Six Must-Attend Events: August 1-7
The state’s top events and offerings, from the 75th anniversary of Marvel Comics to the 75th birthday of Billy Joe Shaver.
Articles by Michael Hoinski
Six Must-Attend Events: July 25-31
The state’s top offerings and events, from a photography exhibit about stray dogs to a race for the fastest horse in Texas.
Six Must-Attend Events: July 18-24
The state’s top offerings and events, from attending a David Lynch retrospective to celebrating the moon.
Six Must-Attend Events: July 11-20
The state's top events and offerings, from seeing Texas music's next big thing to learning more about the time that Austin "got weird."
Six Must-Attend Events: July 4-July 10
The state's top offerings, from celebrating the 4th of July with Willie in Fort Worth to delving into the mind of a mystery writer in Austin.
Six Must-Attend Events: June 26-July 3
The state's top offerings, from iconic album covers in Lubbock to a tepee work of art in San Antonio.
Six Must-Attend Events: June 20-June 26
The state's top offerings, from dancing frogs in Dallas to the sounds of a supergroup in San Antonio.
Six Must-Attend Events: June 13-June 19
The state's top offerings, from Centro-matic's last tour stop in Dallas to a soapbox derby for grown-ups in Marble Falls.
Six Must-Attend Events: June 6-June 12
The state's top offerings, from death-defying dives in Fort Worth to gator-wrestling in Beaumont.
Six Must-Attend Events: May 30-June 5
The state's top offerings, from a unique perspective on meat in Dallas to summer camp for grown-ups in Marfa.
Six Must-Attend Events: May 23-May 29
The state's top offerings, from iconic pop art in San Antonio to a fiddling extravaganza in Athens.
Six Must-Attend Events: May 15-May 19
Hear Neil deGrasse Tyson wax philosophical about our bizarre solar system or take a bite from a world-record-setting strawberry shortcake.
Ameripolitan
One Man’s Mission to Save “Real Country”
Or “Ameripolitan,” the term Dale Watson coined to distinguish his music from the pop country of today.
Six Must-Attend Events: May 9-May 15
The state's top offerings, from seeing celebrity softball in Round Rock to hearing the harrowing tale of a Navy SEAL in Houston.
Six Must-Attend Events: May 2-May 8
The state's top offerings, from a camping-concert experience near Austin to a sure-to-be spirited discussion with Larry McMurty in Dallas.
Six Must-Attend Events: April 25-May 1
The state's top offerings, from crazy cardboard watercrafts in Arlington to the imaginative talent of Trenton Doyle Hancock in Houston.
Six Must-Attend Events: April 18-April 24
The state's top offerings, from a bevy of food and drink in Sugar Land to a John Wayne bonanza in Dallas.
Six Must-Attend Events: April 11-April 17
The state's top offerings, from buzzed-about art exhibits in Dallas to a carnivore's dream in Driftwood.
Six Must-Attend Events: April 4-April 10
The state's top offerings, from pushing the boundaries in Houston to contemplating the border in Richardson.
Six Must-Attend Events: March 28–April 3
The state's top offerings, from taking a peek behind the scenes of "King of the Hill" to harkening back to the pinball wizards of one's childhood.
Six Must-Attend Events: March 21–March 27
The state's top offerings, from celebrating the mud dauber in Luckenbach to cheering on obstacle course contestants in Smithville.
Six Must-Attend Events: March 14–March 20
The state's top offerings, from going hog wild in Bandera to foot-stompin' blues in Austin.
Six Must-Attend Events: March 7–March 13
The state's top offerings, from Edward Snowden's speech at SXSW to the Texas artists you need to know about now.
Six Must-Attend Events: February 28–March 6
The state's top offerings, from another British invasion (sort of) to an education revolution.
Six Must-Attend Events: February 21–February 23
The state's top offerings, from Shearwater's latest tour stop to the next great film and music fest you've probably never heard of.
Six Must-Attend Events: February 14–February 23
The state's top offerings, from seeing Sam Shepherd's manuscripts up close and personal to saving the world's whooping cranes.
How Prison Art From Texas Captured the Art World’s Attention
Paños, small cloth swatches decorated with detailed illustrations by inmates, now hang in New York museums and are snapped up by worldly collectors.
Six Must-Attend Events: February 7–February 16
The state's top offerings, from a photographic essay on mental illness to musings on God and the prospect of nuclear war.
Six Must-Attend Events: January 31–February 8
The state's top offerings, from Malcolm Gladwell's latest fascinating theory to all the world's birds in a single Texas locale (well, maybe not all of them).
Six Must-Attend Events: January 24–27
The state's top offerings, from short-story readings set to Edward Hopper's works of art in Dallas to a concert by eighties queen Molly Ringwald in Lake Jackson.
Six Must-Attend Events: January 17-23
The state's top offerings, from Leon Russell holding court in Dallas to remembering the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King at the Rothko Chapel in Houston.
Six Must-Attend Events: January 10-12
The state's top offerings, from the Austin premiere of a film about the dangers facing the Colorado River to the exaltation of black gold in Texas.
Six Must-Attend Events: January 3–5
The state's top offerings, from Pop Art cave relic paintings to awe-inspiring NASA imagery set to an out-of-this-world symphony.
Six Must-Attend Events: Dec. 27-Jan. 5
The state's top offerings, from the Mack Brown's last game as the Longhorns' head football coach to a little taste of the hair of the dog.
Six Must-Attend Events: December 20–22
The state's top events and offerings, from Amanda Shires channeling Leonard Cohen to a classic NBA showdown.
Six Must-Attend Events: Dec 13-15
The state's top events and offerings, from the fifth annual Gingerbread Build-Off to a collection of stained glass masterpieces depicting angels who symbolize early Christian churches in Asia Minor.
Six Must-Attend Events: Dec. 6-14
The state's top events and offerings, from the fortieth anniversary of Dickens on the Strand to a festival celebrating tamales, the pre-wrapped food that makes a great Christmas gift.
Six Must-Attend Events: Nov. 29-Dec. 5
The state's top events and offerings, from the Nutcracker in Houston to a glimpse of some of Hollywood's best costumes.
Six JFK Events: November 22
Various groups and organizations around Dallas are hosting events to commemorate the memory and legacy of John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in the city in 1963.
Six Must-Attend Events: Nov. 15-24
The state's top offerings, from musical interpretations of West Texas to a screening of a full-length documentary celebrating Doug Sahm.
Six Must-Attend Events: November 8-14
The state's top offerings, from Houston's "Concert Against Hate" to a night out at the Continental Gin Company in Dallas's Deep Ellum district to buy some local art.
Six Must-Attend Events: Nov. 1-7
The state's top events and offerings, from the carnivore festival Meatopia to a screening of "Paris, Texas" in Houston.
Six Must-Attend Events: Oct. 25-31
The state's top events and offerings, from a séance aboard the 1877 Tall Ship Elissa to an exhibition of paños, handkerchief art by Hispanic prisoners.
Six Must-Attend Events: October 18-23
The state's top events and offerings, from a viewing of "Brewster McCloud" (which prominently features the Astrodome) to Oktoberfest! at Real Ale Brewing Company.
Six Must-Attend Events: Oct. 12-17
Steve Earle plays the John T. Floore Country Store in Helotes, and the Texas Renaissance Festival, the largest of its kinds in the nation, kicks off.
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