Talk Like a Texan: Is “Tumping” Texan?
An etymological investigation into the Southern phrase.
An etymological investigation into the Southern phrase.
From Amarila to Wad-a-loop to the Purda-nalleez River, we've taken some liberties when it comes to pronunciation.
There were so many times that we could have broken this year. But not Texans. We’re not made that way.
Outsiders remain fascinated with unraveling the secrets of this place. But locals can explain, one story at a time.
A brief look at the unique world of JFK auctions.
Some of the craziest headlines you might have missed over the past month.
The official state dish reached its apotheosis in the era of San Antonio’s Chili Queens.
Alonso Guillen died an American hero—even if many didn’t think of him as an American.
After Hurricane Harvey, the best thing in Texas are the people in it.
The Dillon Panthers are back (for us, anyway).
The original Tex-Mex staple dates back further than most historians realize.
The perils and joys of female bullfighters in South Texas.
As anybody who's ever made the twelve-hour drive from Beaumont to El Paso can tell you: Texas is big.
Before it shuts down for good, we spent a day in the iconic Houston Heights icehouse.
Getting to the bottom of the baffling backstory of Lubbock’s legendary lemony libation—one refreshing sip at a time.
The oldest living veteran in the country now lives on Richard Overton Street.
And how Dripping Springs is struggling to maintain its small town feel.
Walker, TEXAS Ranger, indeed.
The honky-tonk celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary with two Texas country icons.
Advice for our former web editor.
Come and celebrate It.
Memories of the future at a long-gone Dallas hamburger joint.
We love our state flower, of course, but it's a little early for them to be blooming, right?
Well, sort of.
Celebrating fifty years of chili in Terlingua, home of the dueling cookoffs.
Our estimable advice columnist answers this burning question: What’s it like to be the Texanist?
What Jack Unruh meant to me.
Our estimable advice columnist on saying “I do” to a potbellied pig, bidding farewell to supper, giving your regards to Texas, and complaining about cold tortillas.
Forget about Batman vs. Superman. Our advice columnist referees spring vs. fall, Strait vs. Wills, Oatmeal vs. Bacon, and restaurant vs. patron.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
Galveston hosts a baseball game with nursery rhyme flair.
Our estimable advice columnist on firearms, weekend getaways, and how to properly eat a tamal.
On nineteenth-century Texas’s primitive roads, riding on a stage line was hardly a glamorous affair.
Our estimable advice columnist on putting a Tennessean in his place, adding Topo Chico to everything, learning to love a rusty jalopy, and naming Possum Kingdom Lake.
If you don’t know it, can’t remember it, or won’t sing it, what good is it?
A class project in Keller goes bust.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
Our estimable advice columnist on the pronunciation of “Fort Worth,” the pros and cons of spring break south of the border, the best way to deal with the brisket illiterate, and the Texan who mistook himself for a Floridian.
The whisky fad.
Taking stock of small-town stock shows.
Three academics plumb the rags-to-rags stories that have long been excluded from our state mythology.
Our advice columnist muses on the seeming futility of horse apples, the finer points of knives, the downside of going vegetarian, and whether it’s possible to love a Willie-hater.
Our advice columnist muses on the sanctity of a pickup’s bed, browses the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book, and once again tries to determine who qualifies as a Texan.
Where to find the brightest holiday trails in the state.
Answers to all of Texas's most pressing questions can be found in the brand-new edition of the Texas Almanac.
A Christmas carousel built nearly a century and a half ago is a welcome reminder of Texas’s deep German heritage.
Although we trail such medieval wonderlands as Spain, Bavaria, and Wales in castles per square mile, Texas is studded with crenellated, turreted strongholds, ranging from the kitschy to the magnificent.
Find a millennial and ask what that means.
All Hallows Eve, which descends from the grand Celtic festival of the dead, was stirring up a cauldron of supernatural activity long before kids started donning costumes to harvest candy from the neighbors. But, alas, for some time, Halloween and the belief in spirits of the departed have
Our estimable advice columnist on the origins of Hunt’s boot fence and how miffed we should get about pecan pronunciation, desecrated chili pots, and overenthusiastic, football-lovin’ grandfathers.