Oil Paintings
Luling’s artful pump jacks.
Luling’s artful pump jacks.
The five members of the Dallas County Commissioners’ Court unanimously voted for a resolution commemorating Juneteenth without realizing that it also endorsed reparations for slavery. Aside from Commissioner John Wiley Price, who put forth the resolution, none of the other commissioners had bothered to find out what was in the
The outlaw singer-songwriter returns.
Why did dozens of Sikh detainees in a federal facility in El Paso go on hunger strike in April?
Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
Richard Linklater on Boyhood, Bernie, and the disappearing indie landscape.
What to hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas literacy.
Not only has Art Briles made Baylor’s football program successful, he’s made it hip.
“New towns are springing up so rapidly in Texas that even the people of the State seem at a loss to keep track of them. Hence a stranger, traveling by rail, asking a Texas fellow-passenger the name of places being passed, will find from the response that a generic term has been adopted,
A bombastic face-off between Alex Jones and Glenn Beck.
Robert Duncan, master of the Texas Senate, considers a new line of work.
The City of Austin Water Utility revealed that it is considering imposing a “drought fee” to help it make up for millions of dollars in lost revenue. The shortfall was caused, apparently, by customers’ heeding the utility’s demands to conserve water.
The Great Lime Panic of 2014 takes hold.
How New Braunfels’s prohibition on disposable containers changed tubing—and then didn’t.
After League City attorney Calvin C. Jackson and the State Bar settled allegations that he had forged lawyers’ signatures in a civil case, Jackson decided that he wanted all references to the case removed from the Internet. To the surprise of many legal observers and pretty much anyone who has ever used a computer, San
Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock reflects on his East Texas roots.
What to hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas literacy.
“There are so many mad dogs in Denton county that people won’t send their children to school, and people riding about o’nights ride like Arabs on dromedaries, crossing their nice little legs in front of them.” —Weekly Democratic Statesman (Austin), June 3, 1875
Sam Wyly v. the SEC.
Scoot McNairy, lavender farmer.
Click to enlarge.Thanks to the domino effect of Rick Perry’s retirement, an unusual number of high-profile Republican politicians have been vying for statewide office this year. Add to that the intensity that the tea party insurgency has brought to ideological debates within the GOP, and
Don't laugh, Fort Worth isn't funny.
A hellish drought has forced Wichita Falls to embrace a radical method of conservation: drinking treated toilet water.
Infographic illustration by Luke Shuman. Click to enlarge.When the INRIX company released its annual list of America’s most congested cities, the big news for Texans was that for the second year in a row, Austin was ranked the fourth-most-congested city in America—up from sixth two
“Six-shooters have superseded bells at Dallas as fire alarms. Over 200 shots were fired on the occasion of a recent blaze.”—San Marcos Free Press, June 19, 1884
Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
What to hear, read, attend, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas literacy.
How did Robert Jeffress turn Dallas’s once-declining First Baptist Church into a vibrant megachurch? Certainly not by pussyfooting around.
RIP Robert Strauss.
Can JFF save the Texans?
Recounting a controversial episode from his five years as head of the UT System, outgoing chancellor Francisco Cigarroa said, “I always give my honest recommendation, because at the end of the day, I have to sleep with myself.”
Tejanos at the Alamo.
With support from the Legislature, SpaceX may soon be launching rockets from Texas’ southernmost beach. That doesn’t mean a few nature lovers aren’t still ready to fight.
In this installment, the missus of a sheep farmer visits Waco—as a mister.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
East Texas native Kacey Musgraves’s best-selling debut has made some Nashville establishment types pretty nervous. But she’s not sure what all the fuss is about.
What to hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The university's chancellor wars.
Infographic illustration by Luke Shuman. Click to enlarge.April may be the cruelest month, but not for the housing market, which always picks up this time of year, as families try to settle in to new homes before the fall semester. And this year’s real estate season
Chitra Divakaruni’s Houston libretto.
Bum Steer of the Month
A Jumbotron Arms Race.
A frontier town copes with a murder’s aftermath.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
The legendary Dan Jenkins has been covering sports since the forties. Things have not improved.
What to hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
In remembrance of our late poet laureate.
In this installment, the King Ranch receives a mighty substantial shipment of barbed wire.
Texas at the Oscars.