
The Birth of Texas Monthly Is a Very Texan Story
On the occasion of our fiftieth anniversary, we reflect on how far we’ve come—and where we’re headed.
On the occasion of our fiftieth anniversary, we reflect on how far we’ve come—and where we’re headed.
Meet the folks behind our latest audio project, which grapples with the complicated legacy of the Texas Rangers.
Go behind the scenes with the inventive force shaping our photography and design.
Meet the editors and writers behind our award-winning food coverage.
For Texas Monthly’s latest cover story, our correspondent set out to capture the state’s plenitude of roadside quirks.
We’re on track to have nearly all our longform features online by the end of 2022.
Sarah Hepola’s cover story expertly examines the fifty-year history of the famous NFL cheerleading squad.
Newly named senior editors Rose Cahalan and Ben Rowen elevate our coverage of Texas’s wildlife and wild politics.
Texas Monthly makes it official with senior editors Jason Heid and Michael Hardy.
Texas Monthly welcomes a new deputy editor for digital journalism and celebrates a strong awards showing.
Arts and entertainment editor Josh Alvarez gets into the spirit of the story, no matter what he's working on.
Senior editor Dan Solomon reports on topics from the wacky to the weighty.
Three Texas Monthly staffers step into new roles as our storytelling expands.
Texas Monthly has a deal with HBO and is the new owner of ‘Texas Country Reporter.’
Our creative director, Emily Kimbro, and design director, Victoria Millner, keep Texas Monthly looking good.
Many new Texans quickly come to love what stirs the hearts of the native-born.
Barbecue editor Daniel Vaughn enlisted the largest group of tasters ever for this year's Top 50 BBQ list.
As Texas Monthly’s new energy editor, Russell Gold will dig deep into one of our state’s most crucial industries.
Mike Hall was recently honored for his incisive coverage of the Texas legal system, while Casey Gerald brought a singular voice to our cover story on Fort Worth singer-songwriter Leon Bridges.
J. K. Nickell, features director for ‘Texas Monthly,’ was instrumental in bringing this month's cover story to life.
Senior editor Paula Mejía, senior editor Josh Alvarez, and executive editor Courtney Bond plan to pursue compelling stories in the coming months.
Executive editor Kathy Blackwell and her team have chronicled the pandemic's impact on the employees and owners of Texas’s hospitality companies.
In this month’s cover package on the late Tejana singer Selena, we offer readers what we hope will be a welcome change of pace from our disaster coverage.
Two of our staffers have been ardent Hank the Cowdog fans since they were kids. Now they bring you this month's cover story on the creator of the beloved children's books.
How Skip Hollandsworth does it.
The team behind this month's well-red cover story.
We introduce you to Texas Monthly's newest editorial staff members.
When we started planning this issue, months ago, we had a fun lineup in mind. Then oil prices crashed and the coronavirus brought much of the state to a standstill.
And a special gift for subscribers!
Robert Draper, like the people he interviewed for this month's cover story, is driven by a need to understand the past.
On two generations of talented storytellers contributing to our pages.
With our hit Boomtown podcast, Texas Monthly is learning new ways to tell stories.
Plus, feeling grateful for our gimlet-eyed deputy editor, Jeff Salamon.
On bee stings and boots—both cowboy and combat.
On Texas Monthly’s newest hires.
On the battle over Texas history, a serial killer in Laredo, and more in our October issue.
On honky-tonks, a collaboration with the Texas Tribune, and more in our September issue.
A letter from our editor.
A letter from our editor.
A letter from our editor.
A letter from our editor.
A letter from our editor.
Something special.
TALK OF CHANGE AND REFORM has been in the air since the Sharpstown scandals more than perhaps at any time in our state’s history. Such talk is welcome, and, as most of us apparently felt in the last elections, mandatory. One imagines that talk of reform came as uncomfortably, but
‘Urban Cowboy’ rides again.
How Texas—and Texas Monthly—has changed.
Why our pictures are worth a thousand words.
IN NOVEMBER WE PUBLISHED A RANKING of 3,172 public grade schools in Texas, giving each school one of five grades, from four stars (the best) to no stars (the worst). This article provoked an unusual amount of mail. Some of the letters were barely restrained victory whoops from people connected
Anyone who knows executive editor Paul Burka would have a hard time imagining him as a cowboy, so perhaps it seems farfetched that he was the one to write this month’s story about the plight of a small working ranch in Uvalde (“Home on the Range”). “I’m a
In the summer of 1992, when Jason Cohen was a relatively unknown journalist and Matthew McConaughey was an extremely unknown actor, the two met on the Austin set of Dazed and Confused. “He looked so weird,” recalls 28-year-old Cohen, who was writing about the movie for Details. “He had