Best-Selling Author and Twitter Personality Shea Serrano Talks Texas
For nearly a decade, Shea Serrano spent his days teaching science to unruly middle schoolers in Houston. ... Read More »
Finding Home in the Texas of My Youth
Open Road | May 2020 Where I Once Belonged On rediscovering the Texas of my youth by Natalia SylvesterIt took ... Read More »
Find Dominos, Fiddles, Catfish, and Kolaches in Hallettsville
Kenneth Henneke is the kind of guy who greets visitors to the Hallettsville Knights of Columbus Hall with a slice ... Read More »
In Search of Pioneering Astronomer Alice Farnsworth at the McDonald Observatory
I’m a quixotic traveler, more drawn to a new place when I’ve been beguiled ahead of time by a story about my ... Read More »
The Alamo Bootleg Delves into Lesser-Known Stories of the Most Famous Battle of the Texas Revolution
The Alamo Bootleg, a concept album slated for July release, features country singers Charley Pride and Robert Ellis excavating Alamo stories new and old. Read More »
Making Peace with the Spirit of My Father on a South Texas Ranch
Open Road | March 2020 In the Valley of Mirrors A son returns to the border and makes peace with the spirit of ... Read More »
An Exhibition in San Antonio Captures Selena Before and After Fame
Más magazine contacted San Antonio commercial photographer John Dyer in 1992 to do a shoot with a rising young ... Read More »
Texas State Poet Laureate Emmy Pérez Draws Inspiration from the Rio Grande Valley
Emmy Pérez, the Texas State Poet Laureate for 2020, creates evocative word-paintings of life along the Rio ... Read More »
Musical Savant T Bone Burnett Stakes His Claim to Fort Worth
The City of Fort Worth has bestowed upon St. Louis Avenue the honorary name T Bone Burnett Boulevard, after the iconic music producer behind the soundtrack to the Coen Brothers movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? Read More »
The Epic Love Story Behind One of Texas’ First Freedom Colonies
It’s easy to bypass Shankleville, an East Texas community with no business district or convenience store. But what ... Read More »
How Growing Up in Paris, Texas Kindled the Creative Fire of Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock
The mixed-media artist Trenton Doyle Hancock stands inside his cluttered warehouse studio, in the Acres Homes ... Read More »
Exploring the East Texas Roots of Sam Houston — Texas’ First National Hero
TOP IMAGES: The San Jacinto Monument; a portrait from about 1860 at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum A grassy park ... Read More »
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