How the Aggies, Longhorns, and Bears Stacked Up This Season
LSU may have won the national championship, but we’d rather focus on arguing over which college football team was the best in Texas.
Senior editor Jason Cohen has written for Texas Monthly since 1995 (and texasmonthly.com since its very first iteration). His 1997 story “The Ice Bats Cometh,” about minor league hockey in Texas, was the basis of his book Zamboni Rodeo (Greystone Press, 2001). He also penned the magazine's first-ever Matthew McConaughey story, in August 1996. The co-author of Generation Ecch! (Fireside Books, 1994) and co-editor of SXSW Scrapbook (Essex/University of Texas Press, 2011), he has also written for such publications as Rolling Stone, SPIN, Details, the Austin Chronicle, the Austin American-Statesman, Portland Monthly, and Cincinnati magazine. His 1995 Rolling Stone cover story on the band Hole prompted Courtney Love to yell at him from the stage at Lollapalooza in Austin, while his 2007 profile of the Portland strip club Mary's won a Sex-Positive Journalism Award. As one of the two primary writers for the TM Daily Post, Cohen wrote approximately 500 stories for Texas Monthly in 2012. He has been a blogger since 2002 and been known to maintain as many as five Twitter accounts.
Articles by Jason Cohen
Outdoor Hockey … in Texas! The Winter Classic Comes to the Cotton Bowl.
The Dallas Stars face off against the Nashville Predators at the Cotton Bowl on New Year’s Day. Here's what you need to know.
UTSA’s ‘Tracy Rule’ Is a Watershed College Football Moment
The university has implemented a measure that prohibits athletes who’ve committed sexual violence from playing sports there.
Put Texas and Texas A&M in the Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl, You Cowards
Two 7-5 teams renewing a rivalry that’s never really coming back is what this season deserves.
10 Questions About Baylor, the Best Team in Texas (For Now)
Are the college football powers that be underestimating the 9-0 Bears ahead of Saturday’s game against Oklahoma in Waco?
Why Oklahoma and Alabama Would Be Nothing Without Texas
Sure, they’ve had the better football teams in recent years. But we’re still the better state.
A Bandwagon Fan’s Guide to SMU Football
The Ponies are ranked for the first time since 1986. What you need to know about the hottest college team in Texas.
Spoon’s Greatest Hits: Britt Daniel on Songs That Didn’t Make the Cut
Imagining a theoretical second disc for the Austin band’s best-of album, out this week.
A Proud East Texan Is Behind One of Portland’s Hottest Restaurants
Competing on ’Top Chef’ inspired the Bullard native to bring the flavors of his youth to his Portland, Oregon, restaurant.
The Homesick Texan Is Homesick No More
Food writer Lisa Fain discusses why she just moved back to Dallas from New York and shares her recipe for Herrera's Crazy Nachos (which she won't have to make as much anymore).
Jordan Mackay on “Franklin Steak,” Favorite Wine Pairings, and Working With Aaron Again
The meat whisperer and the book whisperer have teamed up again, and this time, it’s all about steak.
A Handy Guide to Rooting For (or Against) Baylor Women’s Basketball
The Lady Bears are back in the Women’s Final Four for the first time since 2012.
New Documentary Revives Molly Ivins’s Sharp Wit in the Age of Trump
’Raise Hell,’ which screens at SXSW, introduces the legendary Texas political commentator and humorist to the internet generation.
Can the Longhorns Go 12-0 This Year? Yes, Really.
A college football analyst explains why his model shows it's going to be a great season for UT.
Check out the New Cookbook Bar & Café at Austin’s Central Library
Every dish at the restaurant, which opens today, is based on a cookbook recipe thoughtfully chosen by chef Drew Curren.
A Very Texas Guide to 2017 College Bowl Games
So what if there are no Texas teams playing past December? Here's what to watch for in the eleven bowl games played in Texas and/or involving Texans.
The Homesick Texan Gets Cheesy With ‘Queso!’
Lisa Fain chats with us about her new book, 'Queso!' and shares two recipes.
Texas Football Exceptionalism? We Take Exception to That
No, the Longhorns and Aggies are not entitled to titles—and the sooner fans realize that, the better.
Music Monday: 40 Years Later, Terry Allen Is Still Asking, “What Of Alicia”?
A never-before-seen video live from Texas Tech ahead of a May 20 'Juarez' reissue.
