Politics & Policy
January 24, 2013
License to Thrill
Texas considers requiring strippers to be certified.
Eat My Words
January 24, 2013
Where You Should Be Eating Right Now: Our Picks For the Dozen Best New Restaurants in Texas
Once a year, I sort through my dining notes and come up with a list of my favorite dining spots of roughly the past twelve months. We modestly call the resulting story, traditionally published in February, “Where To Eat Now.” On its face, it is an honor roll of the
Politics & Policy
January 23, 2013
Campbell, Davis draw two-year terms
As a result, Donna Campbell will have a very short time to get adjusted to the Senate before she has to defend her seat in a Republican primary. A four-year term would have solved that problem. Several members from San Antonio are thought to have their eyes on the seat,
Politics & Policy
January 23, 2013
Beyoncé Lip-Synced at Obama’s Inauguration
Or so said a Marine Band spokeswoman. Question is, does it even matter?
Film & TV
January 23, 2013
The Explosion of Texas Filmmakers
The number of Texas-based filmmakers at Sundance proves that our vibrant filmmaking community is thriving.
Politics & Policy
January 23, 2013
How Texas Public Schools Teach the Bible
With a largely Protestant bias, according to examples culled by the Texas Freedom Network.
Arts & Entertainment
January 23, 2013
Bum Steer: The Judge Who Facebooked Johnny Football’s Speeding Ticket
This is no way to revive The Battle of the Brazos: Ennis municipal court judge W. Lee Johnson, a Baylor alumnus, was publicly reprimanded for his none-too-subtle post about the A&M QB’s apparent moving violation.
Eat My Words
January 22, 2013
Numerous Texas artisans honored at Good Food Awards in San Francisco
A myriad of Texas artisans and culinary businesses were recognized at the Good Food Awards Ceremony in San Francisco this weekend. The ceremony was hosted by well-known food activist Alice Waters.In the beer category, both Independence Brewing Co.‘s Convict Hill Stout and Jester King Craft Brewery‘s Boxer’s
Sports
January 22, 2013
The Dallas Stars’ Special Guest: “Manti Te’o’s Girlfriend”
The Stars' first game of the lockout-shortened NHL season was an announced sellout, but at least one seat in the American Airlines Center appeared "empty," as the team had a little fun with last week's biggest sports story.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
The way politics ought to be
I’m not a regular reader of RedState.com, but I was struck by the piece Erick Erickson posted late yesterday about President Obama and his second inauguration. The headline of the column is “The Loyal Opposition,” and I’d like to take the liberty of posting it here in its entirety:Congratulations
Eat My Words
January 21, 2013
Houston bar OKRA Charity Saloon gets a mention in The New York Times
Yesterday, The New York Times featured a story on a new breed of bars popping up around the United States: charitable bars. The newspaper noted that a “new generation of beer halls dedicated to something beyond the cash register is cropping up around the nation and the world, with
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Recommended reading: John Weaver on the future of the GOP
This article appeared in RealClearPolitics last week. Scott Conroy writes about Texas Republican consultant John Weaver’s concern about extremism in the Republican party: For Republican operatives who believe their party’s core has taken a self-destructive turn to the far right — and that the GOP must recalibrate significantly in
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Up and Eat ’Em
Breakfast isn’t just the most important meal of the day. As determined by our exhaustive survey of the state’s best bacon, eggs, pancakes, migas, biscuits, tacos, kolaches, grits, pie, pan dulce, and more, it’s also the most delicious.
Weekend Getaways
January 20, 2013
Endless Summer
There are plenty of unpleasant reasons to take a staycation this summer, from the collapse of your 401(k) to the global outbreak of swine flu, but there are plenty of pleasant ones too. For the thirteen weekends between the first day of summer (June 21) and the first day of
Travel & Outdoors
January 20, 2013
The 40 Best Small-Town Cafes
Our exhaustive, exhausting, strictly scientific (and lamentably fattening) survey of the finest home cooking around, from Maxine’s on Main, in Bastrop, to El Paraiso, in Zapata.
