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On the day of the Illinois primary, the Paul visits the Tonight Show's Burbank studios where he hones his television skills as the lead guest.
Writer at large and former senior editor Jason Cohen has written for Texas Monthly since 1995 (and texasmonthly.com since its first iteration). His 1997 story “The Ice Bats Cometh,” about minor league hockey in Texas, was the basis of his book Zamboni Rodeo (Greystone Press, 2001). He also wrote the magazine's first-ever Matthew McConaughey story, in August 1996. The coauthor of Generation Ecch! (Fireside Books, 1994) and coeditor of SXSW Scrapbook (Essex/University of Texas Press, 2011), he has also written for such publications as Rolling Stone, SPIN, Details, the Austin Chronicle, the Austin American-Statesman, Portland Monthly, and Cincinnati magazine. His 1995 Rolling Stone cover story on the band Hole prompted Courtney Love to yell at him from the stage at Lollapalooza in Austin, while his 2007 profile of the Portland strip club Mary's won a Sex-Positive Journalism Award. As one of the two primary writers for the TM Daily Post, Cohen wrote approximately five hundred stories for Texas Monthly in 2012. He has been a blogger since 2002 and has been known to maintain as many as five Twitter accounts.
On the day of the Illinois primary, the Paul visits the Tonight Show's Burbank studios where he hones his television skills as the lead guest.
By Jason Cohen
Update: Fort Worth police have arrested a 40 year-old homeless man for arson in Tuesday's firebombing of the Democratic state senator's Fort Worth office.
By Jason Cohen
¡Ask a Mexican! columnist and OC Weekly editor Gustavo Arellano, whose new book Taco USA comes out in April, makes his case.
By Jason Cohen
Why Willie Nelson's Heroes is shaping up to be his biggest record in some time.
By Jason Cohen
The documentary America's Parking Lot, which premiered at SXSW, captured the last days of tailgating at Texas Stadium with some of the team's most impassioned fans.
By Jason Cohen
Another memorable SXSW included appearances by Bruce Springsteen and Anthony Bourdain, record-setting attendance, and the return of Matthew McConaughey on the bongos.
By Jason Cohen
48 Hours Mystery updated its "Grave Injustice" episode, which first aired last year, to include information about his exoneration and the compensation he received from the state.
By Jason Cohen
The Boss's SXSW keynote speech included music, memories, and his own personal tributes to Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, the Animals, and more.
By Jason Cohen
Richard Linklater's newest movie received a rollicking hometown reception.
By Jason Cohen
Bruce Springsteen will give what is probably the most-anticipated SXSW Music keynote speech of all-time. But there have been some other great ones, from both living legends and a sitting governor.
By Jason Cohen
Bart Layton's documentary, The Imposter, recounts the story of a missing San Antonio child who was later found in Spain. Or was he?
By Jason Cohen
The former U.S. vice president visits Austin for a SXSW Interactive keynote talk with social media impresario Sean Parker.
By Jason Cohen
Competitive eating champion Takeru Kobayashi set a world record by eating a baker's dozen grilled cheese sandwiches in one minute.
By Jason Cohen
Diffee, a frequent contributor to both TEXAS MONTHLY and the New Yorker, will moderate a panel titled "How to be an Idea Factory" on Sunday.
By Jason Cohen
The Planned Parenthood president (and daughter of former Governor Ann Richards) talks contraception, sonograms, preventive health care, and sex education with Jon Stewart.
By Jason Cohen
University of Texas-Pan American isn't on the forefront of everyone's mind, but their story makes them worth rooting for.
By Jason Cohen
Austin nominee Kurt Ramborger of ViUDA Bistro took Eater National's prize for the best looking chef in America.
By Jason Cohen
For a third straight year, the Texas Department of Public Safety advised vacationers to stay away from the country, but a Mexican ambassador says the warning has a "clear-cut political agenda."
By Jason Cohen
Paul failed to win even one state on Super Tuesday, but he isn't going anywhere.
By Jason Cohen
Indian Country Today rallies its readers against the Texas Hunt Lodge, which offers a "rare White Buffalo Hunt."
By Jason Cohen
The small soda bottling company can no longer carry the cane sugar version of Big Red, another much-loved Texas soda.
By Jason Cohen
Several distant relatives of the former Massachusetts governor will campaign for Ron Paul in Idaho during tonight's caucuses.
