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Monday, July 29, 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013
The state's top offerings, from singing along to "Daydream Believer" at a Monkees tribute show featuring Michael Nesmith to honoring the memory of Texas's fifth president, Sam Houston.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Howard Rains on his quest to bring back an old-time style of Texas fiddling that was popular between the Civil War and World War II.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
The news that Kinky Friedman is considering another run for statewide office is not really news. It is just sick comedy.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Rick Perry’s legacy will rise and fall on the “Texas miracle.” Is it real? If so, should he get the credit?
The longtime attorney general announces he’s running for governor and helps kickoff what will be a historic election cycle.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Master Sommelier and Certified Cicerone Melissa Monosoff offeres a few tips on how to better appreciate beer and shares a few of her favorite Texas brews.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
This summer brings another crop of Texas mystery novels, filled with industrious sheriffs, viperish housewives, and the occasional kidnapped orphan.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The Chairman of the UT System Board of Regents writes to the powerful state representative to defend the actions of Regent Wallace Hall and states that Pitts’s opinion of Hall “may have been intentionally mischaracterized.”
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Friday, July 12, 2013
The state's top offerings, from watching Janis take the stage to the opening of a new town called Bikinis, Texas.
Monday, July 8, 2013
Six thousand Texas librarians convened in Fort Worth this spring to talk books and to strategize survival amid reduced funding to the state's libraries.
Novelist James Carlos Blake, who has been compared to Cormac McCarthy, returns to his prolific writing pace, releasing two books in less than a year.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
The House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations met to discuss the possible impeachment of University of Texas Regent Wallace Hall.
Friday, July 5, 2013
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Successful software development requires the right leadership and the right tools.
Monday, June 10, 2013
I was a soldier who neither loved war nor hated it, but I couldn’t ignore the fierce lure of combat. Six years after I came home from Iraq, I had a successful career, a beautiful wife, and a bright future, but one day I woke up and realized I had to go back to war.
The shy, edgy, friendly, shaggy, hardworking genius behind the most anticipated new Texas restaurant in years.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Freshmen, per Texas tradition, should be seen and not heard—unless they're passing a first-in-the-nation email privacy measure.
Monday, July 1, 2013
On the first day of the second special session, activists on both sides of the abortion debate arrived at the Capitol to make their voices heard.
As Act II of the Wendy Davis show returns to the Capitol, the Democratic state senator has become an instant national star thanks to her filibuster against the Republicans' abortion legislation last week. What happens next?
Bob Schneider, the Austin singer and songwriter, created a weekly songwriting game with a strict deadline that has helped him fill five albums.
Sunday, June 30, 2013
The abortion debate continued to play out in Texas over the last few days as Governor Rick Perry, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, and Senator Ted Cruz addressed the National Right to Life Convention in Grapevine.
Senator Wendy Davis continued her national media blitz on Sunday with appearances on CBS' Face the Nation, ABC's This Week, and NBC's Meet the Press.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
The obvious question about whether the Democrats have a candidate in Davis who has the potential to break the party's long losing streak in statewide races is hard to answer.
With all the strange things that happened during Wendy Davis's filibuster, there's one point that has gone almost unnoticed.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
The candidacy of Dan Patrick for lieutenant governor could be a seminal moment in Texas politics.
Friday, June 28, 2013
The city of West filed a lawsuit against the fertilizer plant that exploded there in April, Neiman Marcus plans to go public, Rick Santorum's Christian movie career, and more.
Monday, June 24, 2013
The city has already adopted several Texas dishes, including barbecue, kolaches, and Frito pie. Now a few restaurants are serving up breakfast tacos, much to the delight of Tex-pats and New York natives.
The abortion debate in the House yesterday strengthened my longstanding conviction that this issue has done more harm to American politics than any other. It's where our politics began to jump the rails because it is a fight that cannot be resolved.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court made the right ruling yesterday in Fisher v. University of Texas by remanding the case to a lower federal court.
The daughter of former Texas governor Ann Richards is at the Capitol Tuesday to support Sen. Wendy Davis as she filibusters SB-5, an omnibus abortion bill that critics say could shutter 37 of the state's 42 abortion providers.
Friday, June 21, 2013
A proposal to expand funding for transportation may face some snarls in the Texas House.
The Houston-based says it has dismissed George Zimmer, its founder and executive chairman. The company didn't give a reason for the abrupt firing of Zimmer, who built Men's Wearhouse from one small Texas store using a cigar box as a cash register to a men's retail empire.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Texas A&M’s dean of student life describes the policy that Manziel says almost kept him off the field last season.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Katy Republican Senator Glenn Hegar combined measures that failed to pass during the regular session into an omnibus abortion bill that won approval in the state Senate late Tuesday night.
UPDATED: In an exclusive interview with S.C. Gwynne, Johnny Manziel confirmed that Texas A&M suspended him last summer. His successful appeal changed college football history.
Monday, June 17, 2013
The "dinner theater" chain supplies all of its castles with purebred Andalusian horses, which are all born at an unassuming ranch in Sanger, Texas.