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.
The state’s top offerings and events, from a photography exhibit about stray dogs to a race for the fastest horse in Texas.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
Readers respond to the July 2014 issue.
The state’s top offerings and events, from attending a David Lynch retrospective to celebrating the moon.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
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.
By Skip Hollandsworth and Texas Monthly
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.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
The state's top offerings, from iconic album covers in Lubbock to a tepee work of art in San Antonio.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
The state's top offerings, from dancing frogs in Dallas to the sounds of a supergroup in San Antonio.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
The state's top offerings, from Centro-matic's last tour stop in Dallas to a soapbox derby for grown-ups in Marble Falls.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
How did he perform in eight areas that are critical to the state? The grade book is now open.
The state's top offerings, from death-defying dives in Fort Worth to gator-wrestling in Beaumont.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
The state's top offerings, from a unique perspective on meat in Dallas to summer camp for grown-ups in Marfa.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
The state's top offerings, from iconic pop art in San Antonio to a fiddling extravaganza in Athens.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
A look at George Strait's (never-changing) look.
The evolution of Strait's albums.
The state's top offerings, from seeing celebrity softball in Round Rock to hearing the harrowing tale of a Navy SEAL in Houston.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
The state's top offerings, from a camping-concert experience near Austin to a sure-to-be spirited discussion with Larry McMurty in Dallas.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
The state's top offerings, from crazy cardboard watercrafts in Arlington to the imaginative talent of Trenton Doyle Hancock in Houston.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
The state's top offerings, from a bevy of food and drink in Sugar Land to a John Wayne bonanza in Dallas.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
How San Antonio is schooling the next generation of top chefs.
By Courtney Bond and Texas Monthly
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.
By Rob Heidrick and Texas Monthly
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?
By Jason Stanford and Texas Monthly
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.
By Rob Heidrick and Texas Monthly
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.
By Jeff Beckham and Texas Monthly
The state's top offerings, from celebrating the mud dauber in Luckenbach to cheering on obstacle course contestants in Smithville.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
The state's top offerings, from Edward Snowden's speech at SXSW to the Texas artists you need to know about now.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
Searching for signs of greatness in the tepid rom-coms of this year’s best actor.
By Stephen Harrigan and Texas Monthly
The state's top offerings, from another British invasion (sort of) to an education revolution.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
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.
By J.C. Reid and Texas Monthly
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.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
How Dallas’s Trinity Groves gives new restaurants a leg up.
By June Naylor and Texas Monthly
The state's top offerings, from seeing Sam Shepherd's manuscripts up close and personal to saving the world's whooping cranes.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
After the earthquakes in the Barnett Shale, some small-town citizens underwent a surprising transformation.
By Erica Grieder and Texas Monthly
The state's top offerings, from a photographic essay on mental illness to musings on God and the prospect of nuclear war.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
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).
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
Congratulations, Texas Monthly, you're the Bum Steer of the Month.
By Texas Monthly and Texas Monthly
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.
By Erica Grieder and Texas Monthly
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.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
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.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
The state's top offerings, from Pop Art cave relic paintings to awe-inspiring NASA imagery set to an out-of-this-world symphony.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
The state's top events and offerings, from Amanda Shires channeling Leonard Cohen to a classic NBA showdown.
By Michael Hoinski and Texas Monthly
Bum Steers is an attitude! Bum Steers is a lifestyle! And, best of all, now Bum Steers is a chance to shop!
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 week.
How budget cuts are affecting the number of open teaching positions in our public schools.
By Jeff Salamon and Texas Monthly
A few of our favorite reviews of the "dinosaur erotica" a couple of A&M grads are writing.
Miriam Martinez, Linda Vega, and Leticia Van de Putte take to the ticket.
By Dan Solomon and Texas Monthly
Is Charlotte Allen Houston's true founder?
By Mimi Swartz and Texas Monthly
What to see, hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Jeff Salamon and Texas Monthly
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.
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.
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.
By Brian D. Sweany and Texas Monthly