As the NFL attempts to clean up its image, the first college coach they met with was the no-nonsense new head of the Longhorns.
Now living in Fisher, the Grand Ole Opry member goes back to his Texas music roots.
Last year, Baylor was an eight-point underdog against the University of Texas prior to the season. Which lines will completely change this year?
The photographer from Big Bend known for stunning landscapes gets out of his comfort zone. Here, a first look at several images from his latest collection.
What to hear, read, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
After seven years of development, the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, in San Antonio, opened to the public on September 4. Behind the iconic facade, the state-of-the-art facilities will house ten artistic groups.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
The good humor of Dallas comic Cristela Alonzo.
“The Hempstead brass band displays great presence of mind in going entirely out of the hearing of the citizens of the town to practice.” —Brenham Weekly Banner, August 2, 1878
The "free range children" versus "helicopter parents" debate continues.
Our estimable advice columnist on playing Words With Friends, figuring out a hat size mystery, and the rules pertaining to road-killed rattlers.
Handcrafted bows that never miss their mark.
These days, no matter how much you love pro football, it's hard to like the NFL.
Houstonian Kat Edmonson shaped her airy and elastic sound in Austin coffee shops before moving to New York. Her first major label record, “The Big Picture,” comes out September 30.
Lee Ann Womack became a star the old-fashioned Nashville way. Now she’s ready to be an artist on her own terms.
Holy cow.
A sci-fi radio play performed against a backdrop of comic book illustrations and enlivened with homemade sound effects (like a rattling box of mac and cheese) takes the stage.
How a team of blind men and women from Austin became the champions of beep baseball.
*Practice squad member—which still makes Jerry Jones the most progressively-minded person in the NFL.
An unusual production of Handel’s English-language opera “Acis and Galatea” is the latest expression of a century-old link between the University of Texas at El Paso and the Himalayan kingdom.
A conversation with quarterback Bryce Petty of the defending Big 12 champion Baylor Bears.
When throngs of shoe fanatics descend on Houston for the annual Sneaker Summit, it’s the perfect time to understand the sole of a man. And if you happen to be a high school junior named Adam, the goal is finding the right pair of Nike Galaxies for a mere $750.
What to hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
“Mr. Connelly, a farmer, living near Dallas, was bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake. . . . He went home and drank a quart of whiskey; split the back of a live chicken and applied it to the wound. The treatment was successful.”—Brenham Weekly Banner, August 9, 1878
Remembering Johnny Winter.
A lament for Hastings.
Wilfredo Gutierrez, of Houston, pleaded guilty to fraudulently passing himself off as a veterinarian. His dozens of clients apparently appreciated his willingness to make house calls and his cut-rate fees for spaying and neutering.
BuzzFeed loves Texas.
Say what you want about their crumbling $60 million high school stadium. The people of Allen would build it all over again.
Our estimable advice columnist on camping by a river, shooting by a river, choosing what heels to wear (not by a river), and more.
The favorite places of thirteen notable Texans—captured with artfulness and affection in the August issue by photographer Jeff Wilson—struck a sentimental chord with most readers. Or at least twelve of them did. The thirteenth, from cyclist Lance Armstrong, drew a decidedly critical stream of feedback. Said one Dallas-based
The joys and perils (but mostly joys) of being the nation’s first full-time barbecue editor.
Some overdue recognition for Manuel Donley, Tejano’s first rock star.
And the Longhorns head football coach is ready to get out there and play ball.
It was just last year—amid spectacular losses and dramatic resignations—that the University of Texas saw its sports program go up in flames. As the new athletics director knows, a return to glory now rides on one person: him.
The happy marriage of performance and aesthetics.
When you live in the desert, waiting for rain requires almost irrational optimism. And maybe a curse word or two.
With its tight prose, waitress heroine, and stinging insight into urban life, Merritt Tierce’s debut marks an exciting turn in Texas literature.
Why did hunter-gatherers bury their arrow points on the tallest peak in the Davis Mountains?
The Corral Theater, which opened in Wimberley in 1948, bills itself as the only outdoor "walk-in" movie theater in the country that shows first releases. But to keep that title, the theater must digitize.
Weddings are expensive, y'all.
The Texas locations in Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" shape the movie, which was filmed over 12 years, as much as the actors. Some could be faked; others, Linklater explains, couldn't.
There aren’t that many cowboys anymore, and yet cowboy churches seem to be everywhere. What gives?
The pirate-shirted Internet sensation who once offered $1,500 to anyone who could get him a date with a woman who would meet his absurd, insulting, sexist standards apparently can't make good on that offer right now.
My favorite place.
After Facebook removed a number of Kendall Jones's photos of herself posing with animals that she hunted, she responded by posting photos of herself with some living, breathing, adorable little critters.
When the National Book Critics Circle gave the Austin writer Rolando Hinojosa its lifetime achievement award, it was simply taking note of what many of us had known for years.
Even with the bigger crowds, Port Aransas remains a fisherman's paradise.
Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
