When Houston’s pro sports teams collapse late in the season—as they may do this year—faithful fans like me are never surprised. We’ve almost come to expect it.

On the three days before Lent, amid clouds of smoke and the sounds of musket fire, this tiny town is the site of Mexico’s most chaotic carnival.

Now is the time to check out newly stylish hotels and restaurants in West Texas. Tourists aren’t far behind.

Why Austin’s suburban neighbors to the north wouldn’t take a bite out of Apple Computer.

Are the legendary lawmen necessary? Yes, but their inability to grapple with the modern world threatens to make them irrelevant.

She was the princess who wore Tiffany perfume. He was the middle-class guy who raced cars. But when they met on the cystic fibrosis wing of a Dallas hospital, romance bloomed.

Once a wild child, now a suburban mom, Marion Winik could be Texas’ next big literary success.

Without regrets, Harris County district attorney Johnny Holmes puts more criminals on death row than any U.S. lawman.

When Stevie Ray Vaughan died, Texas lost its premier guitarist. Can any of these ambitious young players fill his boots?

Want to see millions of migrating monarchs on their annual winter getaway? Wing on down to Mexico.

Border chief Silvestre Reyes confronts illegal imigration—and his heritage.

A group of renowned rabbis teaches many Dallas Jews the deeper meanings of Judaism.

Four quickie Branch Davidian books reveal that the full story has yet to come out.

The quietest member of the governor’s fitness panel throws his weight around—at last.