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December 14, 2023
From the Editor: Our New TV Star
Veteran video storyteller J. B. Sauceda will now roam the back roads as the host of Texas Country Reporter.
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November 16, 2023
Roar of the Crowd: December 2023
Reader letters published in our December 2023 issue.
Giving Back
November 15, 2023
From the Editor: The Good News
The latest issue of Texas Monthly features more than the usual number of Texans committing creative acts of altruism.
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October 18, 2023
Editor’s Letter: Our Food Team
A celebration of beloved neighborhood restaurants—and the many folks who cover food for Texas Monthly.
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October 18, 2023
Roar of the Crowd: November 2023
Reader letters published in our November 2023 issue.
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September 13, 2023
Texas Monthly’s New Look
Starting in this issue, you’ll find visual delight from the first page to the last—and a whole new section.
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September 13, 2023
Roar of the Crowd: October 2023
Reader letters published in our October 2023 issue.
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August 30, 2023
August 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn?
A Texas Monthly reader quiz, based on all the stories in our August 2023 issue.
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August 16, 2023
Roar of the Crowd: September 2023
Reader letters published in our September 2023 issue.
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July 24, 2023
July 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn?
A Texas Monthly reader quiz, based on all the stories in our July 2023 issue.
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July 19, 2023
Roar of the Crowd: August 2023
Reader letters published in our August 2023 issue.
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July 19, 2023
The Story Behind Senior Editor Ben Rowen’s Unusual Beat: Longboards and Legislators
He’s surfed in Waco, skied in College Station, and braved a karaoke bar where Texas lawmakers serenaded one another.
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June 21, 2023
Meet Executive Editor Michael Hall: Rock Star, Award-Winning Journalist, and a New Documentary’s Leading Man
Decades of his dogged reporting are receiving well-deserved recognition.
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June 21, 2023
Roar of the Crowd: July 2023
Reader letters published in our July 2023 issue.
Stephenville
June 13, 2023
Announcing Our New Podcast, ‘Stephenville’
A new true crime podcast from Texas Monthly, coming June 20.
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May 17, 2023
How Texas Monthly Went Hollywood
Meet our executive producer Megan Creydt, who’s shepherding dozens of the magazine’s stories to the silver screen.
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May 17, 2023
Roar of the Crowd: June 2023
Reader letters published in our June 2023 issue.
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April 12, 2023
Behind the Scenes of Our Lively New Hotel Package
Meet Texas Monthly executive editor (and travel and lifestyle guru) Kathy Blackwell.
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April 12, 2023
Roar of the Crowd: May 2023
Reader letters published in our May 2023 issue.
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March 29, 2023
March 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn?
You’ve had all month to read the latest issue of Texas Monthly. Take this monthly quiz and we’ll tell you how you stack up at the end.And if you got this quiz from a friend: Hello! We hope you enjoy it. If you do: become a subscriber today, and we’ll send
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March 15, 2023
Roar of the Crowd: April 2023
Reader letters published in our April 2023 issue.
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March 15, 2023
The Creative Whiz Behind Our Award-Winning Photography
Meet Texas Monthly’s photo editor, Claire Hogan.
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February 28, 2023
February 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn?
You’ve had all month to read the latest issue of Texas Monthly. Take this monthly quiz and we’ll tell you how you stack up at the end.And if you got this quiz from a friend: Hello! We hope you enjoy it. If you do: become a subscriber today, and we’ll send
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February 15, 2023
Roar of the Crowd: March 2023
Reader letters published in our March 2023 issue.
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February 15, 2023
Meet the Writer Behind Our March Cover Story
Mimi Swartz’s latest epic is a must-read tale of a decades-long attempt to sabotage Texas’s public schools.
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January 30, 2023
January 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn?
You’ve had all month to read the latest issue of Texas Monthly. Take this monthly quiz and we’ll tell you how you stack up at the end.And if you got this quiz from a friend: Hello! We hope you enjoy it. If you do: become a subscriber today, and we’ll send
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January 27, 2023
An Author Believed Elon Musk Would Benefit Brownsville. Not Anymore.
National Book Award finalist Domingo Martinez was optimistic about Musk and SpaceX in 2016. Now, he says, “it feels like we sold our souls.”
