The Checklist
What to hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Jeff Salamon is a senior editor at Texas Monthly and previously served as an editor at the Village Voice and the Austin American-Statesman. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, Details, and Artforum. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a native of New York City. He lives in Austin with his wife, two children, two dogs, and one cat.
Articles by Jeff Salamon
The Checklist
What to hear, read, watch, and attend this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The Checklist
What to hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The Checklist
What to read, see, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Far From the Madding Crowd
Diana Natalicio’s under-the-radar transformation of the University of Texas at El Paso.
The Checklist
What to hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The Checklist
What to hear, read, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The Checklist
What to hear, read, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The Checklist
What to hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The Checklist
What to hear, read, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas literacy.
The Runoffs Rundown
Click to enlarge. Thanks to the domino effect of Rick Perry’s retirement, an unusual number of high-profile Republican politicians have been vying for statewide office this year. Add to that the intensity that the tea party insurgency has brought to ideological debates within the GOP, and…
Damn This Traffic Jam
Infographic illustration by Luke Shuman. Click to enlarge. When the INRIX company released its annual list of America’s most congested cities, the big news for Texans was that for the second year in a row, Austin was ranked the fourth-most-congested city in America—up from sixth…
The Checklist
What to hear, read, attend, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas literacy.
The Checklist
What to hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Infographic
The Texas Housing Boom
Infographic illustration by Luke Shuman. Click to enlarge. April may be the cruelest month, but not for the housing market, which always picks up this time of year, as families try to settle in to new homes before the fall semester. And this year’s real estate…
The Most Important Book About Texas in Years Is About Demographics, Which Means You’ll Probably Never Read It
In 1997 when demographer Steve H. Murdock published his first book, The Texas Challenge, he was a Cassandra of sorts. He predicted the rise of the Hispanic majority, and he spoke early and often about the implications such a demographic shift would have on Texas’s economy. His devotion to the…
The Checklist
What to hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The Checklist
What to see, hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Two Texans
Former state demographer Steve H. Murdock troves his data to illustrate the average Texan in two every different years—1950 and 2050.
Cutting Classes
How budget cuts are affecting the number of open teaching positions in our public schools.
The Checklist
What to see, hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Jane Smith-Garcés’s Pecan Pie
A pie that never lasts long enough to be stored in the refrigerator.
Five Things You’ll Be Talking About in December
1. Romo Agonistes You remember Danny White, don’t you? He had the misfortune to replace Roger Staubach as the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback after the beloved number 12 retired with two Super Bowl victories. Though White broke numerous Cowboys records—for passing yards in a season, for touchdown passes in a season,…
5 Things You’ll Be Talking About in November
1. NASHVILLE, TEXAS Even if Kacey Musgraves wins none of the six Country Music Association awards she’ll be vying for on November 6, she’ll still be the Nashville story of the year. No female debut artist has ever before topped the CMA nominations list, and Musgraves achieved that honor with…
5 Things You’ll Be Talking About in October
1. Craig’s Listing It doesn’t take anything away from Craig Watkins’s accomplishments as district attorney of Dallas County—since he won election in 2006, his office has exonerated 33 prisoners, some of whom had been incarcerated for decades—to say that he has been very lucky. A Democrat, he was swept into…
6 Things You’ll Be Talking About in September
1. I’m Gonna Git You, Soccer The intense rivalry between the two North American powerhouses of men’s soccer, the United States and Mexico, will be renewed September 10 in Columbus, Ohio, in a crucial qualifying match for next summer’s World Cup. After years of struggle against its more established opponent,…
No Strings Attached
After years as an in-demand fiddle payer, Amanda Shires is redefining herself as a boundary-breaking singer-songwriter. Emphasis on “writer.”
5 Things You’ll Be Talking About in August
1. Abbott Forming The moment Rick Perry announced that he was not running for a fourth full term as governor, all eyes turned to Attorney General Greg Abbott, who instantly became the most powerful Republican in the state. The 55-year-old Wichita Falls native has long been viewed as a serious…
EXCLUSIVE: Slaid Cleaves’ “Texas Love Song”
The premiere of Slaid Cleaves' "Texas Love Song," a track from his newest album, Still Fighting the War, on sale today.
Five Things You’ll be Talking About in July
1. How Dry We Are When the heat has even the grackles lying low, the pleasure of a swimming hole cold enough to knock the breath out of you is limitless. Alas, water is not, a truism sorely evident to the residents of the Hill Country town of Wimberley,…
5 Things You’ll Be Talking About in June
According to the Rick Perry camp, sometime this month our governor will announce whether he plans to run for Texas's top office yet again.
The Eye of Stephen Harrigan
The longtime Texas Monthly writer—and novelist and screenwriter and UT professor—discusses his new collection of essays.
Goodbye Jazz, Hello Pop
Talking with the Houston-born and -raised musician Josh Mease about his new record—and his new alias.
The Mistress and the Narcotraficante
An exclusive excerpt from a UT professor's new book on the Juárez drug wars
Nobody’s Going to Take Your Guns Away
Why we need to get a grip on all this Second Amendment hysteria.
SXSW ‘O’ the Times
How Prince, Justin Timberlake, the Flaming Lips, and a giant Doritos vending machine changed Austin's annual music festival—and how they didn't.
