Border & Immigration
April 19, 2017
Welcome to the Edge
Our editor-in-chief on the making of the May 2017 issue.
Arts & Entertainment
Music
April 19, 2017
Why Midlake Front Man Eric Pulido Has Stayed in Denton
It's not New York or L.A. or Austin, but here's why Midlake front man Eric Pulido calls Denton home.
Film & TV
April 19, 2017
Gone Fishin’; Fishin’ Gone
A new documentary follows the lives of the 94 bayou folk, retirees, and reputed outlaws in the village of Uncertain.
Film & TV
April 19, 2017
Prime Opportunity
How a native Marfan's short story landed him a job on Amazon Prime's anticipated 'I Love Dick.'
Music
April 19, 2017
How El Paso Turned Khalid Into a Star
How a move from New York to El Paso birthed a music career.
Film & TV
April 19, 2017
Get the Picture?
A filmmaker’s effort to share stories from her home turf, one female-directed movie at a time.
Arts & Entertainment
April 19, 2017
Inside Out
A group of young activists reclaim the language and words that have been used to define them.
Art
April 7, 2017
10 Texas Artists to Collect Now
By oil, acrylic, pen, or from behind the lens, meet a selection of the state's artists to watch.
Books
March 27, 2017
A Serious Writer
A chat with Jim Magnuson, the founding director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.
Music
March 23, 2017
Amarillo City Limits
Hayden Pedigo's 'Greetings from Amarillo'
Books
March 23, 2017
The Fiesta You Don’t Know
Cornyation, lampooning San Antonio's social elites since 1951.
Books
March 22, 2017
Groundhog Deus
Stephen Tobolowsky has appeared in hundreds of films, including one of the greatest movies ever made. But these days, he’s thinking—and writing—a lot about God.
Sports
March 22, 2017
Save Muny
The future of Austin’s Lions Municipal Golf Course lies in its historic past.
Books
March 22, 2017
One Degree of Jim Magnuson
Over the past 23 years, the founding director of the Michener Center for Writers has helped launch countless literary careers. Here are a few of the program’s most notable graduates.
Sports
March 22, 2017
Star Rocket in Flight
With slick television ads promoting his signature Adidas, hip-hop songs dropping his name, a possible MVP award, and the most famous beard since ZZ Top, James Harden has arrived. In fact, he may just be the biggest name in Texas.
Arts & Entertainment
March 22, 2017
How to Be a Non-Texan
Advice for our former web editor.
Film & TV
March 10, 2017
The Not-So-Secret Life of Terrence Malick
The world’s most private director turns his lens on the place where he’s always been most public: Austin.
Music
February 23, 2017
What to Listen to Now
Album reviews and news for March 2017.
Film & TV
February 23, 2017
A Brooklyn Bridge Too Far
Texas invades Brooklyn.
Music
February 23, 2017
A Fanboy’s Notes
Spoon is my favorite band. Spoon has a new album out. It is my favorite Spoon album. That is all.
Books
February 23, 2017
They Came From the Sky
In this exclusive excerpt from Stephen Harrigan’s forthcoming history of Texas, the first Spanish conquistadors arrive on our shores, starving, haggard, and in no mood for conquest.
Music
February 23, 2017
The Underdog’s on Top
Country singer Aaron Watson wears denim, loves two-steppin', and sings about bluebonnets without irony. Which gets him little attention in Nashville—but plenty of love everywhere else.
Arts & Entertainment
February 23, 2017
23 Writers and Editors Remember Gary Cartwright
Awe, gratitude, and stories upon stories. Gary would approve.
Arts & Entertainment
February 22, 2017
The Writer’s Life
A tribute to Gary Cartwright, who died February 22, 2017, at age 82.
Sports
February 10, 2017
Super Bowled Over
How I learned to quit worrying and love Super Bowl LI, and even the Patriots too.
