The Cities Issue

A Tale of Six Cities

Modern Texas, as told through the arhcives of Texas Monthly.

Compiled by Jeff Salamon

Horsemen, Goodbye

by Larry McMurtry

The Walking Deadline

by Evan Smith

 Where to Eat Now

And the year's best new restaurants are . . .

by Patricia Sharpe

 All Grown Up

Austin is booming with jobs, condos, festivals, traffic, hipsters, joggers, and high-concept dive bars (anyone for Lone Star and seared foie gras?). Does that mean it’s no longer Austin?

by John Spong

 What Nobody Says About Austin

Is Austin the state’s most segregated city?

by Cecilia Ballí

An Ode to Mount Bonnell

Taking Austin in from the city's most iconic summit.

by Michael Hall

What’s With Austin’s Traffic?

Two questions for Ginger Goodin, of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.

by Sonia Smith

A Capital Time

Midland's Tom Craddick shares a few memories from his forty-plus years in the Legislature.

As told to Brian D. Sweany

 Jackpot of the Plains

My unsentimental education in the wheeler-dealer ways of the most American of Texas cities.

by Ben Fountain

 By Invitation Only

In a city that loves its parties, there’s perhaps none so aesthetically significant as Two x Two for AIDS and Art, Dallas’s most cutting-edge fundraiser—and one hell of a good time.

by Skip Hollandsworth and Jason Sheeler

Don’t Call It the Metroplex

The nomenclature of the area known as Dallas–Fort Worth. 

by Tim Rogers

Sonya’s Homecoming

A return to the Trinity.

by Regina Taylor

In Praise of My Sports Town

How I’m learning to love the Cowboys. And the Mavericks. And the Rangers. And the Stars. And . . .

by Sarah Hepola

 All Hat, Some Cattle

by Sterry Butcher

 Change of Art

by Michael Ennis

Do Call It Dallas–Fort Worth

by Bud Kennedy

Pride and Prejudice

by Dagoberto Gilb

 The Best Laid Plan

by Debbie Nathan

A Night at Chico's

by Jazmine Ulloa

An Ode to Album Park

by Christine Granados

The Other Ellis Island

by David Dorado Romo

This Is Texas

Why the capital should rightfully be Houston, not Austin.

by John Nova Lomax

 My Montrose

Forty years (and more) of the exuberant, eclectic neighborhood where I was born, grew as a writer, and found inspiration for the early pages of this magazine.

by William Broyles

On Hillcroft

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Found in Translation

Activist Glenda Joe on the immigrant experience in Houston.

As told to Erica Grieder

 San Antonio Rose

by Mimi Swartz

 The Artist and the City

by Jake Silverstein

Considering the Cactus

by Laurie Ann Guerrero

Behind the Lines

Urban Cowboys

The cities have prevailed—but we're still rural at heart.

by Gregory Curtis

The Texanist

On pecan picking, marrying a Californian, and apartment dwelling . . .

by David Courtney

Editor’s Letter

Looking ahead to our next forty years. 

by Jake Silverstein

Cover Credit

Roar of the Crowd

The Drop Everything List

Tales From Dell City, Texas, "Taquerías of Southmost,” Terry Allen, and lessons in method acting . . .

by Michael Hoinski