Is McAllen ISD the Most Forward-thinking District in America?
More than 27,000 students will begin receive iPads and iPod touch devices as part of a program to upgrade educational technology and save on future textbook costs.
Writer at large and former senior editor Jason Cohen has written for Texas Monthly since 1995 (and texasmonthly.com since its 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 wrote the magazine's first-ever Matthew McConaughey story, in August 1996. The coauthor of Generation Ecch! (Fireside Books, 1994) and coeditor 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 five hundred stories for Texas Monthly in 2012. He has been a blogger since 2002 and has been known to maintain as many as five Twitter accounts.
More than 27,000 students will begin receive iPads and iPod touch devices as part of a program to upgrade educational technology and save on future textbook costs.
By Jason Cohen
Exactly seven days before the originally scheduled March 6 primary, the San Antonio federal court released a new set of maps that should lock in the May 29 election.
By Jason Cohen
The Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools has refused to let Beren Academy, an Orthodox Jewish day school, reschedule its semifinal playoff game from Friday night, which falls during the Jewish Sabbath.
By Jason Cohen
Will Kyle Killen's new NBC drama Awake, a cop show starring Jason Isaacs, have better luck than Lone Star, which Fox canceled after two episodes?
By Jason Cohen
We revisit Sheyla Hershey, the woman from Houston with 38-KKK breasts who is now the subject of an episode of My Strange Addiction.
By Jason Cohen
A UT study on the traffic intersections of the future, the Perry gravy train is back on the track, and the Spurs lose a game on purpose.
By Jason Cohen
Michael Berry, who has been embroiled in a mini-scandal after he allegedly hit a car outside of a Houston gay bar and fled the scene, cut a check to the vehicle's owner.
By Jason Cohen
The governor rejected calls to revisit school finance issues during his Tuesday media blitz, but his critics say he also overstated current funding levels.
By Jason Cohen
Dallas native (and Stars prospect) Austin Smith leads the nation in goals, and he has a chance to win the Hobey Baker Award, college hockey’s Heisman.
By Jason Cohen
Plus, Josh Hamilton's first interview since his relapse, El Paso's Komen Race, and George H.W. Bush's hosiery.
By Jason Cohen
Fifteen TCU students, including four members of Gary Patterson's Horned Frogs football team, were among eighteen people arrested on drug dealing charges.
By Jason Cohen
Elizabeth Ames Jones is running for a San Antonio senate seat, but must live in the "capital of the State" to stay Railroad Commissioner. People laughed when she questioned the phrase, but does she have a point about its modern definition?
By Jason Cohen
Before "Linsanity" hit, the New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin played for the Houston Rockets for fifteen days. But does the team regret cutting basketball's latest sensation?
By Jason Cohen
The school district paid for fifth-grade boys to go see the movie about the Tuskegee Airmen as part of Black History Month curriculum.
By Jason Cohen
Brazilian-born Houstonian Sheyla Hershey says her 38KKK breast implants saved her from injury in a car accident on Super Bowl Sunday.
By Jason Cohen
A mountain lion attack in Big Bend, Lance Armstrong speaks, the latest on redistricting, and the New York Times's "Frugal Traveler" makes his way through Texas.
By Jason Cohen
The Republican congressman from Tyler says an oil pipeline radiates heat, making it a popular "date" destination for caribou.
By Jason Cohen
A Springtown man suffers a life-threatening wound after he was stabbed in the leg with a broken golf club on the Eagle Mountain Lake course in Fort Worth.
By Jason Cohen
Homegrown film director David Gordon Green and three writers who studied at the Michener Center made up the creative team behind "It's Halftime in America" commercial.
By Jason Cohen
Knight Raiders coach Susan Polgar is leaving for Missouri's Webster University. And she's taking the team with her.
By Jason Cohen
GLAAD calls on CNN to fire the Houston native and A&M graduate, saying his tweets were "advocating violence against gay people."
