Brix Barbecue founder Trevor Sales grew up in the Midwest and fell in love with Texas barbecue after moving here in 2017.
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The feature debut, which was awarded SXSW’s Louis Black “Lone Star” Award earlier this year, centers on the story of a mother and daughter navigating a scholarship pageant.
The musician on collaborating with Leon Bridges and how true crime shows inform his work.
Installation artist Mark Dion displays his findings in a tongue-in-cheek Fort Worth museum exhibition.
Heim Barbecue’s magically sweet and savory cubes are fast becoming as beloved as bacon.
As the Amon Carter Museum reopens, a parallel movement highlighting local artists is flourishing.
The Fort Worth band crafted a dark legend about Possum Kingdom Lake that many are still eager to believe 25 years later.
This Tarrant County taco pop-up treats its vegetarian options as seriously as its meat offerings.
Derrick and Kesha Walker have brought phenomenal brisket, rip tips, and sweet potato pie to their old neighborhood.
Mere months after relocating from Whitney, pitmaster Michael Wyont is leaving the business.
A project by local activists has many drivers raising their heads.
On this week’s National Podcast of Texas, the legendary musician surveys the highs and lows and wears and tears of a sixty-year career.
A Houston man wants to know if our columnist would be happy in another of Texas's many wonderful locales.
Plus: LeRoy and Lewis’s big plans for a brick-and-mortar.
The obscure indie ’Taking Tiger Mountain’ offers a glimpse at the late Hollywood star as a teenager.
Get there early for this Friday lunch special from pitmaster Jordy Jordan.
Patrick Joubert’s Fort Worth joint marries the Louisiana flavors of his childhood with the barbecue of his deep Texas roots.
And a new second location means you can devour this burger with brisket and bacon burnt ends much more often.
The ”don’t trust the government” right and the ”don’t trust the government” left overlap when it comes to vaccines.
Plus: the best steak that Aaron Franklin ever ate.
Cities, countries, and regions capitalized on Austin’s premier international event to seek tourism and economic development dollars.
We talked to an expert to understand the Texan typo, for once and forth all.
The year 2019 is shaping up to be a breakout one for barbecue in Cowtown.
Two of the city’s veteran musicians talk us through its ongoing auditory transformation after the departure of Leon Bridges—and why some uncertainty is a good thing.
Entering its third year, the Fort Worth indie rock festival is full of Texas talent.
A new study suggests that there’s a new city topping the charts for getting stuck in traffic, and it’s in North Texas.
Artist and craftsman Chad Isham takes inspiration from ’primitive,' handmade items, and his Weatherford-area home is filled with them.
Located where Heim BBQ originally launched, this food truck at Republic Street Bar is the best new joint in the city.
Josh Block, Leon Bridges’s producer, and his family give us a tour of the Cowtown they love.
For an affordable stay in a new city, with built-in friends.
Travis and Emma Heim jumped into business ownership with little experience or capital in 2015. The Heim truck hadn’t been parked a year before they got an offer to build out their very own spot on West Magnolia. Their barbecue was that good. That location opened in late 2016 with…
The pop princess’s Fort Worth home is on the market.
When Charlie Geren opened Railhead Smokehouse in Fort Worth, he had already failed at his previous attempt at the restaurant business. Geren said he had just “lost his ass” in a “steak and beer joint” in north Fort Worth, but decided to partner with a pitmaster friend, Harry Pilcher, to take over…
Burnt ends aren’t just for brisket anymore. And let’s get something out of the way, Kansas City barbecue fans: don’t get too sanctimonious about proper burnt ends only coming from a brisket; I’ve had ham and sausage burnt ends in your city. Beef belly burnt ends were the special last…
The next time you buy an ornamental serving platter as a wedding gift, it may come from new owners.
Elmo Henderson’s entire life story can be summed up in a single moment: when he stepped into the ring in San Antonio one night in 1972 and knocked out Muhammad Ali. At least that’s the way he tells it. And tells it.
The Lieutenant Governor foreshadows a statewide war over bathrooms.
It probably won’t do for a daily commute, but those looking to get between the Metroplex’s anchor cities are on the verge of a new option.
Hans Muller is a second-generation baker in Fort Worth, but he’s no stranger to smoking meat. His lunch menu at the Swiss Pastry Shop includes a smoked cuban sandwich, the Fort Worth Cheese Steak made with smoked prime rib, and he’s now working on a recipe for homemade…
For all chefs, there are moments in their culinary careers that forever shape them. Moments when principles are seared into their brain by mentors, books, or classes only to manifest in their cooking techniques for life. For Travis Heim, owner and pitmaster of Heim Barbecue, in Fort Worth, one of those illuminating experiences came…
Chronicling the rivalries of Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Austin.
The music sharing service shows how little Dallas and Houston have in common, how Austin loves critical darlings, and how much Aggies love Aggies.
It was twenty years ago that Ivy Chambers moved his budding sausage business out of his home and into a bona fide restaurant in Fort Worth. Over the years he added more barbecue items to the menu – brisket, ribs, bologna – and continued to operate the business until handing…
Our state flag kicks ass seven ways from Sunday. Maybe that’s why the vast majority of our city flags are terrible.
Can we save our beloved ant-eating, blood-spurting, quickly disappearing state reptile?
