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Recent attempts to abolish the holiday have failed. But things might be different when lawmakers return to Austin in January.
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Plus, Beyoncé announces new visual album, Robert Rodriguez brings Ben Affleck home with him, and the ACL Festival gives in to the inevitable.
A Houston man would like to maintain an annual summer tradition.
Plus: Subway's Pitmaster Ramone gets a shout-out from his boss at Sadler's.
Some politicians fully embrace the conspiracy theory while others say they’re embracing it just to get attention.
We asked leaders from across the state and the religious spectrum to share their best words of wisdom.
In their new book, ‘The Sober Lush,' Austin writers Amanda Eyre Ward and Jardine Libaire offer a booze-free road map to a rich, full lifestyle.
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Dalila Reynoso, who started a friendship with Sheriff Larry Smith at Whataburger, now monitors local jails to keep him accountable.
To trace the disease’s spread, the Dallas County medical examiner has set out to screen all of those who end up in his morgue.
Khruangbin draws from a vast palette of sounds and traditions, making them a quintessentially Texan band.
As public health experts warn that ICUs in the city might soon be overwhelmed with coronavirus patients, shops and restaurants remain packed.
Japanese tacos might seem like a recent invention, but they're actually part of a long and rich international history.
The race to choose a Democratic challenger to John Cornyn has been overshadowed by other news, but it finds the Texas Democratic Party bitterly divided.
Just as my husband and I were moving away from the city, we found ourselves embracing our adopted hometown.
"We need to have a good cry," Smith says. "Then I want us to hit the streets and demand real, systemic change."
With Donald Trump’s approval rating dropping among his formerly reliable white evangelical base, the administration dispatched the vice president to Robert Jeffress’s First Baptist Church.
Recent protests have sparked conversations about colorism, Eurocentric beauty standards, and how black Latinos are underrepresented in both English- and Spanish-language media.
The 1928 Commodore Perry mansion has been restored to its former glory and turned into an upscale resort unlike anything in the city. Join us on a virtual tour.
Dolly Li and Joey Yang started Plum Radio to talk about race, pop culture, and news from an Asian American perspective.
The recent uprisings have confirmed for me that platitudes aren’t enough.
These themes, which he returns to again and again in his movies, illustrate how he's developed as a filmmaker.
Days after he attended his county party convention, Bill Baker was hospitalized with COVID-19. In three weeks, more than 7,000 Republicans will descend on Houston.
Plus: Torchy's removes the Republican and Democrat tacos from its menu.
Plus: a morning practice to spark creativity, a dish from Austin’s Suerte, and a nostalgic summer movie.
The legendary Taylor restaurant has adapted to the coronavirus era with an abbreviated menu, larger outdoor patio, and other changes.
The podcast dives into the mysteries surrounding the decades-long string of murders in the border city.
Plus, Pharrell works up a Juneteenth musical, Beyoncé debuts a new song of the summer, and Matthew McConaughey gets biblical.
After initially deferring to city and county leaders on COVID-19 response, Governor Abbott has renewed his battle with local government.
The border city treated my family with care and invited us to find community there.
The majority of apprehensions during the first week of demonstrations over police violence were for curfew violations, obstructing roadways, and other low-level offenses.
The removal of the statue is part of a larger reappraisal of the role of the Rangers in Texas history.
Should he have won it back in 2005? Maybe. But he wasn’t going to take it after the fact.
Senior editor John Spong is the brains behind our special thirteenth issue of Texas Monthly devoted to the life and music of Willie Nelson. The issue publishes in August.
Will we finally expand health-care access? Will dating go old-school? Can renewables jump-start the economy? And are takeout margaritas here to stay? The novel coronavirus has disrupted our lives in unprecedented ways. But it’s not all bleak. We asked economists, health care workers, science fiction writers, wildcatters, and restaurateurs to…
It’s an unusual and risky campaign strategy: Jackson is trying to appeal primarily to Trump, in the hopes that the voters will follow.
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Chefs and owners have had to adapt quickly and nimbly, with takeout, meal kits, booze to go, and reconfigured dining spaces. Will it be enough to survive?
From the Estelline spring in the Panhandle and the foot of the Guadalupe Mountains to the hypersaline lakes in the Rio Grande Valley, the common mineral is all around us.
The Texas director is still making movies about mundane yet consequential interactions—albeit quarantined and temporarily cut off from the film community he helped build.
After the pandemic, will Texas's wide open cityscapes lure big business?
The visual arts institution, which is reopening in July, intends to realize the artist’s original intentions for the space with its upgrades.
The ModTexas archive of architectural treasures across Texas serves as a reminder to appreciate the delightful details all around us.
How the rise of living room calisthenics is challenging boutique gyms and fitness titans like Gold's Gym.