In Wichita Falls, Airport Officials Are Waging War on Egrets
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a bird crashing into a plane!
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a bird crashing into a plane!
While the Kyle Fair’s Guinness World Record attempt fell short, it was a fun, absurd celebration of a much-maligned name.
In Fort Worth, true crime–obsessed citizen detectives have banded together to dig up new evidence for their pet cases.
The real history is much messier—and more inspiring.
The Geto Boys and Selena set the stage in the early nineties for the transformation of Texas music.
An Austin man wants to know whether Austin’s Scholz Garten or San Antonio’s Menger Bar can claim the title of oldest continually operating bar in the state.
Plus, a man and his parrot made the scene at Whataburger, and someone really, really wanted to catch a Megan Thee Stallion show.
He's from California, but we're still proud of him and his namesake.
Charismatic German immigrant Hans Nagel revolutionized the Houston Zoo and kept it afloat during the Great Depression.
As I untangled Chris’s affairs, I discovered a trove of books, letters, and unarticulated love.
Friedrich Ernst’s missive portrayed Texas as a paradise. His wife and daughter begged to differ.
In the eighties, petroleum prices went through the roof, and Texans, flush with cash, went a little crazy—before it all came crashing down. Will we ever learn?
A New Mexico resident is puzzled by all the female Jimmies and Johnnies.
Author John Phillip Santos’s 2010 “Tejano elegy” explores family secrets that reveal “the deepest mysteries of being human.”
Are you ready to test your knowledge of all things Texan?
Plus, somebody slapped an H-E-B employee and nobody opened a satanic-themed hotel in Plano.
A nightmarish scene in Larry McMurtry’s epic novel triggered my unshakable—and completely illogical—fear of snakes.
The festival celebrates Earth, community, and the primal urge to build the tallest rock pile ever.
A serial escape artist, he’s coming to Texas after the Saint Louis Zoo couldn’t handle his wily ways.
The 19-mile Houston road isn't the kind of place tourists appreciate. But it's everything I love about my city.
I didn’t think I’d get to be a mom. Now that I am, the passage of time confounds me.
Collected in 1941, A. buceei languished in a drawer for decades.
In the end, it could only ever have been H-E-B.
It all comes down to this.
H-E-B. Whataburger. Blue Bell. Southwest Airlines. Four iconic Texas brands remain, but only one can be crowned champion of them all.
Blockbuster, Bookstop, Furr's, and their ilk are gone but not forgotten.
Can anything stop H-E-B? Plus: a recap of the bracket's tightest matchup yet, between Schlitterbahn and Austin City Limits.
Torchy’s flames out, Chili’s cools off, and Chip and Joanna Gaines get fixer-uppered—while H-E-B, Whataburger, and Dr Pepper keep rolling.
The top seeds remain dominant, Mattress Mack scores an upset, and Dairy Queen faces a surprisingly tough test.
Mmmmm, tastes like red.
Netflix’s new docuseries revisits the 1993 standoff between David Koresh and the federal government without any agenda—or real purpose.
I can still smell its heavenly aroma.
Loyalty to your chosen brand of pickup runs deep in the Lone Star State.
Which of these 64 iconic Texas businesses is the most beloved? This March Madness, there’s only one way to find out—with your help.
A Port Arthur resident wants to know what’s wrong with “BBQ*GNG” and “[email protected]”
Every year, residents of the Texas border city compete to see who can give the best scream.
I long thought they were at odds, but after a summer in Texas and a deep dive into its history, I discovered that they have been married for decades.
Brands once staged elaborate productions for their employees. No one was better at making them than Mexia-born Michael Brown.
No, it doesn't involve a spoonful of sugar.
After years of opposition and delay, Waco finally has posted a historical marker about the 1916 murder of Jesse Washington.
It should be called F-T-B.
I left homogenized Austin for the Texas Gulf Coast—and felt right at home amid the Speedo-wearing bikers and chicken feet–fed alligators.
Long before quizzes littered the internet, TM’s Anne Dingus delighted readers with a hundred-question series that doubled as a “CliffsNotes of Texas history.”
The magazine’s back-page columnist explains the subtle shifts in his “Fine Advice and Keen Observations,” from 2007 through today.
. . . Y’all okay?
A San Antonio man is puzzled by a historical marker he encountered while visiting the Pine Tree State.
David Morring of Dallas’s Lerma is one of the creative minds behind the “He Gets Us” campaign, which targets “spiritually open skeptics.”
Some tasty lab-grown barbecue and a Dallas Cowboys postseason appearance may be in our distant future.
Why has San Antonio fallen behind Houston, Dallas, and Austin?
For more than fifty years, the state I call home has repeatedly surprised me. The Texas of 2023? Well, it’s got me thinking a lot about how far we have, and haven’t, come.