There Are No Glass Ceilings Left for Cristela Alonzo
After a four-year hiatus from comedy, the Rio Grande Valley native has a new Netflix special and a new approach to her career.
Cat Cardenas is a Latina writer and photographer from San Antonio. She founded the first National Association of Hispanic Journalists chapter at the University of Texas at Austin, in 2016, and was one of four UT students selected to report on the Olympics for a number of U.S. newspapers. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Texas Tribune, Teen Vogue, and Paper Magazine. Since joining Texas Monthly in 2019, she's interviewed drag queens and politicians, and written about immigration, Texas history, film, music, and the state’s minority communities.
After a four-year hiatus from comedy, the Rio Grande Valley native has a new Netflix special and a new approach to her career.
By Cat Cardenas
The legendary cattle empire had been largely closed off from the outside world until the magazine’s founding editor gained access to King Ranch.
By Cat Cardenas
Ballroom—competitive drag shows—dates back to drag balls and masquerades in 1860s Harlem. Now it’s making headway in Texas.
By Cat Cardenas
An anxious multitasker faces her fears by spending an hour in a Dallas sensory deprivation pod. If it worked for the Cowboys, then it could work for her.
By Cat Cardenas
La Cantera and Lake Austin Spa offer many options for couples and friends. Massage table for two, anyone?
By Cat Cardenas and Kathy Blackwell
After a two-year pandemic delay, the Austin native will appear in ‘Top Gun: Maverick.’ But that’s only one of his recent projects to launch.
By Cat Cardenas
In an upcoming record, the singer’s voice will be digitally aged. The Quintanilla family continues to misunderstand why Selena’s fans adored her.
By Cat Cardenas
In ‘You Sound Like a White Girl,’ Julissa Arce combines memoir and history to reclaim the Latino identity she pushed away as an undocumented immigrant.
By Cat Cardenas
Ahead of its April rerelease, members of the 1997 biopic's cast and crew recall a set overcome with emotion as loved ones grappled with Selena's tragic death.
By Cat Cardenas
Photos from this year's Luck Reunion, which welcomed back attendees for the first time since 2019.
By Cat Cardenas
The country legend dropped NFTs, an album, and a book before putting on a dazzling performance at the Moody Theater.
By Cat Cardenas
The Lone Star State was well represented at this year’s SXSW, and these films feature settings, accents, and subject matter to remind you of home.
By Dan Solomon and Cat Cardenas
El Paso filmmaker Iliana Sosa’s feature documentary debut follows her Mexican grandfather, reflecting on life, legacy, and connection.
By Cat Cardenas
Writer-director Ti West’s return to horror is set in a creepy house in rural Texas. But that’s where the similarities with classic slashers ends.
By Cat Cardenas
Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson, perhaps surprisingly, have enough chemistry to carry the film's outrageous premise.
By Cat Cardenas
The Texas native talks about her debut album, finding herself, and how she’s changing the country scene just by being herself.
By Cat Cardenas
More visual poem than documentary, the film tracks a music manager and singer who follow their dreams while providing for their undocumented parents.
By Cat Cardenas
The characters might be fictional, but to the Latinos who see their own families reflected in them, it’s a relief to see them say what we wish we could.
By Cat Cardenas
The gender-swapped sequel will be an easy watch for sitcom fans, but the callbacks and in-jokes tip into the saccharine.
By Cat Cardenas
This year, we jammed to new music by Kacey Musgraves, Leon Bridges, Megan Thee Stallion, St. Vincent, and others.
By Cat Cardenas
Little Joe Hernández, George Strait, educators, and fans of the legendary Mexican singer speak about his impact on their lives and the legacy he’s left behind.
By Cat Cardenas
This is a reunion we all can shellebrate.
By Cat Cardenas
In Peter Jackson’s documentary ‘The Beatles: Get Back,’ Houston-born pianist Billy Preston makes a strong case for himself as the fifth Beatle.
By Cat Cardenas
The Upshaw family has preserved their history and traditions since the 1870s. Now, amid deaths and other departures, family members worry for their land’s legacy.
By Cat Cardenas
On the hunt with TikTok star Brittany Broski and her mother Heather Long, lead investigator of the Texas Ghost Gals.
By Cat Cardenas
The teenage Disney actress and singer-songwriter sensation performed her first full-length set in front of a live audience, at an ‘Austin City Limits’ TV taping.
By Cat Cardenas
Pinks and purples dominated the stages at ACL Fest, whether Charley Crockett's dashing lavender suit or Marc Rebillet's fluttering pink-trimmed bathrobe.
By Cat Cardenas
Fringe, cowboy hats, boots—and more fringe—dominate the style choices of this year’s ACL Fest attendees.
By Cat Cardenas and Kayla Miracle
The UT historian and newly minted MacArthur fellow wants justice for victims and their descendants.
By Cat Cardenas
Texas Monthly spoke with experts about how Tejanos are influencing everything in the state, from cuisine to pop culture to entrepreneurship.
By Cat Cardenas
The Texan dream-pop group talks going viral on TikTok and expanding the landscape of Latin music.
By Cat Cardenas
In ‘Star-crossed,’ Musgraves again defies labels, creating an epic requiem for lost love that spans disco, pop, and country.
By Cat Cardenas
Helmed by Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short, the show parodies and subverts the tropes of the true-crime genre.
By Cat Cardenas
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.
By Sama'an Ashrawi, Brandon Caldwell, Cat Cardenas, Kiana Fitzgerald, Donnie Houston, Paula Mejía, Jessi Pereira, Lance Scott Walker and Matt Sonzala
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.
By Cat Cardenas
Stepping away from competition at the Tokyo Olympics was as tough as any dismount in the Texas gymnast's career—and she stuck the landing.
By Cat Cardenas
The McAllen-bred actor and writer, 43, was a fan favorite on HBO’s ‘Looking.’ Now he’s poised to become an action star.
By Cat Cardenas
“When stories about trans people are created by trans people, it opens up a world of possibilities,” says the San Antonio–raised actress.
By Cat Cardenas
The horror franchise attempts to skewer Trumpism, but the result makes for uncomfortable viewing.
By Cat Cardenas
The Houston-raised actress has conquered Broadway and television. Now she’s about to smash music—and Marvel’s ‘She-Hulk’ series.
By Cat Cardenas
You can’t beat these San Antonio bars, hotels, and restaurants for water views and hospitality.
By Cat Cardenas
The Dallas native’s departure as host is the end of an era. And a welcome start to a new one.
By Cat Cardenas
When a batch of rainbow cookies led to a canceled order, people opened their wallets to support the East Texas shop.
By Cat Cardenas
In Mexican American neighborhoods across Texas—and around the country—the paleta man’s jingle is the sound of home.
By Cat Cardenas
Texas filmmaker Will Bakke’s latest movie offers only a glimpse of the joys and pains of young adulthood.
By Cat Cardenas
Part two of Netflix's Selena series delivers a more confident version of the Tejano icon than part one, but fails to portray the late singer as the nuanced person she was.
By Cat Cardenas
The soapy teen drama takes place in a fictional Texas town that—aside from an extravagant kidnapping plot—looks like home.
By Cat Cardenas
The singer sheds her painful past on ‘Dancing with the Devil . . . the Art of Starting Over.’
By Cat Cardenas
In this feature-length series of video calls, Natalie Morales and Mark Duplass manage to create a relationship with lightness and heart.
By Cat Cardenas
Si vamos a honrar a la verdadera Selena, necesitamos imaginar lo que pudo haber hecho si hubiera tenido una vida completa.
By Cat Cardenas