest cider will be released this upcoming weekend. Designed specifically for summer sipping, the Idalou Brut is composed of 2012 Red and Golden Delicious Apples, 2011 Pink Lady and Jonathan apple wine, and a barrel of High Planes Reserve 2011 aged on new American Oak.

Jack W. "Jake" Kibler, 80 of Dripping Springs, TX, formerly of East Palestine, passed away at the home of his daughter on March 22nd of this year.

The simmering politics of water scarcity in Central Texas boiled over last Thursday night, April 25, when a Wimberley community activist group, Citizens Alliance for Responsible Development , or CARD, called a town meeting to protest the potential "massive development," according to a CARD flier, on the newly acquired 5,000-acre Needmore Ranch on ... (more)

Willie Nelson was born 80 years ago today in the small town of Abbot, Texas. This really should be a holiday.

The West Austin Studio tour is underway for its second year, celebrating the plentitude of galleries that call West Austin home.

April 26, 2013 - When word spread of the tragedy impacting the community of West, it didn't take long for the owners and employees of Dripping Springs-based ATX Mafia apparel company to mobilize their resources to help raise critical funds for their fellow Texans in need.

Texas-based band Hot Club of Cowtown is playing music from their new CD "Rendevous in Rhythm" at the Genoa Cowboy Festival on May 3-5. Their latest release is a collection of Gypsy songs and American Songbook standards played acoustically and recorded in the hot jazz style of violin and guitar masters Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt.

An investor purchased The Shops at the Springs, a 13,418-square-foot multitenant retail center located at 333 U.S. Highway 290 in Dripping Springs.

The Randy Rogers Band and Gary Allan have joined the confirmed lineup for Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic, to be held this year at the Fort Worth Stockyards, pushing the number of featured artists beyond 20.

My nerves, on high from a snail-paced sojourn through Friday rush hour traffic, were calmed upon arrival at the Old Setter's Music Festival .

Scott Porter's publicist confirmed the "Hart of Dixie" star married his longtime girlfriend, Kelsey Mayfield, in Texas during the weekend.