Artist directory evidence correction · July 26, 2026
The former inferred dance-floor guidance, energy, audience-experience, and room-fit language has been removed. All 68 artist pages now show documented venue-schedule facts, clearly blank artist-supplied fields, official source links, dynamic dates, and a completion workflow for attributable information.
July 27, 2026
The homepage now makes one immediate choice clear: work in the room or plan a visit. A plain-language problem search, four common starting points, and one compact browse grid replace the former rotating feature and long stack of competing sections. Global navigation now centers on Work, Visit, Honky Tonk Academy, Library, Directory, Search, and the account utility.
Major expansion
The beverage platform now includes a 30-lesson Academy, practical assessments, cocktail-family education, beverage encyclopedias, Texas drink doorways, discovery by flavor and occasion, recipe comparison, and private house-spec journals.
Enter the rebuilt BarMajor expansion
The Kitchen now includes a Recipe-to-Service Engine on every recipe, six Academy levels, private menu and production workspaces, advanced discovery, food-family and ingredient education, technique guides, and Texas cultural doorways.
Explore The KitchenRecently added to the library
Explore new guides, practical resources, major sections, and recently added ways to use the Five Books. One Working Library.
New toolkit · Preservation
Ten practical records now support venue documentation, oral histories, archives, digital files, community collection, emergencies, succession, rights, campaigns, and timelines.
Open the toolkit →A selective cultural guide now connects the strongest existing material through seven short routes: the rooms, unwritten rules, music and dance, the people, regional roots, change and continuity, and respectful participation.
Open the Culture CenterRecent additions
Each entry links directly to the guide, section, or resource.
Seven selective guides to rooms, unwritten rules, music, dance, people, regional roots, change, and respectful participation.
Open the Culture Center →July 23, 2026
New culture, measurement, preservation, operating, menu, kitchen, library-help, and reference-kit pathways now organize the exhaustive library around completed work.
Explore the field centersA twenty-part guide to licensing, inspection, vehicle design, commissaries, food safety, fire and utilities, staffing, pricing, taxes, events, venue partnerships, emergencies, alcohol boundaries, and printable checklists.
Explore →A practical starting point for batching, drink costing, pour conversions, glassware, preparation methods, menu planning, and responsible service.
Explore →A focused request system for help finding, understanding, completing, or applying resources already available on the website.
Explore →Food and barbecue guides, structured recipes, wood profiles, menu and cost Tools, food-truck resources, operational guidance, and Texas food history.
Explore →Individual calculators, worksheets, planners, templates, checklists, logs, and builders for venue, bar, music, dance-floor, public-relations, food, and financial planning.
Explore →Role-based starting paths and short practical actions for venue owners, managers, bartenders, musicians, dance teachers, visitors, food operators, and preservation work.
Explore →Keep exploring
Use Start Here for a role-based path, Quick Wins for a short action, Collections for a specific problem, or Search when you already know what you need.
July 2026 · Major rebuild
The 236-recipe library is now a complete cultural and operating gateway with My Bar ingredient matching, a five-level Academy, Menu Lab, Shift Center, ingredient and technique education, recipe confidence labels, and direct pathways into Texas honky-tonk culture.
Enter the rebuilt BarJuly 26, 2026
Dance teachers now have a distinct professional center, 22 teacher-specific tools, curriculum and sustainable-practice step-by-step plans, a separate floor-host center, and a source-based public directory framework.
Academic Curriculum 19 · July 26, 2026
The five-book library, academies, step-by-step plans and tools are now organized into complete syllabi with outcomes, assessments, weekly work, capstones, rubrics, instructor resources and explicit credential boundaries.
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