For the past four years, a group of passionate reformers has been steadily trying to remake how higher education works in Texas—over the screams and howls of many professors and school presidents. Last year the battle came to UT. And the bombs are still flying.

The only American ever to design scarves for the exclusive French fashion house Hermès is Kermit Oliver, a 69-year-old postal worker from Waco who lives in a strange and beautiful world all his own.

Two decades ago, a barbarian from Arkansas named Jerry Jones bought the Dallas Cowboys and rebooted the franchise from the ground up. Inside the wild first days of the most hostile takeover the NFL has ever known.

Kay Bailey Hutchison, the state’s senior senator and the first woman from Texas to hold that office, opens up about the changes in her party, why she decided to retire, and the governor’s race that got away. 

The Texanist on tailgating, winterizing grass, and beer cocktails.

Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have given us a natural gas boom—and a whole lot of questions.  

When a third of its citizens vote, can Texas really be called a democracy?

Will a tea party darling be the state’s first Hispanic senator?

Down with hypothetical football! Three cheers for the real thing!

How Gary Clark Jr. is reclaiming and reinventing the blues for the hip-hop generation.  

Sure, they stink. But whatever you do, don’t confuse them with feral pigs.

As Jan Reid's new biography makes clear, Ann Richards was one of the most magnetic politicians of the past thirty years. So why didn’t she leave much of a legacy?

Inside the darkly humorous world of the Lufkin Daily News police blotter.

October's must-attend concerts, shows, and festivals.

Six variations on the choicest form of jewelry for a cowgirl. Or boy.

The best way to visit Houston is one neighborhood at a time. Let’s start with Montrose.

A Dallas bistro’s artful take on “not too French” cuisine.

The creamy-crispy confection looms large in Texans’ collective taste memories.