Books
April 15, 2024
Waring Cuney Is the Best Harlem Renaissance Poet You’ve Never Heard Of
He hung out with Langston Hughes and wrote verses inspired by his Galveston roots, but he’s largely been forgotten. A new biography seeks to change that.
31 Articles
Politics & Policy
April 5, 2024
Totality Begins in Eagle Pass
The border town won’t let the immigration debate eclipse its eclipse plans.
Arts & Entertainment
April 4, 2024
Lights Down, Curtain Up: A Solar Eclipse Musical Debuts in Waco
Baylor students will sing alongside Broadway actors in the first public concert performance of ‘American Eclipse.’
Travel & Outdoors
March 19, 2024
How Does a Small Texas Town Prepare for a Solar Eclipse? Porta-Potties.
Allyson Cliett, Hillsboro's eclipse coordinator, has spent fourteen months getting ready for 4 minutes and 23 seconds of darkness.
Critters
December 21, 2023
Short Ears, Big Wings, Can’t Lose
Short-eared owls are disappearing along with the Texas prairie. But for now, they’re putting on a show outside Manor.
Giving Back
November 13, 2023
Providing Shelter, Job Training, and Community for Those in Need
The Other Ones Foundation, led by Chris Baker, transformed a state-run encampment site for Austinites experiencing homelessness into a welcoming refuge.
Texas History
October 4, 2023
Come for the Dr Pepper Float, Stay for the Civil Rights History
Waco’s Dr Pepper Museum offers an insightful exhibit on the 1960s lunch counter protests that helped desegregate Texas.
News & Politics
September 7, 2023
The Disunited Methodist Church
As United Methodist congregations across the U.S. leave over LGBTQ inclusion and the interpretation of Scripture, one East Texas community is rent asunder.
Texas History
February 23, 2023
How Florence Butt—Not Her Son—Launched the H-E-B Empire
It should be called F-T-B.
Travel & Outdoors
August 5, 2022
These Veterans Have Found a Post-Service Mission: Beekeeping
Through Houston-based nonprofit Hives for Heroes, veterans trade their uniforms for bee suits, work to save pollinators, and learn mindfulness.
Politics & Policy
October 12, 2020
Virtual or Viral? Candidates Face Tough Choices About How to Campaign During a Pandemic.
An all-virtual election bid might be the right thing to do. But will it cost some Democrats their races?
Being Texan
July 2, 2020
Nine Texas Faith Leaders on How to Find Hope and Fight Injustice
We asked leaders from across the state and the religious spectrum to share their best words of wisdom.
Politics & Policy
November 13, 2018
The Power Issue: Michelle Tremillo and Brianna Brown Are Waking the “Sleeping Giant” of Texas Politics
How the Texas Organizing Project is transforming the electoral landscape.
Religion
May 24, 2017
Critical Mass
An Austin church remakes Catholicism without the Pope, celibate priests, or most of the other rules.
Travel & Outdoors
March 23, 2017
The Stars at Night
The depth of darkness in the Hill Country.
Politics & Policy
October 19, 2016
Takin’ It to the Streets
Even in the age of Trump, a get-out-the-vote canvasser knows that Hispanic residents are thinking local.
Business
September 21, 2016
Body of Work
Meet James Bryant, the National Embalmer of the Year.
The Culture
June 9, 2016
The Newer Testament
How a computer-loving Texas Tech grad launched one of the fastest-growing megachurches in the country.
Books
January 27, 2016
Unidentified Scholarly Subject
Whitley Strieber’s academic communion takes shape.
Business
December 23, 2015
Trouble Brewing
Beer wars in Central Texas.
Arts & Entertainment
November 18, 2015
The Google of Texas
Answers to all of Texas's most pressing questions can be found in the brand-new edition of the Texas Almanac.
Politics & Policy
August 19, 2015
Most Likely to Secede
On tour with the Texas Nationalist Movement.
Film & TV
July 23, 2015
The Next Picture Show
By reviving a small-town movie theater, can a Lubbock businessman revive a small town too?
The Culture
April 13, 2015
Keep UT-Austin Weird
An electoral travesty at UT.
Travel & Outdoors
March 18, 2015
Out on a Limb
Tree houses—they’re not just for kids anymore.
Travel & Outdoors
February 3, 2015
Come and Make It
Factory tours: a tour.
The Culture
December 1, 2014
An Order Takes on Texas and Attracts Youth
The average age of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, an order based in Michigan, is thirty and the location they've chosen for their expansion is central Texas.
The Culture
September 8, 2014
A Live Action Comic Book Brings Zygon to Life
A sci-fi radio play performed against a backdrop of comic book illustrations and enlivened with homemade sound effects (like a rattling box of mac and cheese) takes the stage.
GL&KG
September 4, 2014
Pride in Lubbock
Kat Cade, a Texas Tech student, founded a pride festival tailored to the largely conservative community of Lubbock.
Remember the Alamo Party
March 20, 2014
A Shindig for Alamaniacs
Every March, Alamo obsessives—including historians, re-enactors, and collectors—flock to Joan Headley's annual Alamo party, now in its 17th year.
Health
January 27, 2014
How Marshall’s Mayor Turned the Town Vegan
Ed Smith, the five-term mayor of a small city in east Texas, successfully treated his prostate cancer with an aggressive diet of plant-based, whole foods. Then he and his wife spread the word to the rest of town.