Travel & Outdoors
January 9, 2018
Capturing a West Texas Winter Wonderland
"It was one of those rare moments." Photographers who were there for the snow among the cacti share their favorite images.
El Cosmico
Style & Design
August 1, 2017
10 Best Hotel Pools in Texas
Here’s to last-minute getaways before summer is a distant memory.
Travel & Outdoors
January 21, 2013
Where to Stay Now
The Ten Best New (or Improved!) Texas Hotels
Travel & Outdoors
January 21, 2013
El Cosmico, Marfa
The first time I drove by hotelier Liz Lambert’s high-desert “kibbutz,” which sits on a large, flat plot of dusty land just off U.S. 67, I mistook it for a trailer park. Which it basically is, except instead of dumpy double-wides, it’s strewn with seven sleekly restored vintage trailers, from
The Wanderer
August 27, 2012
Marfa: Trans-Pecos Gathering of Music + Love
In one of my favorite descriptions of Marfa, writer David McDannald points out that sometimes it’s “a shadow of a town” and sometimes it’s “a desert Mardi Gras.” At the end of this month, West Texas’s buzziest destination will be lit up like Bourbon Street on
Music
September 30, 2011
The Big Bend Theory
Tiny and remote Marfa is poised to be a rock-star magnet.
Business
February 1, 2008
Liz Lambert
She’s the avatar of cool for the inn crowd’s in crowd. Thirteen years ago the native Odessan, a UT and UT Law grad, purchased a seedy motel on South Congress Avenue, in Austin, and transformed it, with the help of San Antonio’s Lake/Flato architects and designer pals from California, into