How TikTok Helped Rio Grande Clay Gain National Attention
When he was about 5 years old, Carlos Herrera III picked up a piece of clay from the ground and rolled it into a ... Read More »
Essayist Rick Bass Shares How the Texas Landscape Shaped Him
The thing about Texas is she has this gravitational pull on her native children. We all return, even if not always ... Read More »
The Roots of Music Concert Series Kicks Off This Week in Fort Worth
While Fort Worth is famous for its country music, New Orleans-based jazz drummer Adonis Rose is determined to bring different genres of music to Cowtown. Read More »
Westerns Ride Again at San Antonio’s Briscoe Western Art Museum
From Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to The Wild Bunch, the Hollywood Western has staked its claim as one of the ... Read More »
Galveston’s New “Absolute Equality” Mural Will Be Dedicated on Juneteenth
The corner of 22nd and Strand streets in Galveston’s Strand Historic District is sacred ground for Sam Collins III, a ... Read More »
Artist Michael Tracy Is the Latest Pioneer Fighting to Preserve San Ygnacio
A work crew was doing maintenance in the small South Texas town of San Ygnacio a decade ago when one of its machines ... Read More »
San Antonio Accordion Master Flaco Jiménez Lets His Accordion Do the Talking
Leonardo “Flaco” Jiménez is San Antonio music royalty. Known as “El Rey de Texas” for his mastery of the accordion, ... Read More »
A New Book Shines a Light on the Many Faces of Dallas-Fort Worth Musical History
Gene Fowler and William Williams spent more than a decade researching, collecting, and writing Metro Music: Celebrating ... Read More »
‘The Father of Texas Painting’ Lives on Via Twitter
Legislators named the bluebonnet the state flower in 1901, but the man who would become famous for painting them, ... Read More »
A Piece of Lonesome Dove Lore is on Display at the Wittliff Collections
Behold the town of Lonesome Dove in its idea phase, before it became the set for the eponymous 1989 miniseries based ... Read More »
60 Years Ago San Antonio Teenagers Invented the Westside Sound
Texas music is known for its sense of place, whether it’s Western swing, guitar-powered electric blues, or Dirty South ... Read More »
The Houston Center for Photography Captures Pandemic Times with a New Exhibit
When we all went indoors in March, Suzanne Koett went outside. A canceled vacation meant the Austin-based photographer ... Read More »
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