June 2016
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Features
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Dawn Patrol
The exploits of a teenager trying to surf in Galveston.
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Something in the Water
Getting wet, getting scared, and getting my family a little closer to Texas at Schlitterbahn.
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Bernie in Hell
Two decades after killing Marjorie Nugent, Bernie Tiede was sentenced this spring for her murder—again. So what do we make of him now?
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That Old Frio River
Relinquishing oneself to these green waters is a tradition that runs deep in my family.
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What Every Texan Should Know About . . .
Tying a Texas rig. Buying custom boots. Making a no-frills margarita. In this excerpt from How to Be a Texan: The Manual, Andrea Valdez explains how to behave like a native.
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The Secret Tank
The risks a West Texan will take for a quick dip.
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Get Thee to Water
We’ve mapped out nineteen places to cool off the way nature intended by swimming, wading, and diving into Texas’s restorative waterways.
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Off Course
I never knew my father, a decorated World War II pilot who died before I was born. But a trek at age 67 to the site where his airplane crashed brought me closer to him than I’d ever dared hope.
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Columns
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Spurs of the Moment
They are successful, visionary, and humble. If only we could say the same for our presidential candidates.
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The Texanist
Our estimable advice columnist on saying “I do” to a potbellied pig, bidding farewell to supper, giving your regards to Texas, and complaining about cold tortillas.
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Delay of Game
Discovering the joys of Friday Night Lights, ten years after everyone else.
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The Newer Testament
How a computer-loving Texas Tech grad launched one of the fastest-growing megachurches in the country.
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Food Fight
Can Walmart displace H-E-B as Texas’s grocer of choice?
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Reporter
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The Lyndon Johnson Show
All the Way playwright Robert Schenkkan on Donald Trump, George Wallace, and why Bryan Cranston makes a great LBJ.
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Old News: An Illustrated Look at Curious Headlines From a Bygone Era
Veggie tales from Brownsville in the early twentieth century.
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Meanwhile, in Texas . . .
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
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Nashville, Via Arlington
Is Maren Morris the next Kasey Musgraves?
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Hello, Governor
The state capitol’s adventures in portraiture.
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The Checklist
What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
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That Wasn’t an Excavator. It Was an I-Gotta-Take-a-Dump Truck.
The Blackland Prairie becomes an unfortunate dumping ground.
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The Houston Flood
How the Bayou City has become so vulnerable to flooding.
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The Gulf War
Texas’s commercial and recreational fishermen are fighting it out over access to a once-imperiled fish.
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Touts
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Peach Cobbler
A fuzzy slice of heaven, à la mode.
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The Regency Bridge
Outside San Saba stands the last Texas suspension span still open to traffic.
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D.H. Phillips
A Dallas furniture maker creates pieces that are old and new at once.
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Nipped in the Bud
When Austin’s vegetable-forward restaurant Gardner failed, the proprietors transformed it into Chicon, a place aimed at the (adobo-rubbed) meat and (fingerling) potatoes crowd.
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Margarita
From Eight Row Flint, in Houston.
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Miscellany
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Roar of the Crowd
Readers respond to the May 2016 issue.
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Father Figures
Two tales of fathers and sons.
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