By Jason Cohen
The healthy 82-year-old grandmother of an ABC News producer goes undercover and reveals Medicare fraud in McAllen, "the town Medicare dollars built."
By Jason Cohen
With redistricting disputes at rest for now, the May 29 primary date becomes official, which could be good news for Rick Santorum.
By Jason Cohen
TAPPS caves in response to a court motion filed by several Beren Academy players and their parents after the association refused to let the team reschedule its playoff game from Friday night.
By Jason Cohen
In the end, Top Chef: Texas gets one Texas thing right, as Austin's Paul Qui takes the crown.
By Jason Cohen
The congressman breaks from the campaign trail to question the Federal Reserve Chairman at a House Financial Services committee hearing.
By Jason Cohen
Walker, Texas Admiral, anyone? DPS will launch six gunboats on the Rio Grande to fight drug trafficking.
By Jason Cohen
Bernie, which is set in Carthage, opens nationwide on April 27 and stars Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine.
By Jason Cohen
The director of Bottled Up, a documentary about the now-deceased iconic Texas beverage, is offering a case (and executive producer credit) to anyone who donates $15,000 to help him complete his film.
By Jason Cohen
A county commissioner was accused of distributing 110 pounds of marijuana, a tenured UTEP professor violated university policies, a suburban mayor dined at Hooters with city money, and mayoral candidate got a lap dance in his campaign office.
By Jason Cohen
Lengthy features in Sports Illustrated and the New York Times celebrate the Bears’ unprecedented sports success and its implications for the university at large.
By Jason Cohen
Social values came under question at a Senate campaign forum when GOP candidates Ted Cruz and Craig James criticized former Dallas mayor Tom Leppert for attending Dallas pride parades.
By Jason Cohen
The Houston rapper's 2006 smash hit, “Ridin,’” is the soundtrack for a new Volkswagen television spot.
By Jason Cohen
Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital tweeted videos and photos as medical director of cardiovascular surgery, Dr. Michael Macris, performed a double coronary artery bypass.
By Jason Cohen
Paul released a television ad that bashes Rick Santorum, but whose campaign is it really helping?
By Jason Cohen
Perry conducted a Kardashian-level of media courtship at the Capitol, where he told reporters he won't rule out another run for governor or president.
By Jason Cohen
Houston and Dallas are sixth and seventh, respectively, in a new survey charting where "ultra-high net worth individuals," or people worth at least $30 million, live.
By Jason Cohen
In a New Yorker profile of Paul, the congressman forgot why he wanted to impeach Judge William Wayne Justice.
By Jason Cohen
Maya Rudolph stars as the singer in a nearly seven-minute long Saturday Night Live skit that also features Prince, Brangelina, and Nicki Minaj.
By Jason Cohen
Houston returns to the top of a Men's Fitness survey that also includes El Paso, Arlington, and Dallas.
By Jason Cohen
A public records search by the Dallas Morning News' Christy Hoppe reveals that since the governor left the campaign trail, he's worked on state business for just ten hours.
By Jason Cohen
The Intergalactic Nemesis, a nationally acclaimed "live-action graphic novel" show, appeared on Conan, with the talk show host playing the lead.
By Jason Cohen
Sheriff's deputies arrested 26-year-old Ricardo Luna, who allegedly tried to use crack cocaine as payment for a $10 lap dance at the XTC Cabaret strip club in Austin.
By Jason Cohen
Did Michael Berry, a Houston radio host and former city councilman, leave the scene of minor accident because he didn't want it known that he was at a gay bar?
By Jason Cohen
The show moves to British Columbia, but takes a bit of Texas with it as Austin's Paul Qui of Uchiko and Houston native Sarah Grueneberg advance to next week's final.
By Jason Cohen
Several YouTube videos posted by American Airlines employee Gailen David have gone viral, angering top brass at the struggling company.
By Jason Cohen
Spicewood Beach needs water trucked in every couple of hours, the recent rains haven't made an impact, and it's been "the poorest year" for the state's cotton farmers.
By Jason Cohen
Justin Fontaine is sitting out two games as punishment for using the word "faggot" in a tweet, and Aeros captain Jon DiSalvatore is also under fire for retweeting him.
By Jason Cohen
Chuck Norris Fact: Rick Santorum is too much like Mitt Romney to be an alternative to Romney. Or so the actor proclaims in a column defending his endorsement of Newt Gingrich.
By Jason Cohen