The Return of Mike Judge
The Office Space director, often considered “ahead of his time,” couldn’t have timed the premiere of his new show, Silicon Valley, any better.
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.
The Office Space director, often considered “ahead of his time,” couldn’t have timed the premiere of his new show, Silicon Valley, any better.
By Jason Cohen
A guide for first-timers and Marshmallows alike before the film's release on March 14.
By Jason Cohen
Larry Brown on March Madness, Allen Iverson, and being an eyewear trendsetter.
By Jason Cohen
If there’s ever a tamal shortage in McAllen, it might be the Rio Grande Valley Vipers’ fault. The Houston Rockets’ minor league affiliate has always made a fair amount of three-point shots, so before the current season, local institution Delia’s Tamales sponsored a promotion: any time the Vipers hit
By Jason Cohen
Rob Thomas was just looking for a way to breathe life into his beloved-but-canceled TV show Veronica Mars. He might have ended up changing the movie business.
By Jason Cohen
Somehow I lived in Texas more than twenty years without seeing Willie Nelson. This had to end.
By Jason Cohen
What’s Ahead for Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, George Strait, Jerry Jones and other Texans.
By Jason Cohen
Because the Bears are still the best college football team in Texas.
By Jason Cohen
Would new Longhorns AD Steve Patterson be willing to revive the rivalry? College Station says it's in no hurry.
By Jason Cohen
Because of a new tax in Mexico, cane sugar-sweetened Coca Cola could become more scarce. But "Mexican Coke" will still be bottled for the U.S. market.
By Jason Cohen
Fun Fun Fun Fest's most unique "headliner" returns, firing bean, cheese and tortilla ammunition—and possibly some Twinkies—across Austin's Auditorium Shores.
By Jason Cohen
What's so special about the Northeast Texas town's facility? It's a room with a view.
By Jason Cohen
Rookie pitching phenom Michael Wacha, the pride of Texas A&M and Texarkana, brings his milkshake to Fenway Park for Game 2 of the World Series.
By Jason Cohen
The legendary Houston Oilers coach "spent every waking moment as the personification of all things Texan."
By Jason Cohen
Routine maintenance work at On the Border was intended to make sure the kitchen's fire prevention system worked. Two alarms and eight department units later...
By Jason Cohen
Only in Austin would a local kid's choir share the bill with Lionel Richie, Muse, The Cure, and Wilco.
By Jason Cohen
Twelve years after a high school football injury left him paralyzed, San Marcos's Chris Canales and his father, Eddie, help out others in similar situations with their organization, Gridiron Heroes.
By Jason Cohen and Joseph Misulonas
With DeLoss Dodds reportedly announcing his retirement Tuesday afternoon, it's time to speculate about the Longhorns job that's actually more important than head football coach.
By Jason Cohen
With both USC and UT on the decline eight years after their BCS championship game, the firing of Trojans coach Lane Kiffin inspired lots of talk about Mack Brown and the Longhorns. And it also got tongues wagging in College Station.
By Jason Cohen
The Longhorns need to beat the Wildcats for the first time in five meetings, but the game's been overshadowed by more questions about Mack Brown's future.
By Jason Cohen
Inside Buc-ee’s obsessive quest for the perfect rest-stop bathroom.
By Jason Cohen
How the writers behind the always informative, often hilarious blotter of the University of Texas police force are trying to make college students better citizens.
By Jason Cohen
More minutiae from the University of Texas at Austin's infamously comical police blotter, including memories from longtime author Darrell Halstead and the story of a student who "made" Campus Watch.
By Jason Cohen
College football predictions—some more serious than others—heading into the first weekend.
By Jason Cohen
An excerpt from S.C. Gwynne's September cover story on Johnny Manziel, which will officially hit newsstands (and the web) on August 21. (Illustrations by Nathan Fox. Color by Jeromy Cox.)
By Jason Cohen and S. C. Gwynne
Johnny Manziel is not the issue. It’s finally time to occupy the NCAA.
By Jason Cohen
Breakfast! A multi-generational history of the breakfast taco, via Austin institution the Tamale House. Excerpted from the new book "Austin Breakfast Tacos."
