Culture

Experience Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul Without Leaving Texas

Experience Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul Without Leaving Texas

Known for her self-portraits, vibrant use of color, paintings that blended realism with a touch of fantasy, ... Read More »

Beyond Oktoberfest: Meet Fredericksburg’s Lesser-Known Traditions

Beyond Oktoberfest: Meet Fredericksburg’s Lesser-Known Traditions

This month, the city of Fredericksburg kicks off its 175th anniversary with a yearlong celebration culminating ... Read More »

Fredericksburg: A History

Fredericksburg: A History

  On May 8, 1846, a train of ox carts carrying 120 pioneers rumbled to a halt, 4 miles north of the upper ... Read More »

175 Years of Fredericksburg in Photos

175 Years of Fredericksburg in Photos

A Visual History of Fredericksburg By Traces of Texas The stories and photos of Fredericksburg included ... Read More »

Where to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo Across Texas

Where to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo Across Texas

Children dress in traditional costumes for a Cinco de Mayo event in San Marcos. Photo by Kevin B. ... Read More »

Round Rock Native Takes City’s Soccer Club Semi-Pro

Round Rock Native Takes City’s Soccer Club Semi-Pro

Round Rock Soccer Club, founded in 2017, launched in the United Premier Soccer League, one of many developmental soccer leagues. But after impressing the United Soccer Leagues organization, the team joins USL League Two, a semi-pro league below Major League Soccer, for the upcoming season. Read More »

Why San Benito Is the ‘Center of the Universe’

Why San Benito Is the ‘Center of the Universe’

To understand why Rogelio Nuñez says the world revolves around San Benito, you have to understand his commitment ... Read More »

Artist Michael Tracy Is the Latest Pioneer Fighting to Preserve San Ygnacio

Artist Michael Tracy Is the Latest Pioneer Fighting to Preserve San Ygnacio

A work crew was doing maintenance in the small South Texas town of San Ygnacio a decade ago when one of its ... Read More »

From Horses to Model Ts To Pick-up Trucks, The History of Texas Transportation

From Horses to Model Ts To Pick-up Trucks, The History of Texas Transportation

Horse Before the Cart Traveling Texas wasn’t always so easy By John LumpkinÁlvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, one of ... Read More »

San Antonio Accordion Master Flaco Jiménez Lets His Accordion Do the Talking

San Antonio Accordion Master Flaco Jiménez Lets His Accordion Do the Talking

Leonardo “Flaco” Jiménez is San Antonio music royalty. Known as “El Rey de Texas” for his mastery of the ... Read More »

Looking Back on the Dedication of the LBJ Library 50 Years Ago

Looking Back on the Dedication of the LBJ Library 50 Years Ago

This May marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the LBJ Presidential Library at the University of Texas. A ... Read More »

How an ‘88 Cadillac Led a Former Dallasite to the Love of His Life

How an ‘88 Cadillac Led a Former Dallasite to the Love of His Life

Open Road  | May 2021 Taken for a Ride A former Dallasite ... Read More »

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