Art + Music

Flying Island Picks Up Where Trans-Pecos Festival Left Off

Flying Island Picks Up Where Trans-Pecos Festival Left Off

Before Matthew Bolick moved to Marfa over three years ago, he was organizing hardcore and punk rock shows and other ... Read More »

Looking Back at the 1979 Film ‘Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders’ with Jane Seymour

Looking Back at the 1979 Film ‘Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders’ with Jane Seymour

If you were a kid growing up in Texas in the late 1970s, you were probably a Dallas Cowboys fan. But they weren’t just ... Read More »

A Pit Stop at ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Gas Station in Bastrop

A Pit Stop at ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Gas Station in Bastrop

Scott Jensen remembers the first time he discovered the 1974 movie that launched the slasher film genre. He was 12 ... Read More »

A World of Wonder Awaits at Julie Speed’s Marfa Studio

A World of Wonder Awaits at Julie Speed’s Marfa Studio

Inside Julie Speed’s Marfa studio, sunlight streams through the large picture windows, casting golden rays onto tubes ... Read More »

Meet the Texas Tailgaters, Banana Ball’s New Lone Star State Team

Meet the Texas Tailgaters, Banana Ball’s New Lone Star State Team

A baseball revolution is coming for Texas, and you won’t find it inside the MLB. Maybe you’ve sensed it in clips on ... Read More »

Noah Hawley on Turning ‘Alien’ Into a Hit TV Show

Noah Hawley on Turning ‘Alien’ Into a Hit TV Show

Speaking of texasSpace CowboyAlien: Earth creator Noah Hawley is a master at adapting beloved movies into hit TV ... Read More »

Corpus Christi’s Selena Museum Is a Place for Mourning—and Hope

Corpus Christi’s Selena Museum Is a Place for Mourning—and Hope

Six weeks after my mother passed away, I made a pilgrimage from my home in Austin to the museum dedicated to the memory ... Read More »

Texas Music By the Numbers

Texas Music By the Numbers

In Tune Texas’ landscape and lore have inspired its music since before it was a state By Marisa ... Read More »

Meet Five of Texas Music’s Rising Stars

Meet Five of Texas Music’s Rising Stars

SOUND FOUNDERS COUNTRY, SOUL, ROCK, AMERICANA, TEJANO—IN TEXAS, WE PLAY IT ALL, AND WE PLAY IT OUR OWN ... Read More »

It’s Saturday Night at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin

It’s Saturday Night at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin

When visitors walk into the first-floor gallery at the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Center on Sept. 20, past a ... Read More »

Radio Host Andy Langer Knows His Texas Tunes

Radio Host Andy Langer Knows His Texas Tunes

When something happens in Texas music culture, Andy Langer is usually in the mix. The journalist, radio host, event ... Read More »

A Roundup of Italian Masterpieces Comes to Cowtown

A Roundup of Italian Masterpieces Comes to Cowtown

More than 5,000 miles stretch between Italy’s Eternal City and Texas’ Cowtown. Despite this geographical distance, the ... Read More »

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