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Monday, April 15, 2013
To Daniel Vaughn, New Barbecue Editor of Texas Monthly, on the Occasion of His First Day On the Job
Mark your calendar, and start your fasting now. The Texas Monthly BBQ Festival is on . . .
Houston homebuilder Bob Perry was the nation's largest individual political donor and the man criticized for helping to popularize “Swift boat” as a verb.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Houston has some of highest funeral costs, Tesla Motors wants to sell electric cars directly to customers, J.C. Penney's embattled CEO was fired, and more.
Talking with the Houston-born and -raised musician Josh Mease about his new record—and his new alias.
Waco-based Balcones Distillery is producing a portfolio of top-rate, award-winning whiskeys.
The state's top offerings, from a sneak peek at horse racing's finest thoroughbreds at Grand Prairie's Lone Star Park to the Old Settlers Music Festival in Austin.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Republicans and Democrats agree on drug testing for welfare recipients? Maybe there is something in the water.
Mickey Herskowitz covered the Texas A&M "Junction Boy" and former Houston Gamblers, University of Houston and Houston Oilers coach at nearly every stop.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Joel Osteen, indefatigable televangelist and pastor of a Houston megachurch, was the butt of an online hoax that claimed he had lost his faith, and would leave the church. The Internet had a strong reaction.
The announcement that Google Fiber is coming to Austin means more than just super-fast cat videos.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Last week the Texas A&M student government passed, then vetoed a bill that would allow students to opt-out of the $2 tuition fee supporting the campus's GLBT community. It isn't the first time A&M has shown hostility toward homosexuality.
Monday, April 8, 2013
The colorful Attwater's Prairie Chicken, a bird that flourished in Texas a hundred years ago, is on the verge of extinction.
A remembrance of the life of Patricia McCormick, who was one of North America's first female bullfighters.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
The Texas A&M System thinks so. It’s using data to enhance transparency and accountability in Texas’s institutions of higher learning so that Texas students get the support they need to get a college degree.
The Eighty-third Legislature just named the pecan pie the state pie of Texas. Celebrate by baking one using one of our very favorite recipes.
Don't understand Texas's constitutional spending cap? You've come to the right place.
He won an Olympic Gold Medal in Helsinki. He rubbed elbows with Hollywood royalty like John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. He performed stunts in "McClintock!" and "Cheyenne." And now the 81-year-old former stunt man is publishing his memoir, "Cowboy Stuntman: From Olympic Gold to the Silver Screen."
Friday, April 5, 2013
Could new legislation make cable more appealing than satellite television?
The state's top events and offerings from the Deep Ellum Art Festival (complete with pet parade) to a collection of Dr. Seuss's unusual hats.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
An exclusive excerpt from a UT professor's new book on the Juárez drug wars
Whatever happens to the struggling agency, the fallout from the scandal will linger.
The Armed Citizens Project, a Houston-based nonprofit seeks to provide free firearms for residents of high-crime neighborhoods in an effort to fight crime. Not surprisingly, opinions vary on the programs goals.
The Senate Education Committee heard four hours of testimony Tuesday on a bill by Senator Dan Patrick that would require the State Board of Education to sign off on all lesson plans included in the online curriculum management tool CSCOPE.
Monday, April 1, 2013
A Texas district attorney and his wife were found dead at their home, gunned down by unknown assailants, less than two months after an Assistant DA in the same office was shot outside the courthouse. There are no conclusive suspects, but the signs are pointing towards gang violence.
The Capitol was the site of two dueling press conferences Monday over what could be one of the signature fights of the 2013 session: Medicaid expansion.
Last Thursday Joe Straus announced the hiring of Lindsey Parham as a senior adviser, a move that suggests he may have long-term ambitions beyond this session and, perhaps, beyond the speakership.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Is it the best job in America? From the New York Times to Bon Appetit, everybody seems to think so.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The American Society of Magazine Editors announced its nominees for National Magazine Awards yesterday. And the National Magazine of Texas did pretty well.
Dallas Wiens, the man who became the first American to receive a full-face transplant, got married over the weekend. The new couple hopes to inspire others with an up-coming reality show.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
"I'd never marry a guy I didn't like," says the man who once covered “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other."
To meet the demands of a growing economy in Texas, educators in the STEM fields have to innovate how they teach while increasing opportunities for students interested in getting a higher education.
James Arnt Aune took his own life after allegedly being blackmailed for having an online relationship with a minor. The underage girl he corresponded with apparently may not have been a girl at all, but a grown man running a "catfishing" scam.
The Senate's unanimous passage of SB 7 gives a small hint of what a Texas approach to Medicaid might look like.
In a mere six years, the thirty-year-old has opened a half-dozen fine-dining restaurants, built a $25-million enterprise, and arguably elevated the food scene in Austin to be competitive with Dallas and Houston.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Researchers at the University of Texas mapped the genome of the Texas Longhorn and discovered its heritage is more complicated than previously thought.
Polls show that a majority of Texans support legal recognition for same-sex couples, but legalizing marriage equality in Texas would require an amendment to the state constitution.
The House will take up HB 5 on the floor today and will debate whether the measure is sufficiently rigorous to achieve college readiness.
Has Texas entered a new era in which talking about new revenue doesn't equal certain political death?
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Texas A&M's Heisman Trophy-winning QB Johnny Manziel decides to live in public just a little less, telling ESPN.com that he's giving up on Twitter.
“The big monster with the big mustache” is sentenced to life in prison.
Why we need to get a grip on all this Second Amendment hysteria.
A key compromise on SB-11 moves the controversial bill to the full Senate.
As we transition into summer, nothing welcomes warm weather better than a good rosé, especially when it’s made in a classic French dry style, like Becker Vineyards Provencal, Mourvedre 2012.
Monday, March 25, 2013
His own appearance at a conservative conference was more exciting, the governor told Glenn Beck.