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August 30, 2017
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May 24, 2017
Texas Monthly Wins Big at the City and Regional Magazine Awards
We snagged seven awards at the City and Regional Magazine Awards.
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October 20, 2016
Power to the People
A sneak peek at the fascinating folks in the November 2016 issue of Texas Monthly.
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October 13, 2016
‘Texas Monthly’ Has a New Owner
Paul Hobby, who runs the Houston-based private equity firm Genesis Park, takes the reins of the venerable publication.
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September 16, 2016
What You See Is What You Gaines
Photographer Jeff Wilson on the making of the October cover with Chip and Joanna Gaines.
Art
February 19, 2016
Making a Mural
How do you depict the "new Austin" on a magazine cover? By painting a mural on South Congress and photographing it, of course.
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December 17, 2015
And the Bum Steer of 2016 Is…
Blue Bell put its competition in the deep freeze and took home the dubious award.
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October 30, 2015
The Mineola Child Sex Case Gets the Movie Treatment
”Booger Red,” a film by Berndt Mader and based on a Texas Monthly story, premieres at the Austin Film Festival.
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October 19, 2015
Introducing Texas Monthly Trove
Revisiting the archives, including our greatest hits, the obscure b-sides, and everything in between.
Sports
August 14, 2015
The Watt Age
A peek at our September cover, featuring Houston's favorite new hometown hero.
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August 5, 2015
Refreshing Texasmonthly.com
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But feel free to give it a new coat of paint.
Music
June 19, 2015
Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett on the Front Porch
The two musicians, featured on our July cover, talk about Texas’s rich songwriting history and their place in it.
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May 21, 2015
Looking For Love in Magazine Pages
Our June issue, featuring a look back at Urban Cowboy 35 years after its premiere, is on newsstands and texasmonthly.com.
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April 20, 2015
Big Bend in High Def
A taste of the majestic vistas Big Bend National Park has to offer.
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February 13, 2015
March Cover Sneak Peek: The New Faces of Marriage in Texas?
An inside look at Pamela Colloff’s cover story on the fight for marriage equality.
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December 28, 2014
Texas Monthly’s Most Popular Longreads of 2014
Revisit (or devour for the first time) Texas Monthly’s fifteen most-read longform stories of 2014.
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December 10, 2014
And the Bum Steer of the Year Is . . .
Hey, Senator Davis! Congratulations! The results are in, and you and the Democrats won by a landslide!
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December 10, 2014
Guess Who Our Bum Steer of the Year Is
Take your shots before the big reveal tomorrow.
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November 20, 2014
Happiness Isn’t a Destination
Unless it's one of the places featured in our December issue cover story.
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November 18, 2014
A Sneak Peek of our December Cover: Destination Dining
Ten far-flung places to get a great meal and a good night's rest.
Bum Steers
November 5, 2014
Can You Bum a Steer?
So you think you can write a Bum Steer headline.
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August 15, 2014
Steve Patterson, UT’s New Athletic Director, on Student-Athletes Profiting From Their Name and Likeness
In a preview of our September cover, Patterson says college players shouldn't be able to monetize their famous names.
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July 21, 2014
What’s Your Favorite Place in Texas?
Thirteen famous Texans showed us theirs. Now we want to see yours.
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July 8, 2014
Meet Our New Editor-in-Chief
We are beyond thrilled to announce that Brian D. Sweany now holds the top job at Texas Monthly.
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June 19, 2014
First We Said Goodbye to George
Now it's time to see off another pillar in the Texas community: our governor. A look into our July issue, featuring Rick Perry on the cover.
Politics & Policy
June 9, 2014
Rick Perry Exits the Stage
Our July cover features Rick Perry, who is wrapping up his historic tenure as governor of Texas.
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May 14, 2014
Our George Strait Cover
How our creative director captured a moment all Strait fans will know and love.
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April 29, 2014
Farewell, King George
We tip our hat to the King of Country, George Strait.
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April 24, 2014
Let’s Go on a Trip Together
Through the magical wonderland that is the May 2014 issue.
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March 17, 2014
Examining a 31-Year-Old Murder Case
This week, we will publish a 25,000-word story, the result of an in-depth investigation into the 1982 Lake Waco murders, one of the most confounding criminal cases in Texas history.
Bum Steers
December 18, 2013
At Least the Steer Was Anatomically Correct
Yeah, we blew it. Our January 2014 Bum Steers cover shows the wrong Astros uniform. So we'll be the first to admit that we deserve a bum steer.
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December 16, 2013
Tenacious P Strikes Again
A remarkable and richly deserved award for Pam Colloff
Politics & Policy
September 20, 2013
A Sneak Peek at Our October Cover
A firearm. A wheelchair. And quite possibly, the next governor of Texas.
Sports
August 13, 2013
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane…
Why we put Johnny Manziel on the cover as a superhero.
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May 17, 2013
And Now, Some BBQ Saber-Rattling
Our June issue, which comes out next week, will settle once and for all the question of Texas BBQ v. all other forms of BBQ.
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May 14, 2013
Playing with Barbecue Sauce
Creating an edible logo.
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May 13, 2013
Sneak Peek At Our June Cover
Possibly the tastiest one this magazine has ever created.
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May 3, 2013
Big Night at the National Magazine Awards
Executive editors Pamela Colloff and Mimi Swartz win two of our industry's top prizes.
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April 2, 2013
Texas Monthly Nominated for Four National Magazine Awards
The American Society of Magazine Editors announced its nominees for National Magazine Awards yesterday. And the National Magazine of Texas did pretty well.
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February 20, 2013
A Mighty Collaboration
The story from our March issue about the case of Andre Thomas is the fruit of an exciting collaboration with our pals at the Texas Tribune.
Sports
February 15, 2013
Sneak Peek at Our March Cover
Lance is back. Why? And how did we get the story?
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February 8, 2013
Commenting on texasmonthly.com
How to do it and what our policy is.
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January 31, 2013
Welcome to the New National Home Page of Texas
Forty years ago, as the very first issue of Texas Monthly was being put together by Bill Broyles & Co., Life magazine folded. Though it would later resume publication (before finally folding again in 2007), and though it continues on today as a pretty
Politics & Policy
January 20, 2013
Behind the Lines
Something special.
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January 20, 2013
Behind the Lines
TALK OF CHANGE AND REFORM has been in the air since the Sharpstown scandals more than perhaps at any time in our state’s history. Such talk is welcome, and, as most of us apparently felt in the last elections, mandatory. One imagines that talk of reform came as uncomfortably, but
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April 30, 1999
Small Talk
ISSUES LIKE YOUR LATEST, “The Best of Small-Town Texas” [March 1999], are why we moved back to Texas.Gary SalyerArlingtonI CANNOT IMAGINE LIVING ANYWHERE ELSE but Hico. I love this town. Everything you said about small towns is so right. The ambience makes up for the lack of malls.Anita MuellerHicoYOUR
Film & TV
November 1, 1998
Looking for Love
‘Urban Cowboy’ rides again.
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May 31, 1998
Our Willie
Singing Willie Nelson's praises; neddling a former drug user.
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May 31, 1998
Witt and Wisdom
BILL WITTLIFF IS A RENAISSANCE hombre. An author, a publisher, a film producer, and an arts patron, the longtime Austinite is best known for his screenplays, including The Black Stallion, Raggedy Man, Legends of the Fall, and Lonesome Dove; his adaptation of the latter revived both the miniseries and the
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May 31, 1998
Brave and Selfless
Crime in Mexico hits home.