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January 26, 2023
An Unforgettable Texas Tale of Envy, Embezzlement, and Fruitcake
The writer of an oddball 2016 crime story recalls emailing with an accountant who skimmed $17 million from Corsicana’s Collin Street Bakery.
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January 25, 2023
The True-Crime Classic That Inspired HBO Max’s Forthcoming ‘Love & Death’
In reporting how Candy Montgomery came to murder her lover’s wife, the authors recall trying to capture a “time and place in Texas history.”
Texas Icons
January 17, 2023
How to Keep a Great Magazine Going
When I started writing for Texas Monthly in 1973, I didn’t expect it to last very long. But it’s still here, five decades later.
Texas Icons
January 17, 2023
The Birth of Texas Monthly Is a Very Texan Story
On the occasion of our fiftieth anniversary, we reflect on how far we’ve come—and where we’re headed.
Texas Icons
January 17, 2023
How to Create a Great Magazine Out of Thin Air
Fifty years ago, Texas Monthly was little more than an idea dreamt up by a local lawyer with minimal experience in journalism. Then it was an actual thing. How did that happen?
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January 12, 2023
Three Decades Later, It’s Still Unclear What Killed Tommy Earl Haynes
The career criminal was found dead after a two-day manhunt in East Texas. A writer recalls reporting on the circumstances of Haynes’s death.
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December 20, 2022
Once Upon a Time, “Southwestern Cuisine” Was a Movement
A writer remembers how a chance conversation at a food festival led to her classic 2014 oral history on Southwestern cuisine.
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December 14, 2022
Roar of the Crowd: January 2023
Reader letters published in our January 2023 issue.
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December 14, 2022
The Making of Our New Podcast, ‘White Hats’
Meet the folks behind our latest audio project, which grapples with the complicated legacy of the Texas Rangers.
Music
December 13, 2022
A George Strait Song Was the First Music I Played for My Son. Here’s Why.
The author of a 2014 Texas Monthly profile of King George explains why it was among the few stories in his career that made him cry while writing.
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November 28, 2022
November 2022 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn?
You’ve had all month to read the latest issue of Texas Monthly. How much can you remember?
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November 28, 2022
The Writer Behind an Enduring Portrait of West Texas Life
Sterry Butcher on the path that led her to move to Marfa and find God “in the details” while writing about rural Texas.
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November 21, 2022
The Exoneration of Anthony Graves Still Resonates
Pamela Colloff reflects on her 2010 story about the shoddy police work and prosecutorial misconduct that put an innocent man on death row.
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November 17, 2022
From the Editor: Meet Our Award-Winning Creative Director
Go behind the scenes with the inventive force shaping our photography and design.
Sports
November 16, 2022
Most Sports Figures Were “Paranoid Assholes” to This Writer. Mike Leach was “Fabulous.”
Author S. C. Gwynne calls his 2009 profile of the pirate-obsessed former Texas Tech coach part of the “golden era” of his journalism career.
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November 16, 2022
Roar of the Crowd: December 2022
Reader letters published in our December 2022 issue.
Film & TV
November 11, 2022
In 1974, “Texas” was the Dirtiest Word in ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’
John Bloom, a.k.a. Joe Bob Briggs, discusses his 2004 opus on the making of the slasher classic and the New York bias against a Texas original.
White Hats
November 10, 2022
Announcing Our New Podcast, ‘White Hats’
Coming November 15, a tale of the Texas Rangers . . . and a battle for the soul of Texas.
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October 31, 2022
October 2022 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn?
You’ve had all month to read the latest issue of Texas Monthly. How much can you remember?
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October 25, 2022
Skip Hollandsworth Recalls “the Most Moving Story of My Career”
The Texas Monthly writer reflects on the run-down home that led him to write “Still Life,” about John McClamrock, the boy who could not move.
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October 19, 2022
From the Editor: Top Chefs
Meet the editors and writers behind our award-winning food coverage.
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October 19, 2022
Roar of the Crowd: November 2022
Reader letters published in our November 2022 issue.
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October 13, 2022
A Writer’s Close Call While Reporting on the Ciudad Juárez Femicides
A man approached Cecilia Ballí and asked, “Are you looking for work?” It shook her—and helped her grasp the danger in early-aughts Juárez.