Books
September 15, 2021
Brutally Suppressed in Her Lifetime, Gertrude Beasley Is Finally on Our Bookshelves
A searingly feminist 1925 memoir of life in small-town Texas rises from the dustbin of patriarchy.
Arts & Entertainment
Sports
September 15, 2021
UT Gold Medalist Julia Grosso and the Future of Women’s Soccer in Texas
With a little luck, the Longhorns senior and Team Canada Olympic hero could be playing pro soccer in Austin someday.
Music
September 14, 2021
Houston’s Legendary SugarHill Recording Studios Turns Eighty
The oldest studio in Texas has recorded everyone from Lightnin’ Hopkins and George Jones to Beyoncé and Travis Scott—and it’s still making hits.
Film & TV
September 14, 2021
‘Necessary Roughness’ Made Texas Football Into a Joke. But It Also Moved the Chains.
Kick off the football season with this underappreciated, Denton-filmed comedy, which captured some truths about Texas football that later, more-serious movies would expand on.
Books
September 14, 2021
Sandra Cisneros on Bad First Drafts, Staying Hopeful, and Her New Novella
The former San Antonian started writing the story that became ‘Martita, I Remember You’ thirty years ago.
Sports
September 14, 2021
Houston Should Have Been Invited to the Big 12 Decades Ago
The Cougars' move is great news for UH fans, but it shouldn't have required UT taking a sledgehammer to the conference to make it happen.
Sports
September 10, 2021
Meep! Meep! Jeff Traylor Has the UTSA Roadrunners on the Fast Track
The second-year head coach plans to turn UTSA into a Conference USA force, thanks to Texas’s deep reserve of football talent.
Music
September 10, 2021
Explorer Tapes’ Bright, Groovy Pop Album Is an End-of-Summer Pick-me-up
Six years after the Denton duo recorded its first and only release, the album is finally out—and worth the wait.
Music
September 9, 2021
A Vain Attempt to Justify Selena Gomez’s $30 Ice Cream Sundae
Does simply putting the Grand Prairie star’s name on some ice cream inherently raise its value? An investigation.
Sports
September 9, 2021
No Matter How This Season Goes, We’ll Still Be Talking About the Cowboys
With Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, and DeMarcus Lawrence at full strength, Dallas could be headed back to the playoffs. But first, Tom Brady.
Art
September 8, 2021
Can a Big, Texas-Wide Survey of Contemporary Art Tell Us Where We Go From Here?
The 2021 Texas Biennial abounds with new monuments for a state and art community in transition.
Sports
September 3, 2021
Fifteen Questions About Texas College Football This Season
All twelve FBS teams in Texas play this week. Here’s what we’re wondering about, from UT and A&M to UT San Antonio and Texas State.
Sports
September 3, 2021
El Paso Boxer Jennifer Han Has a Chance to Pull Off the Upset of the Year
The 38-year-old contender comes from a fighting family and faces 2012 Olympic champion Katie Taylor on Saturday in England.
Music
September 3, 2021
When Texas Punk Band Butthole Surfers Finally Scored a Hit, Their Fans Never Forgave Them
Twenty-five years ago, fans accused the band of selling out. The group’s reply still stands: “Yeah, but who cares?”
Music
September 3, 2021
Luna Luna Celebrates Its Dreamy Debut Album ‘Flower Moon’
The Texan dream-pop group talks going viral on TikTok and expanding the landscape of Latin music.
Sports
September 2, 2021
Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher Is Worth Every Penny of His Contract Extension
The coach has overseen the rise of Aggies football into a national powerhouse, and the rest of the university stands to benefit.
Sports
September 2, 2021
Sportscasting Legend Dale Hansen, Known for His Viral Social Commentary, Signs Off
For 38 years, the famed Dallas newsman’s Cowboys criticism and impassioned pleas on racism, gay rights, and sexual assault were must-see TV.
Film & TV
September 1, 2021
Was ‘Star Trek’ Creator Gene Roddenberry Really a Texan?
Roddenberry may have eschewed identifying with the state, but the stories he told carry a Texan DNA.
Film & TV
September 1, 2021
Your Comprehensive Fall 2021 Texas Film Guide
Cowboys, ghostbusters, and aliens, oh my! The autumn months are abloom with Texas actors, filmmakers, and locales on the big (and small) screen.
Sports
September 1, 2021
Texan Deuce Vaughn Is Kansas State’s Big 12 Wild Card
The sophomore running back from Round Rock talks explains how Texas high school football prepared him for a breakout freshman campaign.
Music
August 30, 2021
In Her New Album, Kacey Musgraves Pieces Her Heart Back Together
In ‘Star-crossed,’ Musgraves again defies labels, creating an epic requiem for lost love that spans disco, pop, and country.
Sports
August 30, 2021
Memo Shows UT Coaches Wanted to Keep Black Players off Their Teams
The document, from 1959, describes the view of Darrell K. Royal, Bibb Falk, and others that integration would be "ruinous for recruiting."
Sports
August 27, 2021
Coach Gary Joseph Has the Katy Tigers Eyeing Back-to-back State Titles
With Joseph in charge, Katy has won more than 90 percent of its games and five state championships over the past seventeen seasons.
Books
August 26, 2021
An Incendiary History of Civil Rights in Dallas Gets a Timely Reissue
First published in 1987, ‘The Accommodation’ still resonates today.
Music
August 26, 2021
Schoolteacher Turned Honky-tonk Troubadour: Summer Dean Finds Power in Life’s Disappointments
The Fort Worth–based singer-songwriter’s attraction to a life she chose to reject fuels the artistry of her debut album ‘Bad Romantic.’
