Culture

Cueing Peace at Austin Pool Halls

Cueing Peace at Austin Pool Halls

Open RoadTied toa StringA son of civil unrest finds equilibrium in the pool halls of AustinBy ALEJANDRO ... Read More »

Texas’ Historical Train Depots Get a New Life

Texas’ Historical Train Depots Get a New Life

In 1899, Belton’s red train depot was a stop on a 7.14-mile branch of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (the ... Read More »

Remembering the Franklin Mountains Tramway

Remembering the Franklin Mountains Tramway

The vast, painted landscapes of West Texas are best appreciated from great heights. This tramway, photographed in ... Read More »

Inside Texas’ New James Turrell Skyspace Installation

Inside Texas’ New James Turrell Skyspace Installation

As dark turns to day, and day turns to dusk, visitors to Fort Worth’s Keith House turn their gazes up toward an ... Read More »

Grill and Chill at Austin’s Hot Luck Fest

Grill and Chill at Austin’s Hot Luck Fest

Aaron Franklin has been on fire since ushering in Texas’ new era of craft barbecue when he opened his eponymous ... Read More »

How Texas Helium Powered a Century of Flight

How Texas Helium Powered a Century of Flight

Lighter-than-air vehicles, also known as dirigibles or airships, have floated in Texas skies for over a century, ... Read More »

How ‘Red Headed Stranger’ Changed Country Music Forever

How ‘Red Headed Stranger’ Changed Country Music Forever

Fifty years ago, Willie Nelson and his band walked into a squat, beige brick building in a nondescript industrial ... Read More »

When Trans-Texas Airways Soared State Skies

When Trans-Texas Airways Soared State Skies

At 24 years old, A.J. High took off from Houston as a copilot on the first flight of the newly formed Trans-Texas ... Read More »

Traveling Through Texas’ Past Aboard a Vintage Train

Traveling Through Texas’ Past Aboard a Vintage Train

Vintage train rides offer a window into Texas’ locomotive history and a family’s legacy on the tracks By ... Read More »

Author Katherine Center on the Importance of Love Stories

Author Katherine Center on the Importance of Love Stories

Bestselling author Katherine Center is practically Houston royalty. Her mother’s maiden name, Detering, graces a ... Read More »

Visit the Birthplace of Shiner Beer

Visit the Birthplace of Shiner Beer

Dozens of Texas towns have a population in the low 2,000s—from Canadian to Rio Hondo and West Tawakoni to East ... Read More »

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