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Erykah Badu on Growing Up in Dallas
I’m from South Dallas. It’s such a big part of my life; my grandmother still lives in the house I grew up in. I was very sheltered growing up. My grandmother was the principal clerk at the elementary school, and my mother was a reading teacher there. I was raised by strong women. And there was a whole lot of laughter in the house. My mother, grandmother, and I, we have a strong sense of humor. Richard Pryor was played way too early in my life.
Street Smart in Corsicana
This little spot offers simple charms, from the English antiques at Canterbury Court (half the shop is dedicated to large oak tables, hefty cabinets, and chairs) to the baked goods at Collin Street Bakery, which ships it famous fruit-and-nut-filled dessert to 196 countries worldwide, to the classic European arrangements at Victorian Sample Florist, a design studio that once was a bordello.
Postcards From Wichita Falls
I went home for Memorial Day weekend, and my friend Cathy said, “Let’s enter the Texas Monthly contest instead of sitting around drinkin’ beer." I had my little Sony HDR-CX500V, so we did it. This video was the first runner-up in the first ever Texas Monthly Short Film Contest.
Norah Jones on Growing Up in Grapevine
I was born in New York, but growing up in Grapevine, vacationing in Big Bend, and two-stepping at the local steakhouse turned me into a Texan soon enough.
Patient Observation
I had a perfectly normal childhood in Wichita Falls, a place Advertising Age once called the most average city in America. But I didn’t truly understand where I was from until I stepped inside the gates of the local state hospital and realized that every town has another side. By Skip Hollandsworth
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