Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2016 i Texas Highways Magazine

The museum’s tribute to all things gaming is sure to delight the buttonmashing kid inside. ONCE A RURAL SUBURB 30 MILES north of Dallas, Frisco is now a burgeoning mini-city of its own. As the home of the Double-A Frisco Roughriders baseball team, FC Dallas of Major League Soccer, the NBA D-League Texas Legends, and the Dallas Cowboys’ new headquarters and practice facility, Frisco always has a game going on, it seems. Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that Frisco is also home to a new destination dedicated to another favorite competitive pastime—video games. Nestled within the Frisco Discovery Center, a complex of arts, science, and cultural exhibits, the National Videogame Museum opened in April to the delight of gamers everywhere. Whether you were a Pac-Man expert in the ’70s, a…

WHEN IN NEED OF SUSTENANCE ON MY frequent travels around Texas, I seek out local places—establishments where I know the food will be fresh and I can count on a few locals hanging around to make me feel welcome. For example: Bevers Kitchen in Chappell Hill. On a recent Saturday night, I arrive to meet my friend Debbie Jenkins, who lives a few miles away and had first turned me on to this local favorite. For the Saturday dinner special, the restaurant offers three types of enchiladas—beef-and-cheese, verde (chicken in tomatillo sauce), and chicken-and-spinach. I choose the latter, two corn tortillas stuffed with tender pieces of chicken topped by a creamy cheese sauce with flavorful bits of spinach. In addition to enchiladas and pies, folks come here for Friday’s dinner…

Just steps from San Antonio’s Main Plaza, established in the 18th Century and considered by many to be the heart of San Antonio, you’ll find the San Antonio River Walk, a dynamic pathway that leads you from the city’s heart into its soul. The River Walk weaves among the city’s icons and att ractions via paved, cypress-lined embankments, across arched stone bridges, and through lively, multicultural neighborhoods. Originally a short downtown meander below street level, the San Antonio River Walk now rambles more than 15 miles from north to south, binding together some of the city’s best museums, restaurants, bars, museums, and historic sites. In an effort by River Walk planners and government offi-cials to acknowledge the waterway’s most serene att ribute—its beauty—the extension also traverses a stretch of the…

GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? Congratulations to @TexasHighways for winning the International Regional Magazine Association’s 2016 Magazine of the Year award. #TexasPride JAMES BASS, @TXDOTCEO OUR FAVORITE SOCIAL MEDIA OF THE MONTH I love beautiful McKittrick Canyon & the Pratt house [October]! Wallace Pratt was my great uncle, so I am a little biased though. LYNNE DREWRY DAUGHTERS, WACO @TexasHighways True Texan quiz reminds me of a joke: A fella stops at the Dairy Queen in Mexia and asks, “How do you pronounce this place?” “Day-ree Qweeeen.” CHERIE COLBURN, @cheriecolburn Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram True Texans A couple of years ago, my husband and I were on our way to a family outing on the Frio River. We were traveling south on US 83 and lost the tread…

JUST WHEN IT SEEMED LIKE COFFEE COULDN’T get any hott er, a green alternative started to emerge in cafés all over the country—matcha, a type of green tea that has been popular in Asia for centuries. The American coffee community has begun to embrace this timetested caffeinated beverage for its vibrant earthiness, health benefits, and ability to calmly energize. While entire cafes dedicated to matcha have popped up on the east and west coasts, matcha is finally stepping into the Texas limelight—and that has a lot to do with Zhi Tea. The Austinbased wholesale and retail tea shop has been spreading the good word of tea since 2007, when Zhi started selling its organic tea blends online. In 2008, Zhi opened the doors to its eastside tea house. These days,…

HOUSTON-BASED ARTIST DAVID ADICKES ESTIMATES HE’S created about 5,000 paintings, drawings, and three-dimensional artworks over the course of his 70-year career. But he is best known for the largest of those creations, which cover two disparate themes—monumental concrete statues of heroic figures and monumental concrete statues of whimsical phrases. Adickes’ first large-scale sculpture was Virtuoso, a 36-foot-tall cellist designed in Cubist style, which has adorned the front of Houston’s downtown Lyric Centre since 1983. In the subsequent decades, he produced many more. Today, his 76-foot-tall Sam Houston looms large along Interstate 45 in Huntsville, and his colossal Stephen F. Austin, about the same height, stands sentry over Texas 288 in Angleton. Adickes’ 76-foot-tall Sam Houston looms large along Interstate 45 in Huntsville. In Houston, drivers on Interstate 10 in the…

Ode to England 31º 53' 30.89" N 102º 19' 34.62" W TWO OF ODESSA’S most unusual attractions are reproductions of iconic British sites. Stonehenge, on the northeast corner of the University of Texas Permian Basin campus, is nearly the same size as the one in England. Made of local limestone, it provides a peaceful place of reflection and contemplation. About three miles west of the university, the Globe Theatre at Odessa College is modeled after William Shakespeare’s original theater in London. It hosts Shakespearean plays, as well as Broadway musicals and other performances. odessacvb.com/visit/attractions/unique-attractions…

MY FRIEND CALLIE AND I HAD BEEN HEARING about Gorman Falls—the 70-foot waterfall that’s the centerpiece of Colorado Bend State Park— for the past few years. So when we wrapped up a weekend getaway to San Saba this past spring, we followed our whims and detoured to the park before the 100-mile drive back to our homes in Austin. Our goal: to hike to the bottom of the waterfall. Were we in Central Texas, or had we suddenly walked straight into Puerto Rico? While park rangers lead regular tours to the falls, we opted to tackle the three-mile, round-trip hike without a guide. At first, we questioned the wisdom of our decision; even though the map assured us we were headed in the right direction, nothing about the trail indicated…

IN HER NEW COOKBOOK FROM TEA CAKES TO TAMALES: Third-Generation Texas Recipes, journalist and former Texas Highways editor Nola McKey returns to her roots as she explores how recipes, cooking, and food bring families and communities together. “About 20 years ago, my son Clay came home one evening and told me that he needed a traditional family dish to take to school the next day,” says Nola. “I hadn’t thought about my Grandma McKey’s tea cakes in decades, but they were the first things that came to mind.” A tea cake—a simple sugar cookie sometimes embellished by lemon zest or other flavorings—was a common treat baked in households across the United States in years past. “Grandma kept them in a ceramic container next to the spoon jar, and one of…

IT’S WEDNESDAY EVENING AT CHEATHAM Street Warehouse. Open guitar cases are scattered throughout the neon-lit barroom, the sign-up sheet for the weekly Songwriters’ Circle has just been posted, and Guy Clark’s voice plays on the overhead speakers. “I wish I was in Austin at the Chili Parlor Bar, drinking Mad Dog Margaritas and not caring where you are.” It’s exactly what you’d expect to hear in this unassuming tin-roofed building next to the railroad tracks in the heart of San Marcos. Inside, band stickers and posters plaster the columns, and black-and-white photographs of Willie Nelson and Jerry Jeff Walker playing the Cheatham Street stage line the walls, recalling the redneck-rock heyday of the 1970s. What this former cotton warehouse lacks in frills, it more than makes up for with stellar…

Tucked among the steep hills and canyons of the Balcones Escarpment, Lost Maples State Natural Area protects an orphan stand of Uvalde bigtooth maples famous for flashy fall colors of orange, red, maroon, and yellow. The leaves typically start changing in late October and peak around the second and third weeks of November. Rains tend to dampen the colors, while an October of sunny days and cool nights triggers the brightest shows. Park officials recommend visiting on a weekday, if possible, to avoid the weekend crowds. www.tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/lost-maples.…