In recent months the West Texas oil town has smelled, in one resident’s words, like ”a dog’s anal gland.” And no one is 100 percent sure why.
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The debut album from Austin's Kalu & the Electric Joint brings some international flavor to the Live Music Capital of the World.
Nigeria has never participated in the Winter Olympics. University of Houston grad Ngozi Onwumere may soon change all that.
The celebrated Plano novelist on how the Columbine massacre and growing up in ”The Suicide Capital of America” influenced his new book, 'Oliver Loving.'
A Houston exhibition delves into the history of an obscure corner of Mexican popular culture.
Priscilla Villarreal doesn’t work for the local news in Laredo—but for her 80,000 Facebook followers, that doesn’t matter.
'Music for Enchanted Rock,' is structured as a song cycle celebrating the massive pink-granite batholith north of Fredericksburg that’s much beloved by Central Texas hikers and day-trippers.
The co-creator of the popular ”Welcome to Night Vale” podcast talks about existential weirdness, eerie similarities to Sean Spicer, and the KEOM radio tower.
The recent release of JFK files is probably the last significant injection of new information into the psychic landscape in which assassination theorists like Mark North have resided for the past 54 years.
How did the North Texas native convince a generation of TV fans that he was a dyed-in-the-wool Brit?
There’s been years of heartbreak. That’s what makes the Astros' World Series win so sweet.
San Angelo makes its case for María de Jesús de Ágreda to the Vatican.
We sat down with our former staffer to talk about his new book, 'American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West'.
Franklin Barbecue—arguably the most famous barbecue joint in the world—was hit by a major fire that destroyed its pit room and damaged other parts of the building. We chatted with co-owner Aaron Franklin about life after the fire.
Dallas's Annie Clark—known as St. Vincent to the faithful—darts between styles on fifth album 'Masseduction'.
David Shelton Gallery presents new works by Alejandro Diaz in November.
Moving electricity through West Texas comes at a steep price.
'Dealt' tells the story of Richard Turner, one of the world's greatest card sharks.
'Young Sheldon' imagines the childhood of Sheldon Cooper, the lovably supercilious physicist played so brilliantly by Houston’s Jim Parsons on the long-running hit 'The Big Bang Theory.'
In his new book, Robert D. Hodge explores the Texas borderlands through the seven generations of his ranching family.
Scott Kelly on what freaked him out—and what drove him crazy—during his record-setting year on the International Space Station.
With the south side of El Paso up for grabs, everyone seems to have an idea about what the city’s future should look like.
Parquet Courts' A. Savage makes his solo debut with 'Thawing Dawn.'
The shale boom and the end of a decades-old export ban have put the Port of Corpus Christi on the global map. Finally.
The Texas Gentlemen, a Dallas-based collective of young studio musicians and sidemen, are the best backing group you've probably never heard of.
Returning to the place where she began her career, Linda Livingstone looks to repair the university’s reputation.
Texas writer Attica Locke rolls out the first of a series of books set along Highway 59.
Three albums out in the next month bring country rock, story-songs, and swampy blues.
San Antonio’s new mayor isn’t interested in the old battles between left and right.
Hitting Subset seems humble and meek on camera, but the Austin band's debut is anything but.
After activists threatened a statue of Sam Houston, protesters showed up to defend it. But against whom, exactly, wasn’t clear.
Author Adam Sternbergh tells us how a Canadian-raised Brooklynite wrote a book set in West Texas.
Lyndon B. Johnson conducted the nation's affairs under the Cabinet Oak. But is the three-hundred-year-old tree a goner?
Jason Lee explains why he left Los Angeles for Denton and why, right now, he prefers taking photographs to acting.
Willie Beeley and Billy Stoner have never met. But from a distance, the two musicians might be the same person.