By Jason Cohen, Mando Rayo and Jarod Neece
Texas Tech’s new head coach is disarmingly young, stylish, and hip. He also seems to have the Midas touch.
By Jason Cohen
The city has already adopted several Texas dishes, including barbecue, kolaches, and Frito pie. Now a few restaurants are serving up breakfast tacos, much to the delight of Tex-pats and New York natives.
By Jason Cohen
The latest Johnny Football social media non-story, in which the Aggies' Heisman Trophy winner disses College Station in a tweet (and then deletes it).
By Jason Cohen
Mike Finger of the San Antonio Express-News looks back on "the precise moment when UT transformed from a college football superpower into a bumbling, inept program."
By Jason Cohen
Also, over at TMBBQ.com, Vaughn has a new review of Smitty's in Lockhart, perhaps the most surprising joint to not make the Top 50.
By Jason Cohen
Heading to the Texas Coast this weekend? Read this interview with Dan Oko, author of our May cover story on "15 secret spots."
By Jason Cohen and Lydia Neuman
Bad news, Memphis: not only are your Grizzlies on the way to losing to the Spurs, but you still won't get to eat the world's best barbecue!
By Jason Cohen
The drummer and producer had his name on four April releases, including "Thr!!!ler" by !!! and "Nuestro Camino" by Austin's Dupree, which Eno put out on his own. But Spoon is also hard at work on their eighth record.
By Jason Cohen
What's better for a band: gigs at big, sponsored festivals or the old, thirty-shows-in-thirty-days touring model? Divine Fits, the supergroup fronted by Spoon's Britt Daniel, debates.
By Jason Cohen
Houston, SMU, UTEP, Rice, UTSA, North Texas and Texas State will all have a shot at Jerry World the year it doesn't host a College Football Playoff championship or semi-final.
By Jason Cohen
Austinite Rob Thomas and more than 90,000 fans broke four Kickstarter records to turn his canceled TV cult TV show into a feature film.
By Jason Cohen
The farming town and Czech community just north of Waco, known around the state for its kolaches, reels from last nights catastrophic fire and explosion, which left countless people injured and an unknown number dead.
By Jason Cohen
Mickey Herskowitz covered the Texas A&M "Junction Boy" and former Houston Gamblers, University of Houston and Houston Oilers coach at nearly every stop.
By Jason Cohen and Mickey Herskowitz
Is it the best job in America? From the New York Times to Bon Appetit, everybody seems to think so.
By Jason Cohen
No Fooling? The Longhorns and the Aggies have signed a ten-year deal with ESPN's SEC Network and the Longhorn Network to play football once again.
By Jason Cohen
Baylor's Heisman-winning former quarterback Robert Griffin III wasn't shy with his opinions after Sunday's Louisville-Baylor women's hoops game, a chippy, controversial contest that ended Baylor's season.
By Jason Cohen
Texas A&M's Heisman Trophy-winning QB Johnny Manziel decides to live in public just a little less, telling ESPN.com that he's giving up on Twitter.
By Jason Cohen
The sometimes controversial "Air Raid" offense guru, who has coached everywhere from Copperas Cove High School to (most recently) DII McMurry in Abilene, joins June Jones' staff as assistant head coach and passing game coordinator.
By Jason Cohen
How Prince, Justin Timberlake, the Flaming Lips, and a giant Doritos vending machine changed Austin's annual music festival—and how they didn't.
By Jeff Salamon and Jason Cohen
For the first time since 1977, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament won't include a single team from Texas.
By Jason Cohen
It's already two days into SXSW Music. It's crowded. The schedule app is overwhelming. But the festival is what you make of it. 13 personal rules from Texas Monthly Senior Editor Jason Cohen, whose first SXSW was in 1991
By Jason Cohen
Carolina pulled pork, Memphis dry rub, Kansas City ribs or Texas brisket? As if there's actually "debate." Video and highlights from Jake Silverstein's SXSW BBQ panel.
By Jason Cohen
A&M spring practice started Saturday, and The Longhorn Network ESPN was there. The reigning Heisman Trophy winner sat down with Kirk Herbstreit on SportsCenter.
By Jason Cohen