A New Book Shines a Light on the Many Faces of Dallas-Fort Worth Musical History
Gene Fowler and William Williams spent more than a decade researching, collecting, and writing Metro Music: ... Read More »
Texas Historical Commission Seeks Artifacts for Brazoria County Black History Project
As a descendant of slaves from an East Texas plantation—Monte Verdi in Rusk County—I felt an ancestral ... Read More »
Riding High in El Paso’s Lowrider Scene
Lowrider culture isn’t difficult to find around El Paso. It’s in the oldies the local radio station 92.3 The ... Read More »
150 Portraits for 150 Years: A Longview Duo Honors their Hometown’s Sesquicentennial
It was 2018 when I made the pitch to photographer O. Rufus Lovett as we sipped beers at the Lone Star Ice House. ... Read More »
Tawa Threads’ Texas-Inspired Designs Give Back to the Outdoors
Williford, now based in Austin, designs and sells outdoors-inspired bandanas and runners via Tawa Threads, and donates 20% of proceeds to organizations that promote diversity and inclusion in outdoor spaces, including San Antonio-based Black Outside, Native Womens Wilderness, and Outdoor Afro. Read More »
How To Be a Boss Like Barbara Jordan
Big power can come in small packages. The brightly colored board book Boss Texas Women, by coauthors Kristen ... Read More »
New Photography Book Captures the Spirit and Spectacle of the Kerrville Folk Festival
“It can be this way always,” is a familiar refrain at the Kerrville Folk Festival, the three-week hootenanny ... Read More »
A Sixth-Generation Texan Searches for the Meaning of Home
Open Road | April 2021 Feel Right at Home A sixth-generation ... Read More »
The Hunt for the Lost Treasures of Texas
TeXas Marks the Spot Tales of treasures both real and mythical draw hunters to the state By Peter WarrenStories of ... Read More »
Galveston-Born Director King Vidor Was a Filmmaking Pioneer
Filmmaker King Vidor was only 6 years old when he survived the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. The ... Read More »
The San Marcos River Brings Life to Martindale
Virginia Parker Condie and her teammates set two records as they paddled to a fourth-place finish in the Texas ... Read More »
The Texas-Size Grandeur of Ben Masters’ Wildlife Documentaries
Ben Masters makes films celebrating the wilderness of Texas, propelled by riveting scenes of adventure and ... Read More »