The Culture
March 8, 2019
Check Out Our Readers’ Creative Six-Word Love Letters to Texas
When we put out a call for short-and-sweet notes about our state, you did not disappoint.
Love Letters to Texas
Being Texan
February 14, 2019
Send Us Your Six-Word Love Letters to Texas!
What does Texas mean to you? Is it ”Dairy Queen on a summer night”? ”Risking everything for a bluebonnet photo”?…
The Texanist
February 3, 2019
The Texanist: Revisiting Some Favorites for February 2019
In our February "Love Letters to Texas" collector's issue, the Texanist takes a walk down memory lane.
January 30, 2019
Love Letters to Texas
Texas Monthly has been giving Texans, both new and old, insights into this exceptional state for nearly half a century. Our February 2019 collector’s issue curates stories from our archives that celebrate the Texas icons and oddities that so many of us treasure, and reflect our love of the state’s…
Music
January 30, 2019
Dance Halls, Dive Bars, and More: The Good-Time Gathering Places of Texas
Appreciations by current and former staffers who know them all too well.
January 30, 2019
From East Texas to El Paso, Four Texans Reflect on Where They’re From
Over the years, Texas Monthly’s most celebrated voices have written about the places that shaped them, from the Panhandle to the border. We revisit some of the classics.
January 16, 2019
Fifteen Portraits Revealing the Many Faces of Texas
Icons and archetypes that reveal what it means to be Texan.
Libations
December 30, 2016
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
In the age of gastropubs and microbreweries, Texas still boasts a few real dive bars—where the jukebox is irreplaceable, the beer is domestic, and the patrons feel like family—if you know where to look.
Essay
November 18, 2015
The Will of God
I always knew that the work my dad did as an Episcopal priest and grief counselor was important. But I didn’t understand how important until the birth of my son.
Feature
January 20, 2013
Hooray for Big Hair!
A strand-by-strand look at the roots of a Texas phenomenon.
March 1, 2004
Conversations With a Grasshopper
To experience the majesty and peril of the desert on my own terms, I spent a week alone in the Solitario, the most remote area of Big Bend Ranch State Park. I confronted my darkest fears—and made small talk with an insect.
Food and Drink
July 31, 2003
Tex-Mex 101
Nachos, tomatillo sauce, chile con queso—will the real Mexican food please stand up? A crash course in Texans’ favorite fusion fare.
Feature
December 1, 1994
More Colorful Texas Sayings Than You Can Shake a Stick At
Come hell or high water, you’ll want to read our compilation of down-home aphorisms.
January 1, 1987
No Promises
For eight years, I had a love affair with Houston. When the good times ended, we drifted apart. But while it lasted, we had the time of our lives.
Texas History
November 1, 1978
The End of the Trail
At the Fort Worth stockyards, cattlemen buy and sell amid the last vestiges of the Old West.
Critters
June 30, 1976
Nobody Loves a Rattlesnake
Especially not in Sweetwater: the score at last count was Humans 10,000, Rattlers 0.