Art
February 12, 2015
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
The Flower Man House, RIP.
Arts & Entertainment
Music
February 12, 2015
SXSW Everything
Festival managing director Roland Swenson reflects on a difficult year.
Music
February 12, 2015
Plains Sound
Twenty-year-old Hayden Pedigo is making the most innovative, audacious music in the country. So why is he still in Amarillo?
Arts & Entertainment
February 12, 2015
The White Stuff
The secret history of cotton, the crop that transformed the global economy—and kept Texans in poverty for generations.
Sports
January 14, 2015
The Fight of His Life
Half a century ago, Terry Daniels was an SMU undergrad majoring in political science who had taken an interest in boxing. Then he found himself in the ring with the heavyweight champion of the world.
Arts & Entertainment
January 9, 2015
The Texanist, Special Reporter Edition
Advice for Tiger’s new swing coach.
Music
December 30, 2014
Texas Albums to Look Forward to in 2015
No shortage of Texans have been popping up on year-end lists — from veterans like Spoon and Miranda Lambert to relative newcomers like Austin’s Shakey Graves and Denton’s Sarah Jaffe. And while it is clearly too early to guess who might wind up making
Arts & Entertainment
December 29, 2014
People We’ll Miss—2014
A fond look back at 16 Texans—and three beloved Texas animals—who died in 2014.
Film & TV
December 24, 2014
Going Deep
Margaret Brown’s new documentary, The Great Invisible, delves into the human suffering experienced in the wake of the BP oil spill.
Music
December 11, 2014
Weary Blues
Ryan Bingham bares his crazy heart.
Film & TV
December 5, 2014
It Takes a Thief
Filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe discusses “Evolution of a Criminal,” a riveting work of self-examination.
Sports
December 5, 2014
The Last Hole
Goodbye to Glen Garden.
Arts & Entertainment
December 5, 2014
Flyers on the Wall
Austin concert posters.
Books
November 23, 2014
Texas Man Treasures Finds in Updike’s Trash
Ian McEwan signed books this fall at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, where he was presented the glasses and envelope containing a 1953 issue of The Harvard Lampoon, at his right. (Photo credit Daulton Venglar)MANCHACA, Tex.
Film & TV
November 12, 2014
16,000,000 Rooster Teeth Fans Can’t Be Wrong
Rooster Teeth’s Cinematic Ambitions.
Music
November 10, 2014
Other Instruments, Beware; the Pipe Organs Cometh
East Texas's fine Aeolian-Skinner organs will pipe up this week during the East Texas Pipe Organ Festival.
Music
November 6, 2014
Roll Over, Ike Turner
How a little-known Houston singer, songwriter, and guitarist named Goree Carter invented rock and roll.
Books
October 20, 2014
They Spoke Volumes
We asked writers around the state a series of bookish questions. Here are a few of their answers.
Books
October 20, 2014
Against the Canon
What are the best Texas books ever written? Here’s my list—now let the sparks fly.
Books
October 13, 2014
Small in the Saddle
Larry McMurtry, Bill Wittliff, and Jeff Guinn turn to familiar turf—the Old West—to challenge old-school readers.
Music
October 6, 2014
President of Immortal Fun
Alejandro Rose-Garcia—formerly best known as the character, the Swede, on NBC's "Friday Night Lights"—wants to yank fans around with his second album, “And the War Came," an unpredictable mix of solo ballads and louder, multi-instrumental music.
Music
September 12, 2014
I Am Womack, Hear Me Roar
Lee Ann Womack became a star the old-fashioned Nashville way. Now she’s ready to be an artist on her own terms.
Books
September 12, 2014
The Hard Stuff
An exclusive excerpt from Domingo Martinez’s new memoir, “My Heart Is a Drunken Compass,” in which a drink is always close at hand and the battle against the bottle is never fully won.
Sports
August 20, 2014
The State’s Next Heisman Winner?
A conversation with quarterback Bryce Petty of the defending Big 12 champion Baylor Bears.
Music
August 13, 2014
Sharp Tressed Man
Remembering Johnny Winter.