Sports
August 25, 2021
Azur Kamara’s Feel-good Path From West Africa to the Dallas Cowboys
The linebacker arrived in the United States at ten, knowing nothing about football. Now he's stealing the show on HBO's ‘Hard Knocks.’
Sports
August 25, 2021
David Klingler’s Thirty-Year Path From Heisman Candidate to Bible Scholar
The Houston Cougars quarterback broke NCAA records in the early nineties. Now he teaches the Old Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary.
Books
August 25, 2021
A Joyful New Read Celebrates Galveston’s Bygone Black-Owned Restaurants
Part historical text, part recipe book, ‘Lost Restaurants’ memorializes the self-made entrepreneurs who uplifted the island during its years of segregation.
Music
August 23, 2021
Jason Eady’s Contemplative New Album Explores the Perks of Getting Older
On ‘To the Passage of Time,’ the Fort Worth country singer, 46, meditates on the freedom that comes with age.
Film & TV
August 23, 2021
‘Only Murders in the Building’ Sends Up Our True-Crime Obsession
Helmed by Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short, the show parodies and subverts the tropes of the true-crime genre.
Film & TV
August 21, 2021
Dennis Quaid Is the True King of the Sports Movie
Forget Kevin Costner. The Houston native best captures the complex glory of American sports.
Sports
August 19, 2021
Hullabaloo, Caneck! Caneck! The Year of the Aggies Is Upon Us
With a top-six preseason ranking and a spot in the conference UT wants to join, Texas A&M is the state’s dominant college football program.
Music
August 19, 2021
James McMurtry Has Always Sounded Like a Grumpy Old Man. Now He Is One.
With his new album ‘The Horses and the Hounds,’ the Fort Worth-bred troubadour's age has caught up to his sound.
Music
August 18, 2021
The 20 Essential Texas Rap Tracks
The East Coast may have invented rap, but today the Lone Star State rules the hip-hop world. Here’s a song-by-song history of how that happened.
Sports
August 17, 2021
Losing Our Religion: Texas’s College Football Identity Crisis
With UT headed to the SEC and the Big 12 on life support, the state stands to lose its century-old football culture.
Music
August 16, 2021
Nanci Griffith Was More Loved Than She Knew
Fans of the Seguin-born singer-songwriter, who died on Friday, are as uncategorizable as the artist they adored.
Music
August 15, 2021
Twenty Years Ago, William Basinski Witnessed 9/11—and Memorialized It in Music
How Dallas-raised Basinski’s life of trauma and creation prepared him to compose ‘The Disintegration Loops’ and console a grieving nation.
Sports
August 14, 2021
Thanks to Jordan Santana, Texas Is Poised to Become a Skateboard Mecca
The Houston prodigy’s Olympic dreams didn’t pan out, but a silver lining is the state could become a new hub for ollies, nosegrinds, and kickflips.
Books
August 12, 2021
The Flood That Changed San Antonio, for Better and Worse
One hundred years ago this month, a natural disaster devastated the city's poorest neighborhoods—and then transformed its politics.
Sports
August 12, 2021
Houston and Dallas Are Thirsty to Host 2026 World Cup Matches
Inside the two Texas cities’ bids to host the world’s biggest sporting event.
Film & TV
August 11, 2021
A User’s Guide to Austin’s New B-List Celebrities
Is that a Hollywood newcomer or just someone who works out a lot? How to tell the difference.
Books
August 9, 2021
Reading Selena’s Father’s Memoir Is an Exercise in Empathy
Though uneven and at times lacking in self-awareness, Abraham Quintanilla’s book sheds light on the extreme approach he took to protect his daughter’s legacy.
Sports
August 9, 2021
The Highest Highs and Lowest Lows: Remembering Astros Great J.R. Richard
The right-hander, the onetime most-feared pitcher in baseball whose career was cut short by a devastating stroke, died last week at 71.
Sports
August 6, 2021
How ’Bout That Cowboy: Jimmy Johnson Heads to the Hall of Fame
Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin, and even Johnson’s sometimes-nemesis, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, will be in Canton this weekend to toast the former Dallas coach.
Film & TV
August 6, 2021
How Alvin Ailey Built a World Where Black Dancers Felt Free
A new documentary about the dance visionary from Rogers shows how he nurtured fellow artists—even while pushing them (and himself) relentlessly.
Sports
August 5, 2021
UT’s National Champion Diver Jordan Windle Goes for Gold
With an uplifting life story and a megawatt smile, the Longhorns senior could make a splash at the Tokyo Olympics.
Film & TV
August 5, 2021
‘Playing God’ Captures a Houston Rarely Seen on Screen
The debut feature from Scott Brignac, starring Alan Tudyk and Michael McKean, argues for Houston's place among film’s default “big cities."
Film & TV
August 4, 2021
A New Documentary Pens a Poignant Love Letter to Numbers, a Storied Houston Haunt
‘Friday I’m in Love’ delves into the fascinating history of the former dinner theater, gay disco, and frequent dance party locale.
Sports
August 3, 2021
This North Texas Archer Has More TikTok Followers Than Most Olympians
Jennifer Delaney brought meaning to her life with a bow and arrow and parlayed it into viral fame with the account @freedomandfeathers.
Sports
August 3, 2021
Texas High School Football Didn’t Have to Lose Quinn Ewers
The five-star recruit will skip his senior season at Southlake Carroll to pursue sponsorship offers currently prohibited by state rules.