Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Master Auctioneer?
Eight days inside America’s Auction Academy, learning the secrets of “the dynamo from Dallas.”
Katy Vine joined the editorial department of Texas Monthly in 1997 and became a staff writer in 2002. As a general assignment reporter, she has written dozens of features on a range of topics, including rocket scientist Franklin Chang Díaz, hip-hop legend Bun B, barbecue pitmasters, cult leader Warren Jeffs, refugees in Amarillo, the moon landing, a three-person family circus, chess prodigies, a woman who kidnapped the Kilgore Rangerettes director and her daughter, an accountant who embezzled $17 million from a fruitcake company, and a con man who crashed cars, yachts, and planes for insurance money. Her stories have been anthologized in Best American Sports Writing and Best Food Writing. Her feature story about a West Texas sting operation was the inspiration for the 2012 television series The Client List.
Eight days inside America’s Auction Academy, learning the secrets of “the dynamo from Dallas.”
By Katy Vine
Recommendations from the creators of Texas’s new African American Studies elective.
By Katy Vine
Katy Caldwell, CEO of Legacy Community Clinics, talks to Texas Monthly about medical supply shortages, staff safety, and financial woes.
By Katy Vine
Emily Ramshaw and Andrea Valdez discuss their vision for the 19th*, a nonprofit venture where politics, policy, and gender will converge.
By Katy Vine
A Rice University professor's recent breakthrough may mean that a science fictional scenario is within reach.
By Katy Vine and Jason Heid
A guide to finding the perfect pair, whether you're working cattle, two-stepping, or presenting a TED talk.
By Katy Vine
The 90-year-old blues legend currently holds down three weekly residencies in Austin.
By Katy Vine
Treatments for chronic Lyme disease are controversial and expensive. As a last resort, some patients are pursuing this unproven and painful alternative.
By Katy Vine
The stories, the traditions, and the deeper meanings of the boots in their lives.
The author of "The Years That Matter Most" spent a lot of time at UT-Austin—where he saw reason for hope.
By Katy Vine
With NASA’s ambitions trimmed, private space companies come to Texas, dreaming of Mars.
Nearly sixty years ago, Funk and twelve other women proved that they could be astronauts too. But they never got to walk on the moon.
By Katy Vine
How the groundbreaking Nigerian-Houstonian rapper has gone viral—and why his art matters.
By Katy Vine
The Grammy-winning jazz-funk-rockers are back with American Music: Vol. VII, their first album in five years.
By Katy Vine
A new exhibit at UT-El Paso displays works by young people held last year at the immigration detention center.
By Katy Vine
Critics of the forthcoming transformation of the state’s child welfare system worry about the new model’s lack of transparency. Legislators are running out of time to introduce greater safeguards.
By Katy Vine
No one can explain why. Not even Southwest Key, the nonprofit shelter that keeps telling refugees they have no other choice.
By Katy Vine
The situation has become so dangerous that Mexican police escorts have been discontinued after sundown.
By Katy Vine
At the Texas Inventors' Association, you'll find plans for the contraptions and gadgets of your dreams. Just don't tell anyone your idea.
By Katy Vine
Cecy Treviño started her girls' music school to provide a safe space for self-expression. But the bands are getting booked all over town.
By Katy Vine
James Surls has a storied legacy as one of Texas’s greatest living sculptors. But at age 75, the eccentric artist is far from finished.
By Katy Vine
Two of the city’s veteran musicians talk us through its ongoing auditory transformation after the departure of Leon Bridges—and why some uncertainty is a good thing.
By Katy Vine
We talked to Austin-based director Andrew Bujalski about his latest film, 'Support the Girls,' starring Regina Hall.
By Katy Vine
The solutions to our current crisis on the border are relatively simple, says Houston immigration expert Charles Foster. But our politicians don’t have the nerve to make them happen.
By Katy Vine
Rio Grande Valley attorney Jennifer Harbury explains the nightmares facing immigrants today, whether they gain entry or are turned away.
By Katy Vine
Dr. Marsha Griffin, co-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics special interest group on immigrant health, tells us what she's seen and what separation traumas could mean in the long term for immigrant children.
By Katy Vine
An expert on helping parents navigate the asylum process describes what she's seeing on the ground.
By Katy Vine
"Sometimes a festival rep will say they don’t want acts that are too similar. Could you imagine telling a man, 'Sorry, we can only have one indie rock band, you're all wearing Levi's and that's pretty overdone so we can't have that'?"
By Katy Vine
"We need more women to tackle the energy transition and tackle the biggest challenges we face: climate change, energy poverty, and good infrastructure."
By Katy Vine
"I think there is a true opportunity right now for women—even more significant than when I was in state government. We’ve got so many running for public office now. Once they win and their numbers grow, we’re bound to move beyond 'me too' to something better."
By Katy Vine
"I disagree with those who say the #MeToo movement could go too far. That sentiment exhibits itself anytime there is an effective and active push for change, that somehow you're going to cause the unintended impact of actually hurting the cause."
By Katy Vine
Rapper Marco Cervantes, who performs as Mexican Stepgrandfather, and Álvaro Del Norte, founder of the accordion-powered punk rock band Piñata Protest, discuss their inspirations.
By Katy Vine
From Tejano to punk and hip-hop, there's so much great music coming out of San Antonio today.
By Katy Vine
San Antonio barber Rob Ferrel on the origins of his famous hair designs.
By Katy Vine
Tony Rancich has created a weird, wonderful, and world-class musical oasis amid his family's 3,300-acre operating pecan orchard.
By Katy Vine
A decade after the largest custody battle in U.S. history, some of those involved speak about their memories.
By Katy Vine
As an eighteen-year-old immigrant to the U.S., Franklin Chang Díaz dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Now, decades after tying the record for most spaceflights, he might be the best bet to get us to Mars.
By Katy Vine
We set out to hear what our state sounds like. We brought back the latest and best of Texas music—so listen up.
By Katy Vine
The Live Music Capital of the World isn't all guitars.
By Katy Vine
Scott Kelly on what freaked him out—and what drove him crazy—during his record-setting year on the International Space Station.
By Katy Vine
The Bolivar Peninsula is for the birds. Literally.
By Katy Vine
A filmmaker’s effort to share stories from her home turf, one female-directed movie at a time.
By Katy Vine
Shinyribs' Kevin Russell sits down with us to talk about his new album, 'I Got Your Medicine,' out February 24.
By Katy Vine
Franco Mondini-Ruiz entrances Houston's upper-class with fast brushes and playful barbs.
By Katy Vine
They have fled war-torn countries, given up livelihoods, and left behind possessions and family for the safety of a foreign world of cowboy hats and Walmarts. But the refugees who land in Amarillo’s Astoria Park have an ally who understands their confusion and loss: a 64-year-old former teacher named Miss
By Katy Vine
Dorothy Hood was one of Texas’s greatest artists, yet her work remains largely unknown. Now, sixteen years after her death, can her fans bring her the acclaim she never received in life?
By Katy Vine
They were some of the toughest narcs on the border, known for busting smugglers, staging raids, seizing cartel cocaine—and being dirty.
By Katy Vine
To whom will the Bachelorette’s final rose go this season? Blogger Steve Carbone makes it his business to know—and tell his 1.5 million readers.
By Katy Vine
He was a pioneering music journalist at 'Texas Monthly,' but he was also so much more.
By Katy Vine
Sandy Jenkins was a quiet accountant at the Collin Street Bakery who felt overlooked and dreamed of living the good life. He found it (for a while) by embezzling nearly $17 million from the famed fruitcake maker.
By Katy Vine