Branching out: Getting to love the list

Quite often, these guests are themselves used to being wined and dined all over the country, if not the world. So why is it, that with a prestigious wine list of over seven-hundred carefully curated selections, do sixty percent of these guests flip straight to the...

Preparing your child (and your finances) for college

For most parents, sending their child to college is at the top of the wish list. A college education can open doors to many opportunities and help your child compete in today’s competitive job market-but that diploma doesn’t come cheap. College costs...

Jeffrey’s Austin

When I was in college in the mid-’80s in Austin, Jeffrey’s was the restaurant you wanted to afford someday. It was one of just a handful of fine dining restaurants at the time and the one whose name seemed to have the most clout. Some of its reputation was the...

Austin has some new ‘Bad Habits’

Nestled among 140 oak barrels in a cellar off South Congress and St Elmo streets are six barrels the Elliott Family Winemakers use for producing their small-batch wines. When I arrived in March 2019, Travis Elliott, winemaker and co-owner of the business, had a...

Simplicity

Life gets busy and it’s not always optimal to carve out an hour or more in the gym.  Staying fit with a busy lifestyle doesn’t necessarily mean working harder, but smarter.  By super setting your exercises, doing a HIIT routine or combining several muscle groups into...