Art + Music

The Doors Open on The Hill of James Magee

The Doors Open on The Hill of James Magee

About 70 miles east of El Paso, the Chihuahuan Desert runs flat and pale before giving way to the magmatic peaks of the ... Read More »

The Warhol Woman Who Taught Houston ‘How to Make an Exhibition’

The Warhol Woman Who Taught Houston ‘How to Make an Exhibition’

Andy Warhol’s 1968 silkscreens of a dark-haired woman with a cigarette have hung, on and off, in Houston’s Menil ... Read More »

Bob Wills Day Keeps the Famous Texas Bandleader’s Legacy Alive

Bob Wills Day Keeps the Famous Texas Bandleader’s Legacy Alive

BOB wiLLS FOReveR! Thousands still flock to Turkey to swing high and low for their long-lost king By ... Read More »

This Former Lumberyard Now Hosts Top Texas Musicians

This Former Lumberyard Now Hosts Top Texas Musicians

Presley Haile’s crystal voice floats into the nighttime sky at Red River Station, a music venue in the shadow of the ... Read More »

A Historic Landmark in Del Rio Is Reborn as Gin House Jazz Club

A Historic Landmark in Del Rio Is Reborn as Gin House Jazz Club

It’s a Thursday evening at the Gin House Jazz Club in Del Rio, a small border city in southwest Texas. The spacious, ... Read More »

Jackals, Nuns, a Psychic Corgi: An Insider’s Guide to Spurs Fandom

Jackals, Nuns, a Psychic Corgi: An Insider’s Guide to Spurs Fandom

Some people are born under a lucky star. Take me, for example. I was born in 1996, just a few months too late to ... Read More »

Reel Texas: ‘Dazed and Confused’ Jumped from Cult Film to Texas Classic

Reel Texas: ‘Dazed and Confused’ Jumped from Cult Film to Texas Classic

I haven’t been writing a film column all that long, so I’m unsure if it’s proper to start one with shameless praise. ... Read More »

The Underground Sounds of Cave Without a Name

The Underground Sounds of Cave Without a Name

In 1981, San Antonio musician Rudi Harst and a few of his friends prepared for an unusual gig. They arrived at the ... Read More »

The Painter Who Documented the Tragedy of the Galveston Hurricane

The Painter Who Documented the Tragedy of the Galveston Hurricane

Landscape and marine painter Julius Stockfleth lived many lives on Galveston Island. Immigrating to the prosperous port ... Read More »

Reel Texas: ‘Urban Cowboy’ Finds a New Home on the Range in Big City Texas

Reel Texas: ‘Urban Cowboy’ Finds a New Home on the Range in Big City Texas

I can’t remember the first Texas movie I ever watched as a kid, but that’s because we didn’t think about “Texas” movies ... Read More »

Gary McKee Is Keeping Texas Polka’s Spirit Alive

Gary McKee Is Keeping Texas Polka’s Spirit Alive

Gary E. McKee explains Texas polka in the simplest of terms: “Polka is happy music for happy people.” He should know. ... Read More »

A World-Class Art Museum Arrives in the Texas Hill Country

A World-Class Art Museum Arrives in the Texas Hill Country

At Arthouse, a new museum opening this spring in Marble Falls, the inaugural exhibition highlights an underappreciated ... Read More »

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