Arts & Entertainment
August 13, 2014
101 Sure Signs That Summer Anne Burton Is From Texas
BuzzFeed loves Texas.
Sports
August 13, 2014
Clear Eyes, Full Wallets
Say what you want about their crumbling $60 million high school stadium. The people of Allen would build it all over again.
Music
August 7, 2014
Cowboy Rides Again
Some overdue recognition for Manuel Donley, Tejano’s first rock star.
Sports
August 6, 2014
Charlie Strong Knows What You’re Thinking
And the Longhorns head football coach is ready to get out there and play ball.
Sports
August 6, 2014
Can Steve Patterson Fill This Stadium?
It was just last year—amid spectacular losses and dramatic resignations—that the University of Texas saw its sports program go up in flames. As the new athletics director knows, a return to glory now rides on one person: him.
Books
August 5, 2014
Dallas Flambé
With its tight prose, waitress heroine, and stinging insight into urban life, Merritt Tierce’s debut marks an exciting turn in Texas literature.
Books
July 10, 2014
The First Resident of Belken County
When the National Book Critics Circle gave the Austin writer Rolando Hinojosa its lifetime achievement award, it was simply taking note of what many of us had known for years.
Music
July 10, 2014
Billy Joe Shaver Is Still Alive
The outlaw singer-songwriter returns.
Music
July 10, 2014
The Way They Get By
Spoon gets ready to take its new album to the top of the charts.
Music
June 25, 2014
How To Survive As An Austin Rock Club For Four Decades
The "Live Music Capital of the World" is also a live music venue cemetery. The University of Texas-area bar Hole in the Wall is an exception.
Film & TV
June 10, 2014
About a Boy
Richard Linklater on Boyhood, Bernie, and the disappearing indie landscape.
Sports
June 10, 2014
Subterranean Homesick Briles
Not only has Art Briles made Baylor’s football program successful, he’s made it hip.
Music
June 6, 2014
The Strings of the Father
How Johnny Gimble became one of the greatest fiddlers of all time—and showed me and my son a thing or two about playing music.
Sports
June 5, 2014
How ’Bout Them Spurs?
Maybe it's because Tim Duncan is the anti-LeBron, but it's pretty clear that during this year's NBA Finals, San Antonio’s team is America’s Team.
Music
May 21, 2014
This Man Has Written More Than Fifty of George Strait’s Songs
“Unwound,” “The Chair,” and “Easy Come, Easy Go” have all sprung from the powerful pen of Dean Dillon.
Music
May 20, 2014
Scenes From the Cowboy Rides Away Tour
Fans at the Tulsa, Oklahoma, show had pretty much the same reaction they've had at every stop along the tour—joy, sorrow, excitement, and, perhaps most of all, gratitude.
Music
May 16, 2014
Strait, No Chaser?
Why there will probably never be another George Strait.
Music
May 16, 2014
The Last Ride of King George
After a career that’s spanned more than thirty years, George Strait is wrapping up his 48-stop farewell tour this month. For those of us whose lives he has captured so inimitably in song, country music will never be the same.
Art
May 13, 2014
He’ll Always Have Paris
Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock reflects on his East Texas roots.
Sports
May 9, 2014
Bloodless Sport
Every year, some of Mexico’s very best matadors travel to a remote South Texas bullring—one of the few in this country—for no-kill fights. Their pageantry draws spectators by the busload.
Music
May 9, 2014
Strait From the Art
Sometimes all you have to do is ask.
Arts & Entertainment
April 29, 2014
Master Nelson Receives His Black Belt
Willie, who turns 81 today, proves that age is just a number.
Sports
April 11, 2014
Will Johnny Go Marching Home?
Can JFF save the Texans?
Music
April 11, 2014
Man About Town
How did rapper Bun B become Houston’s unofficial mayor?
Sports
March 28, 2014
You Shall Know His Velocity
Tyler Kolek is a hard-throwing high school senior from Shepherd. And he just may be the first pick in the Major League Baseball amateur draft.