The Texanist
April 7, 2018
The Texanist: Hi, I’m From East Texas! Uh, Where Is That, Exactly?
A Dallas man who grew up in East Texas isn't sure his home region actually exists.
Being Texan
The Texanist
March 31, 2018
The Texanist: Did Tennessee Give Our Flag the Lone Star?
A Kaufman man vacationing in the Volunteer State hears a claim about the Texas flag that just can't be true. Can it?
The Texanist
March 24, 2018
The Texanist: Is It Safe to Drink Really Old Dr Pepper?
An Odessa woman is still working her way through her private Dublin stash.
Arts & Entertainment
March 20, 2018
The Last Stand at Alamo Village
Remembering "The Alamo" through souvenir shot glasses, John Wayne toilet paper, and the family that brought the 1960 classic to Texas.
The Texanist
March 17, 2018
The Texanist: Please Get That Chevy Silverado Out of My Parking Garage!
An irate truck owner may need to take a long, hard look in the rearview mirror.
Texas History
March 8, 2018
Talk Like a Texan: To Chunk, or to Chuck?
Welcome to chunking territory.
Being Texan
March 6, 2018
How the Alamo Got Its Hump
The “ridiculous scroll” didn’t top the structure until after the Battle of the Alamo.
The Texanist
March 3, 2018
The Texanist: Why Did So Many Important Events Occur in March?
An El Paso man thinks he's got a good candidate for Texas History Month. Is he right? Yes, but . . .
Being Texan
March 1, 2018
Talk Like a Texan: The Pronunciation of Bowie Knife, Jim Bowie, and David Bowie
A pronunciation investigation involving two Bowie men known for living large.
Being Texan
February 27, 2018
Talk Like a Texan: The Story Behind the Houstonian “Feeder Road”
One of the last markers of the Houstonian dialect dates back to the Southern Pacific Railroad.
The Texanist
February 24, 2018
The Texanist: Cargo Shorts and Flip Flops at Gruene Hall? Really?
A New Braunfels man thinks that Texas's oldest dance hall deserves a little more respect.
The Texanist
February 17, 2018
The Texanist: Contemplating the ‘Texas Exit’
A Wichita Man is Curious About Our Occasional Habit of Jumping a Highway Ditch.
Texas History
February 16, 2018
Talk Like a Texan: What Do We Mean By “Fair to Middlin’ ”?
It's better than good—at least if you're talking about cotton quality.
The Texanist
February 10, 2018
The Texanist: Isn’t the Summer Heat Great? Or is That Just Me?
In the midst of a cold, wet winter, an Abilene woman longs for the dog days of August.
Texas History
February 6, 2018
Talk Like a Texan: How Texans Use “Down,” “Out,” “Over,” and “Up”
Prepositionally, you can go over or out to Abilene—depending on where you're coming from.
The Texanist
February 2, 2018
The Texanist: Why Don’t Breakfast Burritos Get Any Love?
A Texas Tech undergrad makes the case for the breakfast taco's not-so-poor relation.
The Texanist
January 27, 2018
The Texanist: Any Recommendations for a Big Bend Newbie?
A 39-year resident of Houston is gearing up for his first experience of the greatest road trip Texas has to offer.
Art
January 23, 2018
Boyd Elder Is the Most Famous Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
The West Texan has sold more art than Picasso.
The Texanist
January 20, 2018
The Texanist: Are the Texas Rangers for Real?
A California transplant wonders if the Texas Rangers exist only on the small screen.
The Texanist
January 13, 2018
The Texanist: What’s With All the Cheap-Looking Black-Painted Cowboy Hats?
A Flatonia man thinks Tim McGraw can afford a better looking cowboy hat
Being Texan
December 23, 2017
Love and Masa: 45 Years of One Family’s Tamalada
Using their grandmother’s recipe—and a ranking system—the Ruiz women have gathered since 1972 to make tamales and strengthen ties.
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Being Texan
December 19, 2017
Heroes from the Storm: Stories of the Texas Spirit After Hurricane Harvey
Texas filmmaker Ben Steinbauer directs this showcase of resilience, profiling different Texans who came together to help others in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
Being Texan
October 1, 2017
Voices from the Storm
The story of Hurricane Harvey, as told by 28 Texans who helped their state through its darkest hour.
