The Texanist
April 19, 2024
The Texanist: Texas Gets More Tornadoes Than Any Other State, but Don’t Freak Out
Here’s how to prepare for tornado season, which is still relatively low-risk.
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Style & Design
April 18, 2024
The Globe Collector Who Can’t Sleep Until He Checks eBay
The Earth-obsessed antiques dealer has orbs dating back to the 1700s.
Travel & Outdoors
April 17, 2024
Hunting for Texas’s Prettiest Purple Mushroom
The wood blewit has a lovely lavender hue and, oddly enough, is said to smell like frozen orange juice. It also tastes great in a breakfast taco.
Sports
April 17, 2024
A Dallas MotoGP Mechanic Opens Up About the Nomadic Life of Motorcycle Racers
Yuji Kikuchi, a gearbox specialist with the Honda LCR team, brings us inside the engineers’ paddock before the Grand Prix of the Americas, in Austin.
Business
April 15, 2024
The Battle of Big Taco
With their anything-goes approach to ingredients—and deep-pocketed investors—Torchy's Tacos and Velvet Taco have ambitious plans to expand nationally.
Tacos
April 11, 2024
This Food Truck Offers a Taste of El Paso in the Capital City
At El Paso Flauta, in Austin, Arturo Reyes recreates—and even surpasses—Sun City's famous dishes, such as the chile relleno burrito and tacos ahogados.
BBQ
March 29, 2024
Historic Barbecue Joints Are Rapidly Becoming History
There's been a spate of closures of old joints over the last few years due to tiny profit margins, costly repairs, and retiring owners.
Art
March 28, 2024
Photographer Rahim Fortune’s Lens on Texas’s Black Communities
Fortune’s new collection, ‘Hardtack,’ showcases a stripped-down approach that brings audiences closer to his subjects’ emotions.
Libations
March 25, 2024
Beer Nerds, Get Thee to the Library!
The Munday Library at St. Edward's University in Austin, that is, where the Texas Craft Brewing Collections keeps artifacts from the state's illustrious craft beer history for the public to view.
BBQ
March 22, 2024
LeRoy and Lewis’s New Restaurant Blends Barbecue Tradition With New-School Technique
After seven years of running a successful food truck, Evan LeRoy and Sawyer Lewis now have the space to get even more creative.
Sports
March 21, 2024
Which Texas Team Will Make the Deepest March Madness Run?
A Texan college basketball fan’s ultimate guide to all eleven Texas teams competing in the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments.
The Stand Up Desk
March 20, 2024
Meet the Writer of Our Jesse Plemons Story
Sean O’Neal explores the Texas roots of an actor increasingly in demand in Hollywood.
Music
March 19, 2024
For Rap Duo Flyana Boss, Success Is Best Worn With Elf Ears
The viral sensation on best friendship, “fairycore” style, and when they’ll know they’ve truly made it.
Film & TV
March 18, 2024
The Duplass Brothers Want to Do for TV What They Did for Movies
With a wide-ranging television showcase at SXSW, Mark Duplass shared how he plans to bring the offbeat creative freedom of independent film to the small screen.
Music
March 15, 2024
This Year, There’s Also an “Anti-SXSW Fest”
Eighty-plus acts have dropped out of SXSW over the festival’s ties to the U.S. Army and defense contractors. Boycott organizers quickly stepped in to book a weekend’s worth of protest concerts.
Music
March 15, 2024
Has SXSW Lost Its Cool?
Many bands are boycotting, more of the brands are square, and attitudes have soured toward big tech. Where is the festival going?
Music
March 14, 2024
The New Billy Preston Documentary Will Take You to Church—When It Sticks to Music
The film on the Houston piano prodigy and so-called “fifth Beatle” honors Preston’s career but strays when it depicts his personal life.
The Texanist
March 13, 2024
The Texanist: How Do I Navigate the DPS Without Losing My Mind?
Long wait times for driver’s licenses can be frustrating, but there are ways to work within the system (including—shh!—under-the-radar offices with no waits).
Film & TV
March 13, 2024
A New Film Says Goodbye to an Austin Legend and the Austin of Legends
‘Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience’ pays homage to the longtime KUT radio host and the city that embraced him.
Tex-Mexplainer
March 13, 2024
Stuffed Avocados Are Back, Baby
While the dish might have reached its peak several decades ago, it's going through a resurgence, with restaurants putting the classic on their menus.
BBQ
March 13, 2024
Where to Eat Barbecue in Austin
The Capital City is overflowing with great places to grab some ’cue, from classic trays to more unconventional meats and sides.
Film & TV
March 11, 2024
Is It Still ‘Road House’ If the Plot Makes Sense?
Amazon’s remake, which premiered at SXSW, swaps Patrick Swayze’s soulfulness for a more coherent script—but is that a good thing?
Sports
March 8, 2024
For These Veterans, Jiujitsu Helps Ease the Psychic Toll of War
At former Green Beret Alan Shebaro's North Texas gym, U.S. military veterans create community and find support through jiujitsu.
Critters
March 6, 2024
This Texas Photographer Turns Dead Animals Into Poignant Portraits
Amanda Stronza pulls over to document coyotes, deer, and squirrels killed along highways.
Music
March 5, 2024
Besame Mucho Austin Was Not Quite the Festival Fans Deserved—and We Loved It Anyway
The music fest brought Grupo Frontera, Bobby Pulido, and El Tri onto one jaw-dropping bill. Despite organizational hiccups, the day was “historic.”
Hunting & Fishing
March 1, 2024
Three Years Ago, Chef Jesse Griffiths Persuaded Us to Eat Wild Hogs. Now He’s Turned His Attention to Wild Turkeys.
After his self-published “textbook” and cookbook won a James Beard Award two years ago, the Austin chef’s follow-up effort makes the case for hunting and harvesting the once endangered native bird.