Ted Cruz Reveals Ambitious Plan to Secure the Texas Border
The proposed pilot program would erect walls with New Mexico, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
Former Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, Sundance and SXSW Film Festival Star
An interview with Bill and Turner Ross, whose Sundance award-winning documentary about border life, Western, screens at SXSW Film.
HBO’s “The Jinx” Will Unveil Exclusive Video of Robert Durst’s Galveston Trial
The six-part documentary by director Andrew Jarecki (“Capturing the Friedmans”) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday.
Number Nine’s Revolution
Mike Modano on being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame—and embracing golf.
BEARS AND FROGS, OH MY!
Seven reasons why the TCU-Baylor rivalry is the state's best.
Video: Stuart Murdoch Sings With Kid’s Choir at ACL
The Belle and Sebastian frontman joined festival stalwarts the Barton Hills Elementary School Choir for four of his own songs
Concert Music Is Not Dead
Terry Lickona, an "Austin City Limits" producer for all but three of the show's forty seasons, talks about growing the concert music show, and outlasting MTV.
TV
Austin City Limits, Now 40, Feels Younger Than Ever
A lot has changed since the KLRU show first started.
Song Premiere: “Sweet Loreen,” From Hal Ketchum’s First Album in Six Years
Now living in Fisher, the Grand Ole Opry member goes back to his Texas music roots.
Hindsight is +20: Looking Ahead (and Back) at College Football’s Early Gambling Lines (UPDATE)
Last year, Baylor was an eight-point underdog against the University of Texas prior to the season. Which lines will completely change this year?
The State’s Next Heisman Winner?
A conversation with quarterback Bryce Petty of the defending Big 12 champion Baylor Bears.
Charlie Strong Knows What You’re Thinking
And the Longhorns head football coach is ready to get out there and play ball.
12 Ways to #VoteKeuchel
Houston Astros pitcher Dallas Keuchel is one of five American League players vying for the last spot in the All-Star Game. And for six hours on Thursday, all tweets count as votes.
Home Boy
Nacogdoches Is Proud of Clint Dempsey
Watching the U.S. Men's National Team's final match of the 2014 World Cup—which they lost to Belgium 2-1—in Dempsey's hometown.
How To Survive As An Austin Rock Club For Four Decades
The "Live Music Capital of the World" is also a live music venue cemetery. The University of Texas-area bar Hole in the Wall is an exception.
Subterranean Homesick Briles
Not only has Art Briles made Baylor’s football program successful, he’s made it hip.
How ‘Bout Them Spurs?
Maybe it's because Tim Duncan is the anti-LeBron, but it's pretty clear that during this year's NBA Finals, San Antonio’s team is America’s Team.
Dublin Dr Pepper’s Last Obit
A twelve-ounce oral history of the long-awaited documentary, "Bottled Up: The Battle Over Dublin Dr Pepper."
At the Family Table With the Homesick Texan
Lisa Fain, who just published her second cookbook, "The Homesick Texan's Family Table: Lone Star Cooking from My Kitchen to Yours," on her deep Texas roots, how easy it is to make delicious beans and homemade flour tortillas, and chile pepper injuries.
Food & Wine Magazine Names Three Texans to Its 2014 List of the Best New Chefs in America
Justin Yu, Paul Qui, and Matt McCallister make the prestigious list.
Alright Alright Alright: A Dark-Horse For Statewide Office
He can't be in the run-off, but Matthew McConaughey is launching a write-in candidacy for Texas Agriculture Commissioner.
Change the World
The Return of Mike Judge
The Office Space director, often considered “ahead of his time,” couldn’t have timed the premiere of his new show, Silicon Valley, any better.
Veronica Mars
18 (More) Things to Know About Rob Thomas and Veronica Mars
A guide for first-timers and Marshmallows alike before the film's release on March 14.
Basketball
The Best Coach in Texas Works for SMU
Larry Brown on March Madness, Allen Iverson, and being an eyewear trendsetter.
If there’s ever a tamal shortage in McAllen, it might be the Rio Grande Valley Vipers’ fault. The Houston Rockets’ minor league affiliate has always made a fair amount of three-point shots, so before the current season, local institution Delia’s Tamales sponsored a promotion: any time the Vipers hit…
Mission to Mars
Rob Thomas was just looking for a way to breathe life into his beloved-but-canceled TV show Veronica Mars. He might have ended up changing the movie business.
First Times
My First Willie
Somehow I lived in Texas more than twenty years without seeing Willie Nelson. This had to end.
