The Alamo Bootleg Delves into Lesser-Known Stories of the Most Famous Battle of the Texas Revolution
The Alamo Bootleg, a concept album slated for July release, features country singers Charley Pride and Robert Ellis excavating Alamo stories new and old. Read More »
An Exhibition in San Antonio Captures Selena Before and After Fame
Más magazine contacted San Antonio commercial photographer John Dyer in 1992 to do a shoot with a rising young ... Read More »
Musical Savant T Bone Burnett Stakes His Claim to Fort Worth
The City of Fort Worth has bestowed upon St. Louis Avenue the honorary name T Bone Burnett Boulevard, after the iconic music producer behind the soundtrack to the Coen Brothers movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? Read More »
How Growing Up in Paris, Texas Kindled the Creative Fire of Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock
The mixed-media artist Trenton Doyle Hancock stands inside his cluttered warehouse studio, in the Acres Homes ... Read More »
Mo Amer Extracts Humor from the Hardships of Growing up a Refugee in Texas
Mo Amer has a hard time remembering when he last traveled purely for fun. Sure, he’s seen plenty of places in his ... Read More »
Prospecting for Musical Ghosts Along Lost Highways and Byways
Rats and the middle seats of full flights. Those are my biggest fears besides death. So when I entered the abandoned ... Read More »
String Theories Prevail at the Festival of Texas Fiddling
The 5th annual Festival of Texas Fiddling in Blanco will demonstrate the instrument’s versatility and how it unifies cultures and ethnicities. Read More »
Artist “Cimi” Alvarado Teaches History Through the Murals of El Segundo Barrio
It’s sprinkling rain and the surrounding desert smells of wet dirt as Jesus “Cimi” Alvarado, an artist and an arts and ... Read More »
Experience “Amarillo Ramp”, a Seminal Work of Art, Before It Disappears
In 1973, when it was completed, Amarillo Ramp was a spiral pathway jutting into Tecovas Lake, an artificial body of water outside of Amarillo. It was comprised of sandstone found in the area, compacted to an ascending height of 15 feet, and measured 140 feet in diameter. Now, with the lake long since dried up, Amarillo Ramp amounts to a quirky, failing rock formation. Read More »
Ruby City, a Contemporary Art Museum 12 Years in the Making, is Now Open in San Antonio
Late artist and philanthropist Linda Pace’s vision puts the Alamo City on the modern art map Read More »
Keeping the Groove With Texas Bass Players, From Conjunto to Country and Polka to Punk
Bass is the heartbeat of Texas music, from the hard-rocking roadhouse blues of Stevie Ray Vaughan to the conjunto-revival sounds of Los Texmaniacs. Whenever you go out dancing to live music, the underlying tones of the upright bass fiddle or electric bass guitar drive your every move across the floor—and that’s true whether you notice the person playing the instrument or not. Read More »
Red Steagall, Country Hit-Maker and Cowboy Poet, Talks Texas Spirit and Overcoming Polio
Driving the backroads northwest of Fort Worth, you’d never know that one of the luminaries of Texas country and western music lives just around the bend. Down a gravel road, a pickup marked with Red Steagall’s “RS” brand signals that Steagall is around today. Inside his office, framed records and photos signed by the likes of Ronald Reagan line the wall, hinting at Steagall’s influential career. Read More »
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