"I think there is a true opportunity right now for women—even more significant than when I was in state government. We’ve got so many running for public office now. Once they win and their numbers grow, we’re bound to move beyond 'me too' to something better."
By Katy Vine
"I disagree with those who say the #MeToo movement could go too far. That sentiment exhibits itself anytime there is an effective and active push for change, that somehow you're going to cause the unintended impact of actually hurting the cause."
By Katy Vine
Rapper Marco Cervantes, who performs as Mexican Stepgrandfather, and Álvaro Del Norte, founder of the accordion-powered punk rock band Piñata Protest, discuss their inspirations.
By Katy Vine
From Tejano to punk and hip-hop, there's so much great music coming out of San Antonio today.
By Katy Vine
San Antonio barber Rob Ferrel on the origins of his famous hair designs.
By Katy Vine
Tony Rancich has created a weird, wonderful, and world-class musical oasis amid his family's 3,300-acre operating pecan orchard.
By Katy Vine
A decade after the largest custody battle in U.S. history, some of those involved speak about their memories.
By Katy Vine
As an eighteen-year-old immigrant to the U.S., Franklin Chang Díaz dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Now, decades after tying the record for most spaceflights, he might be the best bet to get us to Mars.
By Katy Vine
Music
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November 21, 2017
We set out to hear what our state sounds like. We brought back the latest and best of Texas music—so listen up.
By Katy Vine
The Live Music Capital of the World isn't all guitars.
By Katy Vine
Chat
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September 20, 2017
Scott Kelly on what freaked him out—and what drove him crazy—during his record-setting year on the International Space Station.
By Katy Vine
The Bolivar Peninsula is for the birds. Literally.
By Katy Vine
A filmmaker’s effort to share stories from her home turf, one female-directed movie at a time.
By Katy Vine
Music
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February 23, 2017
Shinyribs' Kevin Russell sits down with us to talk about his new album, 'I Got Your Medicine,' out February 24.
By Katy Vine
Franco Mondini-Ruiz entrances Houston's upper-class with fast brushes and playful barbs.
By Katy Vine
They have fled war-torn countries, given up livelihoods, and left behind possessions and family for the safety of a foreign world of cowboy hats and Walmarts. But the refugees who land in Amarillo’s Astoria Park have an ally who understands their confusion and loss: a 64-year-old former teacher named Miss
By Katy Vine
Dorothy Hood was one of Texas’s greatest artists, yet her work remains largely unknown. Now, sixteen years after her death, can her fans bring her the acclaim she never received in life?
By Katy Vine
Law Enforcement
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September 9, 2016
They were some of the toughest narcs on the border, known for busting smugglers, staging raids, seizing cartel cocaine—and being dirty.
By Katy Vine
To whom will the Bachelorette’s final rose go this season? Blogger Steve Carbone makes it his business to know—and tell his 1.5 million readers.
By Katy Vine
He was a pioneering music journalist at 'Texas Monthly,' but he was also so much more.
By Katy Vine
True Crime
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December 23, 2015
Sandy Jenkins was a quiet accountant at the Collin Street Bakery who felt overlooked and dreamed of living the good life. He found it (for a while) by embezzling nearly $17 million from the famed fruitcake maker.
By Katy Vine
This past year, China surpassed all other foreign countries in terms of properties purchased and dollars spent. And with increasing frequency, investors are coming to the Houston area, which now has a Chinese population of 86,000.
By Katy Vine
Life and learning in the smallest school district in Texas.
By Katy Vine
He wasn’t diplomatic and he wasn’t subtle, but Curtis Graves forged a political path for black Texans—and altered history forever.
By Katy Vine
Alyssa Michalke was recently named the first female commander of Texas A&M’s corps of cadets. It’s been a long time coming.
By Katy Vine
Jeff Boswell will find your dream spread.
By Katy Vine
Family Traditions
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October 8, 2014
Eight-year-old Giovanni and six-year-old Victor can ride the Globe of Death, spin plates, and transfix large audiences. As the eighth generation of the Flores Family Thrill Show, it’s their birthright.
By Katy Vine
When throngs of shoe fanatics descend on Houston for the annual Sneaker Summit, it’s the perfect time to understand the sole of a man. And if you happen to be a high school junior named Adam, the goal is finding the right pair of Nike Galaxies for a mere $750.
By Katy Vine
The rise and fall of David Renk, one of the few Americans to become a matador.
By Katy Vine
Every year, some of Mexico’s very best matadors travel to a remote South Texas bullring—one of the few in this country—for no-kill fights. Their pageantry draws spectators by the busload.
By Katy Vine
Plan a kid-friendly summertime weekend through this historic city by the sea using this guide with tips on what to do, where to eat, and where to stay.
By jordanbreal and Katy Vine
A carefully designed, kid-friendly romp through a historic city by the sea.
By Katy Vine
How did rapper Bun B become Houston’s unofficial mayor?
By Katy Vine
At 94 years old, debate icon Thomas Freeman has taught everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Barbara Jordan.
By Katy Vine
If the church doesn’t appeal a ruling that allows the seizure of the 1,600-acre ranch in Eldorado, it could become property of the state. What will Texas do with the infamous compound?
By Katy Vine
What's a better gift than Christmas-morning kolaches? Christmas kolaches ordered from West, Texas.
By Katy Vine
The Tall City gets taller.
By Katy Vine
West, TX
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August 13, 2013
When flames erupted at the West Fertilizer Company plant, the members of the local volunteer fire department pulled on their bunker gear and jumped in their trucks, just like they always do.
By Katy Vine
When the local vernacular dies, what goes with it?
By Katy Vine
Once a year, a San Antonio congregation relives Jesus’ last days—and leaves the cellphones at home.
By Katy Vine
West, Texas, has two florists, but the fertilizer plant explosions forced one to temporarily shut down its business. That left Divine Designs responsible for creating sympathy arrangements for six funerals in one week.
By Katy Vine
You can’t go home and tell your friends that you came to Central Texas and never ate any barbecue. It would be like going to SXSW and not listening to any music. But there are so many briskets and so little time! How do you sort it all out? No
By Patricia Sharpe and Katy Vine
Learning to love the foreign, overcharged, crowded, obsessive, and actually pretty exciting world of Texas’s newest major sport.
By Katy Vine
What will happen to the fundamentalist Mormon compound?
By Katy Vine
The famous astronaut was notoriously shy about granting interviews to the press, but in 2009 he answered a few questions sent to him by senior editor Katy Vine. Here is her unedited Q&A with Neil Armstrong.
By Katy Vine
Are the kids at the Yearning for Zion safe?
By Katy Vine
Jurors found former polygamist leader Wendell Loy Nielsen guilty of bigamy for illegally marrying three women.
By Katy Vine
Texas Monthly senior editor Katy Vine shares a few stories from one of her favorite writers of the year.
By Katy Vine
I was thrilled when my daughter began learning a second language at day care. But what was I supposed to do when my three-year-old started engaging in conversations I couldn’t understand?
By Katy Vine
Austin Mahone is sixteen years old. He doesn’t have a record contract, a tour bus, or a backing band. But he does have more than 650,000 followers on Twitter and the email addresses of 2,000,000 fans. Meet San Antonio’s answer to Justin Bieber.
By Katy Vine