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In Appreciation of Echo Bridge, the Coolest Music Venue in Texas

In Appreciation of Echo Bridge, the Coolest Music Venue in Texas

Set on the San Antonio River, where live oak, pecan, mesquite, and willow trees line the banks and create a ... Read More »

A New Chapter Is Unfolding in Greenville

A New Chapter Is Unfolding in Greenville

Life is rarely dull in the town of Greenville, home to around 30,000 people about 50 miles northeast of Dallas. In ... Read More »

In the Early 1900s, Port Arthur Was Home to an Opulent Hotel Fit for the East Coast

In the Early 1900s, Port Arthur Was Home to an Opulent Hotel Fit for the East Coast

The opulent Sabine Hotel in Port Arthur was nearing completion in 1897—note the scaffolding on the far left. ... Read More »

A Pampa Native Seeks Clarity in the Texas Panhandle

A Pampa Native Seeks Clarity in the Texas Panhandle

Tabula Rasa A Pampa native grows homesick for his hometown by Bill CotterI left Texas once. It was in 1973, when I ... Read More »

How Three Men in Wheelchairs Summited Guadalupe Peak in the Early 1980s

How Three Men in Wheelchairs Summited Guadalupe Peak in the Early 1980s

A mile above the West Texas badlands, a desert thunderstorm is unleashing its fury on the Guadalupe Mountains. ... Read More »

Retracing a Grandfather’s Footsteps in Big Bend

Retracing a Grandfather’s Footsteps in Big Bend

For most lovers of Big Bend National Park, the landscape evokes tales of momentous adventures and jaw-dropping ... Read More »

Fort Worth Author Jeff Guinn Has a Thing for Madmen

Fort Worth Author Jeff Guinn Has a Thing for Madmen

Jeff Guinn looks like a benevolent uncle as he sits in the leather booth of Paris Coffee Shop, a historic ... Read More »

Pretty as a Picture in Van Horn

Pretty as a Picture in Van Horn

On a March morning while waiting to shoot photos of the Clark Hotel Museum in Van Horn for “Weekend Wayfinder,” ... Read More »

Meet Comfort Tysen, the Texas State Capitol’s Longest-Serving Tour Guide

Meet Comfort Tysen, the Texas State Capitol’s Longest-Serving Tour Guide

When Comfort Tysen gives a tour, she puts her whole body into the job. On some days, the longest-serving guide ... Read More »

In Remembrance of Inimitable Texas Writer John Nova Lomax

In Remembrance of Inimitable Texas Writer John Nova Lomax

Texas Highways writer-at-large and chronicler of the curious dies at 53 John Nova Lomax was Houston from the ... Read More »

Country Singer Kelly Willis Returns with Trio, Performing at Kerrville Folk Festival This Weekend

Country Singer Kelly Willis Returns with Trio, Performing at Kerrville Folk Festival This Weekend

Kelly Willis is feeling liberated. After decades being a wife, mother, and singer always on the verge of ... Read More »

After More Than a Decade, Books Are Back in Brownsville

After More Than a Decade, Books Are Back in Brownsville

The window display of Búho’s downtown Brownsville storefront features a recently released Jodi Picoult novel, a ... Read More »

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