Meet Your New Nightmare, the Hammerhead Worm
If you try to kill it with a shovel, it’ll just split into two.
If you try to kill it with a shovel, it’ll just split into two.
After federal restrictions around hemp loosened in 2018, Texas brands swooped in to provide drinks—from canned cocktails to seltzer to vodka—that deliver a light buzz.
As fewer young people seek trade careers, Hill Country building specialist Richard Laughlin hopes to interest students in a career path full of opportunity. First assignment? Build a tiny home.
David Robinson, Tim Duncan, and now Victor Wembanyama—when the Spurs draft number one overall, they get Hall of Fame big men.
No other NBA star raises his game for the postseason quite like Miami Heat guard and Tomball, Texas, native Jimmy Butler.
Meet our executive producer Megan Creydt, who’s shepherding dozens of the magazine’s stories to the silver screen.
Among the honors Texas Monthly received was a nomination in the Society of Publication Designers’ prestigious Brand of the Year category.
Reader letters published in our June 2023 issue.
At M’Jays House of Smoke, in Arlington, each menu item is bigger than the next. And if you run out of barbecue tolerance, this space also offers fried catfish and wings.
Chef David Skinner of Eculent has been called a mad genius. With a focus on molecular gastronomy, he invites guests to “rethink everything.”
In this edition of “Where’s the (Goodstock) Beef?” we take a trip to Houston and highlight six of our favorite dishes across Space City.
A major exterior improvement project for the UT art museum builds excitement, but old cracks show.
By basing all of its operations and its teams in Arlington, the XFL may have hit on a formula for spring ball success.
Hypnotic, the supernatural thriller starring Ben Affleck that opened on Friday, is Robert Rodriguez’s twenty-first movie. The lifelong Texan is more prolific than almost any of his ’90s indie-film contemporaries—Quentin Tarantino, whose Reservoir Dogs debuted about a year before Rodriguez’s El Mariachi, has only made ten!—and that’s including a
Luka Dončić’s war on referees, the failure to re-sign Jalen Brunson, the trade for Kyrie Irving—it was all bad for the Mavs this season.
The Geto Boys and Selena set the stage in the early nineties for the transformation of Texas music.
Olmos Bbq, in Fort Worth, offers traditional brisket, sausage, and ribs, but pitmaster-taquero John Paul Govea knows it’s “the tacos that hit.”
An Austin man wants to know whether Austin’s Scholz Garten or San Antonio’s Menger Bar can claim the title of oldest continually operating bar in the state.
Dallas journalist Roxanna Asgarian’s new book, ‘We Were Once a Family,’ examines a murder-suicide that made national news—and finds that the story behind the story is even worse than we thought.
Ann Thomasson-Wilson’s East Texas bait shop is a must-stop before anglers of all ages head out to the nearby Sam Rayburn Reservoir.
The longest-tenured governor of Texas, who is famously great with groups of three, aims for a failed campaign hat trick.
Rarely are special-interest bills in the Texas Lege quite so special as in Brooks Landgraf’s bill targeting the tiny town of Volente.
Owner Rusty Cook has accumulated enough neon signs to cover the entire restaurant, and artisan Rebecca Welch restores them to their original glow.
We review dozens of restaurants all around Texas each month. Here’s a peek at what’s new and how we liked it.
The Max Original, based on Texas Monthly reporting by Michael Hall, is set to debut May 23.
After years of struggle, Charley Crockett is on the verge of stardom. The story of how he got here would be unbelievable if it weren’t true.
For the developer of a complex of multimillion-dollar hilltop homes, today’s slowing market spurred a marketing innovation. Enter the holodeck.
The Nature Conservancy paradise teems with colorful blooms—and on May 20, Texans have a rare chance to see them.
Based on his life growing up in San Antonio’s Southside, the show feels unencumbered by the weight of representation.
An unusual number of lawmakers have crossed the aisle to support Republican bills this year. Party operatives are furious.
Legal sports gambling in the state still faces a long and complicated path that would require a constitutional amendment.
Plus, a man and his parrot made the scene at Whataburger, and someone really, really wanted to catch a Megan Thee Stallion show.
Connie Britton’s tough yet compassionate Friday Night Lights character remains one of our most inspirational depictions of Texas womanhood.
It took a music producer to bring together the powerful pairing of grungy Austinite Tim Kerr and Houston sophisticate Robert Hodge, who worked together to create 40 paintings.
The Dallas Mavericks’ superstar guard is recognized for being a Texan who gave so much only to receive very little.
Using beautiful fungi from Smallhold's mushroom farm in Buda, I tried to mimic meat in the smoker and on the grill to mixed results.
He's from California, but we're still proud of him and his namesake.
Frank Kozik, the Austin-based designer, who died this week, captured a generation with his posters for groups like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and the Beastie Boys.
The gun bills most likely to pass aren’t restrictions but those that further protect firearm ownership.
These benefits could be ours, if the Lege would just help insure a million more Texans.
Elegance is on the menu at this Italian venture from Blaine Staniford and Adam Jones—as is a ricotta-filled, beurre blanc–lavished “serpent.”
Yearby’s Barbecue & Waterice, in Pilot Point, is serving a limited menu until its brick-and-mortar opens, but brisket lovers are in luck.
Host Nancy Miller sits down with Patrick Fugit, who plays Pat Mongomery, and takes a deep dive into the psyche behind the character. Series costume designer Audrey Fisher talks with Miller about her experience of turning the series actors into their 1970s and 1980s characters. Texas Monthly senior editor Emily
The 49–1 Sooners have been nearly unbeatable. But one day, Dariana Orme, Aliyah Binford, and the Baylor Bears got the best of them.
Inside the arguments, lawsuit, and angry outbursts that are dividing a key authority on historical matters.
The nonprofit helps kids and teens affected by incarceration find healing in nature.
As Picnic Surf Shapes, Dallas artist Gregory Ruppe hand-builds wooden boards with an ecological and political message.
San Taco specializes in the comforting stews and braises, offering them on plates or by the pound alongside fresh tortillas.
For Sabah’s first U.S. factory, founder Mickey Ashmore, a Dallas native, turned to his home state.
Hint: if one of them were Baker Mayfield, he could pass a football to the folks on either side of him.