A new steer starts his reign as UT celebrates 100 years of Bevo, Texas’s voter ID law has a big day in court, and a proposed Mexican-American heritage textbook is more than a little racist.
Mark Cuban throws his hat in the veep ring, golden boy George P. gets in trouble, and a study finds Texas teens too out of shape for military service.
Greg Abbott’s book tour sort of reads like a political play for higher office, the Rangers are getting a new ballpark with a fancy retractable roof, and a twelve-year old black girl leaves a Waco school field trip with a rope injury to her neck.
Last year, Leonard Botello IV decided he wanted to open a barbecue joint. The big hitch in his giddyup? He needed a smoker. He started searching for a workable, used pit, and pretty soon “a Klose pit came up on Craigslist in Cleveland,” he recalled. Ohio, that is, not Texas. According
A new photography exhibit captures the spirit of traditional Mexican rodeos.
– Rougned Odor’s punch earned him free barbecue for life in Ft. Worth: [email protected] EATS FREE at Heim BBQ t-shirts on sale now at https://t.co/qOWi3feEt7 all proceeds go to Joey Bats jaw re-alignment surgery… — Heim Barbecue (@HeimBBQ) May 16, 2016 – Looking for meat
Trump taps a Texas judge for his SCOTUS shortlist, the Texas GOP has a comma problem, and the state’s suburbs keep growing at ridiculously fast rates.
Memories from childhood encounters with Guy Clark.
Texas loses a pair of iconic musicians, a new study finds humans at fault for a century of Texas earthquakes, and Ken Paxton adds his two cents to keep out Syrian refugees.
“It needs more dust,” I said. Tuffy Stone, whose Cool Smoke barbecue team is one of most prolific in the country, was about to close a styrofoam box full of pork shoulder that was bound for the judge’s table. Our team, most of which I’d first met the day prior, surrounded
The Waco biker gang shooting reaches its one year anniversary, a pair of Texans appear to have joined ISIS, and Greg Abbott fights to keep his sanctions on Iran.
Fifty years ago, when Claire Wilson was eighteen, she was critically wounded during the 1966 University of Texas Tower shooting—the first massacre of its kind. How does the path of a bullet change a life?
Tootsie Tomanetz has been cooking barbecue for fifty years, an art she didn’t start practicing professionally until she was in her thirties. When she began her career in Giddings, offset smokers weren’t nearly as popular as they are today. Then, barbecue was cooked directly over wood coals, and that’s the
The state GOP takes a weekend retreat to find itself, a bus crash kills eight outside Laredo and the state supreme court hands down a surprising school finance ruling.
The Texas GOP convention kicks off the party, Ken Paxton shows his teeth, and the legal battle begins over whether immigrant detention centers are childcare facilities.
The most superlative amenities at the state's top getaways.
It’s May, the month that celebrates the best of spring, the kickoff to summer, and, for barbecue aficionados like myself, a 31-day-long celebration of barbecue. That’s right. In this age of every trend getting its own day or month, May has been reserved for barbecue, a fitting designation given that Memorial Day is the unofficial start
– King Ranch chicken in tube form: As seen at @tmbbq fest: the recipe for @evanleroy’s Smoked King Ranch Sausage https://t.co/vh5OnHUtGO pic.twitter.com/7bYdgkGkEr — Jess Pryles (@jesspryles) May 8, 2016 – Dai Due in Austin is now offering an option to order a
The feds pinpoint what caused West’s deadly explosion, a judge shuts down the Affluenza Kid’s appeal, and Ted Cruz clings to the carcass of his failed presidential campaign.
Why one of Houston's former mayors might not be a good replacement for Sidney Lanier.
Cruz considers a comeback, Patrick brings his bathroom battle to Fort Worth, and Texas is home to the world’s oldest cat.
Dan Patrick anoints himself as the Lone Star State’s Bathroom Czar, Dallas has a loose dog problem, and Crystal City cleans itself up.
Joe Cotten’s Barbecue was once the pride of Corpus Christi, or Robstown, to be more specific. Founded in 1947, the joint’s mesquite-smoked barbecue and their tomatoey sauce helped define the local style of smoked meats. The joint was legendary, and legends are hard to replace. Since it tragically
Gregory Johns didn’t learn to cook barbecue from his family, books, videos, or from a mentor. He taught himself through trial-and-error. As he told me, “You burn some meat, you get it right next time.” His journey began in 1998 when he purchased a steel barrel smoker. Eight years later, Johns
Ridesharing loses in Austin, 'the New York Times' tries to figure out Texas, and the U.S. continues to deport our former troops.
