Paul of the Wild
Ron Paul may be out of office, but he’s still trying to save the country from itself.
Ron Paul may be out of office, but he’s still trying to save the country from itself.
They might be blond, but they ain’t stupid.
After years as an in-demand fiddle payer, Amanda Shires is redefining herself as a boundary-breaking singer-songwriter. Emphasis on “writer.”
Longview’s Forest Whitaker is having the sort of year that should put him in the Hollywood elite once and for all.
Scouring the mall for America’s next top model.
Why Republicans were wrong to be outraged when FEMA denied disaster aid to West.
1. Abbott FormingThe moment Rick Perry announced that he was not running for a fourth full term as governor, all eyes turned to Attorney General Greg Abbott, who instantly became the most powerful Republican in the state. The 55-year-old Wichita Falls native has long been viewed as a serious candidate
You think you’re scared. Clarence here is about to mate for the first time. After which he’ll be killed and eaten.
Can the company that changed personal computing muster a second act?
Texas Tech’s new head coach is disarmingly young, stylish, and hip. He also seems to have the Midas touch.
George Bush strives for a higher command.
Thought winning an Oscar would make Sandra Bullock take chances? Think again.
“[The bakery] was our business, our living room, and our bedroom. Heck, it was even my nursery.”
Why, in books and movies (not to mention politics), we keep returning to the epic frontier struggle between the Comanche and the Texas Rangers.
1. How Dry We AreWhen the heat has even the grackles lying low, the pleasure of a swimming hole cold enough to knock the breath out of you is limitless. Alas, water is not, a truism sorely evident to the residents of the Hill Country town of Wimberley, where
Ministry’s Al Jourgensen almost died, repeatedly, before he decided that life was worth living. In El Paso.
Once a year, a San Antonio congregation relives Jesus’ last days—and leaves the cellphones at home.
It’s hard out there for a turtle. Especially one that’s endangered, y’all.
The shy, edgy, friendly, shaggy, hardworking genius behind the most anticipated new Texas restaurant in years.
Eats scorpions. Mates for life. Doesn't really say, "Beep, beep!"
The University of Texas Board of Regents chairman on the controversies over higher education and the future of learning.
The days and nights of the hardest-working Nigerian American in Houston hip-hop.
As my son graduates from college, I’m learning to say goodbye to him—again.
In Dallas, our newly not-so-unpopular forty-third president tries to bend the arc of history’s judgment.
According to the Rick Perry camp, sometime this month our governor will announce whether he plans to run for Texas's top office yet again.
Gene Powell, the University of Texas Board of Regents chairman, on the controversies over higher education and the future of learning.
Taylor Stevens gets her revenge, one best-selling thriller at a time.
“I haven’t thought about the bust or what I’ll do then. I live one day at a time. I’ll go with it as long as I can.”
Training the wayward pups of Houston’s rich and famous.
In his next film, "Mud," Austin filmmaker Jeff Nichols tackles the novel that Hemingway once called the source of all modern American literature.
Acting like a rube used to be the best way to get ahead in politics. Now something crazier is required.
1. Independent WomanOn May 24, Twentieth Century Fox will release the computer-animated movie Epic, in which Beyoncé, arguably the biggest star of our time, will voice the role of Queen Tara, the empress of a microscopic kingdom. What could be more appropriate?Think about it. Over the past year or so,
Her new boyfriend is a legend. But her new album is even more exciting than her personal life.
Whatever you do, don’t ask him if he’s real.
Alfredo Corchado’s tragic, hopeful vision of Mexico’s emergence from an era of blood and fear.
What happened when a wild and crazy guy teamed up with a New Bohemian.
“I get to see things other people don’t get to see.”
Terrence Malick is suddenly making a lot of movies. That’s the good news.
The West Texan editor of Poetry magazine leaves his plum gig for divinity school.
Running a halfway house for female ex-cons.
Texans don’t love guns just because we’re Texans.
Steve Earle on leaving Texas, kicking drugs, and watching himself die on TV.
Can Texas’s oil and natural gas boom keep going forever?
1. Bills,Bills, BillsThe calendar says that the Eighty-third Legislature began on January 8, but insiders know the real action doesn’t begin until 59 days later. Oh, there are plenty of speeches and resolutions during the first two months, recognizing groups like the Texas Association of Health Underwriters. But the tone changes
Has Richard Linklater just completed the greatest trilogy in film history?
How a Dallas gospel-funk band reunited after thirty years of silence to set the world on fire.
Leadership is lacking in Texas. O Houston, where art thou?
The most misunderstood swamp creature of them all.
Money makes the world go round - Susan Combs on budgets, borrowing, and race cars.
A new book looks at the links between Cynthia Ann Parker and an iconic John Ford western.