A Regional Guide to Texas Music
Discover the regional sounds that have made Texas a key player in American music Illustrations by Matt ... Read More »
How Robert Earl Keen Turned to Music to Help Flood Victims
A few fateful hours swept away Robert Earl Keen’s July Fourth plans. Scheduled to headline Kerrville’s Fourth on the ... Read More »
Two-Step Through Texas at These Iconic Music Venues
With more than 1,000 venues scattered across 268,820 square miles, no other state in the country has carved out a ... Read More »
The Legends of Texas Sports By the Numbers
Is Texas a big-time sports state? Historically speaking, the blue bloods of the sports world have operated on the ... Read More »
The ‘UFO’ That Washed Ashore On South Padre Island
Nearly 6 miles north of South Padre Island's Beach Access #6 is what appears to be the remains of a UFO crash site. ... Read More »
Larry McMurtry’s Famous Bookstore Reopens as a Literary Center
Inside a one-story brick building at the center of Archer City’s main commercial street, surrounded by rows upon rows ... Read More »
The Allen Company That Brings Prehistoric Creatures to Life
Lauren Billings’ biggest critics are kids. They’ll call her out if she refers to a Quetzalcoatlus as a dinosaur—it’s a ... Read More »
Try Your Cluck at Chicken S— Bingo
Despite the 90-degree heat, a crowd of 50-plus people gather behind the Little Longhorn Saloon, waiting for a chicken ... Read More »
Ray Benson Is a Titan of Country Music
Standing 6 feet, 6 inches tall and wearing size 16 cowboy boots, Ray Benson is an undeniably big guy. And over the past ... Read More »
Pick the Perfect Cowboy Hat
After 25 years in Austin, my husband, Chris, wanted a cowboy hat. Because it’s Texas, we knew we shouldn’t just walk ... Read More »
The Steady Hand of Filmmaker Robert Benton
Robert Benton, the Waxahachie native who died in May at 92, was one of the greatest film artists that Texas produced. ... Read More »
Roadside Oddity: Odessa’s Stonehenge Replica
The sky was cloudy in Odessa just after the break of dawn on June 21, 2004. It was the first summer solstice since a ... Read More »
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