Being Texan
July 21, 2017
Love and Loss on the Great Plains
The day the fire came to the Franklin Ranch.
The Texanist
July 15, 2017
The Texanist on Whether It’s a Good Idea to Take One of Those Pricey Yeti Cups Tubing
And the proper placement of horseshoes over doorways for the best good luck.
Being Texan
June 21, 2017
Calling Dr. Chilton
Getting to the bottom of the baffling backstory of Lubbock’s legendary lemony libation—one refreshing sip at a time.
Film & TV
May 2, 2017
The Edge of Youth — Video
Understanding the fear and determination that faces us at the edge of youth.
Being Texan
April 19, 2017
3,822 Miles
Seeing, and understanding, our land and its borders anew—in a Cessna 182 Skylane.
Border & Immigration
April 19, 2017
Welcome to the Edge
Our editor-in-chief on the making of the May 2017 issue.
Being Texan
April 19, 2017
It Can’t All Be Energy
A heart surgeon leads his city to the forefront of medical innovation.
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Being Texan
April 19, 2017
The Hungry Tide
On the coast, nothing is permanent.
Style & Design
April 19, 2017
A Home of Last Resort
Breaking ground— and betting big—on a doomsday community for the rich.
Being Texan
April 19, 2017
Little Town on the Prairie
A struggling community forges a life for itself against the odds.
Film & TV
April 19, 2017
Get the Picture?
A filmmaker’s effort to share stories from her home turf, one female-directed movie at a time.
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Being Texan
April 19, 2017
This American Life
Twenty years ago, a brown-skinned boy was shot to death near the Rio Grande. What fate awaits my own son?
Arts & Entertainment
April 19, 2017
Inside Out
A group of young activists reclaim the language and words that have been used to define them.
Being Texan
April 19, 2017
What Wall?
How a civic-minded, cowboy-themed party came to represent an identity that’s not so easily split.
Texas History
February 9, 2017
Say It Ain’t So, Davy
The truth hurts, as historians discovered when they broke the news that Crockett surrendered.
Texas History
June 20, 2016
So Long, Little Dogies
The great trail drives head for the last roundup.
Texas History
June 13, 2016
Bane of the Baptists
Brann becomes a casualty in his own war with the Baptists. Texas Collection of Baylor University“In the year of our Lord, 1891, I became pregnant with an idea. Being at the time chief editorial writer on the Houston Post, I felt dreadfully mortified, as nothing
Music
November 30, 2015
Tiny Band, Big Heart
On New Year’s Day, the largest high school marching band in the country will represent Texas on the national stage. The Allen High School Escadrille will take 725 of its 774 members to Pasadena, California, to march in the Tournament of Roses Parade, a prestigious honor that took two years
Being Texan
October 21, 2015
G-G-Ghost Stories
All Hallows Eve, which descends from the grand Celtic festival of the dead, was stirring up a cauldron of supernatural activity long before kids started donning costumes to harvest candy from the neighbors. But, alas, for some time, Halloween and the belief in spirits of the departed have
Country Notes
April 10, 2015
Let’s Dance
In Marfa, a big night out means one thing above all: the cumbia.
Being Texan
March 25, 2015
Welcome to Texas!
Every day more than a thousand people move to the Lone Star State. Lucky enough to be a new arrival? This crash course will get you thinking, eating, and talking like a native in no time. (Lucky enough to already be a native? You’ll be reminded of all the reasons
Being Texan
June 10, 2013
Act of Faith
Once a year, a San Antonio congregation relives Jesus’ last days—and leaves the cellphones at home.
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Texas History
March 11, 2013
Sarah Haldeman, Presidential Archivist
“I get to see things other people don’t get to see.”
Texas History
January 21, 2013
People We’ll Miss
Big Tex will be back. Sadly, we cannot the say same of Larry Hagman, Darrell Royal, Amarillo Slim, Leslie, and the many other Texans we lost in 2012.
Texas History
January 20, 2013
Meanwhile, Back at the Cadillac Ranch
It’s not just another roadside attraction—here’s to a lasting monument of Texas kitsch.
Texas History
January 20, 2013
Texas Primer: Barbed Wire
It spelled the end of the open range and the beginning of modern Texas.
Being Texan
January 20, 2013
The Last Empire
The King Ranch saga: how one family conquered, tamed, loved, toiled on, and fought over a great piece of Texas.