Dallas
January 23, 2013
By Invitation Only
In a city that loves its parties, there’s perhaps none so aesthetically significant as Two x Two for AIDS and Art, Dallas’s most cutting-edge fundraiser—and one hell of a good time.
Articles
Business
January 23, 2013
Jackpot of the Plains
My unsentimental education in the wheeler-dealer ways of the most American of Texas cities.
Austin
January 23, 2013
A Capital Time
Midland's Tom Craddick shares a few memories from his forty-plus years in the Legislature.
Austin
January 23, 2013
An Ode to Mount Bonnell
Taking Austin in from the city's most iconic summit.
Books
January 23, 2013
Horsemen, Goodbye
Thoughts on the gradual march of civility and urban sprawl across the lost frontier.
Editor's Letter
January 23, 2013
February 2013: The Cities Issue
Looking ahead to our next forty years.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Texas: It’s Where College Football Players Come From
An ESPN analysis of "recruiting migration" trends among Top 20 college football teams found one thing never changes: Texas had the most players in both 1940 and 2010.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Houston Texans’ Season, RIP: September 9, 2012-January 13, 2013
What people are saying about Gary Kubiak, Matt Schaub, and the Texans defense after their 41-28 loss to the New England Patriots.
January 21, 2013
Are Houstonians More Likely To Drink and Drive?
H-town and two other Texas cities have some of the worst drunk driving fatality rates in America.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Aggie Butterfly Effect: What if A&M Had Stayed?
Does Texas A&M’s Cotton Bowl dominance of Oklahoma mean the Aggies would have had an even better season had they stayed in the Big 12? No.
January 21, 2013
As One Oswald Home Is Demolished, Another Is to Become A Museum
This week, Irving and Dallas took different approaches to residences formerly occupied by JFK's assassin.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Dallas Cowboys’ Twitter Smack Backfires
Scoreboard! @DallasStars won Twitter Tuesday with their response to @DallasCowboys’ accidental smack-tweet, which also dissed the Rangers.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Breaking: Johnny Football is a College Student
A&M QB Johnny Manziel has a little fun post-Cotton Bowl, to the delight of TMZ, and the distress of some prigs in the media.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Bearkats Fall in Frisco
The University of Texas is still the state's last college football team to win a national championship, as Sam Houston State loses the FCS title to North Dakota State for the second straight year.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Are the Houston Texans a “Tomato Can?”
Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy says the New England Patriots, which hosts Houston on Sunday, is “the first team in NFL history to get back-to-back byes before advancing to the conference championship game.”
Business
January 21, 2013
Texas Business Report: Prison Phone Calls Break the Bank
Thanks to a near monopoly on inmate calling services. Plus: shipping strikes, SeaWorld’s IPO, and stalled stem cell therapy.
Sports
January 21, 2013
VIDEO: That Time There Was a One-Point Safety in a UT-A&M Game
How rare was last night's one-point safety by Oregon against Kansas State? It's only happened once before in NCAA history: when UT did it against A&M eight years ago.
Sports
January 21, 2013
10 Hilariously Incorrect Predictions About Texas A&M
Anybody (including many Aggies) who said they expected Texas A&M's first season in the Southeastern Conference to go so well is lying. But it's still funny to look back at all the naysayers.
Energy
January 21, 2013
Five of the Worst Mercury-Polluting Power Plants Are In Texas
According to a new report ranking the ten worst mercury-emitting coal plants in the US.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Our Question For UT Fans: Aggies or Sooners?
Friday's Cotton Bowl gives Longhorns fans a chance to decide which team they hate more: the University of Oklahoma, or Texas A&M.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Six Thoughts About the Cotton Bowl
Kansas St. and Oregon who? Arlington's the center of our college football universe, as Texas A&M plays Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Friday.
January 21, 2013
Meanwhile, in Lufkin . . . December Edition
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News’ police blotter.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Ranking the Texas Bowl Games So Far
Teams from Texas—all former members of the Southwest Conference—went 5-1 in the pre-New Year's college football bowls.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Are the Houston Texans Doomed?
The Texans' month-long dive from top team in the AFC to number three seed with no bye week has fans and sports scribes talking like the franchise didn't even make the playoffs.
January 21, 2013
Our Long-Form Favorites from 2012
That we didn’t write, but wish we had.
January 21, 2013
Our Top Ten Most Read Stories of 2012
Secession, Aggies, and artists: the Texas stories y'all wanted to read and share in 2012.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Five Most Memorable Sports Stories of 2012
Guess what's number one (hint: look at the picture).
