Meanwhile, in Texas . . .
Some crazy stuff went down last month. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
Some crazy stuff went down last month. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
Alyssa Michalke was recently named the first female commander of Texas A&M’s corps of cadets. It’s been a long time coming.
What to read, hear, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
“Lightning killed near Blossom, Tex., a mule and cow at the same time. They were a mile apart.”—Jefferson Jimplecute, May 1, 1908
Meet SnapStream, a Google-style search engine for television.
A newly installed nacho-cheese-melting machine at Round Rock’s Dell Diamond burst into flames the night before opening day. Though no one was injured in the conflagration, it did $200,000 worth of damage to the stadium’s eatery, the Nolan Ryan Fireball Express Grill.
Iliza Shlesinger, whose comic style mates icy reserve with feverish belligerence, hits the road.
Five Texans who would be president.
In drought-ravaged West Texas, cotton farmers find good omens in unlikely places.
Some crazy stuff went down last month. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
The author of Black Water Rising talks about Houston neighborhoods, writing for a hot TV show, and her dad’s run for mayor.
What to read, hear, and look at to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
“A large chair factory began operations in Tyler on Saturday.”—Abilene Reporter, May 2, 1890
When Willie met Scarface.
P.J. Proby is still here.
The DRT and the Alamo: a look back.
The Fort Bend County sheriff’s office issued a press release on its website seeking help in locating hundreds of people whose credit cards and driver’s licenses were sitting in the lost-and-found of a local movie theater. The press release, which pointed out that the theater’s carelessness put owners of the missing items at high risk for
An electoral travesty at UT.
A funny thing happened on the way to the San Angelo fracking sand transloading facility.
Some crazy stuff went down last month. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
James Baker says politics has changed since his White House days. For the worse.
What to hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Mail-order tacos.
“Pistol carrying is now so prevalent here as to be a first-class nuisance. The young men, white and black, hardly consider themselves in party attire unless they have on a pistol.”—Brenham Weekly Banner, May 27, 1886
A headline in the February 19 edition of the Waller County Times Tribune announced, “Hitch up your bitches and jingle those spurs, its trail ride season.”
iZombie rises from the dead.
In Houston, a pair of activists discover that the same environmental battles get fought over and over.
Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, and their near-identical path to Oscar glory.
Becky Hammon didn’t get hired as the Spurs’ assistant coach because she’s a woman. She got the job for the same reason everyone gets a job with the Spurs: to keep the team winning.
Congratulations to new ag commission Sid Miller.
A memorable evening with James and Curtis McMurtry, the son and grandson of Texas’s most-beloved living author.
Crossing the Rio Grande in one’s undergarments.
The Flower Man House, RIP.
What to hear, read, watch, and attend this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Some crazy stuff went down last month. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
Festival managing director Roland Swenson reflects on a difficult year.
Despite all the exits and entrances around him, House speaker Joe Straus plans on staying right where he is.
Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
What to hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Tales from the mycological side.
An Illustrated Look at Curious Headlines From a Bygone Era.
After DWI charges against Justice Nora Longoria, of the Thirteenth Court of Appeals, were dismissed, outraged Hidalgo County Republicans pointed out that Longoria and the district attorney and district court judge who decided to let her off are all Democrats—and a police dash-cam video that showed her bombing her field sobriety test went viral.
Advice for Tiger’s new swing coach.
The lives of military dogs.
In Reynosa, a brave and conflicted group of social media users goes where journalists fear to tread.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
Filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe discusses “Evolution of a Criminal,” a riveting work of self-examination.
What to read, see, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Goodbye to Glen Garden.
Brave new hogs.