Dystopian Author Christopher Brown Truly Lives on the Edge
The writer’s home, which is partly buried deep in the earth, integrates with nature just a few miles from downtown Austin.
The writer’s home, which is partly buried deep in the earth, integrates with nature just a few miles from downtown Austin.
Before leading the Cincinnati Bengals to the Super Bowl, the former LSU quarterback arrived on the national scene by icing the Longhorns in 2019.
A Spoon fanboy overthinks the new record, classic rock, cowboy hats, and Jeff Bezos.
Attorney Mark Mueller promised a caring, new age workplace. But former employees tell of drum-and-smoke ceremonies and explicit text messages.
Bill Broyles—now best known as a Hollywood screenwriter—remembers the magazine’s first issue.
The Austin-set firefighter show devotes four episodes to the 2021 freeze while ignoring all of the real-life drama.
Ariel René Jackson’s "A Welcoming Place" will likely be one of the more discussed Austin art shows of the season.
Polish off hearty chili and pickle-brined chicken with a latte at this Central Texas coffee shop turned barbecue joint.
From Flatonia to Marathon, communities—often small and rural—band together to serve their own needs with local essentials.
A retired Air Force pilot has documented construction of the "Gigafactory" in obsessive detail—and believes it's about to produce its first cars.
Ex-TCU coach Gary Patterson's move to Austin is a script only the deep-pocketed and dysfunctional Longhorns could write.
Eighteen months after notifying USA Gymnastics and its investigative arm of the coach’s alleged abuse, the women are still waiting for a resolution.
Austin restaurant Birdie’s has perfected the art of serving $32 steaks to patrons who wait in line to order.
We review dozens of restaurants each month. Here’s a peek at what’s new.
These iterations of tequila, pechuga, and sotol—all made from desert plants found in Texas and Mexico—are indicative of the trans-border spirit.
Can the Fab Five help a society ravaged by grief recover? The answer is yas.
We cracked open a cold one with the former Cowboy to learn about his latest business venture, a beer aimed at the calorie conscious.
The singer-songwriter-artist reveals the inspirations behind his music in a multimedia museum show in Austin.
There was a lot of great coverage of happenings in Texas this year. Our staff selected its favorite stories.
He wasn’t always kind, but he was kind to me in ways that mattered a great deal.
In his last game before retirement, Dodge led the Chaparrals to a third straight state championship with a win over Denton Guyer High School.
“The dark prince of barbecue,” who always found a new audience to wow with his smoked beef, changed the Texas scene for good.
Texas actor Tye Sheridan stars alongside Ben Affleck in the sentimental yet skippable story of an aspiring writer, directed by George Clooney.
Our creative director, Emily Kimbro, and design director, Victoria Millner, keep Texas Monthly looking good.
The Austin musician has made an excellent traditional blues album—but to get there, he studied punk, West African music, and Ukrainian folk.
Reader letters published in our January 2022 issue.
Moriba Jah, a self-proclaimed “space environmentalist,” has joined a new effort to map the millions of bits of discarded debris orbiting the Earth.
The quarterback transfer, originally from Southlake, has the talent, pedigree, and mullet to make the next few years special for Longhorn fans.
After losing her daughter and a close friend, Sunny Huang brought the benefits of this "miracle tree" to Texas.
Six years after he became governor, we still don’t know what Greg Abbott wants to accomplish—except, as this year made clear, to hold on to office, no matter how many Texans get hurt.
The cringey Netflix show strikes the classic reality-TV balance of being both hard to watch and impossible to turn off.
We review dozens of restaurants each month. Here’s a peek at what’s new.
Plus, a woman in Temple threw her soup at a restaurant employee.
From red and green tortilla chips to eggnog ice cream, there's a holiday treat to please every Grinch and picky eater.
The new show has a strong premise that’s derailed by cheap laughs. But cartoonist Gilbert Shelton’s counterculture strips are still great.
Grading the season performances and outcomes for all twelve FBS programs in Texas. You already know who's getting an F.
‘The Light Saw Me’ is maybe the weirdest, most unexpected post-pandemic album to come out of the Red Dirt country scene. Just in time for Omicron!
I’ve been the target of censorship and vicious harassment, but my greatest worry is what this trend means for young people who rely on school libraries.
Sunday night the actor announced he won’t challenge Greg Abbott. So what will he do?
After enduring twenty months of takeout-only service, Franklin fanatics were thrilled to spend hours—up to ten of ’em—in line for Texas’s most famous brisket.
Clumsy administrators. Meddling boosters. Blown double-digit leads. A six-game losing streak. And a home loss to lowly Kansas. What's next?
The celebrated Fort Worth writer and entrepreneur spent most of his life in exile from his home state. But it never lost its grip on his imagination.
Austin's Kathy Valentine takes us behind the scenes at the star-studded ceremony, which debuts on HBO this month.
The Nelson clan’s new gospel album meets the grief and trauma of the pandemic with spirit and hope.
An annual tour of artist studios opts for a wider map as cost of living blows up the east side of the city.
A new book tells the sweeping tale of the Alamo’s Weird Wednesday series, the American Genre Film Archive, and Austin’s custodians of cult.
Indulge in over-the-top cocktails like the Skeleton Cruise, which comes in a boat with dry ice and activates bar-wide light and sound effects.
Terry Middleton of ‘Horns Illustrated’ tried to be positive during Monday’s Longhorns press conference. He didn’t know he’d get dragged for it.
Asleep at the Wheel (belatedly) celebrates fifty years of championing a genre once considered all but dead.
With six top-25 teams among the state's men's and women's programs, there's never been a better time to be a basketball fan in Texas.