Culture

For Female Country Singers From Texas, There’s Something in the Water

For Female Country Singers From Texas, There’s Something in the Water

When Miranda Lambert won the Country Music Association’s “Entertainer of the Year” for 2022, it was the first ... Read More »

Celebrating Pride Month in Small Town Texas

Celebrating Pride Month in Small Town Texas

Coming out of two long years of canceled events and public gatherings due to the pandemic, people all around ... Read More »

Think Texas Is Hot? Here Are 8 Reasons Why It’s Hotter Than You Think

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

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 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

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

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 »

Laredo Is the Land of Always Both and Neither

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

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

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

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 »

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