Jeff Nichols Is the Perfect Director for the Next ‘A Quiet Place’
The Texas filmmaker has built his career on escalating tension and dread.
Dan Solomon writes about politics, music, food, sports, criminal justice, health care, film, and business. Dan started working with Texas Monthly as a freelancer in 2013 before becoming a staff writer, covering topics from the Baylor sexual assault scandal to the gentrification of Austin barbecue to the legacy of Texas outsider artist Daniel Johnston. His reporting has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Fast Company, Billboard, and Deadspin.
The Texas filmmaker has built his career on escalating tension and dread.
By Dan Solomon
A photo of the Mavs' past and present superstars during Dallas's win over the L.A. Clippers captured an NBA passing of the torch.
By Dan Solomon
A 2018 note from a Canadian teen washed up on a Port Aransas beach this month, reminding us of other writings found on Texas shores.
By Dan Solomon
“I don’t want anyone who comes into my restaurant to forget that day,” says Brent Johnson, owner of Bar9Eleven.
By Dan Solomon
Joe Exotic has a lot of competition. The big cat seen roaming a Houston neighborhood this week is just the latest.
By Dan Solomon
Imagine all the westerns filmmaker Taylor Sheridan could shoot on 266,000 acres of property.
By Dan Solomon
He challenged a reporter to perform the calisthenics, then decided to do them himself.
By Dan Solomon
A House bill doesn’t identify the capital city by name, but would make it the lone municipality in Texas whose noise ordinances are set by the Lege.
By Dan Solomon
A recent analysis found Texas’s senior senator is the most prolific tweeter in Congress.
By Dan Solomon
Meet Mavrello, the NBA franchise's latest attempt to engage Gen Z fans and inspire a million memes along the way.
By Dan Solomon
The unrelated incidents both ended safely for the animals.
By Dan Solomon
An interview with the outgoing Longhorns quarterback touches on playing through the pandemic and learning to be vulnerable with teammates.
By Dan Solomon
He confessed after someone spotted him in surveillance footage.
By Dan Solomon
The athletic wear giant threatened legal action over the bar’s parody of its famous blue hat.
By Dan Solomon
The cracker company’s new promotion determined that the 7’4” NBA player can hold 301 Goldfish in one handful.
By Dan Solomon
We salute the Sugar Land Lightning Sloths, the Amarillo Sod Poodles, and their compatriots.
By Dan Solomon
From local papers to national NFL media, reporting on the allegations against Watson reads like something from another generation.
By Dan Solomon
It’s hard to grasp just how massive the Ever Given is. Fortunately, scale is something our state does well.
By Dan Solomon
The beloved supermarket chain, which has carefully guarded its intentions in North Texas, dropped a bombshell on Friday.
By Dan Solomon
The first COVID films are poised to address a pandemic that isn't through with us yet. Here's why these early, imperfect takes on the past year are still worth watching.
By Dan Solomon
After decades of playing goofy sidekicks, the El Paso–born, Plano-bred actor finally has a leading role.
By Dan Solomon
They didn’t manage to steal any art, but they did vanish into a storm drain.
By Dan Solomon
The thrilling night was marred by the continuation of an ugly tradition.
By Dan Solomon
With no long lines, no traffic, and no parties, South by Southwest is going to look a lot this different this year. Here’s how organizers pulled it off.
By Dan Solomon
The team finished in last place in front of cardboard fans in 2020, but it’s the first in American pro sports to reopen to full capacity.
By Dan Solomon
The cult comedy series is being revived with a six-episode order, more than a decade later.
By Dan Solomon
The vast majority of Texans have yet to receive a single dose of vaccine, but the state is done imposing public health measures.
By Dan Solomon
Infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Hotez describes last week’s statewide disaster as a harmful delay “in the face of an advancing enemy.”
By Dan Solomon
Celebrities and regular folk alike came together to offer hot food, clean water, and warm beds.
By Dan Solomon
Austin’s mayor, Steve Adler, and the state’s junior senator, Ted Cruz, are the latest Texas politicians to take ill-considered vacations.
By Dan Solomon
Texans on social media have kept warm by burning the fuel of white-hot rage.
By Dan Solomon
Widespread “assurance testing” could effectively end the pandemic before the vaccine does, but a lack of federal coordination has left some citizens to fill screening gaps.
By Dan Solomon
Turns out not everyone loves Texas-size gas stations (or 13 varieties of jerky).
By Dan Solomon
The mayor set his sights a little lower in his latest ill-advised social media post.
By Dan Solomon
It's a simple victory in an extremely complex story.
By Dan Solomon
The official case count doesn’t reflect the pandemic’s reality. I found the satisfaction of ferreting out the actual number to be cold comfort.
By Dan Solomon
Thank goodness.
By Dan Solomon
The curse of Houston is a curse of management, which makes it the saddest of all.
By Dan Solomon
Pedro Pascal, star of the Disney Plus series ‘The Mandalorian,’ shared the junior senator’s office number on Twitter.
By Dan Solomon
The superstar defensive end has probably played his last game for the Houston Texans. They should remember him properly.
By Dan Solomon
It’s beautiful! Enjoy shoveling all of that.
By Dan Solomon
For the music industry, the bad times are getting worse.
By Dan Solomon
Austin’s mayor, already a punching bag for his state’s powerful right wing, lectured his city’s residents to stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19—while on a beach vacation.
By Dan Solomon
Researchers Daniel Wrapp and Jason McLellan owe a scientific honor they won this week to a Belgian camelid named Winter.
By Dan Solomon
Three questions with the Houston chef, whose “gambling man” pal David Chang took a big risk to raise money for the Southern Smoke Foundation.
By Dan Solomon
The Lions have been mired in mediocrity—but Deshaun and the Texans may have helped break the fever.
By Dan Solomon
Every other retailer has made this holiday season’s hottest item an online exclusive during the pandemic—except the Grapevine-based chain.
By Dan Solomon
Let people have some joy for once in their lives.
By Dan Solomon
Are possums ugly? Not when they’re wearing tiny purple sweaters, they’re not!
By Dan Solomon
Expect marijuana, college football, and compromise to play central roles.
By Dan Solomon and Emily McCullar