Let’s Just Move This Year’s Basketball Hall of Fame Induction to Texas
Mavs great Dirk Nowitzki, along with four San Antonio Spurs—Gregg Popovich, Becky Hammon, Tony Parker, and Pau Gasol—headline the 2023 class.
Dan Solomon writes about politics, music, food, sports, criminal justice, health care, film, and business. Dan started working with Texas Monthly as a freelancer in 2013 before becoming a staff writer, covering topics from the Baylor sexual assault scandal to the gentrification of Austin barbecue to the legacy of Texas outsider artist Daniel Johnston. His reporting has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Fast Company, Billboard, and Deadspin.
Mavs great Dirk Nowitzki, along with four San Antonio Spurs—Gregg Popovich, Becky Hammon, Tony Parker, and Pau Gasol—headline the 2023 class.
By Dan Solomon
In the end, it could only ever have been H-E-B.
By Dan Solomon
It all comes down to this.
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During the thirtieth anniversary of the Branch Davidian tragedy, no less.
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H-E-B. Whataburger. Blue Bell. Southwest Airlines. Four iconic Texas brands remain, but only one can be crowned champion of them all.
By Dan Solomon
Can anything stop H-E-B? Plus: a recap of the bracket's tightest matchup yet, between Schlitterbahn and Austin City Limits.
By Dan Solomon
Torchy’s flames out, Chili’s cools off, and Chip and Joanna Gaines get fixer-uppered—while H-E-B, Whataburger, and Dr Pepper keep rolling.
By Dan Solomon
The top seeds remain dominant, Mattress Mack scores an upset, and Dairy Queen faces a surprisingly tough test.
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Recruiting, mostly. But also trying to see New Order.
By Dan Solomon
The Corpus Christi native’s directorial debut is a self-assured, joyful ode to inclusivity and snack foods.
By Dan Solomon
Which of these 64 iconic Texas businesses is the most beloved? This March Madness, there’s only one way to find out—with your help.
By Dan Solomon
After banning almost all abortions in the state post-Roe, GOP lawmakers have proposed eighteen new ways of limiting access to the procedure.
By Dan Solomon
As the alternative meat industry grows—including San Antonio-based vegan chicken sandwich chain Project Pollo—one writer tests the future of eating in America.
By Dan Solomon
No, it doesn't involve a spoonful of sugar.
By Dan Solomon
Bob Hall has long sought to outlaw gender-affirming treatments for minors. Now he seeks to effectively ban care for consenting adults.
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. . . Y’all okay?
By Dan Solomon
Austin’s response to last week’s mild freeze is further evidence that some of the structures of society we used to count on are no longer reliable.
By Dan Solomon
A debate between Andy Langer, Dan Solomon—and Ice Cube?
By Dan Solomon and Andy Langer
The NBA guard can search for the Earth’s edge in Big Bend and bone up on JFK conspiracy theories when he’s not getting buckets in Dallas.
By Dan Solomon
A bittersweet night for Queen Bey, a momentous night for Lizzo and Willie Nelson, and a confusing one for Chris Brown.
By Dan Solomon
Attica Locke looks back on her 2012 essay weighing her Houston pride against the fact that “there are things about the state that just don’t work for me.”
By Dan Solomon
Drill, baby, drill! But, uh, over there.
By Dan Solomon
Senator Bob Hall’s bill is an unusual measure to address a nonexistent issue.
By Dan Solomon
The jazz vocalist pays tribute to the Dallas icon in ways that make her work feel fresher than ever.
By Dan Solomon
The HBO series ‘The Last of Us’ spent its first act showing us how Austin would handle people-eating monsters. Houston, on the other hand . . .
By Dan Solomon
Is it too much to ask for the concession stands to sell Minion tacos?
By Dan Solomon
The Houston Texans have sacked their fourth head coach in three years. Perhaps that means the franchise’s woes run far deeper than its on-field leader.
By Dan Solomon
Representative Jared Patterson’s bill is a second swing at stopping pet stores from getting animals from out-of-state for-profit breeders.
By Dan Solomon
He serves popcorn with panache.
By Dan Solomon
The legislation would rewrite a portion of the education code to target programs that represent marginalized groups.
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May we suggest tickets to Cancun?
By Emily McCullar and Dan Solomon
Heather Schaefer saw a desperate Facebook plea. Six months later, she had two new members of her extended family—and one less kidney.
By Dan Solomon
The DA in El Paso County shares a name with an iconic Texas comedian. How well can you tell them apart?
By Dan Solomon
Austin Democratic representative Donna Howard’s legislation seems written to try to appeal to Republicans.
By Dan Solomon
The plaintiff was found to lack legal standing to bring the case. That has big implications—and not just for abortion laws.
By Dan Solomon
The band aims to bring Texas Guns and Roses to its kn-kn-kn-kn-knees—or at least compel it to change its name.
By Dan Solomon
Recent history and polling tell us that voters would support a measure to stop lawmakers from restricting abortion access—which is precisely why it’ll never pass.
By Dan Solomon
The rap star spent more than three hours praising Nazis on Infowars, while making the host squirm—but not for the reasons you might think.
By Dan Solomon
There’s potential for the two to be an iconic duo, a new generation’s Robert Redford and Paul Newman.
By Dan Solomon
From the man responsible for emptying it.
By Dan Solomon
Under his new Texas bill, any community theater that hosts a performance of ‘Peter Pan’ could find itself regulated as a strip club.
By Dan Solomon
The small-government conservative has proposed a bill to allow pregnant drivers to access carpool lanes.
By Dan Solomon
Will Beyoncé finally get her Album of the Year award, and more we want to know.
By Dan Solomon
John Bloom, a.k.a. Joe Bob Briggs, discusses his 2004 opus on the making of the slasher classic and the New York bias against a Texas original.
By Dan Solomon
It’s worked for the GOP elsewhere, and nothing else has worked for Democrats here.
By Dan Solomon
Republicans are pursuing South Texas Latinos. Democrats are counting on the Dobbs abortion decision. Nobody knows who’s going to turn out to vote. And the polls are all over the place.
By Dan Solomon
For the first time in fifty years, single-issue abortion voters are pro-choice. Can Texas Democrats capitalize on it?
By Dan Solomon
Where’s the passion? Where’s the intensity? And where are the robot arms, Congressman?
By Dan Solomon
The ninth installment in the Rocky franchise puts honorary Texan Michael B. Jordan and official Texan Jonathan Majors in the ring, and we are here for it.
By Dan Solomon
We know she’s a savage and a big ole freak, but is the Houston hometown hero funny? On ‘Saturday Night Live,’ we found out.
By Dan Solomon