Music
October 3, 2020
Remembering Lubbock-Born Country Musician Mac Davis
In a career that spanned six decades, Davis wrote hits for Elvis and Dolly Parton, found solo success, and acted on Broadway and in film.
Lubbock
Books
August 23, 2019
Kimberly King Parsons’s Fiction Illuminates Intimate Texas Moments
The Lubbock-born author reflects on her debut short story collection, ‘Black Light.’…
Music
April 5, 2019
Developing the Next Generation of the Lubbock Sound at the 806 Songwriter Retreat
Over two days at a ranch in Stephenville, artists share lyrics, melodies, and whiskey as they establish their place in Texas music.
BBQ
December 12, 2016
Christopher B “Stubbs” Stubblefield: A Cook
Lubbock guitarist, Jesse “Guitar” Taylor, was hitchhiking in Lubbock when a Cadillac pulled up. A stranger offered him a ride and Taylor hopped in. They drove for a bit and stopped in front of Stubb’s Bar-B-Que in East Lubbock. “I’ve walked by this place so many times and never been…
Music
July 23, 2015
Spotify Charts The Favorite Songs of Texas Cities, & It Isn’t Surprising At All
The music sharing service shows how little Dallas and Houston have in common, how Austin loves critical darlings, and how much Aggies love Aggies.
The Daily Post
June 11, 2015
Texas City Flags: The Good, the Blah, and the Fugly
Our state flag kicks ass seven ways from Sunday. Maybe that’s why the vast majority of our city flags are terrible.
BBQ Joint Reviews
May 22, 2015
The Shack Bar-B-Q
If I had visited The Shack Bar-B-Q six months ago, I would have easily called it Lubbock’s best barbecue. Nowadays the once bare barbecue market in town is suddenly crowded with the addition of The Shack and nearby Evie Mae’s Barbecue, a three-month-old trailer that is one of the best new barbecue…
BBQ Joint Reviews
May 8, 2015
Evie Mae’s Barbecue
The best barbecue in Lubbock is in Wolfforth, Texas. That might be news to you even if you’re a student at Tech because Arnis and Mallory Robbins just opened their trailer doors three months ago. After a stint with a landscaping company in Tucson, they decided to come back to…
The Daily Post
March 11, 2015
So How Did Prairie Dog Pete’s Prediction Hold Up?
Take his advice with a grain of salt, then use more salt to de-ice the roads. …
Texas History
November 6, 2014
That’ll Be the Frames
Buddy Holly’s trademark black-rimmed glasses were a key part of his public persona. But he was too blind to see it that way at first.
GL&KG
September 4, 2014
Pride in Lubbock
Kat Cade, a Texas Tech student, founded a pride festival tailored to the largely conservative community of Lubbock.
Critters
March 7, 2014
These Blind 12-Year-Old Twins Have Some of the Best Show Goats in Texas
The Lubbock pre-teens spend six months a year showing their prize goats at livestock competitions throughout the state. …
Politics & Policy
February 4, 2014
Can a Wrongful Conviction Ever Be Forgiven?
The City of Lubbock makes amends for its grievous mistake in wrongfully convicting Timothy Cole—who died in prison—by erecting a statue in his memory.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Ranking the Texas Bowl Games So Far
Teams from Texas—all former members of the Southwest Conference—went 5-1 in the pre-New Year's college football bowls. …
Sports
January 21, 2013
“Air” Kingsbury Flies Back to Lubbock
Texas Tech takes all of four days to pick the head coach everybody wanted: 33 year-old former Red Raiders quarterback & Texas A&M offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury. …
Sports
January 21, 2013
Raider Red: The Best Mascot in the Country?
Guns up! Texas Tech's red-headed Yosemite Sam-doppelganger is one step away from winning the Capitol One Mascot Challenge. And he's joined the “Gangnam Style” craze.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Aggies’ Stunning Win Dominated College Football News
The Aggies own the college football weekend, upsetting top-ranked Alabama. Plus: UT's DKR tribute, Tommy Tuberville's ill temper, and the latest UT-A&M conspiracy theory. …
January 21, 2013
Yard Sign Vandalism Rampant As Election Looms
With less than two weeks until the general election, signs in Lubbock and Beaumont have been defaced and stolen. …
Critters
January 21, 2013
Lubbock Museum Kills, Stuffs Mules For Exhibit
A small controversy has erupted over the American Museum of Agriculture's decision to euthanize and stuff real mules for an exhibit.
Sports
January 21, 2013
You Can’t Go Home Again?
The rise and rise and fall and fall of former UTEP, Texas A&M, Kentucky, and Texas Tech basketball coach Billy Gillispie. …
January 21, 2013
Is Lubbock the Friendliest City in America?
Lubbockites say "good morning" on Twitter more than anyone else in the country, according to a study from some Ukrainian software engineers who monitored American tweets.
January 21, 2013
Where Do Texas’s “Flirtiest” Seniors Live?
Amarillo, Lubbock, and Corpus Christi landed on a list compiled by OurTime.com, a senior-focused dating site, that purports to rank where the country's "flirtiest" seniors live. …
Sports
January 21, 2013
Texas Tech Still Not Fans of the Longhorn Network
New reports that Tech would rather cancel a road game against Texas State than let it be aired on the ESPN-owned, University of Texas-branded cable network shows that some teams are still smarting from wounded egos. …
Energy
January 21, 2013
Is It Time to Call the Texas Railroad Commission What It Actually Is?
