3 Places to Eat Barbecued Crab in Texas This Summer
Barbecued crab, a coastal delicacy born in a tiny corner of Southeast Texas, is tender, juicy, and laced with spice. This misnamed meal isn’t barbecue, though, which I realized some years ago when my friend Carolyn invited me home from college to visit her family in Beaumont, promising we’d eat something not found anywhere else. Read More »
Galveston’s Star Drug Store Cures What Ails You with Mardi Gras Masks and Milkshakes
Customers once came to the Star Drug Store for their medicinal needs, but today they come for a different kind of pick-me-up: meals and merchandise. For more than a century, the Star has been a fixture in Galveston’s historic downtown. A glowing neon-lit Coca-Cola sign shines like a beacon above its sidewalk awning on 23rd Street, a few blocks south of the Strand, the island’s main commercial artery. This vintage porcelain sign, which dates from the late 1940s, is said to be one of the last of its kind. Read More »
Dive Deep into the Water Cycle at the Laredo Water Museum
What do I look like?” my 5-year-old daughter, Ana, asked when she emerged from her bedroom dressed in blue stretch pants and a sparkly violet T-shirt. I shrugged my shoulders, and she crinkled her brow in disapproval at her father’s lack of with-it-ness. “I’m a water droplet!” she proclaimed. “Now let’s go to the water museum.” Read More »
Explore South Padre Island with a Drive up State Park Road 100
I get my first clear view of South Padre Island from the summit of the Queen Isabella Memorial Causeway. At 85 feet above Laguna Madre, the bridge reveals the island stretching majestically on a north-south line, like a thin ribbon of sand floating in a cobalt sea. Read More »
You’ll Feel Right at Home in This Small-Town Beach Community
Our annual Coastal Issue is different than the one we had in mind when we began planning it last summer. The impact of Hurricane Harvey on coastal communities was so severe it left many people uncertain about the coming tourism season. In many of these small towns, tourism is the primary industry and vital to their recovery. We quickly realized one way we could help: spreading the word that beloved destinations like Port Aransas and Rockport-Fulton are ready for visitors. Read More »
Where to Observe Memorial Day In Texas in 2018
This Memorial Day weekend, there are lots of options across the state for celebrating the ... Read More »
A Hill Country Distillery Is Organizing a Series of Pool Parties to Fund Repairs to Balmorhea State Park
Balmorhea State Park in West Texas is celebrated for having the world’s largest spring-fed pool. Unfortunately, on May 14, the park announced that the pool will be closed indefinitely due to structural damage of the concrete beneath the diving board, which supports the walls of the pool. Read More »
10 Ways to Celebrate Juneteenth in Texas
On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and delivered the news to Texans that slavery ... Read More »
Author Joe Lansdale Explains Why East Texas Will Always Be Home
Nobody writes like Joe Lansdale, because Lansdale writes like everybody he knows is dead. Tempering ... Read More »
8 Great Quirky Stays
Explore these unconventional lodging options across the Lone Star state. In the Big Bend feeder town of Marathon, a lone, multicolored mirage appears on the horizon. Luckily, the fanciful sight gives way to a very real, if unlikely, organic bed-and-breakfast made most entirely of recycled paper, Styrofoam, and sand. Read More »
Award-Winning Bourbon Distilleries in Texas
Blame it on Tito’s. The craft vodka from Austin, which grew from obscurity 20 years ago into one of Texas’ ... Read More »
The Port Aransas Festival Season
Port Aransas likes a party, and residents won’t let the effects of Harvey interfere with that tradition. April brought the annual SandFest, one of the nation’s largest native-sand sculpture competition, and before that, February’s Whooping Crane Festival drew birding enthusiasts from around the world. Read More »
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