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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.
Testing this "thing" and & maybe an ampersand
By Jason Cohen
Injustice Everywhere readers rated more than eighty police brutality videos, and coming in at number five was a tape of the Houston Police Department stomping and beating a teen burglary suspect.
By Jason Cohen
Presley's 1958 letter to William Norwood is a rare artifact chronicling his connection to Fort Hood and Killeen.
By Jason Cohen
Rick Perry's campaign, the Houston Texans make the playoffs, and more.
By Jason Cohen
Jeff Luhnow named the new statistician Sig Mejdal the team's “Director of Decision Science.”
By Jason Cohen
How ’bout NOT them Cowboys? A new national survey by Public Policy Polling says that America now prefers the Green Bay Packers.
By Jason Cohen
What we'd like to get Rick Perry, Warren Jeffs, Willie Nelson, and other prominent Texans for Christmas.
By Jason Cohen and Sonia Smith
The critics have passed judgment on 2011's best albums and singles, and there's good news for Miranda Lambert, St. Vincent, Beyoncé, Hayes Carll, and two stalwarts of the Denton scene.
By Jason Cohen
Writer Guy Martin talks to Ted Flato, one half of the visionary architect duo from San Antonio, about the merciless sun, the Texas breeze, and Tommy Lee Jones.
By Jason Cohen
Willie Nelson pens a column for the Huffington Post, stumping for the family farm.
By Jason Cohen
Meet Lubbock's Chris Due, the “first pin” to be struck by the wild cart.
By Jason Cohen
The morning show dubs the legendary and unique Mexican food restaurant in El Paso one of their “local legends.”
By Jason Cohen
The Dallas councilman and former interim mayor tries to make a municipal case out of controversial call in the Skyline-Southlake Carroll football game.
By Jason Cohen
The Washington Post tries to put a fresh spin on the old red vs. blue divide by studying the voting habits of people who live close to one of the two retail chains.
By Jason Cohen
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder talks tough about redistricting, Voter ID, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act at the LBJ Library & Museum in Austin
By Jason Cohen
The Wall Street Journal profiled 96-year-old Lubbock optometrist J. Davis Armistead, who outfitted the iconic musician with his famous specs.
By Jason Cohen
A three-star Chronicle review for the Melange Creperie trailer and a call to arms in the Press both suggest a tipping point for the industry.
By Jason Cohen
An Austinite’s profane, sarcastic (and NSFW) map of Texas makes its way around social media, prompting laughs and scoffs.
By Jason Cohen
People are definitely talking about the controversial “Strong” ad, which has Perry’s own team divided, but will its message get him votes in Iowa?
By Jason Cohen
A Florida activist group files a complaint after a San Antonio employee was dismissed for refusing to let a transgender customer use the women’s changing room.
By Jason Cohen
Whether you’re talking to teens about politics or on a date with a baseball fanatic, we’ll give you something to talk about.
By Jason Cohen
Gilmer native Freddie King and England-to-Austin transplant Ian McLagan’s old bands get the nod from Cleveland.
By Jason Cohen
The federal agency claims that Whole Foods’ Miami store fired an employee for complaining about a ruptured sewer line.
By Jason Cohen
On Tuesday dot-XXX domain names went on sale, prompting major universities, sports teams, and politicians to purchase URLs to protect their public image.
By Jason Cohen
From Abilene to El Paso to Amarillo, see photos of the snow that lightly coated North and West Texas.
By Jason Cohen
Yeah, that’s probably the right word for it. New York’s food blog, Grub Street, shows us nine of the city’s “most interesting Frito pies.”
By Jason Cohen
Texas A&M head coach Mike Sherman marches on as gossip swirls about University of Texas’s Mack Brown’s departure and University of Houston’s Kevin Sumlin’s future.
By Jason Cohen
The football coach at Abilene’s McMurry University, and pal to Mike Leach, had a few less-than-Christian words for Craig James and his son, Adam.
By Jason Cohen
Prevention magazine blames fast food, steakhouses, and barbecue joints for the high obesity rates.
By Jason Cohen
Whether you’re drinking with politicos or dining with your parents, we’ll give you something to talk about to make you sound informed.
By Jason Cohen
Willie Nelson’s classic album Red Headed Stranger gets “The Kitten Covers” treatment, but which other Texas albums deserve to be profiled?
By Jason Cohen
A new collective bargaining agreement and the potential loss of Tyson Chandler, the team’s defensive star, may mean a tough road head for the reigning NBA champs.
By Jason Cohen
A new Twitter parody account dubs acclaimed Austin pitmaster Aaron Franklin “Barbecue Jesus.”
By Jason Cohen
Never mind the pin-up calendar: Ron Paul’s new campaign video lands body blows on presidential primary opponent Newt Gingrich.
By Jason Cohen
“Business as usual” was the phrase on everybody's tongue after American Airlines declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
By Jason Cohen
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re the Chief Financial Officer of Texas A&M’s athletic department . . . until they do.
By Jason Cohen
Speaking at a college in New Hampshire, the governor doesn’t seem to know the legal voting age. Or Election Day. Oops.
By Jason Cohen
Funny or Die's asteroid spoof proves that state size DOES matter.
By Jason Cohen
Pappy’s Bar and Grill owner is playing electric guitar and living on his restaurant’s roof in an attempt to attract business.
By Jason Cohen
Houston’s King Street Patriots have trained people in thirty states to monitor polls and guard against election fraud, but some accuse the Tea Party group of intimidation tactics.
By Jason Cohen
Texas A&M’s athletic department may be leaving behind the University of Texas, but they remain linked through academics.
By Jason Cohen
The governor may have taken a break from the campaign trail for Thanksgiving, but that didn’t stop the campaign press corps.
By Jason Cohen
Longtime Rio Grande Valley legislator and recent Republican convert Aaron Peña won’t seek a seat in the next election.
By Jason Cohen
Melissa Kellerman’s Twitter account went MIA after she posted her amused reactions to being “tackled” by Cowboys tight end Jason Witten.
By Jason Cohen
University of Texas fans are fuming about the photo of a “Horns Down” Longhorn that the Alcalde put up on its website.
By Jason Cohen
Instead of drawing you a map, how about a few shortcuts? Here are the key takeaways of what Thursday’s interim redistricting maps mean for our elected officials.
By Jason Cohen
How a food truck scene evolves. First, trucks move around from place to place, in many cases because that’s what city law requires. Then they find a parking lot or vacant lot in which to stay parked all the time. If the landlord has more room to add in
By Jason Cohen
Cassandra Wright is the second University of Texas College Republicans President in just over a month to get into hot water for a tweet about President Obama.
By Jason Cohen
In a city where most food trucks are required to be mobile, a new cluster near the West Seventh Street entertainment district will be the prominent exception.
By Jason Cohen
Buoyed by a strong showing in two polls, the "other" Texas presidential candidate finally catches the eye of the Perry-fatigued media.
By Jason Cohen