Ouch
February 21, 2013
Texas Town Plans to Tax Car Crashes
A Houston suburb will impose a "crash tax" on at fault drivers to help cover the cost of emergency response teams.
Houston
Eat My Words
February 21, 2013
Three of America’s Best New Restaurants Are in Houston
Underbelly, Oxheart, and Uchi Houston all made two new lists of the best restaurants in America.
The Culture
February 19, 2013
Texas Couple Delivers Two Sets of Identical Twins
"Home run!" Dad said.
Pat’s Pick
February 12, 2013
Hunger + Games
At Houston’s theatrical Pass, to dine is to be entertained.
Bogus Lists
February 5, 2013
Single Ladies in Texas Get Their Pickings
Three of the Top Ten cities for single women are in Texas, according to an online study.
Eat My Words
February 5, 2013
The Breakfast Klub May Have the Best Wings & Waffles in America
The iconic Houston breakfast spot is a finalist in the Wings & Waffles Showdown featured on Steve Harvey's show.
Food & Drink
January 30, 2013
Where to Eat Now
And the year's best new restaurants are...
Energy
January 29, 2013
Texas Tenth in the Nation for Green Building
The Lone Star state constructed over 36 million square feet of energy-efficient space last year.
Houston
January 24, 2013
Found in Translation
Activist Glenda Joe on the immigrant experience in Houston.
Houston
January 24, 2013
On Hillcroft
When driving down 59 after work you squint at the setting sun that glares redly in your eye, and around you the cars have become an ocean of unmoving metal, come to Hillcroft.Nothing to eat at home except what you might pull out of the freezer. Piles of bills, TV,
Houston
January 24, 2013
My Montrose
Forty years (and more) of the exuberant, eclectic neighborhood where I was born, grew as a writer, and found inspiration for the early pages of this magazine.
Media
January 24, 2013
A Tale of Six Cities
Modern Texas, as told through the archives of Texas Monthly.
Houston
January 24, 2013
This Is Texas
Why the capital should rightfully be Houston, not Austin.
Books
January 23, 2013
Horsemen, Goodbye
Thoughts on the gradual march of civility and urban sprawl across the lost frontier.
Editor's Letter
January 23, 2013
February 2013: The Cities Issue
Looking ahead to our next forty years.
Eat My Words
January 21, 2013
Houston bar OKRA Charity Saloon gets a mention in The New York Times
Yesterday, The New York Times featured a story on a new breed of bars popping up around the United States: charitable bars. The newspaper noted that a “new generation of beer halls dedicated to something beyond the cash register is cropping up around the nation and the world, with
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Five Things to Know About the Senate Runoff
In the battle to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison, David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz will go right at each other—emphasis on "right"—on July 31.
Health
January 21, 2013
Austin, Dallas, and Houston Have Some of the Country’s Worst Drivers
In Men's Health magazine's survey of the country's most dangerous areas to drive, six Texas cities landed in the top twenty.
January 21, 2013
Houston is “America’s Fattest City”
Houston returns to the top of a Men's Fitness survey that also includes El Paso, Arlington, and Dallas.
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Two “Top Chef Finalists” Are Texans
The show moves to British Columbia, but takes a bit of Texas with it as Austin's Paul Qui of Uchiko and Houston native Sarah Grueneberg advance to next week's final.
January 21, 2013
NASA Called. It Wants Its Historic Space Artifacts Back.
Some Apollo-era astronauts, including Apollo 13 Commander James Lovell, had their hands slapped by NASA for putting space artifacts on the auction block.
Travel & Outdoors
January 21, 2013
Hotel Zaza, Houston
Every square inch of this 315-room hotel in the Museum District exudes the look-at-me personality of a Kardashian sister. Formerly the famed Warwick Hotel (which opened in the twenties), the twelve-story building was transformed into the glitzy ZaZa in 2007 (a sister property of the same name opened in Dallas
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
King Creole
I walked into Underbelly the other night and straight into a bear hug from chef-owner Chris Shepherd. And I wasn’t the only one. Every woman that the extroverted Houston chef had ever met before, plus random strangers who were looking a little jealous, also received a hug. I’m not sure
Music
January 21, 2013
How Billy Gibbons Got His Groove Back
After two decades of sluggish albums, ZZ Top has returned to raunchy, bluesy form. And the little ol' band from Texas owes it all to a hip-hop anthem from the streets of Houston.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Disaster, Part Two: Houston
Along the Houston Ship Channel the water is eight feet high and risin’.
Art
January 21, 2013
Straight From the Art
From Fort Worth’s Kimbell to Houston’s Menil, Texas’s museums are home to some of the world's most important paintings and sculptures. To devise a list of our ten greatest works on view, we asked more than sixty curators, gallery owners, critics, and other insiders for their favorites.
