At 88, Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Is Still Bluffing. Or Is He?
The Texas gambler has been winning at poker for seventy years—long enough to become an icon and watch an outlaw’s game become an industry.
Sports
June 27, 2022
The Rise and Rise of Texas-Based BMX Superstar Brad Simms
When early pandemic lockdowns led to empty streets, Simms, a leader among Black BMX riders, catapulted himself to social media fame.
Sports
June 24, 2022
Arch Manning Might Be Good Enough to Save Texas Football From Itself
No team does less with more quite like the Longhorns do, but even UT shouldn’t be able to spoil the next great Manning quarterback.
Arts & Entertainment
June 23, 2022
Small Town, Big Pride: A Wave of LGBTQ Celebrations Comes to Central Texas
Bastrop, Lockhart, Round Rock, and others are hosting Pride Month events for the first time. They’re prepared for pushback. And they’re getting it.
Sports
June 22, 2022
This Nolan Ryan Documentary Is a Love Story (and a Home Run)
'Facing Nolan' has all the high heat and bench-clearing brawls that MLB fans expect. But deep down, the film is about a beautiful marriage.
Music
June 22, 2022
Conan Gray Is Creating Pop’s Best Love Songs—But He’s Never Dated Anybody
The 23-year-old from Georgetown emerges as Texas’s answer to Olivia Rodrigo and—dare we say it?—T-Swift with his sophomore album, ‘Superache.’
Music
June 21, 2022
It’s Beyoncé’s Summer Now
While we wait for ‘Renaissance’ to drop on July 24, the Beyhive is frantically trying to decode clues about the album to come. The speculation is the point.
Film & TV
June 17, 2022
A Dare (and a Tweet) Started Texas’s Next Great Director on His Hollywood Journey
Filmmaker and Dallas native Cooper Raiff is only 25, but his second film, ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth,’ should establish him as Texas’s next great director.
Music
June 17, 2022
DFW’s Favorite Honky-tonk Band Is Led By a Dude With an Accordion
Squeezebox Bandits front man Abel Casillas grew up singing Hank Williams and playing tejano music.
Music
June 16, 2022
Why the Best Musicians in the Country Descend on an 81-Person Texas Town
Pianist James Dick has spent half a century crafting the Round Top Festival Institute into a world-class destination for classical musicians, where architecture, fine arts, green space, and history meet.
Sports
June 16, 2022
Meet the “Not Smart” Texans Who’ve Run a Marathon in All Fifty States
From chronic injuries to botched courses, members of the Texas-based 50 States Marathon Club go the distance to go the distance.
Film & TV
June 14, 2022
Deep in the Heart of Beavis & Butt-Head
Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head return for a new movie and series that find them older but far from wiser. Is Texas finally ready to claim them as our own?
Sports
June 13, 2022
At 88, Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Is Still Bluffing. Or Is He?
The Texas gambler has been winning at poker for seventy years—long enough to become an icon and watch an outlaw’s game become an industry.
Books
June 10, 2022
Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse
Robert Evans’s ‘After the Revolution’ is the latest entry in the rich canon of speculative fiction that draws on our real-life deadly climate, big money, sinister villains, and true believers.
Music
June 9, 2022
‘Sailing’ Was Supposed to Save Christopher Cross. It Drowned Him Instead.
San Antonio–born Christopher Cross defined a generation of yacht rock and made Grammys history with “Sailing.” But the song’s origins couldn’t be much further from its beatific sound.