Six Must-Attend Events: July 18-24
The state’s top offerings and events, from attending a David Lynch retrospective to celebrating the moon.
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Is This the Most Dangerous Man in Texas?
University of Texas regent Wallace Hall has been accused of leading a witch hunt against UT-Austin president William Powers. But the Dallas investor insists he's doing his job. And he doesn't care what you think.
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 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.
Trip Guide: New Orleans
There is something wonderfully anachronistic about traveling by train in this modern age. And I’m not talking about workaday back-and-forth commuting on some dreary regional transit full of pallid stiffs. Quite the opposite: I mean real rail travel, travel the old-fashioned way—a weekend summer sojourn by way of a…
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.
Texas Business Report: Anadarko Petroleum Pays $5.1 Billion to Settle Pollution Case
The award—a record high for a Justice Department environmental settlement—will go toward restoring sites harmed by uranium mining, chemical manufacturing, waste dumps, and other operations overseen by Anadarko’s subsidiary Kerr-McGee.
Honey, I Want to Move to Mars
My wife is a semifinalist to board a one-way mission to the Red Planet. I’m proud, happy, and thrilled for her. Now, do you want to know how I really feel about it?
Texas Business Report: A High-Speed Rail Network Gets Fast-tracked
Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth are working with the private transportation company Texas Central High-Speed Railway to pursue its goal of transporting riders between the Houston and DFW metro areas in about ninety minutes.
You Shall Know His Velocity
Tyler Kolek is a hard-throwing high school senior from Shepherd. And he just may be the first pick in the Major League Baseball amateur draft.
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.
The Texanist
Our estimable advice columnist on equestrian liability, Texan genealogy, and Furr’s Fresh Buffet vs. Luby’s Cafeteria.
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.
Before the McConaissance
Searching for signs of greatness in the tepid rom-coms of this year’s best actor.
Six Must-Attend Events: February 28–March 6
The state's top offerings, from another British invasion (sort of) to an education revolution.
Hooking Houston on Bycatch
Over the past eight years P.J. Stoops, a Houston-based chef and fishmonger, has preached a quiet gospel: use every fish, and every part of the fish, in every part of the menu. It’s caught on.
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.
The List: Texas’s Best New Restaurants of 2014
Grab a table and get ready for a treat. The eating (and drinking) has never been better.
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.
Shaken and Stirred
After the earthquakes in the Barnett Shale, some small-town citizens underwent a surprising transformation.
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.
We Have Met the Idiot, and He Is Us
Congratulations, Texas Monthly, you're the Bum Steer of the Month.
Preview: The Man in the Arena
An excerpt from Erica Grieder’s February 2014 cover story on Senator Ted Cruz, which will officially hit newsstands (and the web) on January 22.
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: December 20–22
The state's top events and offerings, from Amanda Shires channeling Leonard Cohen to a classic NBA showdown.
The Bum Steer Catalog
Bum Steers is an attitude! Bum Steers is a lifestyle! And, best of all, now Bum Steers is a chance to shop!
And the 2014 Bum Steer Award Winners Are . . .
Editor’s Note: This year we partnered with our friends at Bum Steers News to bring you the most shocking, outrageous, and ridiculous Bum Steer issue ever. Below, you’ll find a preview of their incredible findings. The full report will be available on newsstands next…
Meanwhile, in Texas . . .
Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
Cutting Classes
How budget cuts are affecting the number of open teaching positions in our public schools.
The Year of the Statewide Latina
Miriam Martinez, Linda Vega, and Leticia Van de Putte take to the ticket.
The Checklist
What to see, hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
So How Bad Was 2013 for the Astros and Texans?
Fans thought the Astros and Texans were among the worst teams in professional sports last year, but stunning new revelations show just how bad they really were.
(Another) Shocking Dewhurst Phone Call!
In August a recording surfaced of the lieutenant governor asking the Allen Police Department to help spring a recently arrested relative from jail. As one unsuspecting pizza salesman also learned this year, it wasn't the only time the lite guv not so deftly attempted to throw his weight around.
Stuck in the Middle
Harry Reid to the left of him. The tea party to the right. Senator John Cornyn on the challenges of running a “big tent” GOP in a time of fierce partisanship.