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.
"It was one of those rare moments." Photographers who were there for the snow among the cacti share their favorite images.
Here’s to last-minute getaways before summer is a distant memory.
The Ten Best New (or Improved!) Texas Hotels
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
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
Tiny and remote Marfa is poised to be a rock-star magnet.
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