By Jason Cohen
Director Jeremiah Zagar's short film, Heart Stop Beating, which premiered at Sundance, documents another visionary heart surgery procedure out of Houston.
By Jason Cohen
After the Texas Rangers' outfielder publicly relapsed, fans and columnists alike had opinions about Josh Hamilton the Player. But what about Josh Hamilton the Recovering Addict?
By Jason Cohen
The theater chain recently produced the “Bottle of Wits” wine series, which comes in both red ("Inconceivable Cab”) and white "As You Wish White."
By Jason Cohen
A recent report gives the state's science standards a ‘C,’ but the State Board of Education chairwoman, a science teacher, is still “pleased.”
By Jason Cohen
Vince Young on Dancing with the Stars, Whole Foods ends rumors of a Monsanto buyout, and Harold Simmons will make it rain for Republicans.
By Jason Cohen
Our thanks to Don Cornelius for bringing us these Texas music moments.
By Jason Cohen
On National Signing Day, Ivan Maisel recalls LBJ's failed attempt to get Joe Washington to play for Darrell Royal at the University of Texas.
By Jason Cohen
Is the Texas twang disappearing? Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin's Texas English Project pretty much say: "Yup."
By Jason Cohen
Lara Logan joins a hunt for scimitar horned oryx in the Hill Country.
By Jason Cohen
The school district serving Premont, a rural South Texas town, has suspended sports to save itself.
By Jason Cohen
Dublin Dr Pepper is still in business, Rick Perry has been less popular before, and other news you need to know.
By Jason Cohen
Jennifer and Zachary Russell were driving up 287 to a Mansfield birthing center when the baby came.
By Jason Cohen
Keen calls out the more mainstream country star, saying Keith "borrowed" from his most famous song, "The Road Goes on Forever."
By Jason Cohen
The Sun City beats out Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, and Austin on the Daily Beast's top 25 "Girl Scout Cookie Capitals."
By Jason Cohen
The singer-songwriter talks college football, Willie, and Mexican food with Garden and Gun, which also has a lot of love for Texas in its latest issue.
By Jason Cohen
The actor puts back on the mustache and Ted Nugent t-shirt in Butch Walker's new music video.
By Jason Cohen
T.O. brings the popcorn back to Texas, the SXSW lineup guarantees crowds, and other cocktail chatter.
By Jason Cohen
The San Antonio Rampage, the city's minor league hockey team, will attempt to set the Guinness World Record for most dogs at a sporting event.
By Jason Cohen
The Counselor has already been optioned by the same producing team that adapted McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road.
By Jason Cohen
The Texas Rangers shelled out $51.7 million for the exclusive opportunity to sign the 25-year-old pitcher. Today, they either enter into the baseball convenant, or the Rangers get their money back.
By Jason Cohen
A group of protestors—now known as the "Amarillo 13"—say a driver kicked them off of a Greyhound bus for being part of the Occupy movement.
By Jason Cohen
The Greenville native and current Austinite tries his hand at Internet comedy to promote his new album.
By Jason Cohen
Instead of recycling tired rumors about Lance cheating, Outside's Bill Gifford peers into Livestrong's mission, budget, and commercial partnerships.
By Jason Cohen
Texas has five entries on Buzzfeed's "30 Best Taco-Related Crimes Ever," but the mere presence of tortillas doesn't make crime funny.
By Jason Cohen
The historic bottler's settlement with Dr Pepper kills off a beloved Texas icon.
By Jason Cohen
How a Dallas strip club helped create a pit bull rescue sanctuary in Newt Gingrich’s name.
By Jason Cohen
Musicians's "endorsement" on Twitter of Ron Paul for president turns out to be the work of hackers.
By Jason Cohen
The rapper takes a marijuana bust in the same place that tripped up his good friend Willie Nelson.
By Jason Cohen
Testing this "thing" and & maybe an ampersand
By Jason Cohen