The Texanist
March 28, 2021
The Texanist: Is Wichita Falls the Only Place Where People Put Tomato Juice in Their Beer?
A Waxahachie man is trying to gauge the popularity of the "red draw."
Wichita Falls
The Culture
October 15, 2014
We Love That Dirty Water
No rain, more gain for Wichita Falls water haulers.
The Daily Post
September 17, 2014
A Federal Judge Ruled Against A Boy From Wichita Falls Who Was Suspended For Refusing To Shake The School Superintendent’s Hand
After the 8th grade valedictorian dissed his school superintendent during graduation, both the school and a federal judge agreed that the incoming freshman needed to pay a price.
Politics & Policy
May 13, 2014
The Effluent Society
A hellish drought has forced Wichita Falls to embrace a radical method of conservation: drinking treated toilet water.
BBQ
January 29, 2014
Interview: Allen Prine of Prine’s BBQ
A newspaper clipping on the wall at Prine’s BBQ of Allen Prine and his late father, Harry Prine Jr.Owner/Pitmaster: Prine’s Barbecue, opened 1925 Age: 61 Smoker: Wood-fired brick pit Wood: Oak Like many third generation pitmasters, Allen Prine was a reluctant one. He had grander plans than working for
BBQ
November 8, 2013
Cattle Driving for BBQ
I cursed the Dallas traffic as I tried to get out of town on a rainy Tuesday morning. Secluded fields and old river crossings were my destination, and I was eager to leave the city behind me. I wanted to find the best barbecue along North Texas’s historic cattle trails.
Business
January 21, 2013
Harlingen Named Least Expensive City in America
Wichita Falls, McAllen, and San Marcos also made the top ten of a report from the Council for Community and Economic Research.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Wichita Falls’ Moment at the NFL Draft
Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III were picked up yesterday, but day two of the draft belongs to Midwestern State offensive lineman Amini Silatolu.
Health
January 20, 2013
Patient Observation
Wichita Falls was about as average a town as you could imagine. Except within the gates of the state hospital.
Feature
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,
Books
January 20, 2013
The Texpatriates
As Sandra Scofield, Shelby Hearon, and Janet Peery are proving, you don’t have to live in Texas to be a Texas writer.
Sports
August 31, 2010
Ride, Charlie, Ride
What possessed me to join about 14,000 people in ninety-degree heat to ride in one of the largest bicycle races in the country? Why the hell not.
Texas History
January 1, 2004
Showdown at Waggoner Ranch
It’s the nation’s biggest spread within the confines of a single fence—more than eight hundred square miles extending across six counties. So it’s fitting that the family feud over its future is big too. And mythic.
Feature
March 1, 2002
Kid Gloves
Growing up in Wichita Falls, I was a skinny kid with buckteeth and a girl's name, so I got into my share of fights. To improve my odd's of winning-and turn my anger and fear into bravery and skill-I learned to box.
Sports
June 30, 1998
Hut, Hut, Yikes!
If the Dallas Cowboys thought last season was unpleasant, wait until they open training camp in Wichita Falls.