Sports
January 21, 2013
Mack Brown: I’m Not Going Anywhere
Saturday's loss to Oklahoma had nearly every columnist in Texas speculating about the Longhorns football coach's future, but he dismissed such talk this afternoon.
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Music
January 21, 2013
Ten Photos from ACL Fest 2012
Ten photos from the 11th Annual Austin City Limits Festival.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
First, They Come For Your Tweets
Why members of the Huntsville city council sicced the Texas Rangers on a group of lightly-followed Twitter parody accounts.
January 21, 2013
Happy 100th Birthday, Rice University
This week marks Rice's 100th year as an institution of higher education. Here are five of the school's defining moments.
The Culture
January 21, 2013
Yet Another Celebrity Involved in a Sierra Blanca Checkpoint Bust
Nelly's bodyguard was arrested after he admitted the ten pounds of weed and 36 baggies of marijuana on the bus belonged to him.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Stop Writing About “FNL” and Romney
UPDATE: Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger and FNL TV producer Peter Berg have both joined the fray over Mitt Romney and "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts...Can't Lose."
January 21, 2013
Texas Executes Tenth Man of 2012
Jonathan Green was put to death Wednesday for the 2000 murder of a 12-year-old girl, but his lawyers maintained until the end that their client was mentally ill and thus unsuitable for execution.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
SCOTUS Hears Arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
The outcome of the case could bar affirmative action from use in college admissions.
Sports
January 21, 2013
NCAA Smacks Texas Southern With Five Years Probation
And as a "double repeat violator" going back two decades, the Tigers may be considered the most lawless college sports program since SMU.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Book ’Em Horns, Take Two
With OU weekend and another Longhorns home game now behind us (sigh), it's time to check in once again with Campus Watch, the University of Texas police department's blotter.
Books
January 21, 2013
Texas Well-Represented at the National Book Awards
Including books from Dallas resident Ben Fountain, UT-Michener Center alum Kevin Powers, South Texas native Domingo Martinez, and the legendary LBJ biographer Robert Caro.
Business
January 21, 2013
Laredoans Love Sweat Suits
The Texas border city sneaks onto a list of consumer markets that buy the most "sweats and sweat items" each year.
Health
January 21, 2013
Are You Sure You Want to Drink That?
San Antonio joins Chicago as the first two cities to get health-conscious soda vending machines.
January 21, 2013
Who Defaced This Highway Sign in Romney, TX?
Someone scrawled "Obama" in uppercase letters over the green highway sign that marks the location of the unincorporated community located southwest of Fort Worth.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Aggies Up, Longhorns Down?
UT may still have the better team, but Texas A&M is doing better than expected in the SEC.
The Culture
January 21, 2013
Why Is Willie Nelson Called Booger Red?
Willie reveals this and several other details in an excerpt from his new memoir, Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die.
Business
January 21, 2013
Print Your Own Gun?
A second-year University of Texas law student has raised $20,000 towards his goal of enabling gun enthusiasts to use three-dimensional printers to make their own guns at home.
Business
January 21, 2013
Rio Grande Valley Tops List of “America’s Poorest Cities”
McAllen and Brownsville occupy the no. 1 and 2 slots on a new list based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2011 American Community Survey.
Art
January 21, 2013
Marfa, Filtered through Instagram
Dallas-based photographer Allison V. Smith took over Texas Monthly's Instagram account during her trip to Marfa this weekend. Here are some highlights from her trip.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Who Gets the “Friday Night Lights” Vote?
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have both attempted to claim coach Eric Taylor's "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts..." rallying cry as their own—and FNL author Buzz Bissinger has picked a side.
January 21, 2013
Meanwhile, in Lufkin…
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News police blotter.
Business
January 21, 2013
Texas Business Report: Medicare Fraud Arrests at Riverside General Hospital
The feds arrested the CEO of Houston’s Riverside General Hospital and six other hospital employees Thursday, accusing them of bilking $158 million from the Medicare program over the past seven years.
January 21, 2013
Houston Mayor Calls River Walk a “Cement Ditch”
And San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro fired back, suggesting Annise Parker was just jealous.
Sports
January 21, 2013
UT and A&M Resume Hostilities This Weekend
If you thought the rivalry between the University of Texas and Texas A&M was currently on ice, you are correct. Tonight in College Station, the two schools face off in, you guessed it, hockey.
Critters
January 21, 2013
Lubbock Museum Kills, Stuffs Mules For Exhibit
A small controversy has erupted over the American Museum of Agriculture's decision to euthanize and stuff real mules for an exhibit.
The Culture
January 21, 2013
T. Boone and Madeleine Pickens’ Super Sad True Divorce Story
The couple is splitting after seven years of marriage.
