The Texas locations in Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" shape the movie, which was filmed over 12 years, as much as the actors. Some could be faked; others, Linklater explains, couldn't.
There aren’t that many cowboys anymore, and yet cowboy churches seem to be everywhere. What gives?
My favorite place.
Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
What to hear, read, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas literacy.
“An irate gentleman went for the city editor of the Dallas Herald a few days ago, but was met with a six-chambered apology-maker. It might as well be understood now that all local editors in Texas have their pants made with pistol pockets in them.” —San Marcos Free Press, June 19,
It might yet be the craziest thing he’s done for the Texas landmark.
A new documentary from Joe Manganiello of "True Blood" and "Magic Mike" fame follows dancers at Dallas's LaBare, widely considered the premiere male strip club in the world.
The rise and fall of David Renk, one of the few Americans to become a matador.
Readers respond to the June 2014 issue.
Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
“New towns are springing up so rapidly in Texas that even the people of the State seem at a loss to keep track of them. Hence a stranger, traveling by rail, asking a Texas fellow-passenger the name of places being passed, will find from the response that a generic term has been adopted,
A bombastic face-off between Alex Jones and Glenn Beck.
The City of Austin Water Utility revealed that it is considering imposing a “drought fee” to help it make up for millions of dollars in lost revenue. The shortfall was caused, apparently, by customers’ heeding the utility’s demands to conserve water.
How New Braunfels’s prohibition on disposable containers changed tubing—and then didn’t.
After Ana Trujillo was arrested in the bludgeoning death of her lover, she hired lawyer Jack Carroll to represent her in what became Houston’s splashiest trial of the spring. Did I mention that Carroll is my brother-in-law? And that the murder weapon was a cobalt-blue, five-and-a-half-inch stiletto?
Our estimable advice columnist on bygone dining traditions, feeling homesick, and the indelible effects of living a mere five years in Texas.
A few days before her wedding, my daughter asked for marriage advice. But what’s there to say about the craziest institution around?
How one feline (and then a couple more, and then another) conquered both our hearts and our mice.
Two films based here borrow elements of country noir and could be invigorating the genre exemplified in another Texas-set film: "Blood Simple."
After more than a decade of strict border enforcement, hundreds of residents on both sides of the US-Mexico border came together for the second annual Voices From Both Sides Festival to show what was lost when the border was closed.
After League City attorney Calvin C. Jackson and the State Bar settled allegations that he had forged lawyers’ signatures in a civil case, Jackson decided that he wanted all references to the case removed from the Internet. To the surprise of many legal observers and pretty much anyone who has ever used a computer, San
Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
Bernie walks free.
Faced with the realities of a rugged land, a band of sixteenth-century explorers left behind their dreams of conquest, as well as this chain mail glove.
You know that fracking boom? Now it’s putting Texas at the front of a new energy race: exporting natural gas to the rest of the world.
A man marks his territory.
In the 1980s, The Starck Club was where everyone—gay, straight, conservative and liberal—went to be themselves and to break the rules. With the release of an eponymous documentary, the history of the club is finally being told.
Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
What to hear, read, attend, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas literacy.
How did Robert Jeffress turn Dallas’s once-declining First Baptist Church into a vibrant megachurch? Certainly not by pussyfooting around.
Tejanos at the Alamo.
McConaughey for ag commissioner!
As a teenager I thought a quick paint job would help my family blend in to our white suburban neighborhood. Now I'm glad it wasn't that simple.
Our estimable advice columnist on euphemisms involving the word "hay," A&M's unaptly named yearbook, and meat preparation preferences.
My wife is a semifinalist to board a one-way mission to the Red Planet. I’m proud, happy, and thrilled for her. Now, do you want to know how I really feel about it?
Texas football and opera might seem like an unlikely union, but the world of opera has never been short on brash men of destiny.
The Dallas Theater Center premiered "Fortress of Solitude," a melancholy, soulful musical—a gamble as far as the genre goes. But it might pay off for the ambitious theater company.
Sixteen photographs of some of the cooler moments of Austin history, as taken by Scott Newton, the longtime official photographer of “Austin City Limits.”
Our estimable advice columnist on equestrian liability, Texan genealogy, and Furr’s Fresh Buffet vs. Luby’s Cafeteria.
The band Gungor is using the festival to broaden its fan base outside the churches where it made its name. Can it escape the stigma of Christian rock without alienating its devoted followers?
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
What to hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Bum Steer of the Month
A story from the archives returns.
A rare relic of slavery in Texas—and one woman’s freedom.
Sure, you can catch an awesome wave on the Texas coast, you just have to be patient. And clever. And patient . . .
Searching for signs of greatness in the tepid rom-coms of this year’s best actor.
"Las Marthas," a documentary airing on PBS Monday, follows two debutantes from either side of the US-Mexico border as they prepare for their debutante ball.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
