Sports
March 31, 2023
The Caitlin Clark Show Comes to Dallas for the Women’s Final Four
Eight storylines for Texan fans to follow, from Iowa's superstar guard to South Carolina's dominance to Kim Mulkey's return to Texas.
Arts & Entertainment
Best Thing In Texas
March 29, 2023
Let’s Just Move This Year’s Basketball Hall of Fame Induction to Texas
Mavs great Dirk Nowitzki, along with four San Antonio Spurs—Gregg Popovich, Becky Hammon, Tony Parker, and Pau Gasol—headline the 2023 class.
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Dan Solomon
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Music
March 29, 2023
San Antonio Almost Lost Its 80-Year-Old Orchestra. The Musicians Didn’t Go Quietly.
The Alamo City’s once-legendary symphony officially collapsed last year. But its musicians have continued to play just steps from their former home.
Sports
March 24, 2023
The Team Might Deny It, but Houston Wants Texas in the Elite Eight
A potential all-Texas grudge match between the Cougars and Longhorns could determine who goes to the NCAA Tournament's Final Four.
Arts & Entertainment
March 23, 2023
“ ‘Hamilton’ With Breasts” Is a Very Dallas Musical Experience
'cleaVage: the front story' is the world’s first musical about silicone breast implants. Do we need a punny goof-fest about the saga of fake boobs? Yes.
Film & TV
March 16, 2023
In ‘Swarm,’ the Beyhive Is Out for (Literal) Blood
The new Beyoncé-inspired, must-watch TV show explores what happens when fan culture goes too far.
Film & TV
March 15, 2023
Eva Longoria Is a Flamin’ Hot Movie Director
The Corpus Christi native’s directorial debut is a self-assured, joyful ode to inclusivity and snack foods.
By
Dan Solomon
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Sports
March 15, 2023
The Texas Versus Everybody Guide to March Madness
How a renowned football state became a college basketball hotbed, with five top-25 teams looking to make noise in the NCAA tournament.
Film & TV
March 14, 2023
Why 1980 Was the Year Texas Went Worldwide
The current Yellowstone-fueled “Westerncore” aesthetic is little more than a cultural blip compared to what Dallas and Urban Cowboy unleashed in 1980.
Sports
March 10, 2023
This Panhandle School Is the Tiniest Girls Basketball Powerhouse in Texas
The Nazareth Swiftettes have won 25 state championships in less than fifty years—and they just hung another banner for 2023.
Sports
March 9, 2023
How Rodney Terry and Texas Basketball Saved Their Season
After Chris Beard’s firing, fans assumed the season was over. Then the remaining coaches and the roster took control of their destiny.
Music
March 9, 2023
Willie Nelson’s Faithful Rendition of a Harlan Howard Classic
A deep dive into Nelson’s cover of “I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail,” from his 150th album, ‘I Don’t Know a Thing About Love.’
Books
March 7, 2023
Texas’s “Safety Net Hospitals” Are Better Than You Think
In his first book, Houston physician and writer Ricardo Nuila argues that these publicly funded institutions don’t deserve their awful reputation—and offer a model for mending our broken health-care system.
Music
March 7, 2023
The Stars Aligned for This Writer’s Classic Portrait of Leon Bridges
Author Casey Gerald reflects on the creative process behind his August 2021 cover profile of the Fort Worth R&B singer.
Film & TV
March 7, 2023
When Texas Took Over the Oscars
Forty years ago, a crop of films led by ‘Terms of Endearment’ and ‘Tender Mercies’ reimagined the way we see Texas.
Sports
March 6, 2023
Mark Adams’s Unforgivable Comments Wrap Up Tech’s Nightmare Season
Texas Tech suspended the men’s basketball coach after Adams used “unacceptable and racially insensitive” language with a player.
Film & TV
March 6, 2023
How Christy Carlson Romano Lost Her Disney Money and Founded an Empire
Ren Stevens and Kim Possible led the early aughts star to the role she was always meant to play—content strategist—in the place she was always meant to live.
Film & TV
March 3, 2023
Jonathan Majors Has Arrived
With two blockbusters hitting theaters in the span of a few weeks, the newly minted A-lister is doing Cedar Hill proud.
Music
March 2, 2023
Willie Nelson’s New Album—His 150th—Honors Another Country Legend
Willie Nelson covers ten songs written by his late friend Harlan Howard in ‘I Don’t Know a Thing About Love.’
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John Spong
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Sports
March 1, 2023
Can College Sports Get More Absurd Than SMU Joining the Pac-12?
They can and they will. NCAA conference realignment is making bizarre matchups like SMU versus Oregon the norm.
Art
February 28, 2023
In San Antonio, a Road Map for the Future of Texas Art
“Soy de Tejas” is an ambitious survey exhibition at the Centro de Artes Gallery featuring forty up-and-coming artists from around the state.
Arts & Entertainment
February 27, 2023
Author John Graves Was a Literary Godfather to Texas Monthly
The author of Goodbye to a River and two-time National Book Award finalist helped create the magazine’s Country Notes column.
Art
February 24, 2023
A Digital-Age Exhibit in Fort Worth Will Spike Your Blood Pressure
An anxiety-inducing new show at the Modern Art Museum reminds us just how thoroughly screens have co-opted our daily lives.
Books
February 24, 2023
Chip Gaines Bought Larry McMurtry’s Historic Texas Bookstore. Bring on the Shiplap?
Threat of impersonal farmhouse decor aside, the purchase of Archer City’s beloved Booked Up could mean hope for a reopening.
Sports
February 24, 2023
A College Basketball Dynasty Grows in Houston
Kelvin Sampson and projected top-ten NBA draft pick Jarace Walker have the Cougars back at No. 1 and eyeing another Final Four run.
