A reminder that Charles Whitman’s shooting spree resonated far outside of Texas.
New York
'The New York Times' just discovered the Franklin Barbecue line, and they wrote about it like anthropologists.
Oh, you think it’s okay to put peas in guacamole, ’New York Times’? Let’s see how you like these Texan takes on classic New York City dishes. (The third in a series.)
Like our friends in New York, who avoided a blizzard, Texans are sitting pretty with some pretty great weather today.
New Yorkers are cheering as our iconic yellow-labeled bock rams toward their city.
Texas Monthly's Christmas cover boy was also David Letterman's before-Thanksgiving guest, talking “Crazy,” Patsy Cline, and, of course, pot.
Fans cheer the arrival of Beyoncé on the social media platforms Tumblr and Twitter.
Maya Rudolph stars as the singer in a nearly seven-minute long Saturday Night Live skit that also features Prince, Brangelina, and Nicki Minaj.
Bill O'Reilly called Willie Nelson a “creep” on Fox and Friends Thursday morning for glamorizing drug use.
Explosive allegations against the doctor include hiring a stripper to be his companion and knowingly giving a woman herpes.
The hearts of music writers everywhere grew three sizes when they heard “Glory,” Jay-Z's new track about his daughter, Blue Ivy Carter.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z's named their bundle of joy, who arrived Saturday night, Blue Ivy Carter. It may be unusual, but is it the worst Texas celeb baby name?
Ron Paul’s talons were out over the weekend, slamming the decision to let billionaire mogul Donald Trump moderate the Newsmax debate in Iowa.
Saturday Night Live’s “cold open” parody of last Wednesday’s debate isn't funnier than Rick Perry's original performance.
The cocaine goes north. The money goes south. And Mexican kingpins like Juan García Abrego laugh all the way to the bank—a Texas bank, that is.
That was the recipe for this year’s South by Southwest Music and Media Conference. Here’s how it all cooked up.
Before chronicling the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference for Texas Monthly, New York illustrator Steve Brodner had never been to Austin—but that actually worked to his advantage. “The idea was to capture the scene as someone who just happened upon it,” he says. “I wasn’t trying to get…
MANHATTAN Hill Country Barbecue Market Last year, word of a new barbecue restaurant spread through New York’s Texas-expat community. Usually, this kind of thing doesn’t cause much of a stir. We see a lot of “Texas barbecue” joints up here where they take a brisket that tastes like pastrami and…
Unless you’re Susana Trilling, who taught me how to prepare traditional Oaxacan dishes at her cooking school in Mexico. This month she’ll teach you too—right here in Texas.
Ever since winning the Top Chef Texas crown, Paul Qui has been riding a wave of celebration, travel, and fame. For the past few months, the former Uchiko chef has been traveling the world to places like New York, Paris, London, and Tokyo, amongst numerous other destinations, while hungry patrons…
Expectant mother Jessica Simpson bares all on the April cover of Elle.
An Australian scientist honored the singer by dubbing the "all time diva of flies" Scaptia beyonceae. Surprisingly, this isn't the only insect named after a Texan.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Gary Tinterow is packing his bags for the Bayou City to head the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Yeah, that’s probably the right word for it. New York’s food blog, Grub Street, shows us nine of the city’s “most interesting Frito pies.”
Bud Shrake’s letters to friends back in Texas during his years in New York show the late novelist in all his ribald, freewheeling glory. And never more alive.
If you were the guy who shepherded the largest leveraged buyout in history, you’d be on this list too. It was early in 2007 when we became aware of the Austin-bred honors graduate of both UT and Harvard Business School who now inhabits the off-the-radar-screen world of private equity; he…
Just a few years after nearly being written off the map, the region has become a roaring engine of growth and social transformation.
Peter Jennings. Liz Smith. Barbara Walters. Joe Armstrong? You may not know the name, but New York publishing’s most famous ex-Abilenian is at home among the stars—and is a star in his own right.
I wanted to see lightning strike the steel rods that artist Walter De Maria installed in a New Mexico field. I didn’t, but the trip was still illuminating.
Growing up in Chihuahua, Mexico, Victor Alfaro based his sartorial education on all the American fashion magazines; today the 33-year-old creative director of the New York clothier TSE Cashmere is so busy designing his own line of chic clothes and accessories that he barely has time to read. After a…
So what if consistency is the hallmark of the record business? As the chameleonlike career of Darden Smith suggests, you can go your own way.
The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down and there are little bits of Texas all over the place.