The powerful state agency is tasked with regulating oil, gas and other energy—not trains. Its own commissioners favor a new name: the Texas Energy Resources Commission. …
January 21, 2013
Texas Tech Recruits From Houston Drive to Nacogdoches
Houston Bellaire wide receiver Devin Lauderdale and three friends were supposed to attend the Red Raiders spring football game, but clearly didn't know the way to Lubbock.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Craig James is Still Running Against Mike Leach
In his latest Internet campaign video, the candidate for U.S. Senate is "interviewed" by his daughter about Leach, whom he calls a "bully" …
January 21, 2013
No Sex Please, We’re Lubbock
Lubbock tops a Chemistry.com survey of "The Top 10 Cities That Value Sex the Least" in a relationship. …
January 21, 2013
How the Drought is Impacting Rice Farmers and Hot Tub Owners
The drought leaves nothing untouched. This week the drought impacts the state’s rice farmers, migratory bird populations, and hot tub owners. …
Sports
January 21, 2013
Texas Supreme Court Denies Mike Leach’s Appeal
The state's highest court denied Mike Leach's appeal of his wrongful termination lawsuit against Texas Tech.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Combing Through the Hate Mail to Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe
The Texas Tech professor and climate change evangelist has received hundreds of vicious emails since Newt Gingrich pulled her chapter from his book.
January 21, 2013
Energy Company Opts Not to Exterminate Prairie Dog Colony
Before developing a drilling site in Burleson, Chesapeake Energy relocates a prairie dog colony.
Feature
January 21, 2013
Disaster, Part One: Lubbock
West Texans are going to have to figure out what they’re going to do when the well runs dry.
Travel & Outdoors
January 21, 2013
Miles and Miles of Texas
The Hill Country Drive, the BBQ Market Drive, the Backwoods Drive, and thirteen other summer trips, from the mountains to the coast, that will take you down some of the prettiest, most picturesque, most wide-open stretches of asphalt Texas has to offer. Buckle up!…
Travel & Outdoors
January 21, 2013
The Music Drive
ROUTE: Turkey to Lubbock (the long way) DISTANCE: 366 miles NUMBER OF COUNTIES: 13 WHAT TO LISTEN TO: Buddy Holly’s That’ll Be the Day and Waylon Jennings’s Ol’ Waylon West Texas is the Texas of wide-open spaces, but it is also the Texas of music giants, starting…
Music
January 20, 2013
The Real Buddy Holly
His life was as short and sweet as his songs, but who was the Lubbock rocker whose influence over popular music will not fade away?…
The Culture
January 20, 2013
126–150
From Buzz Bissinger arriving in Odessa—with a notepad—to Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen writing songs in College Station…
The Culture
January 20, 2013
126–150
From Buzz Bissinger arriving in Odessa—with a notepad—to Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen writing songs in College Station…
The Ex Files
January 20, 2013
Barry Corbin
Barry Corbin Growing up in Lubbock, I didn’t want to be a real cowboy, because I knew a bunch of them and they didn’t get paid anything and they were hurt all the time. But I wanted to play one in the movies. My favorite early on was Bill Elliott,…
Politics & Policy
January 20, 2013
The Outsider
In the post-Washington game, former attorney general Alberto Gonzales has fared worse than any other member of the Bush administration. Why?…
Politics & Policy
January 20, 2013
The Client
Mimi Swartz talks about researching stories, asking the right questions, and writing about former attorney general Alberto Gonzales, who may have put his loyalty to the president before his duty to the American people.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Pirate Under Attack. Avast, Ye Swabs!
If Texas Tech fires Leach, there will be a mushroom cloud over Lubbock for thousands of miles and a likely revolt of Tech fans, alums, and former players.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Head Case
Depending on your point of view, the firing of Mike Leach, Texas Tech’s controversial football coach, was about the state of football (the sport has gone soft), concussions (they are a potentially life-threatening condition), or celebrity meddling (Craig James was a helicopter dad). But is it possible that Leach has…
The Culture
January 20, 2013
The 1998 Bum Steer Awards
A year of altered antlers, bawdy broadcasters, comedian corrections, dining detectives, emancipated emus, fossilized felines, gullible Gore, hemline harassment, insatiable igniters, jazzed-up jewelry, Kay’s kennelwear, lottery loonies, metric madness, numerous nudes, 007 oenophiles, poultry protesters, questionable quizzes, revengeful revenuers, Spam slingers, tie tirades, unallowed uniforms, variant videotapers, warning! water, x-humed…
Sports
January 2, 2013
Ranking the Texas Bowl Games So Far
Teams from Texas—all former members of the Southwest Conference—went 5-1 in the pre-New Year's college football bowls. …
Music
December 1, 2012
Sax & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Bobby Keys and the Rolling Stones: behind one of pop music's most famous solos.
August 23, 2012
Judge Says UN Will Take Over Lubbock if Obama Reelected
Lubbock County Judge Tom Head wants to raise Lubbock County's property taxes by 1.7 cents per $100 in order to pay for more sheriff's deputies to defend the town from the UN troops during potential civil unrest.
Food & Drink
June 30, 2012
Neal Newsom, Vineyard Owner
Newsom, who grew up in Yoakum County, took a chance when he decided to grow grapes on the High Plains. Today his vineyard is one of the largest in Texas, serving more than a dozen of the state’s top wineries. My family has been in cotton farming for more than…
The Culture
April 16, 2012
Want to Sleep in Farrah Fawcett’s Bedroom?
The Corpus Christi ranch house where the bombshell lived during high school can be yours for $215,000.
Business
April 12, 2012
Nude Maids Make Lubbock Feel Filthy
Lubbock was rocked by news of a nude housecleaning service this week. Three other jobs where people bare it all on the job.