Health
January 27, 2016
Put to the Test
For children with debilitating epilepsy, an unprecedented medical trial in Fort Worth offers a glimmer of hope. But if it works, is the state ready to embrace medical marijuana?
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Books
January 27, 2016
Darkness on the Edge of Town
How the kindest, gentlest family man in Nacogdoches began writing some of the creepiest, grisliest fiction in the country.
The Daily Post
January 7, 2016
The Best Little Hoodoo Pharmacy in Texas
Inside Stanley Drug Company, the last hoodoo shop in Texas.
True Crime
December 23, 2015
Just Desserts
Sandy Jenkins was a quiet accountant at the Collin Street Bakery who felt overlooked and dreamed of living the good life. He found it (for a while) by embezzling nearly $17 million from the famed fruitcake maker.
True Crime
December 23, 2015
False Impressions
How the once troubled Texas Forensic Science Commission put the state at the forefront of the criminal justice reform movement.
December 2, 2015
Rick Dyer’s Believe It Or Not!
A team of Bigfoot believers, a legion of “Haters,” more than one Walmart parking lot, and the showman at the center of it all.
Military
November 18, 2015
Over There
In Africa Texas Special Forces unit are trying to help win the War on Terror, teaching one lesson at a time.
The Culture
November 18, 2015
Haute Topic
Houston’s super-rich are learning to love the brand-new, very ritzy, much-heralded River Oaks District. (Maybe.)
Essay
November 18, 2015
The Will of God
I always knew that the work my dad did as an Episcopal priest and grief counselor was important. But I didn’t understand how important until the birth of my son.
The Culture
October 29, 2015
The Alcohol Blackout
In the war against campus sexual assault, why are we not talking about drinking?
Arts & Entertainment
October 21, 2015
Voice of the Pines
In search of the mysterious, absurdist, and lyrical East Texas writer William Goyen.
True Crime
October 21, 2015
The Outcast
A dark incident almost twenty years ago put Greg Torti on the sex offender registry for life. But the real story, he insists, is much more complicated.
Critters
October 21, 2015
Sanctuary City
Will border politics crush Mission’s attempt to brand itself as the butterfly capital of America before that dream takes wing?
Real Estate
October 20, 2015
Can You Afford to Live Here?
You know you’ve seen it: condos multiplying, home prices tripling, realtors scrambling, buyers overbidding. Does our state’s fevered real estate craze make us the country’s best housing market—or the most overvalued? I went on a tour of our four largest cities to find out.
Criminal Justice
October 20, 2015
Another Texas Exoneration Calls Bite Mark Evidence Into Question
Critics denounce this arm of forensic science as bogus and subjective.
Music
October 12, 2015
Music Monday: Shea Serrano On ‘The Rap Yearbook’ And His Houston Hip Hop Playlist
How the Houston-based writer went from ”this sounds super f—ing boring” to the author of a new book.
Food & Drink
September 17, 2015
Reign of Terroir
A decade and a half after I wrote about the poor quality of Texas wines for this magazine, Lone Star vintners are starting to turn heads.
Media
September 17, 2015
The Road to Damascus
In 2012 Austin Tice answered a calling: to become a war photographer and tell the world what was happening in Syria. But then he went missing.
The Culture
September 17, 2015
Green Acres
How did smog-breathing, gridlock-prone Houston become the newest natural wonder of the urban world?
Sports
September 14, 2015
I, Robot. You, Ball.
A group of UT computer scientists tries to program a team of machines to play soccer like the pros.
Politics & Policy
August 14, 2015
An Anarchist Icelander Walks Into a Texas University . . .
What can an anarchist from Iceland teach America about politics? More than some might think.
Sports
August 13, 2015
Mega Watt
He’s the best defensive player in the NFL but writes his own Christmas cards. He has thousands of fans who’d love to party, but he goes to bed at seven-thirty. He could be the league’s next MVP but enjoys buying his own groceries. Is Houston’s J. J. Watt for real?
Arts & Entertainment
August 13, 2015
Amor Prohibido
Twenty years after her death, who gets to love Selena (and how)?
Environment
August 13, 2015
Up in the Tower
The DuPont chemical plant in La Porte was once hailed as the safest around. Until the deaths of four workers exposed a darker truth.
Politics & Policy
July 23, 2015
Return to Cotulla
My family and their hometown helped change LBJ’s views on equal rights. Did his later policies change the reality for those in South Texas?
Environment
July 23, 2015
The Calm Before the Storm
Seven years since it was last ravaged by a hurricane, Galveston is doing as well as ever. Will it always be so fortunate?
Politics & Policy
July 22, 2015
The Agitator
He wasn’t diplomatic and he wasn’t subtle, but Curtis Graves forged a political path for black Texans—and altered history forever.
