Houston’s River Oaks Theatre Escapes Demolition—And Will Probably Get a Better Cocktail Menu
A grassroots campaign—and a multibillion-dollar corporate real estate acquisition—kept the bulldozers away.
A grassroots campaign—and a multibillion-dollar corporate real estate acquisition—kept the bulldozers away.
With his ex-team in the Super Bowl and a new memoir on bookshelves, the Hall of Fame running back from Sealy, Texas, is back in the limelight.
The Texas native’s slow but steady rise to stardom just hit a new benchmark.
Houston's hapless NFL franchise hired the right man for what seem like the wrong reasons—and it's lucky Smith accepted the job.
When artist Cindee Klement designed an eight-hundred-pound sculpture to connect us with the soil under our feet, she got more than she bargained for.
Since 2009, the Greater Houston Senior Football Showcase has helped 1,400 local athletes play at the next level while pursuing college degrees.
The Austin-set firefighter show devotes four episodes to the 2021 freeze while ignoring all of the real-life drama.
And when the new Longhorns coach steps on the court for his first game back in Lubbock, the Red Raiders faithful will surely let him hear it.
Ariel René Jackson’s "A Welcoming Place" will likely be one of the more discussed Austin art shows of the season.
More visual poem than documentary, the film tracks a music manager and singer who follow their dreams while providing for their undocumented parents.
The Austin filmmaker’s episodes of ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ embody an existential crisis over the future of Star Wars.
With the Sugar Land Skeeters set to become the Space Cowboys, what will become of the mascots for the Houston Astros' AAA squad?
Harriet Sansom Harris, who plays an unhinged talent agent, had to be convinced to emerge from her pandemic quarantine in the woods.
Baseball Hall of Fame voters kept the former Astros pitcher out of Cooperstown. But there’s more to Clemens’s “character” than his alleged steroid use.
A new virtual reality experience launches you to the International Space Station, where you join the crew and see Earth like you’ve never seen it before.
Host Sarah Hepola counts down her favorite moments from our series on the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
Magnolia Network, helmed by Waco’s First Family, has already weathered its first scandal. Viewers will keep tuning in.
The characters might be fictional, but to the Latinos who see their own families reflected in them, it’s a relief to see them say what we wish we could.
Ex-TCU coach Gary Patterson's move to Austin is a script only the deep-pocketed and dysfunctional Longhorns could write.
How a simple, two-chord song written by an Iowan became (clap clap clap clap) our unofficial state anthem.
Don’t listen to the fuddy-duddy types who complain that the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback is too enthusiastic on the mic.
For the Corpus Christi native, the story of the 1996 championship bout between Oscar De La Hoya and Julio César Chávez was also her story.
Eighteen months after notifying USA Gymnastics and its investigative arm of the coach’s alleged abuse, the women are still waiting for a resolution.
The popular Netflix cheerleading docuseries, set in Corsicana and Athens, takes a nosedive from feel-good to deeply disturbing.
The state's teams don't give us much reason to feel proud, so why not focus on Patrick Mahomes, Trent Williams, and Matthew Stafford?
The Texas City native and star of the hit HBO comedy series talks Judy Gemstone, ham slices, and why there’s nothing worse than someone trying to be funny.
The gender-swapped sequel will be an easy watch for sitcom fans, but the callbacks and in-jokes tip into the saccharine.
The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders have navigated scandals and cultural shifts in the last few years. What is their future in this new world?
The most dysfunctional franchise in pro sports has a vacancy, and I have some time to kill.
Hardy Fox, founder of the strange and influential band the Residents, developed his bizarre sensibility while growing up in small-town East Texas.
Days before Dallas faces the San Francisco 49ers in the first round, Jerry Jones is already talking Super Bowls.
Dana Presley Killmer joined the squad at the peak of its popularity, but the $15 game rate hadn't changed, and wouldn't for many years.
Comedies must choose whether to punch up or punch down; watching ‘Search Party’ has always made me feel like I’m punching myself.
The number nineteen Red Raiders are among the biggest surprises in NCAA basketball, with hopes of springing another upset Tuesday against Baylor.
From honey shots to swimsuit calendars, sex has long been part of the cheerleaders’ brand. But is the provocative tease a relic of another era?
Texans have five days to celebrate Wayne Thiebaud, the late painter famous for his delectable still lifes, at an eye-popping retrospective in San Antonio.
The Dallas exurb has built its tourism program around bringing big-time sporting events, like Saturday's FCS title game, to North Texas.
After losing the top three scorers from last year's title team, the Bears are 14–0, ranked No. 1, and eyeing another NCAA championship run.
Can the Fab Five help a society ravaged by grief recover? The answer is yas.
The Yellowstone prequel series ‘1883’ was a smash hit—and just the beginning for Taylor Sheridan’s western empire. Only viewers seem to care.
Baldwin, who died in December, fought in Korea, met Picasso, traveled the world, and, with his wife, Wendy Watriss, made Houston a photography capital.
The NFL coach, who died last week, left behind a rich football legacy. But for Cowboys fans, his heroics against Green Bay in 1967 always come first.
The singer-songwriter-artist reveals the inspirations behind his music in a multimedia museum show in Austin.
It’s not just about being the right weight. It’s about having the right hair, the right skin, the right boobs, the right legs. Only a very particular kind of beautiful woman gets to wear that uniform.
From Leon Bridges’s home in Fort Worth to a vibrant coral reef near Galveston, this year took our photographers to some truly unforgettable places.
For 25 years, sportscaster Daryl "Razor" Reaugh has been the verbose, bombastic, grandiloquent voice of Texas's lone NHL franchise.
One former Cowboys cheerleader tells the story behind her epic encounter with Danny White, in a picture that was quashed for 25 years.
This year, we jammed to new music by Kacey Musgraves, Leon Bridges, Megan Thee Stallion, St. Vincent, and others.
Don't overlook the role of injuries, NFL draft opt-outs, and players leaving via transfer in the decision to withdraw from the Gator Bowl.
Being a Cowboys cheerleader has always meant living by a long list of rules. But do those rules help protect the cheerleaders or control them?