The Daytripper: Port Isabel’s Lighthouse Is a Beacon for Travelers
Everyone who goes to South Padre Island passes through Port Isabel, but there are plenty of reasons to make ... Read More »
Fort Worth-based Mrs. Renfro’s Celebrates 80 Years of Saucy Success
As a young boy growing up in Fort Worth, Doug Renfro never dreamed he’d eventually run his grandparents’ ... Read More »
A 1939 Photograph Captures Fishermen on a Corpus Christi Pier
Fishing is a great equalizer. A fish doesn’t care whether you have a fancy rod or, like these men on a Corpus ... Read More »
Chef Jonny Rhodes Reinvents Soul Food at His Houston Restaurant
Editor's note: In June 2020, Rhodes announced that he would close Indigo after one more year of service. Read more ... Read More »
How Juneteenth Brought Emancipation to Enslaved People in Texas
For several of my adolescent years in the 1960s, my family motored 45 miles northwest on US 290 from southeast ... Read More »
Pick Up Good Vibrations From These Summer Snapshots of the Texas Gulf Coast
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The Texas League Takes the Field for the State’s Oldest Circuit of Pro Baseball
When a baseball league has been around for more than a century, you know it’s got some stories to tell. That’s ... Read More »
Discover a World of Entertainment Right Outside Your Door During COVID-19
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On Texas’ Upper Coast, San Leon Is Getting Along Just Fine as It Is, Thank You
“If you want to go to a tourist trap, Kemah and Galveston are right up the road,” he tells me, his long, curly ... Read More »
Artist Mark Dion Travels and Discovers Texas in a New Documentary on Amazon Prime
When the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily closed the doors of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, it also prematurely shuttered the museum’s new exhibit, The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion. Luckily, a documentary of the same name about the creation of the exhibit is now available to stream on Amazon Prime. Read More »
My Favorite Texas Trip: On a Fayette County Prairie, a Saint for These Times
In Dubina, the first Czech settlement in Texas, a simple white wooden church stands alone amid the Blackland ... Read More »
Writer Sarah Hepola Roams During Quarantine in A House Without an Address
In 1790, a young French army officer wrote a book about the trip of a lifetime. “I have just completed a ... Read More »
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