Border & Immigration
January 21, 2013
DREAM Act Could Mean Billions For Texas
If Congress passes the DREAM Act, the total economic impact for Texas could top $66 billion by 2030.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Things Got Ugly at the Senate Debate When Sadler Called Cruz a Troll
The first Senate debate was an hour-long display of cross-talk and exasperation, but things really heated up after Paul Sadler called Ted Cruz a troll.
Sports
January 21, 2013
No Wins, No Glory Hole
Cowboys fan and Grantland writer Bryan Curtis ponders Jerry Jones as the contemporary version of the Texas oilman while wondering if the team will ever hit a gusher.
Business
January 21, 2013
The World v. American Airlines
Fallout from the Fort Worth-based airline's Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization leads to unprecedented delays, an unhappy pilot's union and even unhappier (and vocal) consumers.
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Frito Pie for 5,000, Anyone?
Frito-Lay and the State Fair of Texas set a record for World's Largest Frito Pie on Monday.
January 21, 2013
It’s Time to Bag Some Feral Hogs
As part of "Hog Out" month in Texas, hunters in participating counties can receive two bucks for every feral hog they kill. Just make sure to save those tails!
January 21, 2013
Allen Stanford’s Personal Items Up for Auction
The Ponzi schemer's personal effects, brought in from his St. Croix residence, fill some 10,000 square feet of a warehouse.
Critters
January 21, 2013
Plague of Crickets Stink Up Waco
Thousands of bug carcasses are smelling up local businesses.
January 21, 2013
Dallas’s “Elegant” and “Graceful” Museum Tower Would Like to Apologize For Being So Shiny
The owners of Museum Tower took out a full-page ad in the Dallas Morning News Friday to (sort of) apologize that the new building is so shiny.
January 21, 2013
Jerry’s Secret? Cowboys Stadium Goes “PINK”
Give me a W! Give me a T! Give me an F! The Dallas Cowboys become the first National Football League team to have its very own in-stadium Victoria's Secret PINK boutique.
Bum Steers
January 21, 2013
Husband Threatens Cat. Wife Shoots Husband.
Audrey Deen Miller was arrested earlier this week in Spring for shooting her husband, who apparently had bad intentions towards one her felines.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Ten Things to Know About New Astros Manager Bo Porter
Who is the man who will take the Astros into the American League era?
The Culture
January 21, 2013
Bill and Wes’s Excellent Adventure
With the announcement that Bill Murray will star in Wes Anderson's next movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, the pair enters the upper echelon of American director-actor combos.
January 21, 2013
‘Playboy’ Honors SMU, UT, and TCU
Playboy's annual list of "Top 10 Party Schools" is out, with SMU scoring number one for "Best Nightlife." Former champion UT is still in the top ten, along with TCU.
Sports
January 21, 2013
New York Can Keep Martellus Bennett
The irrrepressible but often disappointing Katy native, Aggie, and former Dallas Cowboy, feels more at home as a New Yorker and a member of the New York Giants.
January 21, 2013
The Houston Mayor’s Office Shows You How to Spot an IED
The video, targeted at first responders and those who work in the service industry, instructs people on how to spot suicide bombers.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Another Day, Another Controversial Proclamation from Louie Gohmert
The Tyler congressman took to the floor of the house to declare that President Barack Obama's Middle East policies have brought about the "massive beginning of a new Ottoman Empire."
Music
January 21, 2013
Fiona Apple Tells Her Houston Fans About Arrest
UPDATE: The Hudspeth County Sheriff's department bites back at Fiona Apple's public comments about her Sierra Blanca bust.
January 21, 2013
Rick Perry Is Still Newsworthy
From Satan to sleep apnea, five headlines about Rick Perry following his Friday night appearance at the Texas Tribune festival and the publication of Oops, a presidential campaign e-book by the Trib's Jay Root.
Sports
January 21, 2013
You Can’t Go Home Again?
The rise and rise and fall and fall of former UTEP, Texas A&M, Kentucky, and Texas Tech basketball coach Billy Gillispie.
Music
January 21, 2013
An Exclusive Track from Balmorhea’s New Album, ‘Stranger’
An exclusive preview of Balmorhea's song "Masollan," plus an interview with band co-founder Rob Lowe.
January 21, 2013
Texas Executes Eighth Man of 2012
Robert Wayne Harris, who was convicted of killing five people at a car wash in Irving, was executed by Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution.
Sports
January 21, 2013
How ’Bout Them Cowboys?!
The ones at Cowboys.com, that is. A URL the Dallas Cowboys failed to buy is now a "an online dating community for men who enjoy the same country living lifestyle."
January 21, 2013
Cheerleaders Must Stop Displaying Religious Posters at Football Games
Bible verses on banners spark controversy in a small East Texas town.