Culture

Westerns Ride Again at San Antonio’s Briscoe Western Art Museum

Westerns Ride Again at San Antonio’s Briscoe Western Art Museum

From Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to The Wild Bunch, the Hollywood Western has staked its claim as one of ... Read More »

Nederland Pays Tribute to Its Dutch and Cajun Ancestry

Nederland Pays Tribute to Its Dutch and Cajun Ancestry

The swath of land between Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange became known as “the Golden Triangle” after the 1901 ... Read More »

How the Watermelon Queen Cultivated Appreciation for Texas Farmers

How the Watermelon Queen Cultivated Appreciation for Texas Farmers

Landen Addison was 9 years old when her father began cultivating watermelons at their family farm in Brownfield, ... Read More »

The Raising of Galveston After the 1900 Hurricane

The Raising of Galveston After the 1900 Hurricane

In the aftermath of the devastating 1900 hurricane, Galveston faced the arduous work of rebuilding. Most famously, ... Read More »

Galveston’s New “Absolute Equality” Mural Will Be Dedicated on Juneteenth

Galveston’s New “Absolute Equality” Mural Will Be Dedicated on Juneteenth

The corner of 22nd and Strand streets in Galveston’s Strand Historic District is sacred ground for Sam Collins ... Read More »

The Tragic Tale of a 17th-Century French Colony’s Collapse

The Tragic Tale of a 17th-Century French Colony’s Collapse

The Spanish soldiers were braced for a fight as they bushwhacked the brushy banks of Garcitas Creek, just a few ... Read More »

Bigger Is Better for Ashley Kidd, 5-Time World Champion Wakesurfer

Bigger Is Better for Ashley Kidd, 5-Time World Champion Wakesurfer

Growing up in Corpus Christi, Ashley Kidd splashed through waves on a boogie board and told her mom that one ... Read More »

A Houston Native Returns Home From Harlem to Heal Alongside His Family

A Houston Native Returns Home From Harlem to Heal Alongside His Family

Open Road  | June 2021 I'll Give You My Last A Houston native ... Read More »

This Summer, Get Your Kicks Discovering Soccer’s Growing Popularity in Texas

This Summer, Get Your Kicks Discovering Soccer’s Growing Popularity in Texas

Before you even enter the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Frisco, the first thing you see is a large aluminum ... Read More »

Author May Cobb Just Can’t Quit East Texas

Author May Cobb Just Can’t Quit East Texas

This is the setting of my childhood in Longview, an East Texas town sandwiched between Marshall and Kilgore on U.S. Highway 80. It holds unimaginable beauty, but also dark secrets that won’t keep speaking to me. Read More »

A Reader’s Maiden Voyage Into the World of <i>Lonesome Dove</i>

A Reader’s Maiden Voyage Into the World of Lonesome Dove

On January 1, I started doing what I’d been planning on doing for almost a year: reading the many books about ... Read More »

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Site Has Turned Tiny Boca Chica Into a Tourist Attraction

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Site Has Turned Tiny Boca Chica Into a Tourist Attraction

The first humans to land on Mars will likely blast off from a scrubby tidal flat on Boca Chica Bay in South Texas, ... Read More »

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