Sports
January 18, 2013
Lance Tells Oprah What We All Already Knew
Armstrong's confession made for titillating television, but it didn't really offer anything unexpected.
Sports
January 18, 2013
NFL Playoffs: Let’s Root for the Placekickers
All four remaining NFL teams have their share of Texas college football favorites, but--sorry Red Raiders--you can't seriously expect us to root for San Francisco or New England, right?
Sports
January 16, 2013
Could the NFL Draft Be a 1-2 Aggies Sweep?
ESPN guru Mel Kiper Jr.’s first NFL draft projection of 2013 has Texas A&M offensive tackle Luke Joeckel as the top pick, followed immediately by Aggies defensive end Damontre Moore.
Sports
January 15, 2013
Texas: It’s Where College Football Players Come From
An ESPN analysis of "recruiting migration" trends among Top 20 college football teams found one thing never changes: Texas had the most players in both 1940 and 2010.
Sports
January 14, 2013
The Houston Texans’ Season, RIP: September 9, 2012-January 13, 2013
What people are saying about Gary Kubiak, Matt Schaub, and the Texans defense after their 41-28 loss to the New England Patriots.
Sports
January 10, 2013
The Aggie Butterfly Effect: What if A&M Had Stayed?
Does Texas A&M’s Cotton Bowl dominance of Oklahoma mean the Aggies would have had an even better season had they stayed in the Big 12? No.
Sports
January 9, 2013
Dallas Cowboys’ Twitter Smack Backfires
Scoreboard! @DallasStars won Twitter Tuesday with their response to @DallasCowboys’ accidental smack-tweet, which also dissed the Rangers.
Sports
January 8, 2013
10 Hilariously Incorrect Predictions About Texas A&M
Anybody (including many Aggies) who said they expected Texas A&M's first season in the Southeastern Conference to go so well is lying. But it's still funny to look back at all the naysayers.
Sports
January 8, 2013
Breaking: Johnny Football is a College Student
A&M QB Johnny Manziel has a little fun post-Cotton Bowl, to the delight of TMZ, and the distress of some prigs in the media.
Sports
January 7, 2013
Bearkats Fall in Frisco
The University of Texas is still the state's last college football team to win a national championship, as Sam Houston State loses the FCS title to North Dakota State for the second straight year.
Sports
January 7, 2013
Are the Houston Texans a “Tomato Can?”
Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy says the New England Patriots, which hosts Houston on Sunday, is “the first team in NFL history to get back-to-back byes before advancing to the conference championship game.”
Sports
January 4, 2013
VIDEO: That Time There Was a One-Point Safety in a UT-A&M Game
How rare was last night's one-point safety by Oregon against Kansas State? It's only happened once before in NCAA history: when UT did it against A&M eight years ago.
Sports
January 4, 2013
Our Question For UT Fans: Aggies or Sooners?
Friday's Cotton Bowl gives Longhorns fans a chance to decide which team they hate more: the University of Oklahoma, or Texas A&M.
Sports
January 3, 2013
Six Thoughts About the Cotton Bowl
Kansas St. and Oregon who? Arlington's the center of our college football universe, as Texas A&M plays Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Friday.
Sports
January 2, 2013
Ranking the Texas Bowl Games So Far
Teams from Texas—all former members of the Southwest Conference—went 5-1 in the pre-New Year's college football bowls.
Sports
January 2, 2013
Are the Houston Texans Doomed?
The Texans' month-long dive from top team in the AFC to number three seed with no bye week has fans and sports scribes talking like the franchise didn't even make the playoffs.
Eat My Words
October 29, 2011
Fine Advice for the TMBBQ Festival from The Texanist
The barbecue bacchanal that is the Texas Monthly BBQ Festival is set to be, for the second year in row, an awe-inspiring helping of the very best barbecue in Texas (and therefore the world).
Best and Worst Legislators
June 30, 1973
1973: The Ten Best (And, Sigh, The Ten Worst) Legislators
Competition was fierce and the winners in both categories are outstanding.