The Texanist: Bob Wills Played a Song About WHAT?!?
A Tulsa woman thinks the king of western swing had a raunchy side. Her husband isn't buying it.
A Tulsa woman thinks the king of western swing had a raunchy side. Her husband isn't buying it.
An inmate gets caught sneaking back into prison, a stolen cowboy dummy is returned, and the last Texas Blockbuster Video store closes.
An obituary for a chicken, a consequential Whataburger receipt, an overenthusiastic Red Raider, and a handful of other stories from around the state.
Probably not! But let’s read way too much into it anyway.
In protest of the annual punishment from central Texas’s arboreal parasite.
A 45-pound catfish, a mannequin in the passenger seat, a naked woman eating cake, and a handful of other stories from around the state.
The Houston Texans owner nabs sixth place, for saying of his players’ decision to kneel during the National Anthem: “We can’t have the inmates running the prison.”
This year, virtually everyone embarrassed themselves—and the rest of us.
The Austin-based office captured third place for the botched investigation of state representative Dawnna Dukes.
The outgoing congressman takes eighth place for his refusal to face the truth about climate change.
The East Texas congressman takes seventh place for his wack-job debut as an infographic creator.
The craziest headlines you might have missed over the past month.
Our lieutenant governor, for his eagerness to squander his power, waste our time, and drag Texas politics into the bathroom, is our Bum Steer of the Year.
The Mistress of the Elements occupies second place—for being really, really mean to Texas.
The eight infamous Steers celebrated elsewhere in this package had a lot of company this year in our hall of shame. Here are another fifty or so Texans deserving of some ignominy.
Landing in fourth place, the state government’s also-ran loyal opposition, for going missing in action, year after year.
In fifth place: the excitable radio host, for saying so many crazy things that his unsuccessful and very public child custody battle wasn’t the most embarrassing thing that happened to him this year.
Help us choose 2017’s Bum Steer. Vote in round two of our poll.
Some of the craziest headlines you might have missed over the past month.
A Tyler man is feeling a little hot under the collar.
Funny or Die lines Coach Pop up to take his shot.
The billionaire explains his campaign platform. If he runs, that is.
Just another day for the junior senator.
A cartoon about the current state of the gubernatorial race.
We chat about math and football with Tom Herman's unsanctioned alter ego.
The Lege's special session priorities.
Just in case you forgot...
Being a good football fan means being able to find optimism no matter the circumstance.
The grim traveler sampled the offerings with a heavy heart.
The future of Austin’s Lions Municipal Golf Course lies in its historic past.
The show, created by Houston native Justin Simien, picks up where the 2014 movie left off.
San Antonio native Noël Wells chatted with us about her directorial debut, ‘Mr. Roosevelt,' which premiered at SXSW.
It was a year of amateurish attorneys, buck-naked burglars, credulous coal-walkers, doughnut detractors, empty-headed educators, fund-raising fabulists, grumbling graduates, hacked highway signs, ill-timed imitators, judgment-justifying Jerry Joneses, kavalier Katrinas, lime-laden locoweed, misguided mattress merchants, naive notes, outré outfits, pitmaster poseurs, questionable quarterbacks, reactive racists, slipshod spellers, taco tiffs, unwise users,
A seizure of sombreros in San Antonio.
Gambling on a ride aboard the Aransas Queen.
One man's adventure in margarita-making turns into a prickly affair.
We couldn't get Tom Herman and Charlie Strong in the same room, but their unsanctioned Twitter alter egos were more than willing to talk to us about the transition of power.
It’s time someone had the courage to ask the most controversial question in the state: To bean or not to bean?
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
A young gentleman from Comanche makes a splashy entrance.
A case of emergency response gone wrong.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
A booming celebration for President Garfield.
Using fake money has its consequences.
Some crazy stuff went down here last month. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
Charlie Strong won't tell you who is starting on Sunday, but his unsanctioned alter ego will.
He danced his way straight into our hearts and he’ll never leave, no matter what happens on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
A courtroom brawl in San Antonio.
Some crazy stuff went down last month. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.