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Tawa Threads’ Texas-Inspired Designs Give Back to the Outdoors

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

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 »

Roughhouse Brewing Debuts the First Texas Cave-Aged Beer

Roughhouse Brewing Debuts the First Texas Cave-Aged Beer

The geologist discovered a small limestone cave, and it inspired Pasternak to create Premiere, Texas’ first cave-aged beer. Read More »

Traces of Texas’ Throwback Thursday: Theodore Roosevelt at the Rough Riders Reunion

Traces of Texas’ Throwback Thursday: Theodore Roosevelt at the Rough Riders Reunion

Courtesy Library of Congress President Theodore Roosevelt posed in his tent at a Rough Riders reunion in San ... Read More »

How I Overcame My Fear of Texas’ Turbulent Weather

How I Overcame My Fear of Texas’ Turbulent Weather

I’ve been intensely afraid of storms since I can remember. Even on a sunny day, my eyes were fixed on the clouds ... Read More »

An Orcas Sighting Off of Galveston Provides a Whale of a Good Time

An Orcas Sighting Off of Galveston Provides a Whale of a Good Time

On the morning of March 17, Capt. Sam Hardeman saw something he never expected to see in the Gulf of Mexico: a ... Read More »

One Travel Writer’s Journey to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine Led to One of Her Most Memorable Texas Trips

One Travel Writer’s Journey to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine Led to One of Her Most Memorable Texas Trips

Hitting the road from Austin to West Texas in March, my family felt excited and a little nervous—like we were pulling off some tremendous caper. My husband and I were on our way to get our first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. Read More »

A New Exhibit in Dallas Explores the Science Behind Guinness World Records

A New Exhibit in Dallas Explores the Science Behind Guinness World Records

Before there was Google, there was my dad’s reference shelf in the sitting-room bookcase, where all fact-based ... Read More »

Woodville’s Refurbished Big Woods Nature Trail Is a Hidden Gem Worth Discovering

Woodville’s Refurbished Big Woods Nature Trail Is a Hidden Gem Worth Discovering

In the vastly rural southeast Texas landscape north of Beaumont and immediately east of Livingston lies a magnet ... Read More »

Spring Into Action with Day Drives to the Davis Mountains, Rio Grande Valley, and Edwards Plateau

Spring Into Action with Day Drives to the Davis Mountains, Rio Grande Valley, and Edwards Plateau

Whether you're a Texas history buff or a fan of cowboy culture or an explorer of high-mountain peaks, these ... Read More »

A New Film Explores the Humble and Dramatic Tale of Texas’ Declaration of Independence

A New Film Explores the Humble and Dramatic Tale of Texas’ Declaration of Independence

We’ll never forget the Alamo, of course, but the same may not be said for Washington-on -the-Brazos, where ... Read More »

A Tribute to “Lonesome Dove” Author Larry McMurtry

A Tribute to “Lonesome Dove” Author Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of Lonesome Dove and co-author of the Academy Award-winning ... Read More »

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