January 21, 2013
Bachelor Who Attempted to Abduct and Poison His Mail-Order Bride Convicted
The "kidnapper" David Sartin hired to ship his Ukranian mail-order bride in a crate from Kiev to Texas was an ATF officer.
January 21, 2013
Warren Jeffs Gives the World Another Apocalypse to Worry About this Weekend
The world will end this Sunday, on the birthday of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Or so warns the imprisoned polygamist leader of FLDS.
January 21, 2013
Rick Perry: Teachers Should Be Able to Carry Concealed Handguns
The governor, speaking to a tea party group in a suburb of Fort Worth, held that those with concealed carry permits should be able to bring their guns everywhere.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Why the Cowboys Should Let Josh Brent Stay on the Sideline
Update: Brent, who is facing an intoxication manslaughter charge in the death of his friend and teammate, Jerry Brown Jr., will no longer be allowed on the sidelines at Cowboys games.
Business
January 21, 2013
Southwest Airlines Plays with Fees
Southwest Airlines announced that it would start charging fees for no-shows and for third bags on Friday.
Business
January 21, 2013
Texas Business Report: What the Fiscal Cliff Could Mean for NASA
If the slate of federal budget cuts goes into effect on January 2, NASA's budget will be slashed by 8.2 percent, and some 5,600 jobs could be lost at Johnson Space Center.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Houston, We Finally Have Linsanity?
The Rockets are just 10-11, but they're winning big at media exposure, from viral videos to ESPN the Magazine.
Border & Immigration
January 21, 2013
Federal Drug Bust Nabs the Sons of Hidalgo County Sheriff and Police Chief
Four police officers in the Rio Grande Valley, including the son of Hidalgo County sheriff Lupe Treviño, are accused of taking payoffs to protect cocaine shipments along the Mexican border.
January 21, 2013
Death Row Population Drops to Lowest Level Since 1989
Texas executed 15 people in 2012 and sent only nine new inmates to death row.
January 21, 2013
The Ascendant Abortion-Alternative Industry
Crisis pregnancy centers served 17,527 clients last year, and that number will likely only grow.
Sports
January 21, 2013
“Air” Kingsbury Flies Back to Lubbock
Texas Tech takes all of four days to pick the head coach everybody wanted: 33 year-old former Red Raiders quarterback & Texas A&M offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury.
January 21, 2013
Our 2013 Bum Steer of the Year
Congratulations, Lance! Here's one title you won't be stripped of.
January 21, 2013
UT Law Prof. Lino Graglia Says Black and Hispanic Students Are Less “Academically Competent” Again
This time to a black correspondent from the BBC, in an interview about the use of race in college admissions. He'd said similar things at a student forum in 1997.
January 21, 2013
Inside Texas’s New Radioactive Dump
The new dump for low-level radioactive waste in west Texas will help relieve an overburdened site in Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
January 21, 2013
Five Questions: What’s Next for Johnny Heisman
Now that Johnny Football is officially Johnny Heisman, what’s in store for Texas A&M and its star quarterback? Besides the Cotton Bowl and tonight's Letterman Top 10, that is.
Business
January 21, 2013
Texas Business Report: Texas Instruments to Lose 1,700 Jobs
And Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson will get a $4.59 million bonus.
Sports
January 21, 2013
UT Prez: Mack Brown Will Remain Head Coach
"Put succinctly, Mack Brown is and will remain the Longhorns’ head football coach," University of Texas at Austin president Bill Powers wrote in a blog post Thursday.
January 21, 2013
Take a Tour on the Moon Come 2020, Private Spaceflight Company Says
Only $750 million per person. Five things to know about the Golden Spike Company's hopes and plans.
January 21, 2013
Pig Entrails Draped over Cypress Mosque Gate in Likely Hate Crime
And it wouldn't be the first Islamophobic pig incident for the Houston exurbs either.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Johnny Football’s Going to Win Heisman
Update: The Stiff Arm Trophy website calls it for the Texas A&M QB, its earliest ever projection. The Tyler/Kerrville native will take the home the Heisman Trophy Saturday.
Critters
January 21, 2013
Donkey, Beware!
Mystery archer killed a third donkey from the same Fort Worth pasture this week.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Book ’Em Horns: Get Ready for Finals Edition
The newest, drunkest crimes from Campus Watch, the University of Texas police department's blotter.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Raider Red: The Best Mascot in the Country?
Guns up! Texas Tech's red-headed Yosemite Sam-doppelganger is one step away from winning the Capitol One Mascot Challenge. And he's joined the “Gangnam Style” craze.