Someone Paid $7,250 For a License Plate That Says “DALLAS”
We're betting they live in Highland Park.
Dan Solomon writes about politics, music, food, sports, criminal justice, health care, film, and business. Dan started working with Texas Monthly as a freelancer in 2013 before becoming a staff writer, covering topics from the Baylor sexual assault scandal to the gentrification of Austin barbecue to the legacy of Texas outsider artist Daniel Johnston. His reporting has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Fast Company, Billboard, and Deadspin.
We're betting they live in Highland Park.
By Dan Solomon
The mall is a flat circle, at which one can buy McConaughey's "just keep livin" line of menswear at Dillard's.
By Dan Solomon
"Revenge porn"—the public sharing of nude photos of someone on the Internet without their permission—isn't yet illegal in Texas. And after a Houston woman was awarded $500,000 in damages after her ex-boyfriend posted videos and images she gave him to YouTube and elsewhere, it's worth asking if it needs to
By Dan Solomon
The eccentric billionaire is considering launching his space program in Cameron County and making his car batteries in-state—which could add thousands of space-age jobs to the Texas economy.
By Dan Solomon
Disabled veterans are having a rough time bringing their service dogs into businesses, despite laws allowing them to do so.
By Dan Solomon
By the end of the day yesterday, state senator Dan Patrick's twitter typos had Conan O'Brien talking about him.
By Dan Solomon
Bad news, Little Monsters: You’re not going to be able to crash down onto a parking lot on 5th Street in Austin to catch Lady Gaga perform a free show from within the confines of a 56-foot-tall Doritos vending machine.The makeshift Doritos stage that pops up in a
By Dan Solomon
Rex Tillerson joined a lawsuit to prevent the construction of a fracking-related project near his ranch in Denton. The irony here is rich.
By Dan Solomon
The Motor City Madman has been called many things over the past few decades, but until last week, you couldn't call him phony.
By Dan Solomon
On Thursday, four officers arrived at the scene near the University of Texas campus to arrest a young woman for jaywalking. A video of the arrest went viral, prompting APD Chief Art Acevedo to defend his officers in a curious manner.
By Dan Solomon
A Waco teenager found a wedding ring inside a baseball glove he bought at an Academy sporting goods store that belonged to the person who tried it on before him. Through the power of social media, he reconnected with the owner—and subsequently was rewarded by the store, the ring manufacturer,
By Dan Solomon
Two quirky politics stories from the southernmost part of the state aren't doing the region any favors.
By Dan Solomon
The taciturn candidate has been ruled ineligble due to paperwork errors.
By Dan Solomon
Taco Land, the beloved punk rock dive in San Antonio, closed its doors in 2005 when owner Ram Ayala was shot and killed inside his own club. Now, the space has been renovated and reopened by a new owner—but just how much the new Tacoland resembles the old is up
By Dan Solomon
The beleaguered theme park strikes back at its critics with a series of videos—but given their attendance, did they need to?
By Dan Solomon
There are nearly four hundred license plate options for Texans to choose from—and it's just occurred to the DMV that that may be too many.
By Dan Solomon
Who's a good boy? Kaiser's a good boy, that's who.
By Dan Solomon
The Austin band preps its debut album with a bluesy, groove-heavy bit of heartache.
By Dan Solomon
Lance, son, we need to talk about what you're doing with your life.
By Dan Solomon
I mean, yeah, we've all wanted to magically zip through stalled traffic at 100mph, but that doesn't mean we'd actually do it.
By Dan Solomon
The two multi-billion dollar corporations have both spent a fortune in the quest to declare themselves the Marco Polo of ultra-fast Internet in Austin, but the company that planted the flag is San Marcos-based Grande Communications.
By Dan Solomon
Texas at the Oscars.
By Dan Solomon
Just a quick word of advice: Don't get into a three-card-monty game with Richard Turner, the world's greatest card cheat.
By Dan Solomon
Note to open carry advocates: Hitching your wagon to people in banana costumes might not be the look you're going for.
By Dan Solomon
In the wake of the incident between Oklahoma State basketball star Marcus Smart and Texas Tech "superfan" Jeff Orr, the question of why fans spend half of their time idolizing athletes and the other half treating them like dirt is one worth asking.
By Dan Solomon
Michael Sam, the SEC's reigning defensive player of the year and sack leader went from promising prospect to Jackie Robinson overnight—a transition that says a few things worth saying about the places he came from.
By Dan Solomon
Look at these lil' guys.
By Dan Solomon
It's got a veranda with seating for 450 people, a two-story closet, and a bowling alley. It's on 25 acres and the mansion itself is 48,000 square feet. And nobody really knows what it's worth.
By Dan Solomon
After winning the legal fight to have his brain-dead wife removed from life support, Erick Munoz may find himself gearing up for yet another battle in the courts—this time over who has to foot the bill for the hospital's actions.
By Dan Solomon
An El Paso man pled guilty to the most heinous offense against Texas history imaginable: Peeing on the Alamo. Does this make him the next Ozzy Osbourne?
By Dan Solomon
From the beginning, Alfred Wright's disappearance in Sabine County, and the subsequent police response, raised many questions. Now, the DoJ is looking for answers.
By Dan Solomon
It doesn't mean that they're not going to tear it down.
By Dan Solomon
The struggling Plano-based department store chain was trying to advertise mittens.
By Dan Solomon
Sports Illustrated thinks that Austin should be in the mix to host the game.
By Dan Solomon
This is how you know it's a slow news week.
By Dan Solomon
Sex offender registries are popular in the abstract, but maybe ordinances isolating sex offenders shouldn't be a one-size-fits-all policy.
By Dan Solomon
The controversy-courting Motor City Madman has donated his speaking/rocking services to the "Salute to Heroes Patriot Dinner and Concert" in April, which will raise funds for a New Braunfels non-profit that builds homes for disabled veterans, and he's got—you guessed it—some strong words for those who would criticize that appearance.
By Dan Solomon
The much-publicized—but thus far underwhelming—return of Bennigan's has nonetheless heralded the return of the casual dining chain's sister restaurant.
By Dan Solomon
A new start-up in the impoverished city only needs $20 million to complete a study to find out.
By Dan Solomon
Get the guy a pair of new glasses and apparently he loosens right up.
By Dan Solomon
It doesn't get any more Kinky Friedman.
By Dan Solomon
We have no idea what that actually means, either.
By Dan Solomon
Time for a letter-writing campaign.
By Dan Solomon
Johnny Football, Future Role Model?
By Dan Solomon
Fort Worth's rising country star serves up a tasty slice of twangy Texana with a side of Abilene.
By Dan Solomon
An employee at the store, which famously celebrates breasts, told her to go to the alley out back instead.
By Dan Solomon
The Stephen F. Austin grad and Austin native landed Heisenberg himself for the lead role in his 13-minute amateur short.
By Dan Solomon
It would be frightening if it weren't so weird, dumb, and ineffective: A new scam that attempts to prey on the elderly involves calling people up, telling them they've won the lottery, and then sending a cab to their house. The big flaw? No one has of yet gotten into
By Dan Solomon
Brittany Norwood, a twenty-year-old undergrad at the University of Houston who claims she is pregnant with the Texans' running back's baby, is taking him to court in pursuit of a restraining order and accusing him of pressuring her to have an abortion.
By Dan Solomon
Sheriff Adrian Garcia spent part of his week last week testifying before the Department of Justice about the rate of abuse that occurs under his watch.
By Dan Solomon