The Houston Blood Drive Honoring a Fallen Local Skater
Galveston’s Johnny Romano, the youngest professional skateboarder in history, passed away from leukemia.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue. Mike graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1979 with a degree in government. He wrote for various publications, including Trouser Press, Third Coast Magazine, the Austin American-Statesman, and the Austin Chronicle. In 1997, he joined Texas Monthly, where he has won two Texas Gavel Awards from the State Bar of Texas and four Stephen Philbin Awards from the Dallas Bar Association. He was named Writer of the Year at the City and Regional Magazine Awards in 2015. His stories have appeared in The Best American Magazine Writing, The Best American Sports Writing, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Da Capo’s Best Music Writing, the New York Times, and Men’s Journal. Mike is also a musician and has played in Austin bands the Wild Seeds, the Setters, the Lollygaggers, and the Savage Trip. He pitches for the Burkas, the Texas Monthly softball team.
Galveston’s Johnny Romano, the youngest professional skateboarder in history, passed away from leukemia.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Mezghebe fled East Africa, landed at Texas’s Casa Marianella, and performed with Maggie Rogers in Austin.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Both before and after Lee Hazlewood wrote hits for Nancy Sinatra and Duane Eddy, he was a Texas musician.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
James Fulton reunites with his family, as victim Haile Beasley’s parents decry justice undone.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
The obscure indie ’Taking Tiger Mountain’ offers a glimpse at the late Hollywood star as a teenager.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
How does a man wrongly convicted of murder get released twenty years later? It helps to have a wife who loves you, a podcaster who believes in you, and an army of amateur sleuths who won’t stop digging for the truth.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Justices grant James Fulton a new sentencing hearing: “Tragic consequences do not elevate ordinary negligence to criminal negligence.”
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Bob Ruff is working on his fifth Texas case in fewer than four years, this time hoping to prove the innocence of Sandra Melgar in the killing of her husband, Jaime Melgar.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Carly Mayo, eighteen, is now back in Tyler and living with her mom as she reckons with her past.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Driving through a dangerous curve in Tyler, James Fulton crossed into oncoming traffic and killed a young woman. He wasn’t drunk, and the cops said the crash was an accident. But the Smith County DA saw it differently.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Appreciations by current and former staffers who know them all too well.
John Spong writes primarily about popular culture.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Found guilty in 1987, the freed man will be paid $2.5 million by the state of Texas, which he'll use to support his prison ministry.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
The documentary, premiering on PBS December 17, looks to the elderly minister's hometown of Grand Saline to uncover why he set himself alight.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
A controversial Dallas civil rights lawyer is holding police accountable—and being held accountable, too.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Brandley died last week, 31 years after the state of Texas tried and failed to kill him.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
How a motley crew of young Texas lawyers, a burly Michigan podcaster, and his army of amateur sleuths—including actor Jon Cryer—helped free a man convicted of a murder he swears he didn’t commit.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
He worked 80-hour weeks to send money home to his family. The driver who ran him over had been in and out of trouble for years.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
The case of a man who slaughtered his family, then gouged out his eyes, will be reviewed Tuesday by an appellate court panel in New Orleans.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
We need a museum worthy of our music. And we need Mark Cuban's help to get us there.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
The music icon talks to us about how he’s able to continue writing—and touring—well into his eighties.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
The future Hall of Famer hangs with his buddy, Jason Pena, at their joint venture, BlackJack Speed Shop.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
He was a highlight of Austin’s creative community and, in death, a spotlight on the city’s problems with race.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
A decade ago, Gabby Sones accused her parents and five others of running the most depraved child sex ring in Texas history. Now she’s ready to clear their names.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Pedro Villalobos is a star prosecutor. Gerardo De Loera is a musician. Joseph Ramirez is a tech entrepreneur. They’re young, they’re smart, they make America great. They’re also undocumented. And now, they face being sent back to a place they’ve never called home.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
DJ El Dusty, the unofficial mayor of the Corpus Christi music scene, is ushering in a modernized version of cumbia.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Alonso Guillen died an American hero—even if many didn’t think of him as an American.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Our executive editor's book, 'The Midnight Assassin,' won the nonfiction book of the year from the Writers' League of Texas.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
The greatest Texas songwriter you’ve never heard of is a 72-year-old grandmother from Lubbock. This is her story.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Kerry Max Cook, who spent almost twenty years on death row for a murder he maintains he didn't commit, sues the people who sent him there.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
The essence of Texas barbecue—past and present—is in the Piney Woods.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Here are your not-to-miss acts across the state.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Dan Solomon writes about politics, music, food, sports, criminal justice, health care, film, and business.
Louise Rowe was the only female musician to play with Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. Now she's taking her own band to San Marcos.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss talks to us about Kerry Max Cook, the Texan accused of brutal 1977 murder whom Dreyfuss played on stage.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
The Supreme Court says Texas must change the way it determines who can be executed.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Kerry Max Cook did everything to clear his name of a horrifying murder. So when he was finally exonerated, why did he ask for his conviction back?
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
For many Americans, the controversial health law is government run amok. But for these people in San Antonio, it’s been a lifesaver.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
In 1982 three teenagers were killed near the shores of Lake Waco in a seemingly inexplicable crime. More than three decades later, the tragic and disturbing case still casts a long, dark shadow.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Kerry Max Cook, a subject of The Exonerated, is finally exonerated.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Stunning new evidence in the case of Kerry Max Cook casts serious doubt on his 1978 murder conviction--and points emphatically at another man.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
The sixty-year-old spent 35 years on death row for a crime many believe he didn't commit. He died Sunday from natural causes.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
How one woman’s fight for freedom inspired Houston’s lawyers and artists more than a century and a half later.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
A new documentary tells the story of the San Antonio Four, a group of lesbians who were accused of sexually abusing two children in what many consider a modern-day witch-hunt.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
A hipster paradise, a high-tech nirvana, a festival wonderland. Today Austin barely resembles the sleepy college town I moved to in the seventies. How it changed is the story of a lifetime.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
The host of the beloved radio show "Twine Time" on KUTX in Austin died Friday at 73.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
How the once troubled Texas Forensic Science Commission put the state at the forefront of the criminal justice reform movement.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
The famed musicologist’s obsession with history made him one of the great chroniclers of American music.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Cotton Mather translates the wisdom of 'I Ching' to Texas power pop.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
”Booger Red,” a film by Berndt Mader and based on a Texas Monthly story, premieres at the Austin Film Festival.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
A dark incident almost twenty years ago put Greg Torti on the sex offender registry for life. But the real story, he insists, is much more complicated.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Critics denounce this arm of forensic science as bogus and subjective.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.