Louise Raggio fought to pass a landmark law that gave equal rights to Texas women.
Chefs, musicians, gardeners, and one very enthusiastic librarian tell Texas Monthly about their New Year’s rituals and plans for 2021.
From a homing pigeon in flight to a kayaking trip on the lower Pecos River, these are our favorite images from the year.
All the Fine Advice you'll need to make sure the new year is much, much, much better than the last.
Ellie, who lives with autism, has struggled with the loss of routine wrought by the pandemic. But her enthusiasm has buoyed both of us.
Watch the video to follow Bobby Richardson and others as they deliver food, and support, to the families along their routes.
I’ve been living in my house for 31 years, and I never had a mouse in the house. Well, a few days after Thanksgiving I found a candy wrapper on the floor beneath my kitchen compactor. It was one of those Kind bars, with nuts in them. I
Try your hand at gardening, stargazing, mixing the world’s easiest cocktail, and much more with this handy guide.
An Austin man is skeptical that a company held by a Chicago investment firm can claim that distinction.
Tootsie Tomanetz, for one, is capping off this pandemic year with lots and lots of Christmas lights.
These are our favorite quotes from the actors, musicians, business leaders, and other prominent people who appeared in our pages.
During a very tough year, no Texas CEO did more—for customers, students, and voters.
They know what you did this summer.
How a Texas Ranger’s personal mythology came to be accepted as popular history.
Plus, an intoxicated passenger forced a plane heading to Houston to land early in Alabama.
When my Austin lessons went virtual, I discovered the joy—and distraction—in thinking about unfamiliar pronunciation, irregular verbs, and past tenses in these challenging times.
An Oregon transplant is hoping he can find a few places to cast a line in his adopted state.
The Lions have been mired in mediocrity—but Deshaun and the Texans may have helped break the fever.
In a nondescript space outside Austin, the team behind these world-renowned guitars carry on the exacting legacy of their founder.
Let people have some joy for once in their lives.
A Houston exhibit of images scavenged from junk shops and flea markets offers a view of the past that anticipates the present.
George McJunkin found a prehistoric bison skeleton that upended theories about human existence in the Americas.
Plus, a horse cloned from an endangered Mongolian breed was born at a Canyon veterinary hospital.
A Belfast woman is looking for a few good corn husks.
The version of Texas history taught in school is often anglicized and sanitized. We examine how one textbook falls short.
Follow writer Peter Holley as he explores some of the city's traditional-medicine and faith-healing establishments.
The version of Texas history taught in school is often anglicized and sanitized. We examine how one textbook falls short.
Stuttering is finally in the spotlight, thanks to Joe Biden’s campaign and the announcement of a groundbreaking new University of Texas research center. But it’s always been part of my life.
A Midland woman wonders what to do if she meets a member of the family Ursidae in the wild.
The version of Texas history I learned in school was woefully incomplete. And, according to two historians, this 2016 textbook is, too.
A day in the not-so-secret life of bees.
The ofrenda we build to honor loved ones will include not only our distant past but also the very sorrow that we’re living through now.
Plus, fifty thousand purple martins descended on a parking lot in McAllen.
In 1963, Lackland Air Force Base experienced a cataclysmic explosion. People thought World War III had started. Today, it's been almost completely forgotten.
An Austin man ponders the unthinkable.
South Texas queens who put on a wig, makeup, and heels are rebelling against a culture that has long been steeped in machismo.
A Houston mom has had it with Minecraft.
In the first film for our new Being Texan docuseries, three pint-size cowboys make their inaugural rides on flesh-and-blood steers.
A resident of “The Texas of Canada” is having second thoughts about retiring to the Lone Star State.
The Houston teacher and nonprofit leader talks about dismantling racism in yoga.
As monuments to slaveholders, Confederate soldiers, and Texas Rangers disappear across the state, we’re being forced to reconsider what should be honored, what should be commemorated, and what it’s time to let go of.
Social distancing on a ranch in South Texas, one writer finds a diversion—and a sort of community—in studying the fragments of English dinnerware her predecessors left behind.
The multimedia oral history project features the stories of queer people, many of them Texans, who live outside cities.
A Texas transplant to California is unhappy about the ubiquity of the “nasty and repugnant weed."
A Sugar Land man wants to know if his friend from out of state could be the official greeter at the State Fair of Texas.
We pulled up and opened the trunks of our hearts, and the Harris County Public Library’s instantly iconic pitchman quickly deposited himself inside.
A mainstay of Dallas queer nightlife, Sue Ellen's is thought to be one of about ten lesbian bars left in the U.S.
Despite the popular sunscreen brand's success and New York expansion, its founder says Texas is home.
Living hard and free, cedar choppers clashed with respectable townsfolk in the mid-20th century.
A Texan deployed overseas wants to know if there’s any foodstuff weirder than armadillo tail with gravy. (There is.)