Arts & Entertainment
January 27, 2017
Farewell to a Fond Friend
Executive editor Mimi Swartz says goodbye to Tom Curtis, a writer, reporter, and former Texas Monthly contributor, who died earlier this week.
Music
January 25, 2017
The Return of the Honeybears
Black Joe Lewis is with back with his band—and some Texas soul.
Books
January 25, 2017
Enemies, A Love Story
George Saunders explains how writing about Trump voters and writing a novel required the same skill: understanding people you don’t agree with.
Business
January 25, 2017
The Woman Behind the ’Boys
How Charlotte Jones Anderson, the chief brand officer and executive vice president for the Dallas Cowboys, helped build the organization into a $4 billion behemoth.
Music
January 24, 2017
The Sons Also Rise
At his peak, Emilio Navaira was known as the King of Tejano and the Garth Brooks of Texas. Now, months after his death, two of his children are following in his footsteps with a little help from Sting.
Sports
January 15, 2017
How “America’s Team” Became South Texas’s Team
Why Mexican Americans love the Dallas Cowboys.
Art
January 13, 2017
There and Back Again
The return of Terry Allen.
Politics & Policy
January 13, 2017
Central Intelligence
During the 2016 presidential campaign, much of the mainstream media failed to understand voters in Middle America. Not Dan Rather. His early recognition of Trump’s viability, and a late embrace of social media, has made the 85-year-old Wharton native more relevant than ever.
Sports
January 11, 2017
A Q&A With Matt Rhule, Baylor’s New Head Football Coach
The coach talked with us about his impressions of Waco, the changes he'll make at Baylor, and his passion for ping pong.
Music
January 10, 2017
How Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis’s Holiday Shindig Was Born
With the holidays behind him, Bruce Robison looks back at his iconic Holiday Shindig and how it all got started.
Music
December 30, 2016
The Top Twenty Texas Albums Of 2016 (According To Us)
The best albums released by Texas artists this year, according to the 'Texas Monthly' staff.
Art
December 21, 2016
The Checklist
What to read, watch, listen to, and look at to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Books
December 21, 2016
Frame by Frame
Decades later, Abraham Zapruder’s infamous film still holds a strange power over us.
Art
December 20, 2016
Day for Night Festival Transforms Former Houston Post Office Into Epic Party
The world’s festival-going legions descended on the city for the festival's second annual showing.
Books
November 29, 2016
A Glimpse of Texas History in 23 Photos
An excerpt from Proof: Photographs From Four Generations of a Texas Family captures a slice of Texas life.
Art
November 23, 2016
Wards Matter
Robert Pruitt’s art vividly portrays the lives and dreams of the people who have long called Houston’s rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods home.
The Culture
November 23, 2016
The Checklist
What to watch, listen to, and read this month to achieve maximum Texas literacy.
Music
November 23, 2016
Worst. Listening. Party. Ever.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez in full.
Sports
November 23, 2016
Why I Want Texas to Keep Charlie Strong
It’s about more than character, recruiting, or staffing; it’s about how doing things the right way sometimes takes time.
Music
November 18, 2016
Scenes From George Strait’s Gruene Hall Homecoming
The King of Country returned to the dancehall—where he and Ace in the Hole once played monthly sets—to celebrate the release of a new box set.
Sports
November 4, 2016
Phil Danaher Becomes Texas’s All-time Winningest High School Football Coach
The Corpus Christi Calallen High School coach just notched his 427th victory.
Art
November 2, 2016
At the Altars
Six ofrendas created by San Antonians to celebrate día de los muertos.
Sports
October 19, 2016
Game On
Being a sports fan is like falling in love. Sure, it’s a form of madness, but it’s one you can’t explain.
Books
October 19, 2016
The Checklist
What to watch, listen to, and read this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Music
October 19, 2016
The Redneck Tenor
The acclaimed opera singer Jay Hunter Morris has traveled the globe, performing Wagner, Puccini, and Bizet. And yet he still feels like a hick from Paris, Texas.