For my money, Cackle & Oink on Texoma Parkway in Sherman is the best sit-down BBQ place in the area. My opinion is that for BBQ at its best you can’t beat a top notch stand, joint, or shack. But when it comes to a comfortable place to sit and enjoy a plate of ribs [...]

Question: What’s the difference between a “bowl” of soup and a “cup” of soup? Answer: About two dollars.
Twenty-plus years ago I was joking with a waitress and asked that question. The older woman with dozens of years waiting tables and dealing with table clowns like me left the table and returned with two empty bowls: A typical soup cup, and a standard low profile soup bowl.

Justin Maresh, Brent Eubank and Patrick Erwin are three young men who will be working this summer and fall in the wilderness of Alaska along the Tsiu River at a fishing camp owned and operated by a Denison company, the Alaska Expedition Co.

Most people know Justin Maresh as one of the young waitstaff at Angela’s Cafe, or as a promising high school and college baseball player. I know him as “Boss Maresh of Ryan Hills.” The Grayson County College student is going away to camp this summer along with his buds Brent Eubank and Patrick Erwin.

Now it’s alive. Now it’s not. Just when you think you know the ending, up it pops again. Unlike those bad B zombie movies of the fifties and sixties, this one has a happy ending. If you want more details visit online, otherwise just enjoy the first of our new monthly publishing schedule.

They say if you want to find a good place to eat, ask the locals. As a foodie, finding a new and interesting place to eat is always on my agenda. If a trip south to Dallas is required, I plan it so that it coordinates with a meal time, and my goal is to [...]

Milton Levine was just a few years out of the military in the mid 1940s. Like many young men returning from WWII the New Yorker was searching for his place in post-war America. He read in Kiplinger’s Letter that there were several ways to make big money—two suggestions were “plastic toys or bobbie pins.” Levine’s [...]

Look,I understand everyone has to make a profit. But can we agree that there is just something wrong about a $5 onion ring? The example is Cotton Patch Cafe‘s new “Onion Tower.” Not that the Onion Tower is such a big deal, it’s just that it is the straw breaking my back. It is important [...]

Roy Rogers‘ (1911-1998) beloved trusty steed Trigger fetched more than a quarter million dollars at a Christie’s Auction on July 14. Trigger, the King of the Cowboys’ Palomino horse was just one of nearly one thousand items put on the auction block by the Roy Rogers Family Trust. The week before the auction, our friend [...]

As the owner of Texoma Living! I count myself as perhaps one of the luckiest people around. This is a small, family-owned business that like many others has struggled over the past two years. The last issue published (May/June) was going to be the last if something significant didn’t happen to reverse our downward spiral of declining advertising revenues. Readers usually don’t think about how a magazine like ours survives.