Ryan Vogt

Jan 21, 2013 — By Ryan Vogt

Senior editor Michael Hall on talking to Richard LaFuente, who some believe was wrongly convicted of murder in 1986.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Ryan Vogt

Senior editor Katy Vine on writing about the chess phenomenon in Brownsville.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Ryan Vogt

Senior editor Michael Hall on driving a race car at the Texas Motor Speedway.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Ryan Vogt

Senior editor Pamela Colloff talks about racism in rural Texas and Billy Ray Johnson, who was brutally beaten in the East Texas town of Linden.

Feb 1, 2007 — By Ryan Vogt

Senior editor Patricia Sharpe on ranking the state’s best new restaurants.

Sep 30, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

Kristy Curry has the eyes of the Lady Raider Nation upon her.

Sep 30, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

Executive editor S. C. Gwynne on writing about computer giant Dell.

Sep 30, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

New-media director Charlie Llewellin on hiking across Texas.

Aug 31, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

A recent trip to the Schulenburg Festival left us wishing for the good old days.

Aug 31, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

Senior editor John Spong on writing about controversy at a private school in Austin.

Aug 31, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

Contributing editor Dick J. Reavis on reporting from Mexico during that country’s presidential election.

Aug 31, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

Senior editor Nate Blakeslee on interviewing Republican preacher David Barton.

Aug 31, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

In the fifties and sixties, the kings of the Dallas burlesque business were brothers Abe and Barney Weinstein, and their competition, Jack Ruby.

Aug 31, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

The mascots, the rituals, the hand signs—these are just a few of the reasons why we love Texas universities.

Jul 31, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

Senior editor Pamela Colloff talks about tracking down eyewitnesses and listening to their accounts of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree from atop the University of Texas Tower.

Jul 31, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

The element most conspicuously absent from our tour of the University of Texas Tower was any mention of sniper Charles Whitman.

Jul 31, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

For most of my life as a provincial San Antonian, I had often heard about this wondrous place in Austin called Barton Springs.

Jul 31, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

Today, the McDonald Observatory considers catering to star-savvy folks serious business.

Jul 31, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

Writer-at-large William Martin on writing about T.D. Jakes, one of the nation’s most famous ministers.

Jul 31, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

Writer-at-large Suzy Banks on thinking about fun things to do for free.

Jul 31, 2006 — By Ryan Vogt

Writer-at-large Cecilia Ballí talks about former Cameron county sheriff Conrado Cantu.

Sep 30, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

Associate editor John Spong on retelling a tragic family epic—the rise and fall of Dallas’s pro wrestling dynasty.

Sep 30, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

The Alamo: A Crash Course

Sep 30, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

Contributing photographer Wyatt McSpadden, who shot this month’s feature “Tour de Texas,” describes how a plum assignment became a poignant father-son journey.

Sep 30, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

Former Texas Monthly senior editor Robert Draper on assembling an Eisenhower-era time capsule, including the memories of a teenage calamity and the recollections of the Panhandle town that still bears its scars.

Aug 31, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

Writer-at-large Anne Dingus on testing your Texas know-how one riddle, rhyme, and pun at a time.

Aug 31, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

Associate editor Katy Vine discusses how she pieced together the small-town murder saga for this month’s feature “Girls Gone Wild”.

Aug 31, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

Executive editor S. C. Gwynne on examining one of the state’s most litigious, at times lethal, MDs.

Aug 31, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

Senior editor Michael Hall on tackling Mack Brown—UT’s minister to footballers, alums, and Saturday fans alike—who’s made donning burnt orange cool again.

Aug 31, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

Dig into the archives of some famed Texas music halls, and you may hear history whispering more than just melodies.

Aug 31, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

Rough Riding, South Texas-Style

Jul 31, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

Writer-at-large Don Graham on why Cormac McCarthy wouldn’t win a popularity contest against John Grisham or Tom Clancy—and why that’s a good thing.

Jul 31, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

Writer-at-large John Morthland on channeling Calvin Trillin and chasing down all things chicken-fried.

Jul 31, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

Contributing editor William Martin, who wrote this month’s cover story, on the rise of America’s largest church, positive thinking versus old-time religion, and why Joel Osteen doesn’t cry on camera.

Jul 31, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

Writer-at-large Cecilia Ballí discusses the plight of violence-ridden Nuevo Laredo.

Jul 31, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

Oil wells in Luling.

Jul 31, 2005 — By Ryan Vogt

The last battle of the civil war was fought in Texas—a month after the war officially ended.