
Once Upon a Time, “Southwestern Cuisine” Was a Movement
A writer remembers how a chance conversation at a food festival led to her classic 2014 oral history on Southwestern cuisine.
A writer remembers how a chance conversation at a food festival led to her classic 2014 oral history on Southwestern cuisine.
Reader letters published in our January 2023 issue.
Meet the folks behind our latest audio project, which grapples with the complicated legacy of the Texas Rangers.
Many with parosmia, a condition whereby normal scents smell foul, have searched for relief and found hope in a facility in Bryan.
A Johnson City man is worried that life is starting to resemble Elmer Kelton’s ‘The Time It Never Rained’ once again.
The latest from Regino Rojas is fun and festive, but the food’s not fooling around.
We review dozens of restaurants all around Texas each month. Here’s a peek at what’s new and how we liked it.
Kerrville County’s John Michon gives “hogwash” a new meaning with his Boar Brand line of body products.
The Dallas-raised electronic musician is filling venues with his raucous, half-naked, almost fully improvised shows. Can he settle down just once and make a serious album?
The track from Abilene-based Old Fire’s new album, ‘Voids,’ evokes the bleakness of war and of the West Texas landscape.
Sterry Butcher on the path that led her to move to Marfa and find God “in the details” while writing about rural Texas.
Reader letters published in our December 2022 issue.
A Plano man wonders how the likes of Bob Dylan, Sarah Palin, and John Wayne qualified for this prestigious designation.
Vibrant, jewel-toned murals set the scene for masterful Japanese-Peruvian cuisine at Masaru Fukuda’s Pacha Nikkei.
We review dozens of restaurants all around Texas each month. Here’s a peek at what’s new and how we liked it.
Plus, porch pirates spread manure on a home after getting pranked, a teen swallowed part of a dog toy, and more.
Each winter, a wildlife sanctuary near the Panhandle hosts one of the world’s largest gatherings of these beautiful birds.
Originally from Haiti, Paola Mathè has expanded her Fanm Djanm line to include bucket hats, headbands, and caftans.
Lee Baxter Davis is an unrecognized master because he’s never played to popular or critical tastes.
Dive deep into a song from Adrian Quesada’s newest album, ‘Jaguar Sound.’
While this cocktail is refreshing year-round, grapefruit season in Texas kicks off in the fall, making now an especially good time to enjoy it.
Peter Brodsky could have retired on the wealth he built taking over billion-dollar companies. So why has he bet millions on a shopping center in southern Dallas?
The Texas Monthly writer reflects on the run-down home that led him to write “Still Life,” about John McClamrock, the boy who could not move.
Meet the editors and writers behind our award-winning food coverage.
Reader letters published in our November 2022 issue.
A Lubbock woman isn’t sure the state’s wildly successful vineyards fit with our Wild West image.
We review dozens of restaurants all around Texas each month. Here’s a peek at what’s new and how we liked it.
Just in time for the holidays, Texas Monthly debuts its first-ever collection of recipes.
Plus, a man broke into an animal shelter and released more than 150 dogs, and a police officer completed an arrested driver’s food delivery.
In his new memoir, the Instagram star recounts his childhood in Austin and how he found his way in the fashion world.
A local family renovated an abandoned century-old home in their neighborhood, restoring a crown jewel in this border city. Its one of several such projects that are remaking the area into a tourist destination.
These historic properties were given new life by locals.
Jason McLellan’s groundbreaking research is changing the way vaccines are developed—including those for another formidable pathogen, RSV.
Calls for independence are growing louder on the right. Maybe that would change if more Texans understood the costs of such a move.
The teenager grew up in the Houston suburbs, where he started driving go-karts when he was six. He now races with some of the best drivers in the world.
Don’t let the chef’s soda-jerk hat fool you. Herein you’ll find royal osetra caviar, escargots in butter-filled shells, and a modern-day version of Spudnuts.
We review dozens of restaurants all around Texas each month. Here’s a peek at what’s new and how we liked it.
For Texas Monthly’s latest cover story, our correspondent set out to capture the state’s plenitude of roadside quirks.
Reader letters published in our October 2022 issue.
An Amarillo man is unhappy that the iconic banners no longer fly in front of the Texas Travel Information Centers.
Austin’s famously touristy avenue welcomes a new steakhouse with a celebratory spirit.
Meet three independent fragrance makers that create distinctive scents you won’t find in large department stores.
Plus, Rice University engineers turned a dead spider into a gripping tool and a man ate 52 spring rolls in ten minutes.
Stop and smell its famous roses, yes—but this East Texas city offers more to enjoy, including a delightful dining scene.
He’s made critics gush with his art-house dramas and howl with his stoner comedies. But for the director of ‘Halloween Ends,’ it’s all about experimentation.
A wedding, a broken taillight, and a missed exit: a family outing from Brownsville heads north and then goes south.
Three new books remind us that some of the issues roiling the state have been with us for a very long time.
The Hill Country town supplies cowboys—both real and temporary—with a dose of ranch life, complete with hotcakes and trail riding.
Cecilia Ballí recalls reporting on her family’s legal victory over the lawyer who swindled the Ballís out of lucrative land rights on Padre Island.
Plans were underway to revive tourism at Fort Clark Springs in southwest Texas. But then, in a scenario increasingly common across the state, the water stopped flowing.