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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
The University of Texas Board of Regents chairman on the fog of war, the battles over higher education, and the future of learning.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Charlotte Brown, a legally blind sophomore from Emory, took 8th place in the pole vault at a state track competition.
Friday, May 10, 2013
The state's top offerings from hearing Philip Glass perform his score for "Dracula" at Jones Hall in Houston to hearing Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks at their only American tour date currently on their calendar.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The wild and powerful tarpon once ruled the seas off Port Aransas. Why did the ancient fish disappear? And could they make a comeback?
Over the past two decades a movement to increase the importance of standardized testing in public schools has swept across the country. It was born in Texas. Is Texas also where it might die?
Friday, May 3, 2013
Houston, SMU, UTEP, Rice, UTSA, North Texas and Texas State will all have a shot at Jerry World the year it doesn't host a College Football Playoff championship or semi-final.
Scenes for Transformers 4 will be filmed in Central Texas, bringing millions to the local economy.
Some of the state's top offerings, from the Art Car Parade in Houston to Ray Price performing George Jones hits at Gruene Hall.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
In an interview with Texas Monthly in Washington last week, the freshman congressman from El Paso weighed in on border security, U.S.-Mexico trade, and immigration reform.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Austinite Rob Thomas and more than 90,000 fans broke four Kickstarter records to turn his canceled TV cult TV show into a feature film.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
The survivor of a long and torturous journey, George Jones stands alone as the greatest country singer alive.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The George W. Bush Presidential Center will be dedicated by the ex-prez this week and is opening to the public May 1. Visitors will get a chance to judge for themselves how history will view the 43rd president, and a new poll suggests his legacy will be more positive than you might think.
Friday, April 26, 2013
The state's top offering's, from hearing powerful poetry in Round Top to celebrating Willie's eightieth birthday and helping the citizens of West at a benefit concert in Austin.
Did you know lawmakers killed the state lottery this week? But no need to rush out and buy a roll of scratch-offs; legislators reconvened and approved a measure to keep the Texas Lottery Commission another decade.
This Cabernet Sauvignon from Kiepersol Estates is aged in stainless steel tanks, which lets the grape, grown in Tyler, shine through.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
If signed into law, House Bill 166 will create an independent commission to review cases of wrongfully-convicted Texans.
The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum opened today. Americans are still trying to figure out how we feel about that.
Looking back on 43 as the the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum opens its doors.
George W. Bush says he doesn’t have time to think about his legacy, but the rest of us have no such trouble. We asked some of the smartest people we could think of—prize-winning historians, presidential scholars, White House vets—to predict how 43 will be judged and to suggest what, if anything, he can still do about it.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
After the deadliest industrial accident in American history, the people of Texas City were angry—at the government, not the company that caused the catastrophe
The farming town and Czech community just north of Waco, known around the state for its kolaches, reels from last nights catastrophic fire and explosion, which left countless people injured and an unknown number dead.
After 100 days of relative calm, discord finally erupted in the Senate when Dan Patrick brought up a rare and controversial measure to recall a colleague's bill.
For decades, Stanley Marsh 3 was one of the most celebrated eccentrics in Texas. Then one Houston attorney set out to prove that he had a dark and terrible secret.
Alfredo Corchado’s tragic, hopeful vision of Mexico’s emergence from an era of blood and fear.
On March 18, 1937, the residents of New London, southeast of Tyler, endured the worst small-town tragedy in U.S. history: an explosion at the combined junior-senior high school that killed some three hundred students and teachers.
Monday, April 22, 2013
The ZZ Top guitarist talks about the reboot of the Moving Sidewalks, playing Austin's Psych Fest, and his love for Jimi Hendrix.
Sunday, April 21, 2013
The latest data from the Texas Workforce Commission shows that the state actually lost jobs last month. About 4,100. The total employment numbers have changed 0.0 percent. But still!
Friday, April 12, 2013
In an exclusive conversation with Texas Monthly, the controversial UT regent opens up about the board, the Legislature, and the future of UT-Austin president Bill Powers.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Sen. John Carona found his payday lending bill met with more opposition on the Senate floor than he had anticipated Thursday, prompting him to suggest that lobbyists were exercising undue influence over some of his colleagues.
Arrest warrant is issued for former Williamson County district attorney Ken Anderson, the man who prosecuted Michael Morton and helped put him in prison for nearly 25 years for a crime he didn't commit.
He repurposed his upcoming show at the Backyard, in Austin, to be a fundraiser for the town recently devastated by a fertilizer plant explosion.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
One expert explains how the BP spill could be Texas’s greatest boon.
Montgomery County inmate Dorothy Canfield allegedly wanted to hire a hitman to mimic the Kaufman County slayings.
The latest edition of "Texas on the Brink" shows that for all of its success, Texas has plenty of room for improvement
Monday, April 15, 2013
Bob Perry, the Houston homebuilder and mega contributor to Republican causes and, in the 2004 presidential race, the Swift Boat Vets, passed away at him home this weekend at the age of 80.
Higher educators in Texas are working to train great teachers and provide support and evaluation for teachers in the field—and the results are encouraging.
New Yorkers are cheering as our iconic yellow-labeled bock rams toward their city.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Jamie Meltzer, a documentarian, talks about his new film "Freedom Fighters," about a grassroots detective agency started by a group of exonerees in Dallas.