Arts & Entertainment
February 22, 2023
The Cross-dressing, Bank-Robbing, Outlaw Tale of Cowboy Bob Is Now a Musical
An all-female creative team set Peggy Jo Tallas’s story to a score of country, folk, and riot grrrl punk.
Art
February 17, 2023
Remembering Jesse Treviño, Who Transformed San Antonio Art
Treviño’s biographer reflects on the artist’s legacy.
Sports
February 17, 2023
The Best High School Basketball Team in Texas Doesn’t Need a State Title
Sanctions against last year's team banned Duncanville from the 2023 state tournament. What'd the Panthers do? Aim for a national championship.
Arts & Entertainment
February 16, 2023
Onstage in Houston, Abortion Activists Find Common Ground
Updated for the Dobbs era, ROE is an empathetic look at the landmark Supreme Court decision.
Sports
February 16, 2023
The Big 12 Doomsday Clock Is Ticking
The announcement of an official date for Texas and Oklahoma’s move to the SEC signaled the end of Texas college football as we know it.
Books
February 14, 2023
Ten Perfect Texas Romance Novels for Your Bookworm Valentine
These books are sure to make your special someone swoon.
Music
February 10, 2023
Chanda Dancy, a Fearless Houston Violinist, Is Breaking Boundaries in Hollywood
The film composer behind the scores for ‘Devotion’ and ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ has never bought into the rigid rules of classical music.
Sports
February 10, 2023
Is a Texas Granny’s Curse Behind the Cowboys’ Super Bowl Drought?
An Arlington native says the Dallas Cowboys won’t win another championship until the team restores her grandmother’s bluebonnet patch.
Sports
February 9, 2023
Texas Football Coaches Recall Jalen Hurts’s High School Dominance
The former Channelview High quarterback, who will lead the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII, ran “like frickin’ Larry Csonka.”
Music
February 8, 2023
This Genre-Defying Dallas Singer Doesn’t Suffer Foolish Men Gladly
A deep dive into “Wild Animals,” a song from the Dallas R&B artist’s newest album, ‘Girl in the Half Pearl.’
Film & TV
February 8, 2023
This Twentysomething Texan Is Already an Award-Winning Film Director
Katherine Propper’s student films have won awards at major film festivals. How does she do it? By knowing the rules of filmmaking—and breaking them.
By
Michael Hall
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Music
February 7, 2023
Does Willie Nelson Belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
A debate between Andy Langer, Dan Solomon—and Ice Cube?
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Dan Solomon
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Books
February 7, 2023
The Waco Fire Is Still Burning
One night in the fall of 1869, an angel visited a homeopathic physician in upstate New York named Cyrus Teed. She told him he was the Lamb of God, spoken of in the Bible’s book of Revelation, who was prophesied to open the seven seals and bring about the end-time.
Sports
February 6, 2023
Four Items for Kyrie Irving’s Texas Bucket List
The NBA guard can search for the Earth’s edge in Big Bend and bone up on JFK conspiracy theories when he’s not getting buckets in Dallas.
By
Dan Solomon
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Music
February 6, 2023
Beyoncé Still Can’t Win Album of the Year, and Other Things We Learned From the Grammys
A bittersweet night for Queen Bey, a momentous night for Lizzo and Willie Nelson, and a confusing one for Chris Brown.
By
Dan Solomon
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Books
February 2, 2023
A Novelist and Hollywood Screenwriter Grapples With Her Texan Identity
Attica Locke looks back on her 2012 essay weighing her Houston pride against the fact that “there are things about the state that just don’t work for me.”
By
Dan Solomon
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Sports
February 2, 2023
Filipino American Jason Robertson Is the Breakout Star of the NHL Season
The Dallas Stars left winger is on pace to set new franchise scoring records—and he’s inspiring a generation of new hockey fans along the way.
Film & TV
February 1, 2023
Three New, True Stories From the Texas-Mexico Border
The El Paso–born wrestler Cassandro, Edinburg High School mariachis, and a Matamoros teacher all shone at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Sports
February 1, 2023
Rodeo Fans Should Grow Up Learning About This Legendary Black Rider
A writer looks back on his 2018 cover story on Myrtis Dightman Sr., “the Jackie Robinson of Rodeo,” who broke the sport’s color line.
Music
February 1, 2023
A Culture Writer and Lifelong Selena Fan’s Ultimate Love Letter to the Icon
Cat Cardenas’s 2021 essay made a poignant case about the mistakes Selena never got to make—and how they would have deepened our love for her.
By
Katy Vine
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Film & TV
February 1, 2023
In ‘Magazine Dreams,’ Jonathan Majors Builds Himself Up to Fall Apart
The Texas-raised actor returned to Sundance for the premiere of his latest film—a brutal, impressive character study of a troubled bodybuilder.
By
Cat Cardenas
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Film & TV
January 31, 2023
The Year’s Most Fascinating Documentary Won’t Be at the Oscars
Margaret Brown’s remarkable ‘Descendant’ deserved to take its case for reparations to an audience of millions.
Art
January 30, 2023
Texas Charged 30 Artists With Capturing the Beauty of State Parks. This Is What Happened.
To mark the state park system’s centennial, the Bullock hosts an exhibit dedicated to the great outdoors.
Music
January 27, 2023
Reexamining Erykah Badu’s Place in the Pantheon With José James’s ‘On & On’
The jazz vocalist pays tribute to the Dallas icon in ways that make her work feel fresher than ever.
By
Dan Solomon
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Sports
January 26, 2023
The Rise and Fall and Resurgence of Pro Wrestling’s “Texas Death Match”
With WWE in San Antonio for the Royal Rumble, we look at the history of a particularly Texan contribution to the world of scripted combat.