True Crime
June 16, 2015
The Talented Mr. Khater
In 2011 Callie Quinn moved from Austin to Chile to experience a new way of life. Then she met a charming fellow foreigner—and almost lost everything.
Religion
May 21, 2015
For the Mouth Speaks
Catherine Grove walked away from the Church of Wells last month. Now, she and the elders of the East Texas church explain why she left—and why she returned to the congregation that many call a cult.
Film & TV
May 14, 2015
‘Urban Cowboy’ Turns 35
It was part musical, part dance movie, and part love story, and in June 1980 it unleashed an unprecedented fervor for country music, Western wear, and, yes, mechanical bulls. More than three decades later, the film’s stars (including John Travolta, Debra Winger, Mickey Gilley, and Johnny Lee) and many Gilley’s regulars recall the movie that made America fall in love with Texas.
Critters
May 13, 2015
Our Toad to Ruin
Can we save our beloved ant-eating, blood-spurting, quickly disappearing state reptile?
Food & Drink
May 8, 2015
Rocky Road
For the first time in its history, Blue Bell is in a right sticky mess.
The Culture
April 10, 2015
Spring Breaking Away
How a trip to South Padre Island, a grand theft auto, and an English folk singer forever changed my life’s course.
Politics & Policy
March 18, 2015
Pistol Pushers
How a few gun rights activists hijacked the political debate over open carry.
Energy
March 4, 2015
Learning to Roughneck
Growing up in the Permian Basin, I thought I had a sense of what it was like working the oilfields. Turns out I didn’t know a damn thing.
The Culture
February 12, 2015
The Ultimate Real Housewife of Houston
Last summer, Theresa Roemer’s three-story closet made her the country’s most famous social climber. But she was only getting started.
Music
February 12, 2015
Plains Sound
Twenty-year-old Hayden Pedigo is making the most innovative, audacious music in the country. So why is he still in Amarillo?
Politics & Policy
February 6, 2015
To Love and to Cherish
In a 5–4 ruling on June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Constitution guarantees the right for same-sex couples to marry across the country. Here is the story of two women who fought for that historic decision in Texas—and helped to make it a reality.
The Daily Post
February 4, 2015
A Closer Look at the Texas High School Student-Teacher Sex Epidemic
In most states, as the old saying goes, fifteen will get you twenty. In Texas, twenty can get you twenty, if you are employed by a school district in any capacity.
Essay
January 14, 2015
My Brother’s Secret
Growing up in my family, there were things you just didn’t talk about. Like feelings. Or sex. Or dying from AIDS.
Politics & Policy
January 9, 2015
The Reformer
Texas’s criminal justice system has seen some staggering changes in the past decade. Thank Cathy Cochran.
The Culture
December 9, 2014
The Greatest Lawyer Who Ever Lived
He’s the brashest, most generous, most foul-mouthed trial attorney in the country. And at 89, Joe Jamail can still command a courtroom, mother%*!$#@.
True Crime
December 9, 2014
A Tree Is Known By Its Fruit
When the 85-year-old matriarch of a prominent pecan-farming clan in San Saba was murdered, her death shook the town—and exposed how obsession and greed can fell a family from within.
True Crime
November 13, 2014
Man on Fire
The Reverend Charles Moore ardently dedicated his life to the service of God and his fellow man. But when he couldn’t shake the thought that he hadn’t done enough, he drove to a desolate parking lot in his hometown of Grand Saline for one final act of faith.
Politics & Policy
November 5, 2014
Master of the Senate
The next lieutenant governor is a former radio shock jock who became one of the most conservative members of the Legislature. How will Dan Patrick act now that he is one of the most powerful officials in Texas?
National Magazine Award Nominee
August 12, 2014
The Witness
For more than a decade, Michelle Lyons’s job required her to watch condemned criminals be put to death. After 278 executions, she won't ever be the same.
Music
June 6, 2014
The Strings of the Father
How Johnny Gimble became one of the greatest fiddlers of all time—and showed me and my son a thing or two about playing music.
True Crime
May 9, 2014
“I Would Only Rob Banks for My Family”
Scott Catt was a single dad who held up banks to make ends meet. As his greed intensified, he knew just whom to enlist as accomplices: his kids.
True Crime
February 11, 2014
A Question of Mercy
In 1998 famously tough Montague County district attorney Tim Cole sent a teenager to prison for life for his part in a brutal murder. The punishment haunts him to this day.
Religion
January 10, 2014
Sinners in the Hands
Twenty-seven-year-old Catherine Grove is a member of a small, insular, and eccentric church in East Texas. Her parents think she’s being brainwashed. She insists she’s being saved.