For years, Austin drivers have passed by a familiar mural on North Lamar that recalls the fatal consequences of drinking and driving. But Mary Boyd and Bruce David Johnson's story isn't just theirs—it's the community's.
They have fled war-torn countries, given up livelihoods, and left behind possessions and family for the safety of a foreign world of cowboy hats and Walmarts. But the refugees who land in Amarillo’s Astoria Park have an ally who understands their confusion and loss: a 64-year-old former teacher named Miss
She died twenty years ago, when I was ten. Yet even as the distance grows, I've found a way to keep her close.
Forty years ago I built forts on Bird Creek, raced at the roller rink, and watched my dad run for mayor of Temple.
Who needs the playoffs? After years (and years and years) of heartache, Houston has fallen for the Astros all over again.
How Chip and Joanna Gaines are renovating Waco’s reputation, one home at a time.
How the Boy Scouts came to matter to me once again.
The scion of one of Laredo’s first families wants to build a mammoth landfill on his ranch. But the opposition is fierce and vocal—and backed by none other than his uncle and his cousin.
Welcome to Camp Honey Creek for girls, where the years tick by but time stands still.
The story behind the tip of a lifetime.
My all-time favorite hamburger came from the Country Burger, my family's beloved neighborhood restaurant in Plano.
Do it for the children.
Life along the Pedernales was everything one could hope for—until it wasn’t.
I never knew my father, a decorated World War II pilot who died before I was born. But a trek at age 67 to the site where his airplane crashed brought me closer to him than I’d ever dared hope.
Two tales of fathers and sons.
Getting wet, getting scared, and getting my family a little closer to Texas at Schlitterbahn.
How Lubbock’s prairie dogs taught me the meaning of home.
Guns have always been part of my life, and I’ve never forgotten the lesson I learned the first time I fired one.
They should get their brisket sometime before their tenth anniversary.
An exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming book by Jenni Finlay and Brian T. Atkinson.
The descendants of Richard and Henrietta King do hereby invite you into the King Ranch with these exclusive photographs of the one-hundred-year-old Main House.
”Hhhrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeerrrrrrr” is what it sounds like when a Wookie makes us cry.
After my father abandoned us I had to grow up fast. And when the chance for payback came, I took it.
Where to find the brightest holiday trails in the state.
A Christmas carousel built nearly a century and a half ago is a welcome reminder of Texas’s deep German heritage.
The only thing that’s smaller about six-man football is the field.
I always knew that the work my dad did as an Episcopal priest and grief counselor was important. But I didn’t understand how important until the birth of my son.
Shoplifting is wrong, but this kid still breaks our heart.
Buyers today are seeing tremendous change, just as my parents did, but they all still want the same thing: the chance to own a piece of the Texas dream.
A dank cabin and a loyal dog—and, eventually, a loving daughter—turned Texas into home.
The two Texas sports heroes give their personal props to the rest of us.
The march of progress continues on to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Twenty years after her death, who gets to love Selena (and how)?
Somehow, the video is safe for work.
Say what you will about her position, Joyce Lewis-Kugle displayed the courage of her conviction.
What real Chicago-style pizza in Texas means to a non-native Texan.
The implications of the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling for the country are sweeping, but in Texas right now, there are still questions that need answering.
The controversial 2013 bill’s ongoing journey through the legal system has been settled in federal appeals court. Next stop: SCOTUS or bust.
Time-out is an age-old punishment. But do the controversial “calm rooms” and “focus rooms” employed in Plano and New Braunfels go too far?
When I was nine years old, I struggled to make a super 8 movie as my life unspooled around me.
As part of the floundering company’s ongoing image rehabilitation project, it has taken to some Nixonian dirty tricks.
Coaster nerds, get ready.
Returning to El Paso and finding that you can’t go home again. Or maybe you can.
She welded wings onto airplanes in World War II, visited Soviet Russia to argue about airplanes, and modeled for a Lawrence Welk-affiliated clothing shop—but the most talked-about moment in her life was the day twenty years ago that Troy Aikman knocked on her door by mistake.
The Texas-based movie theater chain has been famous for its strict policies regarding texting, talking, and arriving late to screenings. But it’s not treating those as teenager-specific problems anymore.
In a 5-4 ruling on June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Constitution guarantees the right for same-sex couples to marry across the country. Here is the story of two women who fought for that historic decision in Texas—and helped to make it a reality.
A Galveston police officer had his buddy pull over his girlfriend before proposing—is it as cute a story as people are making it out to be?
Growing up in my family, there were things you just didn’t talk about. Like feelings. Or sex. Or dying from AIDS.
“Cost of living” and “affordability” are popular buzzwords, but they mean different things to different people.
The existential threat to football comes from parents who are terrified of their children suffering from CTE in their thirties and forties. In the East Texas small city of Marshall, a coach is trying to mitigate that concern.
