News & Politics
July 15, 2020
Can the Black Lives Matter Movement Heal Paris, Texas?
Locals are hopeful that change can come to the Northeast Texas town that invented the spectacle lynching.
Paris
Film & TV
May 11, 2020
Shangela, the Texan Drag Superstar, Draws From Her Paris Upbringing in a New HBO Series
The ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ alum stars in ‘We’re Here,’ which documents one-night-only drag shows in small towns.
Film & TV
January 3, 2020
About Time: The French Honor the Films of Richard Linklater
An exhibit at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (France, that is) spotlights the work of a Texas filmmaker too often taken for granted.
Travel & Outdoors
April 18, 2018
Traveling 130 Miles Along the Northeast Texas Trail
Former train corridors pave the way for exploration and quietude through seven counties in this rural part of the state.
BBQ
May 18, 2017
Parlez-Vous BBQ?
One man’s crazy quest to conquer the culinary capital of the world with smoked brisket.
Music
October 19, 2016
The Redneck Tenor
The acclaimed opera singer Jay Hunter Morris has traveled the globe, performing Wagner, Puccini, and Bizet. And yet he still feels like a hick from Paris, Texas.
BBQ
March 22, 2016
The Beast
A barbecue joint in Paris, France? The notion sounded odd a couple of years ago when I first met Thomas Abramowicz, owner of the Beast. But the shock has worn off, and it seems I’m the last barbecue hound to visit. After so many words and photos from the likes of
Art
May 13, 2014
He’ll Always Have Paris
Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock reflects on his East Texas roots.
Politics & Policy
May 1, 2014
A Mayor of Many Worlds
Born in Pakistan and raised in Abu Dhabi, the mayor of Paris, Texas, Dr. Arjumand Hashmi, tackles city business in between patient visits and holds the distinction of making the small East Texas city a medical destination for former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf.
BBQ
April 16, 2014
Interview: Thomas Abramowicz of The Beast
Owner: The Beast: Maison Deviandes Fumees, opened 2014Age: 31Smoker: Wood-fired rotisserie smoker (once it’s delivered)Wood: OakI was in line for the bathroom at Hill Country BBQ Market in New York when a man who recognized me approached. He wanted to know if I could find a Texas pitmaster
Texas Trip Guides
January 16, 2014
Trip Guide: Paris, Texas
Paris, Texas, has a lot more to offer than just jokes about its famous namesake.
Travel & Outdoors
January 9, 2014
French Connection
Paris, Texas, has a lot more to offer than just jokes about its famous namesake. (But those are fun too.)
Business
January 21, 2013
Judge Issues Ruling from iPhone in Keystone XL Case
Lamar County Court-at-Law Judge Bill Harris fired off a fifteen-word email from his iPhone ruling that eminent domain laws gave TransCanada the right to lay pipeline through a Paris farm.
Energy
January 21, 2013
Energy-Loving Texas Could Be Ground Zero Against Keystone XL
Landowners who vehemently oppose TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline took to the streets and the courts to protest the project.
Travel & Outdoors
January 21, 2013
The Old-Fashioned Drive
ROUTE: Paris to DecaturDISTANCE: 148 milesNUMBER OF COUNTIES: 6WHAT TO READ: Michael Andrews’s Historic Texas CourthousesWhenever I start to suffer the ill effects of traffic overload and endless status updates on my smartphone, I set out for a quieter, quainter place that has at least two of the following: a
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!
Bum Steers
January 20, 2013
1999 Bum Steer Awards
A year of asking-for-it Aggies, badass broccoli, contraband coffee, Death Row decor, extrapolating elephants, faux feet, god-awful gimmickry, humongous heavyweights, incomparable ironers, judicial jimjams, kaput kowtowers, lame-brained liberals, moping millionaires, NASA ninnies, off-putting officials, prize-winning pignappers, quasi-comic quipsters, red-handed rapscallions, scarfable sod, theoretical thongs, ungodly ungulates, vomiting vegetation, wild-eyed window-breakers,
Art
October 31, 2012
The Artist’s Transformation
How Trenton Doyle Hancock is reinventing his work.
Politics & Policy
July 31, 2012
The Most Interesting Man in Paris, Texas
Arjumand Hashmi, the mayor of Paris, Texas, is perhaps the state's most unlikely mayor - a wealthy, Pakistani-born Muslim with close ties to foreign leaders.
Music
May 31, 2012
Singing Opera
Jay Hunter Morris on singing opera
BBQ Joint Reviews
August 8, 2008
Scholl Bros. Bar-B-Que
This joint came with high praise, so I drove about two hours to give it a try. Approaching the place, my hopes seemed fulfilled. The sheet metal and wood exterior along with the faded sign reeked potential. Talk about disappointment. The ribs here were nearly devoid of flavor and were
BBQ Joint Reviews
May 21, 2008
Scholl Bros. Bar-B-Que
When we asked a resident Parisian to impress us, he whisked us away to Scholl Bros. The ribs are prepared in the region’s signature style, using a sweet mustard rub, in a pecan-fed gas smoker. The thirteen-hour brisket wasn’t as good, but the sauce, a concoction flavored with brown sugar,
Art
September 30, 2003
Artistic Musings
Author Gregory Curtis talks about Paris, impressions, and the Venus de Milo.
Books
April 30, 1999
Shakespeare in Lufkin
Y’all, the world’s a stage.
Music
February 1, 1996
Texas, Paris
Two mythic cultures, one great love affair: How France has taken us to heart.
Books
January 1, 1996
Poets and Pedestrians
Two poets, well versed in the ways of Houston, reflect on the city’s effect on lives and letters.
Travel & Outdoors
September 30, 1975
European Passage
Will there always be a Europe?