Dismayed by sky-high rents and yearning for a slower-paced lifestyle, a new generation of Texans is ditching the big city and fostering a Rural renaissance across the state.
What to do, where to eat, and more if you’re heading to Fort Davis, Marfa, Marathon, and/or Big Bend this season.
"It was one of those rare moments." Photographers who were there for the snow among the cacti share their favorite images.
For these young boxers in West Texas, learning to fight means more than throwing a punch.
Keeping baseball pure at Kokernot Field, out in far West Texas.
A freshman shot another student on campus before turning the gun on herself in the school bathroom.
An Insta-dispatch from the flourishing West Texas frontier town.
No, it’s not Marfa. And that’s just fine.
The hopelessly devoted, surprisingly normal, not at all creepy cult of Fandango.
What's happening out in West Texas?
After a packed public hearing last week, Alpine's City Council unanimously voted to reject A&M's proposal to launch drones from Alpine's municipal airport. Alpine's triumph, however, is more symbolic than anything else. Unmanned aircraft will still fly over the Big Bend region.
ROUTE: West of Ozona to Sanderson DISTANCE: 85 miles NUMBER OF COUNTIES: 3 WHAT TO READ: James H. Evans’s Crazy From the HeatA drive whose sole purpose is to experience the simple pleasure of being behind the wheel has a few requirements. The route must lead west, because that’s the
On his new novel, Kings of Colorado, and more.
Here’s something to be thankful for: chef Grady Spears’s holiday feast, with a deep-fried bird and all the trimmings.
In Donald Judd’s last interview before his death, in 1994, the artist explained that he’d first come to Marfa two decades earlier because he “just wanted a place in the Southwest for the summertime.” Whether he intended it or not, this far West Texas town has since become the
The story behind Kokernot Field, the best little ballpark in Texas.
Yes, even famous people have favorite burgers. And since the hamburger was invented right here in Texas, we decided to ask a few famous Texans to tell us their stories about their favorite burger experiences. Rebecca RobinsonMiss Texas 2008, Miss Congeniality in Miss America 2009Lives in Dallas Rebecca
A veteran Hollywood screenwriter couldn’t have come up with a better narrative arc: Seeking redemption, 59-year-old reenrolls at university he was once asked to leave, tries out for football team, makes it, becomes one of oldest-ever players in NCAA history. Or at least that’s how the hero wants it to
South from Alpine to Study Butte, west to Presidio, north to Marfa, and east to Alpine.
Play-by-play coverage of high school baseball in Alpine, polka and Pan-American music in El Campo: More than a dozen reasons not to touch that dial.
Old country and western in Mingus, zippy zydeco in Bridge City: The shows always go on at these ten tuneful spots.
Hot hurdling in Giddings, super six-man football in Gordon: Ten towns that got game.
In this high-desert hub just north of Big Bend National Park, you’ll find Western artwork, Mexican handicrafts, and the unexpected snow cone.
John Wells on living off the grid.
When Sul Ross State University professor Larry Sechrest called his neighbors and students idiots and inbreds, the entire town of Alpine rose up against him. Not that he's changed his mind.
What happened to former Texas Ranger Joaquin Jackson.
How the fight over a toxic waste dump has changed the lives of three West Texas activists.
For Robert James Waller, life imitates art—and irritates wife.
When a noted American humorist retired to Alpine, the joke was on him.
