Art + Music

Country Lovin’ at Hillbilly’s, a Longtime Rio Grande Valley Honky-Tonk

Country Lovin’ at Hillbilly’s, a Longtime Rio Grande Valley Honky-Tonk

The sound of “Good Time” by Alan Jackson pours out the doors of a small, red-and-black trimmed building in north ... Read More »

Texas-Themed Items are Full of Pride

Texas-Themed Items are Full of Pride

The Texas General Store might sound like a place you could pick up groceries or other odds and ends. But walk into ... Read More »

Texas Film Workers Discuss the Industry’s Future

Texas Film Workers Discuss the Industry’s Future

When Will Mederski moved to Austin from Ohio in 2015, he was enjoying the climate and culture, working mostly as a ... Read More »

Grupo Frontera Has Gone Global. But They’re Still Puro 956

Grupo Frontera Has Gone Global. But They’re Still Puro 956

Grupo Frontera is still trying to make sense of it all. Just a year ago, the six-piece Tejano band from the Rio Grande ... Read More »

Looking Back to Luckenbach: 50 Years After the ‘¡Viva Terlingua!’ Sessions

Looking Back to Luckenbach: 50 Years After the ‘¡Viva Terlingua!’ Sessions

It’s considered one of the albums every Texan should know by heart. But when it was released 50 years ago, ¡Viva ... Read More »

On the Hunt for Mack McCormick, a Houstonian and Folklorist Who Loved Texas Blues

On the Hunt for Mack McCormick, a Houstonian and Folklorist Who Loved Texas Blues

The first time I saw Mack McCormick’s name, it was attached to the liner notes on the back of the first albums issued ... Read More »

Black Pumas Guitarist Adrian Quesada’s Music Knows No Boundaries

Black Pumas Guitarist Adrian Quesada’s Music Knows No Boundaries

It is entirely possible Adrian Quesada is the most talented and inspired musician, producer, and songwriter Austin ... Read More »

Revisiting Tender Mercies, the Film That Put Waxahachie on the Map

Revisiting Tender Mercies, the Film That Put Waxahachie on the Map

but it’s not a long one. It meanders for a mere 11 miles through the open prairie between Waxahachie and Palmer. There ... Read More »

Waxahachie Gets the Taylor Sheridan Treatment

Waxahachie Gets the Taylor Sheridan Treatment

Rona Hedges and Pam Poovey step out of Eubank Florist & Gifts, where they work, and light cigarettes before taking ... Read More »

San Antonio Museum of Art Taps Into the Alamo City’s Brewery History

San Antonio Museum of Art Taps Into the Alamo City’s Brewery History

When visiting the San Antonio Museum of Art, you may notice architectural details that hearken back to a buzzy period ... Read More »

Mexia’s Cindy Walker Days Celebrates a Trailblazing Country Music Hall of Fame Songwriter

Mexia’s Cindy Walker Days Celebrates a Trailblazing Country Music Hall of Fame Songwriter

“I’m just a Texan at heart,” drawled the “Queen of Western Song Writers” to a live audience at Fort Worth’s Amon ... Read More »

Inside the Neon World of Meow Wolf Grapevine

Inside the Neon World of Meow Wolf Grapevine

Nothing is as it seems under the multicolored neon lights at Meow Wolf Grapevine, the long-awaited immersive art ... Read More »

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