Sports
February 27, 2014
The Best Coach in Texas Works for SMU
Larry Brown on March Madness, Allen Iverson, and being an eyewear trendsetter.
Arts & Entertainment
Art
February 13, 2014
How Prison Art From Texas Captured the Art World’s Attention
Paños, small cloth swatches decorated with detailed illustrations by inmates, now hang in New York museums and are snapped up by worldly collectors.
Sports
February 12, 2014
Not Just Semi-Opinionated
The legendary Dan Jenkins has been covering sports since the forties. Things have not improved.
Music
February 12, 2014
God Bless Steve Fromholz
In remembrance of our late poet laureate.
Film & TV
February 12, 2014
The Texas Auteurs Club
Texas at the Oscars.
Music
February 12, 2014
St. Vincent Bares All
Dallas's Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent) on her new album, the “weird high harmonics" of the late “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, and the there's-nothing-in-the-world-quite-like-it quality of a Texas sky.
Music
February 11, 2014
Johnny Winter Looks Back, Through the Songs That Made Him Famous
Johnny Winter, who turns 70 this month, recalls the stories behind some of the songs that built his career after he was discovered in Austin in 1968.
Books
January 22, 2014
Bexar County’s Library on a Cloud
BiblioTech, one of the country's first all-digital public libraries, aims to reach more readers by hosting their entire collection on the cloud. Patrons may choose from 18,000 digital titles and can check out Kindles, too.
Music
January 10, 2014
The Perfectionist
Robert Ellis is the next big thing. Trust me.
Books
January 9, 2014
Here Comes Hurricane Leila
Novelist Leila Meacham hopes for another best-seller with the forthcoming Somerset, a prequel to her megahit debut novel, Roses.
Music
January 6, 2014
The Greatest Music Producer You’ve Never Heard of Is . . .
Tom Wilson, a Harvard-educated Republican from Waco who helped launch the careers of Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Lou Reed, and a few other musicians you might have heard of.
Arts & Entertainment
December 17, 2013
The Bum Steer Catalog
Bum Steers is an attitude! Bum Steers is a lifestyle! And, best of all, now Bum Steers is a chance to shop!
Books
December 17, 2013
The Literary Journal and the Small Press Live On, in Austin
It's supposed to be a bad time for print. Yet new literary journals and small presses keep cropping up in the state's capital.
Arts & Entertainment
December 11, 2013
So How Bad Was 2013 for the Astros and Texans?
Fans thought the Astros and Texans were among the worst teams in professional sports last year, but stunning new revelations show just how bad they really were.
Books
December 10, 2013
Five Texas Books to Give for the Holidays
Our guide to some idiosyncratic books with local connections for every personality on your gift list.
Music
December 10, 2013
Sweethearts of the Radio
How the Eli Young Band cracked the code of the country music business and became one of Texas’s most successful exports.
Sports
December 5, 2013
A Season in Hell
You know, when you’re surveying the struggles of Longhorn nation from Joe Jamail’s skybox, things don’t look so bad.
Style & Design
December 5, 2013
The Renzo Piano Pavilion: The Kimbell’s Stylish, Sustainable New Addition
The proper way to build is with a mind to energy savings, says architect Renzo Piano, whose addition to the Kimbell Museum opens to the public on November 27.
Film & TV
November 16, 2013
Cormac Relief
Will Cormac McCarthy’s films tarnish his literary reputation?
Art
October 23, 2013
So, Is It Art? Talking to Playboy Marfa Artist Richard Phillips
On August 28, 2013, we talked to Richard Phillips, the artist behind the controversial Playboy Marfa installation. Read more about the art-versus-advertising debate here.FRANCESCA MARI: When were you tapped to do this piece for Playboy?RICHARD PHILLIPS: I was contacted before the New Year by Neville Wakefield, who is the
Art
October 21, 2013
What Is Art?
When Playboy Enterprises—yes, that Playboy Enterprises—erected a forty-foot-tall sculpture near Marfa, it was convinced the town would appreciate its take on the local art scene. Instead it started a revealing debate.
Music
October 21, 2013
Are You Experimented?
When Robert Glasper won a Grammy for Best R&B Album, no one was more surprised than the Houston-born jazz pianist himself.
Film & TV
October 14, 2013
Suffer, Dude
Matthew McConaughey plays a bigoted man dying of AIDS in Dallas Buyers Club—and proves once again that he should be taken seriously.
Music
October 10, 2013
Not Your Average School Choir
Only in Austin would a local kid's choir share the bill with Lionel Richie, Muse, The Cure, and Wilco.
Music
September 30, 2013
The Lost Songs of Old 97’s and Waylon Jennings
Seventeen years ago, Old 97's recorded with their idol, Waylon Jennings. To mark the first release of these songs, Old 97's recounted the time they spent with the father of the Outlaw Country movement.
