Austin to Caddo Lake on Interstate 35, U.S. 79, and Texas Highway 43
African Masks, two old steam locomotives, Lady Bird's childhood home-and miniature donkeys.
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.
African Masks, two old steam locomotives, Lady Bird's childhood home-and miniature donkeys.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
His cache of unpublished interviews and unreleased recordings is unrivaled—but both collector and collection are showing signs of age. Who will save the legacy of the man who saved Texas music?
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Michael Hall bids farewell to a true Champ of the Texas music scene.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
The life of Roky Erickson—one of the most influential Texas rock and rollers of all time—has been one calamity after another. His family and friends have taken care of him with the best of intentions, but you know what they say about the road to hell.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Michael Hall riffs about his rock n' roll days.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
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Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Picking up the trail of Walker Railey.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
The story behind this month's cover story, "Lance Armstrong Has Something to Get Off His Chest."
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Andrew Lichtenstein spent six years taking pictures inside Texas' vast prison system. The result is an anthropological study of a brutal culture.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Nine years after the brutal murder of four teenage girls in a yogurt shop rocked the city of Austin, the police say they have finally caught the killers. But they have no evidence and no witnesses—only two confessions that the defendants say were coerced. Which is why, when the case
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Associate editor Michael Hall tells the story behind this month's cover story, "Viva Fort Hood."
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Family values.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
So says Don Baylor, the Austin native now managing baseball’s lowly Chicago Cubs. His players hear him loud and clear, but history has a way of repeating itself.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
The places, people and stories behind Texas music.
Katy Vine has been a staff writer since 2002.
John Spong writes primarily about popular culture.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Buddy Holly. Waylon Jennings. Carolyn Hester. The Hancocks. The Flatlanders. An oral history of the state's most storied music scene.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
He looks like a cross between Ed Asner and Uncle Charley from My Three Sons, but don’t get Dave Hickey started on the subject of beauty— his own or anyone else’s.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Half the state hates them and secretly admires them. The other half admires them and secretly hates them. Such is the plight of the decade’s best high school football team.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
In-Spur-ational.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
How serial killer Rafael Resendez-Ramirez struck fear in the hearts of the men and women of Weimar, a tiny Texas town that will never be the same.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
How the war in Kosovo turned an Austin online company into the Lone Star State Department.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Officially, the most famous atheist in the world is still missing. But the feds think she’s dead, and they think they know where her body is. They also think they know who’s responsible. And he says he didn’t do it.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Don’t hang their plaques at Cooperstown just yet, but do applaud the accomplishments of Kerry Wood and Ben Grieve. After all, not everyone is Rookie of the Year.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Folk singer Nanci Griffith thinks the Texas media have been mistreating her. The way she’s fighting back guarantees her trouble with the press isn’t going away.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Grammy came home.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
More than a year after his death, he’s still being remembered as the best Texas songwriter of his time. This month’s star-studded Austin City Limits tribute shows why.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
An old opera house, Judge Roy Bean’s grave, ancient pictographs—and a drug blimp.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
African masks, two old steam locomotives, Lady Bird's childhood home—and miniature donkeys.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.
Who says it ain’t the good life? These sixteen clubs, lounges, and dives (including one Hole in the Wall) are the reason Austin is called the Live Music Capital of the World.
John Spong writes primarily about popular culture.
Mike Hall writes about criminals, musicians, the law, and barbecue.