Art
January 21, 2013
James Turrell’s Skyspace, Houston
Houston and that brilliant artist of light James Turrell have proved to be an enduring couple, what with the California native’s inspiring work at the Live Oak Friends Meeting house and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. But the Skyspace installation Turrell created to honor Rice University’s centennial is perhaps
Behind the Lines
January 21, 2013
Home Front Lines
For too many veterans, the emotional scars of war go untreated. An innovative group of Harris County politicians, judges, attorneys, and health care workers—most of whom are veterans themselves—is aiming to fix that.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Truth or Consequences
In 2004 Dan Rather tarnished his career forever with a much-criticized report on George W. Bush’s National Guard service. Eight years later, the story behind the story can finally be told: what CBS’s top-ranking newsman did, what the president of the United States didn’t do, and how some feuding Texas
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
A Q&A With Patricia Sharpe
The senior editor on beer gardens, communal dining, and escargots.
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Where to Eat Now 2012
White tablecloths. Street food. Small portions. Lots and lots of innards. The only thing the ten best new Texas restaurants have in common is a willingness to prove that there is no such thing as a “Texas restaurant.” But when the escargots with fennel purée are this good, who cares?
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Get Cooking
Recipes from the ten top restaurants in Texas.
Web Exclusive
January 21, 2013
A Q&A With Skip Hollandsworth
The executive editor on Jeffrey and Yvonne Stern and their murder-for-hire story, hit men, and the standard male midlife crisis.
True Crime
January 21, 2013
“If the Serial Killer Gets Us, He Gets Us”
Police had all but given up looking into a pair of assaults against two prostitutes in the Houston neighborhood of Acres Homes. But when a third turned up dead, investigator Darcus Shorten embarked on a search that revealed a brutal reality.
Music
January 21, 2013
Rock the Vote
Who is the best female country artist from Texas?
Art
January 21, 2013
Texas Treasures
My journey in early Texas art began while I was a student at Southern Methodist University, where I studied Frank Reaugh pastels and met Jerry Bywaters. After 24 years at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, curating exhibitions and traveling the state, I’ve come up with a list of greatest hits.
Art
January 21, 2013
The Art Lover’s Companion
More than sixty art insiders gave us their list of favorite works of art to see in Texas. So grab your notepad, sketchbook, or iPad and take the ultimate tour of must-see art in Texas.
Art
January 21, 2013
A Q&A With Jordan Breal
The associate editor on covering the arts scene in Texas.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
A Q&A With Mimi Swartz
The executive editor on the controversial superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, the politics involved in public education, and how parents need to be more vocal and vigilant.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Super Collider
Terry Grier is the hard-charging, reform-minded, optimistic superintendent of the largest school district in the state. He’s also the most divisive, embattled, and despised man in Houston. Did it have to be this way?
Travel & Outdoors
January 21, 2013
Into the Wild
Out of more than half a million acres of state parks and natural areas, we’ve chosen the ten best trips—where to camp, what to do, and what to look for when you head to the nearest town
Science
January 21, 2013
The Last Blast
Few things are as majestic as the launch of the space shuttle. But after nearly thirty years, NASA is sending up its final orbiters. Here's the view from up close.
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Cheese Enchiladas
The Dish They are, simply put, an addiction. First, there’s the frequency with which we consume them, which, if we’re honest, is at least weekly. Then there’s their powerful nostalgia—of long Saturdays cooking with your welita, of Sunday lunches out with family, of Christmas Eve dinners. And finally there’s their
Music
January 20, 2013
Lucinda Williams
When I moved to Austin in 1974, I used to play on the Drag near the vendors. You’d go down there and people would be everywhere. There was a certain vibe in the air. I always thought it was like how it must have been in San Francisco in the
Style & Design
January 20, 2013
Selling High-end Women’s Fashion
Mickey Rosmarin on selling high-end women's fashion.
Letter From Houston
January 20, 2013
Schoolhouse Rocked
How an angry parent’s e-mail turned an elite Houston private school into a political battleground.
The Texanist
January 20, 2013
The Texanist: Are Gulf Oysters Really an Aphrodisiac?
Oyster aphrodisiacs, hat manners, drill team attire, and why a man needs a weekender.
Web Exclusive
January 20, 2013
Courtroom Drama
Read a Q&A with Mimi Swartz.
Feature
January 20, 2013
Law and Disorder
During his lifetime, he captivated Houston with his courtroom brilliance, outsized ambition, and high-dollar lifestyle. But in the year since John O’Quinn’s tragic death, a bitter estate battle has revealed who he really was.
Food & Drink
January 20, 2013
Where to Eat Now 2011
Jalapeño sausage–stuffed quail, lemon-pepper-marinated fried chicken: The trend for most of the best new restaurants last year was comfort food with pizzazz. But then along came Uchiko to wow us with its mouthwatering take on Japanese fusion. Who says you can’t buck a trend?