The Texanist: Are There Any Decent Dance Halls Left?
A Corpus Christi man pines for the days of two-stepping on those long wooden planks.
A Corpus Christi man pines for the days of two-stepping on those long wooden planks.
Whether I lived in Chicago, Germany, or Dallas, I came to recognize one thing: it’s impossible to leave the borderlands behind.
Plus, self-defense with a scooter.
My father always pampered his pets. So when he fell ill and moved in with us, it was no surprise that his corgi came to rule our home. What I didn’t expect was for Trilby to care for me after Dad was gone.
It's the opposite of a bum steer.
The Bird Bakery CEO talks Texas cravings and rates Armie Hammer as an ”Instagram husband.”
The power of social media. And donuts.
A Texan who spent a quarter of a century in Massachusetts is flummoxed by his former neighbors’ footwear foolishness.
When we put out a call for short-and-sweet notes about our state, you did not disappoint.
A newcomer to East Texas thinks it’s fine to dispatch venomous snakes on sight.
We talked to an expert to understand the Texan typo, for once and forth all.
A new arrival from Colorado wants the true-blue info on the red-meat special.
The missive was part of a 1962 study that attempted to track the flow of ocean currents.
The railway and Marfa are forever intertwined.
Plus, twins born a week apart, and a driving dalmatian.
What does Texas mean to you? Is it ”Dairy Queen on a summer night”? ”Risking everything for a bluebonnet photo”?
When life handed Mary Lee of Magnolia Lee Baking dinosaurs, she made dino-valentines.
What better way to show your love for Donut Taco Palace than with a song called “Donut Taco Palace”?
A newcomer to the state is looking for a cinematic introduction to his adopted home.
Plus, rap from San Antonio, essays from Houston, and landscape photography from across the state.
70-year-old Ken had been living off the grid for 25 years when he fell ill.
A McKinney man thinks our fearless columnist isn't as sharp as he used to be.
In our February “Love Letters to Texas” collector’s issue, the Texanist takes a walk down memory lane.
Texas Monthly has been giving Texans, both new and old, insights into this exceptional state for nearly half a century. Our February 2019 collector’s issue curates stories from our archives that celebrate the Texas icons and oddities that so many of us treasure, and reflect our love of the state’s
Appreciations by current and former staffers who know them all too well.
Over the years, Texas Monthly’s most celebrated voices have written about the places that shaped them, from the Panhandle to the border. We revisit some of the classics.
When no next of kin could be located, Texans showed up en masse to make sure this veteran’s service was honored at his burial.
A soldier stationed in Afghanistan is looking forward to coming home.
Cancer sucks, but the timing couldn’t have been more fortuitous.
A Connecticut Yankee new to San Antonio’s social circuit is vexed by an invitation’s dress code.
Icons and archetypes that reveal what it means to be Texan.
A Fort Worth man can’t bottle up his confusion any longer.
An Austin man thinks everyone knows that water turns to ice at 32 degrees.
A segregated school for Mexican American children until 1965, the building now serves as a community center and celebration of Hispanic life.
A Sherman woman thinks the gravy-laden slab of breaded meat deserves its due.
A Canada man has a few questions about the Austin establishment immortalized in a Guy Clark song.
Plus, moviegoing rodents and a man who thought it was a good idea to steal a police cruiser.
A young Aggie just wants everyone to like his Wisconsin-raised sweetheart.
Without a good shoeing, a horse can indeed be lost. Enter the farrier.
Plus, an eleven-year-old’s pet beagle saves her from an abduction attempt.
A resident of Phoenix isn't sure her fellow Arizonans should be using that word so cavalierly.
A Boerne woman wonders if other Americans are as smitten as we are with the outlines of their states.
A Houston man wants to know what his options are when that dreaded day finally comes.
A California man wonders why people are angry at everyone's favorite Texas country artist
Plus, a very flattering mug shot and a doggy-door intrusion.
An Austin man is confused by all those new-fangled beer cans at his local grocery store.
A San Antonio man is tired of the grouchy guy two rows behind him.
A Lone Star native who has lived in the Northeast for nearly four decades is nervous about socializing when she's back at home.
Is it a pleasant smell, or is it just creepy? In this episode of "Little Known Fact," David Courtney finds a link between bacteria on a dog's paws and everyone's favorite corn chip.
A man raised in Sulphur Springs pines for a long-lost North Texas favorite.