Lose weight. Scale back from three cups a day to one. Count to 10 before blaring your horn at the idiot driver in front of you who doesn’t understand that green means go. (Well, at least count to three.)
These types of resolutions are what the New Year is all … more

Real Estate mogul Robert Folsom may be best remembered as the Dallas mayor who brought basketball and Reunion Arena to Big D. But Lake Highlands resident Darrell Hurmis likes to share another anecdote about Folsom — the tale of a so-called “screw up."

“Bob Folsom once built on the wrong … more

Karen James became a widow as the world watched in December 2006. Two years have passed since rescuers lifted the body of her husband, Kelly James, from a cave near the summit of Mount Hood. Karen still lives in their White Rock-area home, and says that the house feels right, … more

“Fit as a fiddle and ready for love!” That’s become Rita Greenfield’s trademark response to 36 years’ worth of “How are ya, Miss Rita?”s. If what she says doesn’t give you a pointed glimpse into the 89-year-old’s personality, the way she says it — with an innocent smile and a … more

In the literary world, Lake Highlands resident Cindy Causey is ahead of her time. She published her first non-fiction book about the warming environment, “Cherish the Gift”, in 1992. Fast-forward 16 years later, and Causey is not only onto her third book, “A Hot Time in Texas”, but venturing into … more

There is a certain solace found in a piping bowl of soup with some hot-from-the-oven bread. If this speaks to you, Sweet Temptations has you covered with fresh-baked breads and homemade soups like roast onion-potato, hickory-smoked tomato and zucchini-crabmeat.

There was plenty of excellent cheap wine in 2008 as we celebrate the Advocate’s seventh annual Cheap Wine extravaganza and $10 Wine Hall of Fame.
The Hall added five labels: Yellow+Blue malbec (about $12 for a 1-liter box), which puts most other malbecs in its price range to shame; Meridian’s chardonnay, which can be found for as little as $6; the Les Jamelles wines from southern France, which deliver surprising quality for $10; another Gascon wine, Domain du Tariquet, to join the three that entered the Hall last year; and Lockwood sauvignon blanc, perhaps the most pleasant surprise of any wine I tasted in 2008.

Thieves will use any prop to commit a crime: bricks, pipes and even their own fists are potential aids. In Mike Averitt’s case, the thief who broke into his home hurled two potted plants, which previously surrounded his pool, to shatter his back sliding glass door.

“My alarm company called … more

Is it OK to call 911 if there’s no immediate emergency? What if I want to report ongoing suspicious activity, or have a crime-related question?