What Is Round Top (roundtop.com)?

Updated

Round Top is a local events and editorial guide for Round Top, Texas, published as the Round Top Guide by PaperCity. It is useful if you want to know what is happening in and around the town — antiques shows, art openings, live music, wellness retreats, and lodging or shopping features — rather than to book travel or buy tickets directly. The site's own description is simply "Welcome to Round Top," and its content is organized around a dated events calendar and magazine-style stories.

What the site covers

The homepage is built around three main content areas:

  • Upcoming Events — a dated listing of happenings, each with a time, venue, and an "Event Details" link.
  • Insider Stories — reported features on people, businesses, and openings in the area.
  • Best of Round Top — a curated section of longer reads on shops, lodging, and local finds.

There is also a social handle promoted on the page, @roundtopguidebypapercity, which confirms the editorial identity behind the site.

The events calendar

Events are listed with a date, a time range, a venue, and a link to details. From the homepage listing, examples include:

Date Event Time Venue
Oct 15, 2026 Fall Antiques & Design Show 9:00–5:00 pm —
Oct 15 Caviar Tasting at Vincent Peach Fine Jewelry All Day Market Hill
Oct 16 Round Top Town Hall Art Exhibit Opening 9:00–6:00 pm Round Top Town Hall
Oct 16 Stardust Ranch Wellness Retreat for Interior Designers 9:00–6:00 pm Stardust Ranch
Oct 16 Artist Talk & Demo by Richie Vios 2:00–4:00 pm ARTS for Rural Texas
Oct 16 Chris Helms Live at Kemo Sabe 4:00–6:00 pm KEMO SABE
Oct 16 Teressa Foglia + Ty Hays Happy Hour with LALO Tequila + Recess 5:00–6:00 pm Teressa Foglia at The Horseshoe
Oct 16 Live Music with Jack Carr at Vincent Peach 5:00–8:00 pm Market Hill

The mix shows what the calendar is for: it skews toward antiques and design, art, live music, food and drink tastings, and wellness programming — the kind of schedule that peaks around the town's seasonal antiques shows.

The editorial side

Insider Stories and Best of Round Top carry bylined features, most of them by Candice Cowin or credited to PC Studios. Representative pieces include:

  • Rachel Ashwell bringing Shabby Chic to Round Top during the Fall Show
  • Heather Benjamin unveiling an Art + Design Collective by PC Studios
  • A roundup of interior designers and books arriving in town
  • Inside The French Kiss, Belle Chambre's antiques showroom
  • A holiday gift guide to small-town shopping squares
  • Hideaway Round Top, new lodging framed around saving land from townhome development
  • Stardust Ranch, a David Bowie-inspired retreat
  • A kick-off celebration at Bader Ranch
  • T+H Farms' art of design and farm dinner in La Grange

The pattern is clear: the stories explain who and what is arriving in the area, and they often double as a reason to visit a specific venue or show.

How to use it

If you are planning around a Round Top show or a weekend in town, start with Upcoming Events to fix dates and times, then use Insider Stories and Best of Round Top to decide which shops, showrooms, or lodging are worth building the trip around. Each event entry links to its own detail page, so the calendar is the practical entry point and the features are the context.

One limitation to note: the site is a guide, not a booking engine. The homepage shows no ticket purchasing or reservation flow, and the only commercial prompt visible is a Subscribe link at roundtop.com/subscribe/. Whether that subscription is paid, free, or gated is not stated on the page, so check the subscribe page itself before assuming anything about cost or access.