Books
February 21, 2024
Less Than 2 Percent of Children’s Books Feature Indigenous Characters. Heartdrum Wants to Change That.
The HarperCollins imprint, curated by Cynthia Leitich Smith, is on a mission to ensure that Native kids “see themselves as heroes of their own life stories.”
Food & Drink
February 20, 2024
Texas’s Best New Restaurants in 2024
Our twenty-third edition of Where to Eat Now finds that dining out can be loud, pricey—and as worthwhile as ever.
Critters
February 20, 2024
Meet the Beetles on Graham Reynolds’s New Album Celebrating the Sounds of Insects
The composer worked with Texas scientists to draw attention to both the beauty of arthropods and the threats they face.
Critters
February 15, 2024
Nutria Deserve Their Reputation as Giant, Nasty Swamp Rats
Found in waterways across Texas, the invasive rodents destroy an estimated $1 million worth of U.S. crops per year.
Food & Drink
February 13, 2024
This Year’s No Good, Very Bad Crawfish Season
Mudbugs are going to be more expensive and harder to find this year due to extreme weather in Louisiana, which supplies 90 percent of crawfish in the U.S.
Food & Drink
February 6, 2024
How This Austin Restaurant Got Franklin’s Brisket Into Its Buttery Croissants
Overwhelmed by motherhood and running her restaurant, Épicerie, chef Sarah McIntosh sparked a friendship with Aaron and Stacy Franklin, leading to the creation of one of the tastiest pastries in town.
Sports
January 30, 2024
Get Ready for the Biennial Texas High School Football Feeding Frenzy
On Thursday, schools across Texas will learn what districts they’ll play in for the next two years. Then, the scheduling madness begins.
Business
January 29, 2024
Austin’s Daily Newspaper Is Being Starved to Death
Since taking over the American-Statesman in 2019, Gannett has steadily slashed staffing and budgets. Sensing opportunity, new media players are expanding into the market.
The Stand Up Desk
January 25, 2024
Texas Monthly’s Forrest Wilder Will Go Anywhere for a Story—Especially Up
When Forrest Wilder isn’t hanging out at the state capitol, he’s often clinging to a cliff face.
Art
January 23, 2024
A Giant Troll Is Coming to Austin’s Pease Park (and the News Brought Out a Few, Uh, Trolls)
“Texas has no cultural tradition of trolls,” wrote one.
Being Texan
January 22, 2024
The Life and Death of a Former East Austin Gang Member
Two years ago Texas Monthly published a story about a group of young men growing up fatherless in East Austin. In October, one of them was killed.
Business
January 22, 2024
An Austin Start-up’s (Expensive) Plan to Transform the Wireless Business
Deploying “DeWi” technology, Really Wireless will offer hosts cash, plus free service for transmitting their broadband to nearby cellphones via rooftop radios.
Travel & Outdoors
January 22, 2024
Rock On, Texas!
No longer a niche subculture, climbing has attracted converts across the state. Senior editor Forrest Wilder explores the sport—from El Paso’s Hueco Tanks to the cliffs over Lake Marble Falls—and tries to tackle his own white whale.
Meanwhile, in Texas
January 19, 2024
Meanwhile, in Texas: Look, Up in the Sky—It’s Very Old Man!
A brief and highly selective look at what just happened, from a centenarian plummeting to earth on purpose to a hot-air ballooner who did so against his will.
Style & Design
January 19, 2024
The Best Little Bra Store in Texas
An ode to Petticoat Fair, which has been keeping Texans perky—a surprisingly challenging feat—for sixty years.
Sports
January 18, 2024
Will a Civil Rights Landmark Golf Course Be Gobbled Up by Austin Developers?
NAACP head Derrick Johnson visited Austin to support preservation efforts at Lions Municipal, the first public links in Texas to desegregate.
Tacos
January 18, 2024
This Famed Pitmaster Is Bringing South Texas to Austin With His New Taco Trailer
John Bates wowed with InterStellar Barbecue, and now Yellow Bell Tacos is his way of showing off his Corpus Christi roots.
Music
January 12, 2024
Was Matthew McConaughey Really Bleeding at Zach Bryan’s Austin Gig?
McConaughey and fellow Texas actor Tye Sheridan made cameos at the country singer-songwriter’s music video shoot this week.
News & Politics
January 12, 2024
You Can Prep Your Plants, Pets, and Pipes for a Texas Freeze. But What About Your Peace of Mind?
Plants covered, pets inside, pipes wrapped, and faucets dripping. A calm and confident attitude? Harder won.
Tacos
January 12, 2024
San Antonio Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Accept Austin’s Tacos
A taco media battle has raged since 2016, with the Alamo City constantly on the defensive. Eight years in, I suggest a different tactic.
Travel & Outdoors
January 11, 2024
Shhhhh! The Official State Mushroom of Texas Is Hissing.
The Texas star—our official state mushroom—puts on a show every winter.
Food & Drink
January 11, 2024
A Texan Has Been Named Restaurant Editor for Food & Wine Magazine
Austin-based Raphael Brion has been practicing for this gig much of his adult life. And he’s an equal fan of breakfast tacos and crêpes flambé.
Ken Paxton Watch
January 5, 2024
Paxton Watch: After a “Swatting” Incident at His House, the AG Called Out His Political Opponents—but Does It Add Up?
The beleaguered attorney general blamed House Speaker Dade Phelan for “doxxing” him, but he failed to mention that the address contained in the impeachment materials Phelan released was for Paxton’s residence in another city.
Sports
January 2, 2024
The Texas Longhorns’ Winning Culture Is Built to Last Beyond This Season
After bowing out of this season’s national semifinals, the Texas Longhorns expect sustained success under head coach Steve Sarkisian.