From the Editor: Our New TV Star
Veteran video storyteller J. B. Sauceda will now roam the back roads as the host of Texas Country Reporter.
Veteran video storyteller J. B. Sauceda will now roam the back roads as the host of Texas Country Reporter.
Eddie Velez's father went to prison for selling marijuana when Velez was a child. Now, Velez sells legal cannabis for hemp and CBD products.
A Brenham man wonders why, in contravention of common custom, those Stetsons never seem to get doffed.
A brief and highly selective look at what just happened, from a stray possum’s big game in Lubbock to a rookie quarterback’s big game in Houston.
When Jena Ehlinger’s son Jake died of fentanyl poisoning, she was driven to find some meaning in her pain.
This tropical beauty is expanding its range beyond the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Texas's Defiance Press publishes conservative broadsides that border on fiction. But it’s the company’s actual novels that are truly strange.
Our state’s legacy of great writing has a publishing tradition to match. Here are a handful of the dozens of outfits producing great books in Texas.
When a mare illegally crossed the border into Big Bend National Park in search of greener pastures, Facebook users rallied to bring her back to her owner in Mexico. Park officials think they’re missing the point.
Echoing a statewide trend, the team aims to prevent the tragedies that often result when armed police answer calls involving psychological emergencies.
Reader letters published in our December 2023 issue.
The latest issue of Texas Monthly features more than the usual number of Texans committing creative acts of altruism.
A 1991 mass shooting in Killeen inspired legislation that has made Texas America’s most gun-friendly state.
Hunters in Texas kill a lot of white-tailed deer each year. What would happen if they didn’t kill any at all?
The diminutive swamp dragon of the Piney Woods has a fascinating life cycle. Just don’t eat one.
Plus, a cocktail that carnivores can get behind and a pig you’ll get way behind, if you know what’s good for you.
The Arlington native has earned four Grammy nominations, performed at the Super Bowl, and toured with Shania Twain. But is she “Nashville” yet?
Deacon Jeff Willard blesses seafarers with everything from prayers to rides around Galveston Island to cherry cigarillos.
What do you get when you convert a gas-guzzling muscle machine into an EV? A ride that “hauls more ass.”
Just southeast of San Antonio, a rare European American dialect may be dying, or already dead. That’s a shame. Or is it?
For a long time, Texas Republican chairman Matt Rinaldi couldn’t win elections. Now he wants to decide them—by exacting revenge on opponents within his party.
A celebration of beloved neighborhood restaurants—and the many folks who cover food for Texas Monthly.
In 1999 lawmakers radically altered the electricity marketplace. We can all breathe easier—literally—because of it.
Reader letters published in our November 2023 issue.
Found along Texas’s southwestern border, the creature has a mug only a mother could love.
After his murder in Dallas, our perception of what happened has been shaped by the pop culture—and subculture—it inspired.
She may be a Republican, but she doesn’t love vouchers (though she doesn’t think they’re the end of the world, either).
Plus, a harrowing vehicular encounter with a spear and a harrowing vehicular encounter with a cornfield.
Butterfly wings, tarantula legs, and “Frankenstein” beetles—the insect taxidermists of Pinned Ptera find the beauty in it all.
Karen Ramirez traverses vast Brewster County—a territory bigger than Connecticut—so her patients can finish their days at home.
Starting in this issue, you’ll find visual delight from the first page to the last—and a whole new section.
Reader letters published in our October 2023 issue.
His victory in the 1994 governor’s race wasn’t the election that really transformed the state.
Found in the state’s riverways, the spiny softshell looks like a cross between a brontosaurus and a pancake.
Plus, expired paperwork brought a great westward journey to an end, and an interdimensional portal did not open.
After Japanese laborers emigrated to Mexico in the nineteenth century, a culinary merger eventually resulted in nori stuffed with carne asada.
In her new memoir, ‘Up Home,’ Ruth J. Simmons details how she defied the constraints of her segregated childhood and turned her humble origins into the key to her success.
As United Methodist congregations across the U.S. leave over LGBTQ inclusion and the interpretation of Scripture, one East Texas community is rent asunder.
Lawrence Wright’s new book, ‘Mr. Texas,’ was inspired by what he discovered about corruption, political combat, and, yes, pig hunting.
Stanley McMahan says assembling watches is “what God put me on Earth to do.”
Defunct companies have left behind energy facilities that leak toxins into fragile coastal ecosystems. And guess who has to clean them up?
HB 2127, which strips municipalities of regulatory authority, was intended to target liberal cities. So why are conservative mayors so upset?
Apple, Cartier, Tiffany, and other tastemakers in art, design, and fashion bask in the glow created by Lucifer Lighting.
Reader letters published in our September 2023 issue.
When the go-go Houston corporation collapsed in spectacular fashion, it became a punch line across the nation. But some of the bad guys had the last laugh.
We roam the state looking for the best food Texas has to offer. Here’s a peek at what’s new.
Plus, an aggressive hawk kept postal employees from their appointed rounds and a cross-dressing bank robber brought new meaning to word “stickup.”
The small city of Sherman, which lies far from the coast, is a fossil hunter’s paradise.
How to weave your way through this magical Mexican destination.
Mike Capron never felt comfortable until he settled west of the Pecos River.