A Tale of Two Cafés
A weekday lunch crowd fills the room with lively conversation. Behind a dining counter, hamburger patties sizzle ... Read More »
Silo Diving
I’ve always considered myself a pretty brave guy. I’ve gone hang gliding, swum with stingrays, and even eaten ... Read More »
Eternal Value
National Park Ranger Marten Schmitz retrieves a palm-sized chunk of Alibates flint rock from the dried short-grass ... Read More »
When dinosaurs (and mammoths) roamed
Curved tusks jut out of red sandy soil. Massive bones scatter around them in the prehistoric burial ground. These ... Read More »
Staycation Elation
I like to believe that my mother invented the staycation. With a twist. (more…) Read More »
Where Aloe is King
Luxuriating in the tropically landscaped oasis of Hilltop Gardens, I feel sheltered from the world by palms, ... Read More »
Daytripper: Houston
More than any other Texas city, Houston is defined by its neighborhoods, helping to break this giant bayou buffet ... Read More »
Magnetic Art
Clearly I am not the only one who yearns to bring a bit of Spain back to Texas. For the first half of my 30s, I ... Read More »
Make it Shiny
Austin musician Kevin Russell likes to recount a conversation he had with the late Doug Sahm, a sort of musical ... Read More »
The Outsiders
It’s hard to imagine two people in the whole state who have more fun in their work than Julie and Bruce Lee Webb ... Read More »
Marshall Sparkles
On the Northeast Texas town of Marshall—where I’m closer to the borders of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma than ... Read More »
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