Think Texas Is Hot? Here Are 8 Reasons Why It’s Hotter Than You Think
Texans are no strangers to heat, but everyone’s feeling it this summer as temperatures continue breaking ... Read More »
Author Jesse Sublett Delves Into Austin’s Criminal Underbelly
When I was gigging regularly in bands in Austin and elsewhere in the 1970s, I would daydream I was a character ... Read More »
The True North Public Sculpture Project in Houston Spotlights Emerging and Established Texas Artists
The 60-foot-wide esplanade framed by Heights Boulevard is home to one of Houston’s most popular walking trails, ... Read More »
Rumble Across the Texas Sky With the Commemorative Air Force’s Fleet of Vintage Combat Aircraft
A hulking green plane lumbers down the runway at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, then lifts into the sky ... Read More »
The Battle Between Two Lizards In Texas Is a Win for UT Arlington Biologists
Prairie lizards and Texas spiny lizards have a lot in common. True, the prairie lizard is a svelte 5 inches, ... Read More »
The Good Life of Hoops and Ranching in Perryton
High school girls basketball is huge in the Texas Panhandle. Nan Cook ought to know. The Perryton resident retired ... Read More »
Laredo Is the Land of Always Both and Neither
Mexican and American cultures blend into something new in the South Texas border town Read More »
Texas Humor’s Founder Jay B. Sauceda Considers the Texas Identity
As a photographer, pilot, author, and entrepreneur, Jay B. Sauceda has ruminated upon the Texas identity from ... Read More »
The Hugs Not Walls Program Reunites Families Along the Rio Grande
Hernan Hernandez and his mother, Leticia Lozano Martinez, are sitting on a park bench in South El Paso. They take ... Read More »
Karankawa Descendants are Reclaiming Their Heritage After Being Written Off as Extinct
W With cane ornaments piercing their noses and nipples, Karankawa warriors were the stuff of nightmares. Reports ... Read More »
Big Bend’s Oldest Surviving Adobe Structure Gets a Makeover
Big Bend National Park’s craggy Chihuahuan Desert landscape may seem incongruous with the verdant and neatly ... Read More »
Cockfighting Flourished in Texas in the Early 1900s
Cockfighting goes back to ancient times when cultures including the Greeks and Persians pitted roosters against ... Read More »