Business
October 14, 2013
Claus Pummer, Sleep Coach
“Our bedrooms are no longer bedrooms. They are offices and living rooms and playrooms.”
Food & Drink
June 10, 2013
Juan Marquez, Baker
“[The bakery] was our business, our living room, and our bedroom. Heck, it was even my nursery.”
Texas History
March 11, 2013
Sarah Haldeman, Presidential Archivist
“I get to see things other people don’t get to see.”
Dallas
January 23, 2013
By Invitation Only
In a city that loves its parties, there’s perhaps none so aesthetically significant as Two x Two for AIDS and Art, Dallas’s most cutting-edge fundraiser—and one hell of a good time.
Style & Design
January 21, 2013
The World at Her Feet
Twenty-year-old Jane Aldridge draws 400,000 readers to her style blog, Sea of Shoes, each month; has appeared in Vanity Fair; and once attended a private dinner with Karl Lagerfeld. The secret to her success? That she won’t leave Dallas behind.
Art
September 30, 2012
Portrait of the Artist as a Postman
The only American ever to design scarves for the exclusive French fashion house Hermès is Kermit Oliver, a 69-year-old postal worker from Waco who lives in a strange and beautiful world all his own.
Art
September 20, 2012
Inside the Studio of Hermès’s Only American Designer
A few pictures of work from Kermit Oliver, the Waco postal worker who moonlights as the famous fashion house's only American designer.
Arts & Entertainment
April 5, 2012
I Really Do Like Jane Aldridge
Jason Sheeler, who wrote about the Dallas-based fashion blogger for the April issue of TEXAS MONTHLY, responds to the sea of controversy unleashed by his profile.
Letter From Ingleside on the Bay
February 1, 2012
His Town
In 2004, after Marty Rathbun left the Church of Scientology and settled on the Texas Gulf Coast, he thought he had put his difficult past behind him. Then the Squirrel Busters showed up.
Feature
October 31, 2011
Give Me Shelter
Dallas’s ritzy Park Cities is the sort of place where Jerry Jones Jr. can buy a four-story castle with twelve bathrooms and a nine-car underground garage for a reported $8.7 million and some people regard it as a steal. Welcome to the fabulous world of Erin Mathews, the very discreet
The Culture
July 31, 2011
Cheryl Evans, Church Sign Writer
Evans, whose official job title is facilities manager, has lived in Amarillo for 55 years. For the past two decades she’s overseen the building and grounds of the Southwest Church of Christ, including its four-by-ten-foot sign. She changes the message every Monday.You can’t just put up there “You’re all going