Reporting and commentary on Texas businesses and the trends and innovation happening in our state
Long before it became a meme stock, the Grapevine-based video game retailer lodged itself in the hearts of a generation entranced by the storytelling it found inside those plastic boxes.
The tech titan and the furniture maven are more alike than you may think.
The coolers we keep say something real about the state we’re in.
It took him a while to get here, but now he’s out to transform our state with new technologies—if our leaders’ hostility toward renewable energy (and his Twitter misadventures) don’t get in the way.
The Pflugerville-based chain of local newspapers has somehow managed to thrive even as its industry struggles to survive.
John Urban is a retired minister whose toy tinkering has become more than just a hobby.
Let’s crunch the numbers on what it would cost to avoid another “oakpocalypse.”
Heidi Frazier opened 40 Acre Wood over ten years ago with a mission to make books accessible to any and all readers in the small town of Lexington.
Even when interest rates are high, people want a place where they can hunt actual bucks.
Before its recent troubles, the industry giant seemed like the airline to beat.
Why the grocery chain’s rise has proven unstoppable.
The names have changed over the decades, but through it all, Texas remains a place where money gets made—and spent.
How the aeronautical industry’s profit motive achieved escape velocity.
Its recent troubles notwithstanding, the Dallas-based brand remains a shrine to good taste.
The once modest coming-out parties have had a coming-out of their own.
The state avoided a disaster during the recent Arctic blast, but a sizable number of electricity generators still struggled in the cold.
When Bruno went missing, Alex Reyna lost a key member of his oil-field crew.
The Dallas-based airline has always lagged behind in technology. Its leaders saw that as a feature, not a bug.
Here’s what half a billion dollars buys in luxury golf amenities.
The real estate developer who engineered a deal to buy the 134-year-old minor league baseball franchise thinks new team ownership can help transform the city’s urban core.
Peter Brodsky could have retired on the wealth he built taking over billion-dollar companies. So why has he bet millions on a shopping center in southern Dallas?
On a farm near Flatonia, Mike Shellman closes the chapter on nearly sixty years in the business.
The convenience of the store’s grocery-pickup service comes at a small financial cost. The personal price is up to you.
Austin’s Siete Family Foods—known for its grain-free tortillas—employs seven family members and is poised to outpace some of the nation’s largest legacy brands.
Based in San Antonio, BE&SCO perfected the appliance behind everybody’s favorite flatbread—and changed how Mexican restaurants operate.
When Texas Monthly covered Enron's fall in 2001, we wondered if the company was an outlier or the new normal. There's no longer any question.
The grocery chain opens its first north Dallas–Fort Worth location and hopes thousands of newly arrived Texans will understand its twang.
Stacy Brown of Arlington was just the character to reignite my love of muscle cars.
With workers continuing to stay home post-pandemic and housing in short supply, developers in the state’s largest metros are giving a second life to old buildings.
Texas Monthly’s barbecue editor goes all in on Wagyu beef—and the Texans who produce it.
Ste. Genevieve, which debuted in the 1980s, was the pride of Fort Stockton. Now the community and the state’s wine industry mourn its loss.
Jahmicah Dawes opened his idiosyncratic outdoors shop, in Stephenville, hoping to inspire people from all walks to explore natural spaces. Then a brush with viral fame changed everything.
Why a host of Texas notables, from Steve Kuhn to Brené Brown, are investing heavily in the popular sport.
Texas Monthly writer Jan Jarboe Russell on profiling the larger-than-life Houston oilman Oscar Wyatt.
The oil giant this week announced quarterly earnings that set an all-time record for any Texas business. That’s both good and bad news for the state.
Cart.com’s Omair Tariq is out to prove his tech company is a giant-killer.
At a recent expo in Houston, innovators claimed they can spare us a global catastrophe—and make billions in the process.
I’ve visited the T. C. Lindsey & Co. General Store multiple times over the years, but our most recent visit was a surprise in the best possible way.
Our state struggles to serve Texans’ needs on the hottest and coldest days. So why are we welcoming the energy-hogging cryptocurrency industry?
Mimi Swartz reflects on her deep dive into Houston’s breast-implant boom and its larger-than-life profiteers.
Getting a haircut in a small town used to be a story-finding strategy for Texas Country Reporter, but the tale of Blanche Harris is one of my favorites.
Performance Plus in Odessa is an auto shop that doubles as an archive of the toys of yesteryear.
No matter the time of day or night, Victor Laramore will make keys, rebuild locks, and open doors for a desperate Texan who is having a bad day.
Patching it cost the state $1.6 million. Many others are similarly falling into disrepair, and the agencies charged with their oversight are doing nothing about them.
Near Fort Stockton, Hoven Riley has been quietly growing more than 20,000 of the prized plants, which are being illicitly uprooted from public and private lands to meet a growing demand.
Digital currencies are tanking, but that didn’t stop more than 20,000 blockchain enthusiasts from throwing a week-long party.
The Dallas carrier—whose success is often studied in business schools—offers up its own, self-promotional version of its management secrets.
Bobby Sakowitz dressed Houston’s most stylish through the seventies and eighties boom years. Then things went bust.
Goodbye to one of Houston’s most colorful colorless characters.
As rumors swirl about the origins of the crisis, West Texas parents turn to one another for help.
