Clik here to view.
Republican and Democratic Cities Band Together to Blow Up the Death Star Bill
John Muns has lived in Plano since 1970, when it was a sleepy hamlet of 18,000. By 2021, when he was elected mayor, the Dallas suburb’s population had exploded to nearly 300,000, making it one of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Disunited Methodist Church
It was going to be a difficult goodbye. On the Monday after Thanksgiving, after Mindy Sutton finished her day as the dean of students at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, she drove home to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Black-Owned Land Is Under Siege in the Brazos Valley
I. The land had been theirs since long before any of them could remember. As a child in the fifties, Lawrence Smith grew up playing in its spring-fed creek and riding in a mule-drawn wagon driven by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In Far West Texas, One Hospice Nurse Brings Comfort to the Dying
If you’ve enjoyed views of the Davis Mountains for most of your life, it seems only right that you should get to spend your final days amid those familiar vistas. But many terminally ill patients in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A North Texas Couple Turns Creepy-crawlies Into Works of Art
Working Life is a monthly column in which Texans talk about their jobs. Morgan Loftin, who is 33, is the cofounder, with her husband, Micah, of Pinned Ptera, an insect taxidermy business they operate...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The U.S.S. Texas, Once the World’s Most Formidable Battleship, Gets a...
When the U.S.S. Texas was launched, in 1912, it was arguably the most powerful weapon on the planet. The Texas was a dreadnought, one of several dozen big-gunned, heavily armored warships built by the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Late Composer’s Music Lives On in His Austin-Made Wind Chimes
At the Music of the Spheres showroom, in East Austin, owner Sara Eskew plays the part of the breeze. She taps the diamond-shaped wind catcher dangling from one of the dozens of wind chimes on display,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meanwhile, in Texas: Building the World’s Biggest Piñata, One Bag of Corn...
A San Antonio artist collective sponsored by Hormel Foods built the world’s biggest piñata, a hundred-foot-tall elote filled with 1,920 bags of Corn Nuts. Six Cuban nationals were indicted in Houston...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings Isn’t Giving Up On Texas Public...
In the early eighties Margaret Spellings, an ambitious University of Houston grad, arrived in Austin to get involved in politics and quickly ended up working on education issues. (“It doesn’t take you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Endless Assassination of John F. Kennedy
I’m on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, a ring of corrugated boxes stacked so tightly around me I can practically breathe in their cardboard musk. Three more boxes sit at my knees,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why the Amtrak Sleeper Car Is the Ultimate Way to Travel Across Texas
The road to far West Texas is rambling, which is to say there’s no easy way to get there, no matter where you’re coming from. I learned this quickly during my three years as a community reporter in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Italy Meets Texas in This Must-Try Pork Dish
Fort Worth barbecue joints have become influential for their interpretations of pork belly. Although burnt ends—bark-heavy chunks from the fatty end of a beef brisket—were first made popular in Kansas...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Ghost-Faced Bat Is So Ugly It’s Cute
Each month, we’ll get to know one of the state’s many wonderful and quirky critters. Latin name: Mormoops megalophyllaSize: About 3.5 inches long, with a wingspan of 14–15 inchesHabitat: Caves and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Houston’s Lesser-known Chapel by Philip Johnson Is a Golden Wonder
The Detours series celebrates lesser-known locales worth visiting across the state. The late architect Philip Johnson was a lifelong atheist, yet he’s responsible for some of the world’s most beautiful...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clik here to view.
Why Does Everyone Outside of Texas Call a Corny Dog a Corn Dog?
Q: It wasn’t until I moved “abroad” that I discovered everybody outside of Texas calls a corny dog a corn dog. What gives? Brock Hyland, Little Rock, ArkansasA: Texan, as we call the native tongue of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Roar of the Crowd: November 2023
But It’s Right ThereAnother travel article about Mexico [“Mezcal, Mole, and More,” September 2023]? Um, what’s the name of your magazine? Have you run out of places in Texas to write about? It seems...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Year the Texas Legislature Changed the Energy Game Forever
Editors’ note: As part of Texas Monthly’s fiftieth anniversary year, we’re offering, each month, a fresh perspective on an important episode from the past half century. If you lived in Houston in 1999,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Editor’s Letter: Our Food Team
Some of the readers with whom I talk (and text and email) have complaints about Texas Monthly—but hardly ever about our coverage of food and drink. They praise taco editor José R. Ralat’s authoritative...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Four Reasons November Will Be a Great Month in Texas Culture
TV SHOWLawmen: Bass Reeves Paramount +, November 5 Bass Reeves’s legendary exploits have led many to speculate that he was the inspiration for the Lone Ranger. Although that’s probably not true,...
View Article