Robert Wilson Brings the Avant-Garde to a Century-Old Opera
After a lifetime away from his hometown of Waco, the legendary director and playwright returns to the Houston Grand Opera with ‘Turandot.’
Katy Vine joined the editorial staff of Texas Monthly in 1997 and became a staff writer in 2002. As a general assignment reporter, she has written dozens of features on a range of topics including rocket scientist Franklin Chang Díaz, hip-hop legend Bun B, barbecue pit masters, cult leader Warren Jeffs, refugees in Amarillo, the moon landing, the Kilgore Rangerettes, a three-person family circus, chess prodigies, an accountant who embezzled $17 million from a fruitcake company, and a con man who crashed cars, yachts, and planes for insurance money. Her stories have been anthologized in Best American Sports Writing and Best Food Writing. Her feature story about a West Texas sting operation was the inspiration for the 2012 television series The Client List.
After a lifetime away from his hometown of Waco, the legendary director and playwright returns to the Houston Grand Opera with ‘Turandot.’
By Katy Vine
At the charming Hotel Ritual in small-town Jacksonville, you can tap into any frequency you wish.
By Katy Vine
If a husband and wife can quarantine together, they can get manicures together.
By Katy Vine
The Alamo City legend broke up Girl in a Coma and decamped to L.A. She’s back with a new solo album, a recording studio, and some hard-earned wisdom.
By Katy Vine
He was the magazine’s first big hire and—over the next few decades—delivered some of its most memorable stories.
By Katy Vine
What pushed an East Texas mother to kidnap at gunpoint the director of the famed college drill team and her nineteen-year-old daughter?
By Katy Vine
Moriba Jah, a self-proclaimed “space environmentalist,” has joined a new effort to map the millions of bits of discarded debris orbiting the Earth.
By Katy Vine
On Kalahari’s thirty waterslides and lazy river, my kids and I took our first plunge into some kind of normalcy since the pandemic started.
By Katy Vine
University of Texas at San Antonio professor Marco Cervantes mixes history, activism, and hip-hop on his latest album.
By Katy Vine
UT’s Caitlin Casey will use the Webb Telescope to peer nearly 14 billion years back in time.
By Katy Vine
For almost eighty years, the name “Fletcher’s” has drawn state fair visitors. After a dramatic feud—and a pandemic—the family’s banner will fly again.
By Katy Vine
One lucky night of dancing with the masters unlocked a new appreciation of the craft.
By Katy Vine
As clinics across the state offer ketamine therapy for depression, a bill would fund further studies on MDMA use and psilocybin for PTSD treatment of vets.
By Katy Vine
Former Texas Monthly editor in chief Greg Curtis’s new book explores the years he spent rediscovering Paris after the death of his wife.
By Katy Vine
Video: The mother-son team are behind some of the city's most colorful murals.
By Katy Vine
When the power went out and the water stopped running, Trae tha Truth and DJ Mr. Rogers were there to pick up the slack.
By Katy Vine
The New York–born singer-songwriter got to Texas as soon as he could—and spent the next five decades changing the lives of seemingly everyone he met.
By David Courtney, Michael Hall, Andy Langer, Jeff Salamon, John Spong, Katy Vine and Christian Wallace
The filmmaker discusses the winding path, from Texas to Singapore to Japan and back, that led to Amazon commissioning his first feature.
By Katy Vine
Mason, one of the most sought-after young composers in the country, has a new work set to premiere in November.
By Katy Vine
For nearly a quarter century, this bohemian venue and ”social sculpture” has been a gathering place for poets, performance artists, and even a rooster or two.
By Katy Vine
Over a decade, Theodore Robert Wright III destroyed cars, yachts, and planes. That was only the half of it.
By Katy Vine
Eight days inside America’s Auction Academy, learning the secrets of “the dynamo from Dallas.”
By Katy Vine
Recommendations from the creators of Texas’s new African American Studies elective.
By Katy Vine
Katy Caldwell, CEO of Legacy Community Clinics, talks to Texas Monthly about medical supply shortages, staff safety, and financial woes.
By Katy Vine
Emily Ramshaw and Andrea Valdez discuss their vision for the 19th*, a nonprofit venture where politics, policy, and gender will converge.
By Katy Vine
A Rice University professor's recent breakthrough may mean that a science fictional scenario is within reach.
By Katy Vine and Jason Heid
A guide to finding the perfect pair, whether you're working cattle, two-stepping, or presenting a TED talk.
By Katy Vine
The 90-year-old blues legend currently holds down three weekly residencies in Austin.
By Katy Vine
Treatments for chronic Lyme disease are controversial and expensive. As a last resort, some patients are pursuing this unproven and painful alternative.
By Katy Vine
The stories, the traditions, and the deeper meanings of the boots in their lives.
By Michael Hall, Skip Hollandsworth, Andy Langer, Emily McCullar, Katy Vine and Lauren Smith Ford
The author of "The Years That Matter Most" spent a lot of time at UT-Austin—where he saw reason for hope.
By Katy Vine
With NASA’s ambitions trimmed, private space companies come to Texas, dreaming of Mars.
By Katy Vine, Dan Solomon, Domingo Martinez and Madelyn Herzog
Nearly sixty years ago, Funk and twelve other women proved that they could be astronauts too. But they never got to walk on the moon.
By Katy Vine
How the groundbreaking Nigerian-Houstonian rapper has gone viral—and why his art matters.
By Katy Vine
The Grammy-winning jazz-funk-rockers are back with American Music: Vol. VII, their first album in five years.
By Katy Vine
A new exhibit at UT-El Paso displays works by young people held last year at the immigration detention center.
By Katy Vine
Critics of the forthcoming transformation of the state’s child welfare system worry about the new model’s lack of transparency. Legislators are running out of time to introduce greater safeguards.
By Katy Vine
No one can explain why. Not even Southwest Key, the nonprofit shelter that keeps telling refugees they have no other choice.
By Katy Vine
The situation has become so dangerous that Mexican police escorts have been discontinued after sundown.
By Katy Vine
At the Texas Inventors' Association, you'll find plans for the contraptions and gadgets of your dreams. Just don't tell anyone your idea.
By Katy Vine
Cecy Treviño started her girls' music school to provide a safe space for self-expression. But the bands are getting booked all over town.
By Katy Vine
James Surls has a storied legacy as one of Texas’s greatest living sculptors. But at age 75, the eccentric artist is far from finished.
By Katy Vine
Two of the city’s veteran musicians talk us through its ongoing auditory transformation after the departure of Leon Bridges—and why some uncertainty is a good thing.
By Katy Vine
We talked to Austin-based director Andrew Bujalski about his latest film, 'Support the Girls,' starring Regina Hall.
By Katy Vine
The solutions to our current crisis on the border are relatively simple, says Houston immigration expert Charles Foster. But our politicians don’t have the nerve to make them happen.
By Katy Vine
Rio Grande Valley attorney Jennifer Harbury explains the nightmares facing immigrants today, whether they gain entry or are turned away.
By Katy Vine
Dr. Marsha Griffin, co-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics special interest group on immigrant health, tells us what she's seen and what separation traumas could mean in the long term for immigrant children.
By Katy Vine
An expert on helping parents navigate the asylum process describes what she's seeing on the ground.
By Katy Vine
"Sometimes a festival rep will say they don’t want acts that are too similar. Could you imagine telling a man, 'Sorry, we can only have one indie rock band, you're all wearing Levi's and that's pretty overdone so we can't have that'?"
By Katy Vine
"We need more women to tackle the energy transition and tackle the biggest challenges we face: climate change, energy poverty, and good infrastructure."
By Katy Vine