Music
February 11, 2013
Texas’s First Couple of Country’s Love Song Playlist
Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis share six tunes that will set the mood for Valentine's Day.
Arts & Entertainment
Sports
February 11, 2013
Lance’s Biggest Legal Battle Looms
The lawsuits against Armstrong are beginning to drop, and making amends may end up costing him millions.
Sports
February 8, 2013
Guess Which Football School Is In The City Where Employees Are “Most Likely to Date the Boss”?
Here's a “Major” hint. Houston and San Antonio were also Top 10 finishers in Payscale's Office Romance Survey.
Sports
February 6, 2013
Mack Brown Isn’t Interested in “Eye Candy”
Mack Brown is still too genial for trash-talk, but the Longhorns coach managed to slip in a little SEC dig as he sang the praises of his small recruiting class.
Sports
February 6, 2013
The New Way to Recruit Against the Aggies
Last year: telling potential A&M recruits the team would not do well in the SEC. This year: telling potential A&M recruits the team's so good there isn't playing time.
Sports
February 5, 2013
Book ‘Em, Horns: UT QB Connor Brewer’s “Campus Watch” Appearance
Longhorns redshirt freshman quarterback Connor Brewer was arrested by University of Texas police over the weekend, which means the details made it into everybody's favorite campus police blotter.
Sports
February 4, 2013
Aggies Beating UT, 32-14 (in Recruiting)
This week, Texas A&M will beat the University of Texas in the only football contest that the two schools currently engage in: recruiting.
Music
February 4, 2013
Exclusive: “Heavenly Houseboat Blues” by Townes Van Zandt
Sunshine Boy, a posthumous double CD of early seventies material by the best Texas songwriter of his time, comes out Tuesday. Check out this exclusive track.
Sports
February 3, 2013
Watch: H-E-B’s “True Texan” Super Bowl Ad
There's a bit of a barbecue foul in H-E-B's “True Texan" Super Bowl ad, which features country star Jack Ingram.
Music
February 1, 2013
Kacey’s Sunshine Brand
The East Texas rookie country artist's career is about to take off.
Music
February 1, 2013
Stevie Ray, Thirty Years Ago All Over Again
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble's 1983 debut album gets the a classy-rerelease for a new generation of listeners
Sports
February 1, 2013
Kickoff: Eight Things to Know About This Blog
Eight things to know about It’s Always Football Season, the new Texas Monthly sports blog.
Sports
February 1, 2013
Opening Whistle: Welcome to Texas Monthly’s Football Blog
Jones Ramsey Is This Blog’s Spirit Animal
Music
January 31, 2013
Willie Faces the Music
Willie Nelson is set to release a new album in April, just two weeks shy of his eightieth birthday.
Sports
January 31, 2013
Breaking: Johnny Football is a College Student
A&M QB Johnny Manziel has a little fun post-Cotton Bowl, to the delight of TMZ, and the distress of some prigs in the media.
Arts & Entertainment
January 29, 2013
The Drop Everything List
Carrie Rodriguez, Singing Bach on the Flues, A Day With Dangerous Guitar, and the Eighth Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium . . .
Arts & Entertainment
January 29, 2013
The Drop Everything List
Tales from Dell City, Texas, "Taquerías of Southmost," Terry Allen, and lessons in method acting . . .
Sports
January 29, 2013
Matthew McConaughey Works Through Stages of Grief After Lance Armstrong’s Confession
First he was mad, then he was sad. Now he is coming to terms.
Books
January 29, 2013
Scientology Versus Author Lawrence Wright
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s new book on Scientology, Going Clear, arrives on shelves today amid a swarm of controversy.
Sports
January 25, 2013
VIDEO: Johnny Football’s Latest Unbelievable Performance
It may not be as high-stakes as the Alabama game or Cotton Bowl, but Johnny Manziel’s video with basketball trick shot specialists Dude Perfect is still jaw-dropping.
Sports
January 25, 2013
The Dallas Cowboys as the Oakland Raiders
Cedric Golden of the Austin American-Statesman wonders when Jerry Jones will "will trade in his designer suits for a set of silver-and-blue warm-ups," a la former Raiders owner Al Davis.
Books
January 24, 2013
The Artist and the City
For thirty years, when she wasn’t writing books or winning genius grants, Sandra Cisneros has been pushing and prodding San Antonio to become a more sophisticated (and more Mexican) city. Now she’s leaving town. did she succeed?
Art
January 24, 2013
Change of Art
Just over forty years ago, Texas was the kind of place dismissed as hopelessly provincial and culturally mediocre. But then came the Kimbell Art Museum.
Texas History
January 23, 2013
The Walking Deadline
For decades, the state’s big urban newspapers helped bind together the inhabitants of our major cities. Now those papers are threatened by a rapidly evolving (some might say collapsing) business model. Is there hope for daily journalism in Texas?
Film & TV
January 23, 2013
The Explosion of Texas Filmmakers
The number of Texas-based filmmakers at Sundance proves that our vibrant filmmaking community is thriving.
Arts & Entertainment
January 23, 2013
Bum Steer: The Judge Who Facebooked Johnny Football’s Speeding Ticket
This is no way to revive The Battle of the Brazos: Ennis municipal court judge W. Lee Johnson, a Baylor alumnus, was publicly reprimanded for his none-too-subtle post about the A&M QB’s apparent moving violation.