To the people of Corpus Christi, I’m sorry about your barbecue. I tried just about every joint in the city a couple of weeks back, and there wasn’t much good news to report. There was one bright spot, though: Julian’s BBQ.With a black cowboy hat, a black shirt, and a red
Uber faces judgment day in Austin, Rick Perry embraces The Donald, and Johnny Football has an eventful five minutes in court.
– “The whole house is still redolent of smoke. If there’s a better scent, I have yet to encounter it.” – Ruth Reichl– These are the up-and-coming pitmasters across the country according to Thrillist, most of which are cooking Texas style.– Ladies and gentlemen, Tootsie Tomanetz:
Ted Cruz’s dead campaign has its autopsy report, Ken Paxton targets Target’s bathroom inclusivity, and a Texas cemetery faces federal litigation over a ”whites only” policy.
Ted Cruz drops out, the state faces a legal battle over making an immigrant detention center a childcare facility, and Texas has a meth problem.
'The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks'
You've heard about it, but how much do you know about one of Texas's most famous "ranches"?
Owner/Pitmaster: Off the Bone Barbeque; Opened 2009Age: 70Smoker: Wood-Fired Rotisserie SmokerWood: Pecan and MesquiteOff the Bone was once a tiny joint in a neighborhood without much of an identity. Since it opened seven years ago, The Cedars has grown into a destination, and the barbecue joint has grown with
Texas and the feds ink a temporary Medicaid extension, STAAR gets a pass from the state's education commissioner, and the first bathroom bill in Texas falls flat.
Beyoncé's latest album has it all, from Brill Building to Dirty South pioneers.
Last year, Aaron Franklin made history by being the first pitmaster to win in the Best Chef category at the James Beard Awards. He’s back at the awards ceremony in Chicago this year with the dish that got him the 2015 prize. Franklin packed up twenty
Ted Cruz desperately tries to make Indiana happen, the Halliburton and Baker Hughes merger officially falls apart, and another round of deadly flooding hits Texas.
Emilio Soliz began his barbecue career in a good spot. As a young man, he was the pitmaster at Two Bros. BBQ Market when they were named to the Texas Monthly Top 50 joints. Soon after, Anthony Bourdain visited and snapped a photo with Soliz—his reputation was on the rise.
The sportswriting world loses a Texas legend, the Lege talks fetal tissue, and Zika concerns become increasingly important for pregnant women in Texas.
– How do you define what “real” barbecue is? The pitfalls of defining true ‘cue https://t.co/q6NPfAX00t via @HoustonChron. Thanks JC for taking us on that trip! Thanks for so much. — Pizzitola’s BBQ (@PizzitolasBBQ) April 23, 2016 If you’re a barbecue cook, you probably use
Carly Fiorina joins the Ted Cruz ticket, Uber threatens to abandon Texas’s biggest city, and school leaders across the state speak out against STAAR standardized tests.
Texas could be heading for a ”bathroom bill” fight, Johnny Manziel’s domestic abuse charge becomes official, and the cost of college tuition keeps rising.
In March, Texas Monthly‘s Christian Wallace excoriated the fact that the unloved “Texas, Our Texas” remained our state song in spite of hundreds of worthier alternatives. You had a lot of thoughts on that critique, both good and bad. But after some reflection, we’ve decided that it’s not fair to
It was the smoke that stopped me. The juice and fat from fifty-some-odd chickens mixed with mesquite charcoal to form a steady stream of smoke high above the roof line of Pollos Asados Los Norteños in San Antonio. I was scouting another barbecue joint and had stumbled upon the popular spot
Another assault report shows a disturbing trend for Baylor’s Shawn Oakman, new partners Cruz and Kasich share an awkward honeymoon, and a disgraced veterinarian tries to keep her license.
Pitmaster: Two Bros. BBQ; Opened 2009Age: 28Smoker: Indirect Heat Wood-Fired PitWood: OakA few years ago, Laura Loomis didn’t think much of Texas barbecue. Neither cooking nor eating it was a big deal in her family, and she admits to never really having a favorite joint growing up. She doesn’t remember eating
Cruz and Kasich join forces to take down Trump, Johnny Manziel gets slapped with an indictment, and the renaming of an Austin elementary school gets a bit silly.
Even if the 300 migrants first given land grants in Texas didn’t make it to Blanco, Old 300 BBQ is still a good lesson in Texas history. The Hill Country joint is dubbed in honor of those original settlers; their names adorn the walls and modified Texas battle flags are etched into
A tiger took a stroll through a Texas town, our immigrant population is now as big as New York’s, and a federal judge upholds Dallas’s porn expo ban (for now).
Thrillist named four Texas 'burbs as the coolest in the state, and we weighed in on the picks.
