Critters
March 27, 2023
Did Your Wedding Even Count if There Were No Goats?
The new party VIPs are beer-drinking goats, beer-toting donkeys, and the occasional giraffe.
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Travel & Outdoors
August 17, 2022
Miniature Cattle Have Ambled Into Our Hearts and Onto Our Modest Acreages
They’re cute, they’re charismatic, and they’re lil’. But these “posh pets” are still a lot of work.
Sports
August 9, 2022
The Real Dill: Powerful Texans Are Betting on Pickleball
Why a host of Texas notables, from Steve Kuhn to Brené Brown, are investing heavily in the popular sport.
Travel & Outdoors
June 21, 2022
Welcome to Party Island on Lady Bird Lake
At Austin’s weekend-long floating bacchanal, it’s BYOP (as in “paddleboard”).
Travel & Outdoors
April 14, 2022
A Massage Addict Embraces Touchless Treatments
Look, spa, no hands! Looking for stress relief via a salt cave, "a wellness tube," and an infrared sauna pod.
Health
March 21, 2022
Your Pets Have Been Getting COVID-19 Too. Here’s Why That Matters.
A team of scientists at Texas A&M has been testing cats and dogs throughout the pandemic. The CDC is furry interested.
Food & Drink
January 31, 2022
If You Can’t Be a Vegetarian, You Can Still Be a Texatarian
Eating meat—even when you’re practicing a plant-based diet—is every Texan’s right.
Travel & Outdoors
March 16, 2021
Sometimes It’s Hard to Be a Garden
Houston’s newborn Eden survives its first major weather event.
Politics & Policy
February 18, 2021
13 Curses to Mutter Against Ted Cruz While You Boil Snow to Drink
May you make direct eye contact with your neighbor during your yard pee.
Being Texan
October 15, 2020
How Texas Beeworks’s Erika Thompson Became the Queen Bee of Pastoral TikTok
A day in the not-so-secret life of bees.
Politics & Policy
October 1, 2020
Nobody Likes a Tattletale—Except in a Pandemic
But in a state where violations are many and consequences are few, reporting reckless neighbors might not make a difference.
Health
June 24, 2020
Virtual Fitness May Be Here to Stay
How the rise of living room calisthenics is challenging boutique gyms and fitness titans like Gold's Gym.