Art
September 23, 2013
Antler
In the right designer’s hands, it’s not just a bony appendage or a hunter’s prize. It’s art.
Music
September 23, 2013
It’s Not About the Mike
Houston rapper Riff Raff’s debut album is just the first step on his journey to world domination. No, really.
Sports
August 30, 2013
Getting Back to Normal
The West High School football team opened their 2013 football season Thursday night, another step for the town in moving past the devastating fertilizer plant explosion.
Sports
August 29, 2013
A&M Will Make It Two Straight Over ‘Bama, But Could UT Have the Better Season?
College football predictions—some more serious than others—heading into the first weekend.
Film & TV
August 26, 2013
Why Filmmakers Are Choosing to Shoot in Louisiana Instead of Texas
"Ain’t Them Bodies Saints" is a Texas film in many ways—the setting, the story, the director, and two producers—yet there wasn't enough incentive to get the filmmakers to shoot the film in their home state.
Music
August 19, 2013
A Musical Switch From Self-Pity to Gratitude
Blue October’s CD Sway is the group’s first album since Justin Furstenfeld, second from right, spent 75 days in rehab.
Sports
August 15, 2013
Preview: Who Is Johnny Football?
An excerpt from S.C. Gwynne's September cover story on Johnny Manziel, which will officially hit newsstands (and the web) on August 21. (Illustrations by Nathan Fox. Color by Jeromy Cox.)
Arts & Entertainment
August 15, 2013
On Sports and Sportsmanship
Q: I’ve had a tailgate party in the same spot for just about every Aggie home game since R. C. Slocum’s last season, in 2002. This year I’d like to make the move to a different spot, on the other side of the stadium, but it’s between two established tailgates, and I
Music
August 13, 2013
The Graduate
Now that she’s left the conservatory, mandolin player Sarah Jarosz plans her next move.
Sports
August 9, 2013
Who Is Johnny Football?
Johnny Manziel seemed like a superhero, the Manziel of Steel, able to leap tall linemen in a single bound. Is he something else?
Sports
August 7, 2013
College F—ing Football
Johnny Manziel is not the issue. It’s finally time to occupy the NCAA.
Music
July 15, 2013
No Strings Attached
After years as an in-demand fiddle payer, Amanda Shires is redefining herself as a boundary-breaking singer-songwriter. Emphasis on “writer.”
Film & TV
July 15, 2013
Enchanted Forest
Longview’s Forest Whitaker is having the sort of year that should put him in the Hollywood elite once and for all.
Sports
July 15, 2013
Generation Y’s X’s and O’s
Texas Tech’s new head coach is disarmingly young, stylish, and hip. He also seems to have the Midas touch.
Books
July 8, 2013
Back in the Saddle Again
Novelist James Carlos Blake, who has been compared to Cormac McCarthy, returns to his prolific writing pace, releasing two books in less than a year.
Music
July 1, 2013
Lessons on Being a Prolific Songwriter
Bob Schneider, the Austin singer and songwriter, created a weekly songwriting game with a strict deadline that has helped him fill five albums.
Sports
June 20, 2013
2012 Sanction Against Johnny Manziel Likely a “Conduct Probation”
Texas A&M’s dean of student life describes the policy that Manziel says almost kept him off the field last season.
Sports
June 19, 2013
How Johnny Football Almost Didn’t Play for Texas A&M
UPDATED: In an exclusive interview with S.C. Gwynne, Johnny Manziel confirmed that Texas A&M suspended him last summer. His successful appeal changed college football history.
Sports
June 18, 2013
Johnny Manziel’s Life, Your Entertainment
The latest Johnny Football social media non-story, in which the Aggies' Heisman Trophy winner disses College Station in a tweet (and then deletes it).
Music
June 18, 2013
EXCLUSIVE: Slaid Cleaves’ “Texas Love Song”
The premiere of Slaid Cleaves' "Texas Love Song," a track from his newest album, Still Fighting the War, on sale today.
Film & TV
June 10, 2013
Miss Conventionality
Thought winning an Oscar would make Sandra Bullock take chances? Think again.
Music
June 10, 2013
Industrial Strength
Ministry’s Al Jourgensen almost died, repeatedly, before he decided that life was worth living. In El Paso.
Books
June 10, 2013
The Ghost of Alan Berg
David Berg's new memoir, "Run, Brother, Run," revisits the killing of his older brother, Alan, who was slain outside of Houston in 1968.
Books
June 3, 2013
Carrying on Chris Kyle’s Legacy
The Navy SEAL sniper was killed at a gun range in Erath County before he completed his second book, "American Gun." Now his wife and co-authors are determined to share the story they knew Kyle wanted to tell.
Sports
June 2, 2013
How Close Did UT Really Come to Beating Alabama in 2010?
Mike Finger of the San Antonio Express-News looks back on "the precise moment when UT transformed from a college football superpower into a bumbling, inept program."