Ken Nietenhoefer: The Voice of Local Tradition

Ken Nietenhoefer stands outdoors by a wooden fence, wearing a blue checkered shirt and glasses, featured in The Kendall Gentleman cover story.

Ken Nietenhoefer likes to say he’s lived six different lives. He even wrote them down once, in a manuscript he calls My 6 Lives. But listening to him tell it, those chapters don’t sit neatly side by side. They stack on each other, like wood grain running through a beam, all adding up to the … Read more

Paloma Fest

Jed Mazour holds up a string of doves in a Texas field during dove season, enjoying a Lone Star beer under a bright Hill Country sky.

With September around the corner, I am starting to let dove hunting creep back into my mind. Dove season comes about the same time as our peak exhaustion from the south Texas summer heat. The real dog days of summer.. The kind of heat that even a dip in my swimming pool won’t take my … Read more