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A taxonomy of West Texas waves.
A taxonomy of West Texas waves.
As five new books make clear, our thirty-sixth president refuses to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
He’s the best defensive player in the NFL but writes his own Christmas cards. He has thousands of fans who’d love to party, but he goes to bed at seven-thirty. He could be the league’s next MVP but enjoys buying his own groceries. Is Houston’s J. J. Watt for real?
Twenty years after her death, who gets to love Selena (and how)?
The heretical choice to not own a vehicle in a city that worships the automobile.
An Angelo State football player was shot and killed by police in Arlington over the weekend, and questions remain.
The hard truth behind police misconduct in Prairie View and McKinney.
In the wake of Sandra Bland's death, activists have spent their summer in the heat, holding signs, and declaring that "as long as there's injustice in the world, people need to be sitting somewhere."
Here’s all that you need to know about Rooster McConaughey and his new show, 'West Texas Investors Club.'
San Antonio City Manager Sheryl Sculley seems to think so.
Kyle Chandler dons his blue polo and delivers an inspirational locker room speech — but this time it’s to remind you how to behave in a movie theater.
When the team tweeted last December that they’d reschedule a concert booked at Minute Maid Park if they needed the field for the playoffs, fans mocked them mercilessly. Well, who’s laughing now?
Further study of Spotify’s music maps shows Texas artists’ pockets of popularity outside of the state.
Ken Paxton asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by 17 families. Here’s why that probably won’t happen.
The music sharing service shows how little Dallas and Houston have in common, how Austin loves critical darlings, and how much Aggies love Aggies.
Ah, NorthPark, how Dallas loves thee.
How Shakey Graves made the leap from cult figure to major festival draw.
Vandals leave racist messages and a Nazi symbol after breaking into a house, and the media fails to mention it. When can we talk about racism?
A colorful man with a colorful bird had a hard time in the Tyler police station.
Houston Dash players married two recent headlines: women’s soccer and same-sex marriage.
No, Business Insider, you can’t boil Texas down to just one movie, especially when that movie is Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Here are a few dozen more from across the state.
It’s a great step, but what it amounts to in practice isn’t quite clear.
A Texas-shaped pool in Plano is trying to achieve landmark status, which has us thinking about all our favorite things made better when shaped like the Lone Star State.
Souvenez-vous de l’Alamo. アラモを覚えています. Erinnere mich an die Alamo.
The two books aim to educate young readers on gender, sexuality, and LGBT history.
Shipyard worker breaks every rule of gator safety and pays the ultimate price.
The beleaguered bar chain is now on a tight leash.
There are gators aplenty in East and South Texas, yet no Texan has ever been killed since records have been kept, despite close calls like what happened recently with a Chambers County boy.
This Houston-based synth-pop outfit brings a Wes Anderson-inspired aesthetic to the video for a song about plain old heartbreak but also the heartbreak of having your house broken into.
With the sweets-stuffed effigies of the Big Apple mogul now on sale in the Valley, bashing the Donald just got that much easier.
Straight couples were forced to wait for licenses, Texas’s attorney general captured the world’s attention, and a lot of gay couples got married.
Next week: he makes a hole in one, beats you at Mario Kart, and bakes a better pie than your mom.
If you live in Texas and saw a newspaper Saturday, you know what happened ...
Everything weird that has happened the last two months happened for a reason, you understand?
An increasing number of Texans seem to think it’s sophisticated to call a group of people “you guys.” It’s not.
A euglogy for a “breastaurant” town as Bikinis owner says toodles to the ta-tas.
Yes, the Confederate flag has to go. But what's after that? And what hopes are we pinning on the destruction of symbols?
She was 45 years old when the Cowboys were founded, and Troy has always been the star quarterback of her heart.
The two musicians, featured on our July cover, talk about Texas’s rich songwriting history and their place in it.
The high-profile lawyer is representing Tracey Carver-Allbritton, the white woman accused of hurling racial slurs at the children at the McKinney pool on June 5.
What this historical dramatization of the Texas Revolution could have been—and what it was.
After the deadly shoot-out in Waco, what do the Bandidos want? To be left alone.
Readers respond to the June 2015 issue.
Old friends Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett talk about songwriting Texas music history, and the early days back in College Station.
These San Antonio leather-workers keep it all in the family.
Among other things, Charles Goodnight basically invented the food truck. (He called it the chuck wagon.)
This state has been shaped by its songs. And as these 25 tales show, the stories behind them are often as great as the songs themselves.
Some crazy stuff went down last month. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
In a new documentary, the Dallas Mavericks’ legendary power forward lets down his guard.
What to read, hear, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.