Smile and Say, “Bush!”
Photographer David Valdez is back on familiar turf: on the campaign trail, documenting the public and private moments of a candidate with the surname Bush.
Photographer David Valdez is back on familiar turf: on the campaign trail, documenting the public and private moments of a candidate with the surname Bush.
Congratulations, five arrestees from Hidalgo County, you're the Bum Steer of the Month.
Dallas's Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent) on her new album, the “weird high harmonics" of the late “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, and the there's-nothing-in-the-world-quite-like-it quality of a Texas sky.
After the earthquakes in the Barnett Shale, some small-town citizens underwent a surprising transformation.
Congratulations, Texas Monthly, you're the Bum Steer of the Month.
Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
Cecile Richards on abortion, women in office, and how Wendy Davis is different from her mom.
What to see, hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
In this installment, Dallas feasts for six months on something called the "boss turtle."
The Senate hopeful raises dough the Bitcoin way.
Former state demographer Steve H. Murdock troves his data to illustrate the average Texan in two every different years—1950 and 2050.
Our unofficial state boot maker works to reposition itself as a luxury brand.
Novelist Leila Meacham hopes for another best-seller with the forthcoming Somerset, a prequel to her megahit debut novel, Roses.
Five months ago, many of Mark Phariss's co-workers didn't know he was gay. Today, he's part of a lawsuit that could change Texas.
Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
How budget cuts are affecting the number of open teaching positions in our public schools.
A few of our favorite reviews of the "dinosaur erotica" a couple of A&M grads are writing.
Welcome to the kolache wars of West, Texas.
Miriam Martinez, Linda Vega, and Leticia Van de Putte take to the ticket.
Is Charlotte Allen Houston's true founder?
What to see, hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Harry Reid to the left of him. The tea party to the right. Senator John Cornyn on the challenges of running a “big tent” GOP in a time of fierce partisanship.
You know, when you’re surveying the struggles of Longhorn nation from Joe Jamail’s skybox, things don’t look so bad.
Contrary to what the national media would have you believe, Texas is not politically monochromatic. It is, and always has been, a state with two minds.
The founder of the Grammy-winning Grupo Fantasma is striking out on his own. For his next act, will he remake Latin music again?
1. Romo AgonistesYou remember Danny White, don’t you? He had the misfortune to replace Roger Staubach as the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback after the beloved number 12 retired with two Super Bowl victories. Though White broke numerous Cowboys records—for passing yards in a season, for touchdown passes in a season, for
Will Cormac McCarthy’s films tarnish his literary reputation?
Wallace Jefferson sizes up his historic tenure as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.
A lucky respite at the Marriott.
For half a century the world has regarded the Dallas of 1963 as a city of hate. But as JFK knew when he got there, that wasn’t the whole story.
1. NASHVILLE, TEXAS Even if Kacey Musgraves wins none of the six Country Music Association awards she’ll be vying for on November 6, she’ll still be the Nashville story of the year. No female debut artist has ever before topped the CMA nominations list, and Musgraves achieved that honor with
When Robert Glasper won a Grammy for Best R&B Album, no one was more surprised than the Houston-born jazz pianist himself.
Matthew McConaughey plays a bigoted man dying of AIDS in Dallas Buyers Club—and proves once again that he should be taken seriously.
“Our bedrooms are no longer bedrooms. They are offices and living rooms and playrooms.”
The good, the bad, and the most self-indulgent of this year’s JFK assassination books.
For fifty years, journalist Hugh Aynesworth has been one of the foremost authorities on the Kennedy assassination for one simple reason: he saw it all.
Yes, Guillermo has heard all your roadkill jokes. And even if he could laugh, he wouldn’t.
Houston rapper Riff Raff’s debut album is just the first step on his journey to world domination. No, really.
Rick Santorum wants to turn a Dallas suburb into the Christian Hollywood. Action!
1. Craig’s ListingIt doesn’t take anything away from Craig Watkins’s accomplishments as district attorney of Dallas County—since he won election in 2006, his office has exonerated 33 prisoners, some of whom had been incarcerated for decades—to say that he has been very lucky. A Democrat, he was swept into office
Inside Buc-ee’s obsessive quest for the perfect rest-stop bathroom.
Whether she loses small or loses big, Wendy Davis could save the Texas GOP.
How I ended up spending my panel appearance at the Texas Book Festival lying on a bench and drooling on the floor.
Diane Ravitch’s scorched-earth critique of high-stakes testing and education reform.
Now that she’s left the conservatory, mandolin player Sarah Jarosz plans her next move.
“Fire is so destructive that many landowners don’t realize it can sometimes do good on their property.”
Collecting for the Olden Year Musical Museum.
1. I’m Gonna Git You, SoccerThe intense rivalry between the two North American powerhouses of men’s soccer, the United States and Mexico, will be renewed September 10 in Columbus, Ohio, in a crucial qualifying match for next summer’s World Cup. After years of struggle against its more established opponent, the
The illogical politics of immigration reform.
How rapidly increasing Chinese demand for our native nut is transforming the pecan industry.