Sports
January 22, 2013
The Dallas Stars’ Special Guest: “Manti Te’o’s Girlfriend”
The Stars' first game of the lockout-shortened NHL season was an announced sellout, but at least one seat in the American Airlines Center appeared "empty," as the team had a little fun with last week's biggest sports story.
Music
January 21, 2013
Introducing a New Way to Promote Emerging Hip-Hop Talent
ScoreMore is a boutique promotion agency in Austin—“For students, by students”—betting a fair amount of money on young talent and what it considers to be the next big thing.
Music
January 21, 2013
Santa Claus Busted at Sierra Blanca
Or so says the new Christmas song by singer-songwriter Kevin Fowler, who talks about his new holiday track, "Santa Got Busted by the Border Patrol."
Music
January 21, 2013
VIDEO: Lyle Lovett Goes Deep Into Back Catalog for NPR “Tiny Desk Concert”
Watch Lyle and fiddler/back-up singer Luke Bulla break out "Cowboy Man," "If You Were to Wake Up," and "Good Intentions."
Sports
January 21, 2013
DKR Honored by Willie, Mack Brown
Texas and the University of Texas said goodbye to Longhorns coaching legend Darrell K. Royal at a public memorial service at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin.
Music
January 21, 2013
What Makes Fun Fun Fun Fest Fun Fun Fun
From the taco cannon to the "I'm With Gosling" underwear, why the Austin music festival that's not SXSW or ACL delivers on its name.
Music
January 21, 2013
How the World’s First Taco Cannon Was Developed
The Fun Fun Fun Fest "Taco Cannon" will fire flour projectiles at the Austin music festival crowd on Auditorium Shores this weekend.
Music
January 21, 2013
Listen to a World Premiere of “250,000 Things,” by Cody Canada and the Departed
The New Braunfels-based band, which just played with ZZ Top, will release its debut album, Adventus, on November 13.
Music
January 21, 2013
VIDEO: Gary Clark Jr. Storms ‘The Tonight Show’
The genre-hopping Austin blues guitarist promoted his long-anticipated debut album, ‘Blak and Blu,’ which hit stores this week.
Arts & Entertainment
January 21, 2013
Lance Armstrong’s Image Blows Another Tire
On the same day Armstrong stepped down as chairman of Livestrong, Nike ended its relationship with the cyclist.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Beyoncé to Perform at Super Bowl XLVII
The superstar is playing the halftime show at the Super Bowl this season, and Reliant Stadium is one of two contenders to put on the game again in 2017. All that's missing now? The Texans.
Music
January 21, 2013
Ten Photos from ACL Fest 2012
Ten photos from the 11th Annual Austin City Limits Festival.
Books
January 21, 2013
Texas Well-Represented at the National Book Awards
Including books from Dallas resident Ben Fountain, UT-Michener Center alum Kevin Powers, South Texas native Domingo Martinez, and the legendary LBJ biographer Robert Caro.
Music
January 21, 2013
An Exclusive Track from Balmorhea’s New Album, ‘Stranger’
An exclusive preview of Balmorhea's song "Masollan," plus an interview with band co-founder Rob Lowe.
Books
January 21, 2013
Will Archer City Survive Without Larry McMurtry’s Bookstores?
The prize-winning author, who recently sold off nearly 300,000 books, plans to close three of his four stores. What happens to tiny Archer City now?
Music
January 21, 2013
A Fan’s Notes: Remembering Brent Grulke
The SXSW creative director died last month at the age of 51. "GrulkeFest," a concert honoring his memory, takes place in Austin Saturday.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Mike Modano and Willa Ford Call It Quits
The former Dallas Stars player and his wife of five years, Willa Ford, announced that they're divorcing.
Music
January 21, 2013
Houston Rapper Pens Book of Financial Advice
Slim Thug's latest hit is not a song but a book of financial advice.
Music
January 21, 2013
Outlaw Country Radio Returns to Austin
A reboot of KOKE-FM, Austin's pioneering 1970s progressive country station, began broadcasting on Sunday, with longtime KVET personality Bob Cole as co-owner and morning DJ.
Arts & Entertainment
January 21, 2013
Why Tony Parker Might Not Play in the Olympics
Will the eye injury he says he suffered as a bystander in Drake and Chris Brown's alleged New York nightclub brawl stop him from playing for France?
Sports
January 21, 2013
Texas, Measured in Altuves
Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, who is 5'5", has been turned into a unit of measurement by a baseball writer, who created a website that will convert distances into "Altuves."
Film & TV
January 21, 2013
Two New Documentaries Focus on Bush 41 and Ann Richards
Political junkies sad the legislature is in an off year can dig their teeth into two new documentaries about Texas politicians premiering this month.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Are the Spurs Done?
Don't people ask that every year? While some sportswriters say this was the "last best chance" of Duncan era, others still think there's a shot at that fifth championship.
Music
January 21, 2013
How Much Does Norah Jones Love Willie Nelson?
Like the rest of us, a whole lot. The Grapevine native spends a good chunk of her interview with Garden and Gun rhapsodizing over the Red-Headed Stranger (and Red Headed Stranger).