The Texanist: Who Uses Tortillas in a Sausage Wrap?
A Plano couple is feuding over what kind of bread product should encase a hot link.
A Plano couple is feuding over what kind of bread product should encase a hot link.
It’s hard not to like these guys.
A Yankee in exile misses the old days of playing air hockey and breathing in musty odors.
A Katy man is feeling awfully prickly about this botanical fallacy.
An Abilene man wants to know what our brew-lovin' columnist thinks of the mania for newfangled Texas ales.
A Tulsa woman thinks the king of western swing had a raunchy side. Her husband isn't buying it.
My cat was a fearless hunter who stalked the countryside—until she squared off with a rattlesnake.
She was only the second woman in U.S. history to have been married to one president and the mother of a second president.
A New York man wants to know everything there is to know about Texas toast.
A Dallas man who grew up in East Texas isn't sure his home region actually exists.
A Kaufman man vacationing in the Volunteer State hears a claim about the Texas flag that just can't be true. Can it?
An Odessa woman is still working her way through her private Dublin stash.
Remembering "The Alamo" through souvenir shot glasses, John Wayne toilet paper, and the family that brought the 1960 classic to Texas.
An irate truck owner may need to take a long, hard look in the rearview mirror.
Welcome to chunking territory.
The “ridiculous scroll” didn’t top the structure until after the Battle of the Alamo.
An El Paso man thinks he's got a good candidate for Texas History Month. Is he right? Yes, but . . .
A pronunciation investigation involving two Bowie men known for living large.
One of the last markers of the Houstonian dialect dates back to the Southern Pacific Railroad.
A New Braunfels man thinks that Texas's oldest dance hall deserves a little more respect.
A Wichita Man is Curious About Our Occasional Habit of Jumping a Highway Ditch.
It's better than good—at least if you're talking about cotton quality.
In the midst of a cold, wet winter, an Abilene woman longs for the dog days of August.
Prepositionally, you can go over or out to Abilene—depending on where you're coming from.
A Texas Tech undergrad makes the case for the breakfast taco's not-so-poor relation.
A 39-year resident of Houston is gearing up for his first experience of the greatest road trip Texas has to offer.
The West Texan has sold more art than Picasso.
A California transplant wonders if the Texas Rangers exist only on the small screen.
A Flatonia man thinks Tim McGraw can afford a better looking cowboy hat
Using their grandmother’s recipe—and a ranking system—the Ruiz women have gathered since 1972 to make tamales and strengthen ties.
Texas filmmaker Ben Steinbauer directs this showcase of resilience, profiling different Texans who came together to help others in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
The story of Hurricane Harvey, as told by 28 Texans who helped their state through its darkest hour.
The day the fire came to the Franklin Ranch.
And the proper placement of horseshoes over doorways for the best good luck.
Getting to the bottom of the baffling backstory of Lubbock’s legendary lemony libation—one refreshing sip at a time.
Understanding the fear and determination that faces us at the edge of youth.
Seeing, and understanding, our land and its borders anew—in a Cessna 182 Skylane.
Our editor-in-chief on the making of the May 2017 issue.
A heart surgeon leads his city to the forefront of medical innovation.
On the coast, nothing is permanent.
Breaking ground— and betting big—on a doomsday community for the rich.
A struggling community forges a life for itself against the odds.
A filmmaker’s effort to share stories from her home turf, one female-directed movie at a time.
Twenty years ago, a brown-skinned boy was shot to death near the Rio Grande. What fate awaits my own son?
A group of young activists reclaim the language and words that have been used to define them.
How a civic-minded, cowboy-themed party came to represent an identity that’s not so easily split.
The truth hurts, as historians discovered when they broke the news that Crockett surrendered.
The great trail drives head for the last roundup.
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
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