Culture

The July Round Top events calendar is filled to the brim with live performances, museum exhibits, a farmers market and even grape stomping fun.

Parades, live music and festive activities fill every nook and cranny of the small towns that hug Highway 290.

The garden — located an hour northwest of Houston in Hempstead, 43 minutes from Round Top — boasts more than 3,000 trees and plants, many of them rare and endangered.

Red Antler bungalows, a modern rendition of early Texas farmhouses, is open in Round Top, and you may never want to leave.

The new golf course dubbed The Covey will include 80-foot elevation changes, tree-lined fairways, natural running creeks and waterfalls.

Traveling pianists with the Howl at the Moon club of San Antonio led the fundraising efforts, collecting cash in exchange for sing-along performances.

The Gardenia E. Janssen Animal Shelter has been saving furry lives for almost three decades.

The space was created as a sanctuary for visitors of all kinds in need of a place to escape the antiques shop-a-thon in favor of games, cocktails and conversation

Best known as the bucolic backdrop for the 1998 big-screen drama Hope Floats starring Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick Jr., Smithville has been quietly undergoing a revival.