The Dallas Cowboys as the Oakland Raiders
Cedric Golden of the Austin American-Statesman wonders when Jerry Jones will "will trade in his designer suits for a set of silver-and-blue warm-ups," a la former Raiders owner Al Davis.
Cedric Golden of the Austin American-Statesman wonders when Jerry Jones will "will trade in his designer suits for a set of silver-and-blue warm-ups," a la former Raiders owner Al Davis.
Modern Texas, as told through the archives of Texas Monthly.
All my life we’ve wanted top billing. But in the eyes of the world, we’re forever the sidekick: Dallas–Fort Worth. We’ve tried, over the years, to use that thirty-mile-long hyphen between the cities like a battering ram, deriding our rival for having fewer museums, no Bass brothers, and no sense
How I’m learning to love the Cowboys. And the Mavericks. And the Rangers. And the Stars. And . . .
A return to the Trinity.
The nomenclature of the area known as Dallas–Fort Worth.
In a city that loves its parties, there’s perhaps none so aesthetically significant as Two x Two for AIDS and Art, Dallas’s most cutting-edge fundraiser—and one hell of a good time.
My unsentimental education in the wheeler-dealer ways of the most American of Texas cities.
Thoughts on the gradual march of civility and urban sprawl across the lost frontier.
Looking ahead to our next forty years.
The Stars' first game of the lockout-shortened NHL season was an announced sellout, but at least one seat in the American Airlines Center appeared "empty," as the team had a little fun with last week's biggest sports story.
H-town and two other Texas cities have some of the worst drunk driving fatality rates in America.
Friday's Cotton Bowl gives Longhorns fans a chance to decide which team they hate more: the University of Oklahoma, or Texas A&M.
Teams from Texas—all former members of the Southwest Conference—went 5-1 in the pre-New Year's college football bowls.
Guess what's number one (hint: look at the picture).
Texas business tax incentives, yay or nay? What people are saying about the lengthy front-page New York Times investigative piece by Louise Story.
Larry Hagman, who died Friday at at the age of 81, was both a native and, as Dallas anti-hero J.R. Ewing, an international icon.
World's biggest Frito pie? Check. Most consecutive back handsprings? Got it. Largest pecan pie? Indeed. But when it comes to some truly important Guinness records, Texas is playing second enchilada.
Playboy's annual list of "Top 10 Party Schools" is out, with SMU scoring number one for "Best Nightlife." Former champion UT is still in the top ten, along with TCU.
Yes, according to Forbes' list of "America's Coolest Cities to Live."
Turnout is better than expected, with participation in most of the state's largest counties outpacing both projections and the two-week early period from May's election.
Those were the only Texas cities to appear on a list of the country's fifty manliest cities.
The Fordham Institute singles out zip codes in Austin, Houston, and Dallas, but his criteria is limited and imprecise.
The GOP nominee is expected to raise $15 million on fundraising stops in Texas's four largest cities this week.
Haggar, who ran Haggar Clothing Co. for 25 years, famously took a presidential pants order from LBJ.
Which rush hour thoroughfares in Dallas, Houston, and Austin cracked the upper reaches of the Daily Beast's third annual "Highways From Hell" survey?
In addition to announcing a $163 million first-quarter loss this week, the ailing retailer, which has recently tried to reinvent itself, will no longer pay quarterly dividends.
David Dewhurst is backed by the Morning News and Chronicle, but the Star-Telegram and Statesman go for Tom Leppert and Ted Cruz, respectively.
The "¡Ask a Mexican!" columnist and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America talks about Tex-Mex, Houston versus Dallas, and Ray's versus Henry's.
The city tops Forbes' annual list for the second year in a row, while Dallas, Houston, San Antonio all crack the top ten.
Only 29 percent of Texans would support Perry for a fourth full term.
With the May 29 primary five weeks away, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst and former Dallas mayor Tom Leppert run two spots attacking their opponents.
Karl Rove's Super PAC netted $30.5 million—more than half of its total donations—from three Texan titans.
How Texans are marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
An Austin teen will be the first American to graduate from an elite ballet school in Russia this spring. She is just the latest in a string of Texas teens who have accomplished impressive things in the past few years.
In an excerpt from his long-awaited fourth volume on LBJ, Robert Caro delves into those fateful hours in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
In Men's Health magazine's survey of the country's most dangerous areas to drive, six Texas cities landed in the top twenty.
Houston and Dallas are sixth and seventh, respectively, in a new survey charting where "ultra-high net worth individuals," or people worth at least $30 million, live.
Houston returns to the top of a Men's Fitness survey that also includes El Paso, Arlington, and Dallas.
Chuck Norris Fact: Rick Santorum is too much like Mitt Romney to be an alternative to Romney. Or so the actor proclaims in a column defending his endorsement of Newt Gingrich.
But the Emerging Technology Fund has added 820 jobs, and Houston has two of the top-selling subdivisions.
In anticipation of a Frito Pie-filled Super Bowl Sunday, a Smithsonian blogger traces the history of our finest salty snack.
But Tim Tebow is more popular than all of them. Public Policy Polling released the last part of its January Texas voter survey.
Johnson and Johnson sheds tears over Texas lawsuit, Houston stomps Silicon Valley in tech job growth, and the sour finanial condition of Imperial Sugar.
Drew Brees learns how to get to Sesame Street, Candy Spelling hoards Beanie Babies, and Sandra Bullock smuggles sausage.
Police in New York City forcibly removed the flagship Occupy Wall Street protest early Tuesday morning. Nothing similar has happened here in Texas . . . yet.
Culinary whiz kid Matt McCallister settles down at the surprising, new FT33.
Housed in a twenties-era downtown high-rise, this boutique hotel boasts the only underwater bird’s-eye view of the city. That’s right: if you’re daring enough to swim to the glassed-in edge of the Joule’s heated rooftop pool, which juts out a dramatic eight feet beyond the building’s facade, you can peer
Kay Bailey Hutchison, the state’s senior senator and the first woman from Texas to hold that office, opens up about the changes in her party, why she decided to retire, and the governor’s race that got away.
A Dallas bistro’s artful take on “not too French” cuisine.