Conservation Effort Preserves Scenic Hill Country Site Along the Blanco River
The Nature Conservancy and Hays County are purchasing 530 acres of the former El Rancho Cima Boy Scout Camp—a ... Read More »
Q&A with Firestone & Robertson Distilling Co. Whiskey Scientist Ale Ochoa
As a whiskey scientist at Fort Worth’s Firestone & Robertson Distilling Co., 26-year-old Ale Ochoa spends her days sampling and quantifying the aromas and flavors of whiskey. Read More »
Q&A with Amarillo Author Jodi Thomas About Her New Texas Historical Christmas Novel
A Texas Kind of Christmas, a new historical romance novel by Rachael Mills, Celia Bonaduce, and best-selling Amarillo author Jodi Thomas, takes readers back to Christmas Eve, 1859 Read More »
Lay Your Head in a Yurt at This New Hill Country Retreat
A village of Texas-themed yurts has sprouted in the Hill Country near Dripping Springs. Ten round tents are ... Read More »
A Honky-Tonk Tale: In “Yellow Rose,” Dale Watson and the Broken Spoke Shine in Their Natural Roles
In Yellow Rose, a feature film highlight of the Austin Film Festival that just wrapped up last week, a teenage ... Read More »
Texas Highways Wins 6 Folio, 22 IRMA Awards
In October, Texas Highways earned more than 20 awards from two prominent publishing industry institutions. Read More »
Keep Your Eyes to the Sky for the Annual Arrival of Migratory Whooping Cranes
The next time you step outside, look up. The annual migration of whooping cranes from the marshes of ... Read More »
A Whole New Kind of Museum Opens in Austin
Texas has lots of museums—more than 600—ranging in focus from art to history, science, education, railroads, ... Read More »
New Paddling Trail Near Carthage Navigates a Secluded Stretch of the Sabine River
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Sabine River Sandbar Paddling Trail runs 15 miles through undeveloped riverbank with sandbars that provide opportunities to rest or camp. Read More »
Photographer John Dyer Drove 5,500 Miles to Document Texas’ Outer Limits
In the spring of 2019, John Dyer set out to see what the edge looked like close up. Dyer is a San Antonio-based commercial photographer who has authored photography books on vaqueros and conjunto music, written two novels, directed several short films, and shot numerous magazine covers including Selena for the May 1995 issue of Texas Monthly. But he’d never taken on a project quite like this. Read More »
5 Remote Retreats in Texas
Whether your idea of getting away includes four-star meals or a retro camper in a dense forest, these five escapes promise serenity and seclusion Read More »
My Hometown: A New Frontier of the Old West in Dell City
Andrew Stuart is the poster boy for the “next best place.” Raised in Austin, Stuart lived on both coasts before falling in love with West Texas. He spent two years as a reporter for the now-defunct Desert-Mountain Times in Alpine and three years as the news director at Marfa Public Radio. In 2009, he moved to Dell City, a Chihuahuan Desert farming community with little but a mercantile, a gas station, and two cafés. It’s a place once described by The New York Times as a “borderline ghost town.” But factor in the Guadalupe Mountains—the area’s primary tourist attraction, rising 20 miles to the east—and the feeling that you’re out in the middle of nowhere, and it’s easy to see Stuart, 44, has found his place. “I knew I wanted to live in the desert by myself, a go-west-and-reinvent-yourself kind of thing,” he explains one morning over breakfast tacos at Spanish Angels Café. “The writer Marilynne Robinson said, ‘Out west, lonesome is a positive.’” Read More »
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