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A Livingston Craftsman Turns Native Longleaf Pine Into Handmade Baskets

A Livingston Craftsman Turns Native Longleaf Pine Into Handmade Baskets

Woven Through Time Elliott Abbey crafts traditional baskets out of pine needles By Julia JonesSometimes while crafting ... Read More »

Acclaimed Artist Jesse Lott Sculpts the Houston Art Scene and Beyond

Acclaimed Artist Jesse Lott Sculpts the Houston Art Scene and Beyond

Jesse Lott’s art studio, on the west side of Houston’s Fifth Ward, ... Read More »

A West Texas Photographer Chases Nature’s Constant Change Through Art and Photography

A West Texas Photographer Chases Nature’s Constant Change Through Art and Photography

Above: hailstones A photo mosaic of hailstones, calcite crystals, fluorite crystals, and optical squares in Marathon; ... Read More »

50 Years Ago, Willie Nelson United Cowboys and Hippies at the Armadillo World Headquarters

50 Years Ago, Willie Nelson United Cowboys and Hippies at the Armadillo World Headquarters

With the Vietnam War still raging in the summer of 1972, there was a cultural chasm that seemed too wide to cross in ... Read More »

New Lubbock Attractions Bring an Artsy Flair to the Ranching Town

New Lubbock Attractions Bring an Artsy Flair to the Ranching Town

If you think you know Lubbock, you clearly haven’t been in a while. Gone are the days when Texas Tech was the town's ... Read More »

At the Toilet Seat Art Museum in The Colony, You’ll Feel Moved By the Creativity

At the Toilet Seat Art Museum in The Colony, You’ll Feel Moved By the Creativity

If your life’s work were to be set up in one room, what might that look like? Important documents, photographs, ... Read More »

Texas Humor’s Founder Jay B. Sauceda Considers the Texas Identity

Texas Humor’s Founder Jay B. Sauceda Considers the Texas Identity

As a photographer, pilot, author, and entrepreneur, Jay B. Sauceda has ruminated upon the Texas identity from many ... Read More »

Kerrville Folk Festival Celebrates 50 Years of Music, Community, and Lasting Memories

Kerrville Folk Festival Celebrates 50 Years of Music, Community, and Lasting Memories

In March 1972, a short writeup in the Kerrville Mountain Sun described what locals could expect at the town’s ... Read More »

Meow Wolf Announces Plans for Texas Expansion in Grapevine and Houston

Meow Wolf Announces Plans for Texas Expansion in Grapevine and Houston

On our visit to Meow Wolf in Santa Fe back in 2018, my wife and I came out with slightly different opinions. She ... Read More »

Kinky Friedman Introduces Gold Star Kids to the Land That Shaped Him

Kinky Friedman Introduces Gold Star Kids to the Land That Shaped Him

He’s the bard of the Hill Country—a satirist, author, singer-songwriter, raconteur, and equal-opportunity offender. ... Read More »

With a New Album Out, 81-Year-Old Delbert McClinton Reflects on His Six-Decade Career

With a New Album Out, 81-Year-Old Delbert McClinton Reflects on His Six-Decade Career

“You’re 81. What the heck are you making a new record for?” It’s an honest, semi-innocent question to pose to ... Read More »

William Clark Green Finds a Muse in the People and Places of Small-Town Texas

William Clark Green Finds a Muse in the People and Places of Small-Town Texas

Even though singer-songwriter William Clark Green now calls the big city of Fort Worth home, his upbringing in ... Read More »

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