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Texas Monthly 4/24 5:14A Dan Goodgame

No matter how enterprising its reporting may be, or how lyrical its writing, a magazine hasn t earned a spot on your coffee table unless its stories are enlivened with handsome photography and...

What the Bleep Is Going On With Texas Home Insurance?

Texas Monthly 4/24 3:00A Michael Hardy

My wife and I recently decided to buy our first home together. For the past two years, we ve been living in a two-bedroom townhouse in Houston s Montrose neighborhood that I purchased in 2021, when I...

It Doesn’t Get More Texas Than This New Food Hall and Market

Texas Monthly 4/23 9:10A Sandi Villarreal

Walking through San Antonio s new 40,000-square-foot specialty grocer and eatery, Pullman Market, I couldn t help but draw parallels to my first time visiting Eataly in New York s Flatiron District....

2024 Sold-Out Junior Symphony Ball With 2,700+ Guests Results In Record-Breaking $497,000 Check

My Sweet Charity 4/23 8:30A Jeanne Prejean

While North Texas high schoolers are getting ready for final exams and graduations, some of them have literally closed the books on the Dallas Symphony Orchestra League s (DSOL) 2024 Junior Symphony...

A Lonely Man, a Bizarre Billboard, and a Quest for Everlasting Love

Texas Monthly 4/23 5:32A Peter Holley

The smiling, geriatric face, plastered upon a twenty-foot-tall billboard, looms above a four-lane roadway on the edge of Sweetwater, Texas, a dusty 10,000-person town an hour west of Abilene. To the...

Auden Hits the Ball Out of Autry Park

Texas Monthly 4/23 5:00A Patricia Sharpe

Here s your Chicken 65, announced our server. We stared at the bowl, steam rising from the heap of golden brown nibbles of fried meat. You d expect to find the southern Indian snack in a casual...

The Artist Who Wonders What Creatures on Other Planets Will Think of Chuck Berry

Texas Monthly 4/23 5:00A Michael Agresta

Sprawled across the shag carpet in his San Antonio living room in 1979, six-year-old Dario Robleto was convinced that extraterrestrials had made contact with humankind. Robleto, home with a mild fever...

The Checklist: Three Reasons This Is a Great Month in Texas Culture

Texas Monthly 4/23 5:00A Josh Alvarez

FilmHit ManIn select theaters May 24 Loosely based on Skip Hollandsworth s 2001 Texas Monthly story of the same name, this romantic comedy/thriller stars Austin native Glen Powell as an amiable...

When It Comes to Texas Public Schools, Jesus Is Already in the Building

Texas Monthly 4/23 4:49A Bekah McNeel

The lunch hour at Harlandale Middle School, on San Antonio s South Side, is one of the only times during the school day students are allowed to use their phones. Between the streams of incoming...

Get Your Groove On at Levitt Pavilion Arlington's DreamFest 2024!

Mansfield BubbleLife iReporter 4/23 4:07A Saffie Farris

This weekend, Levitt Pavilion Arlington kicks off its season with DreamFest 2024, a two-day extravaganza of free music and fun! Friday Night Soul Food Unwind on Friday, April 26th, with a double dose...

Dine on Birria and Ceviche by the Sea at This Coastal Taco Truck

Texas Monthly 4/23 4:00A José R. Ralat

On a late February evening in 2023, the winds off the Gulf of Mexico turned the temperature in Corpus Christi from mild to teeth-chattering. Nevertheless, a friend and I were determined to cross...

Inside the Episode: Bonus Video for ‘Shane and Sally’ Episode 7

Texas Monthly 4/23 3:35A Texas Monthly

The final episode of Shane and Sally ties up whatever loose ends are capable of being tied. But as Karen and Rob discuss in this closing interview, not all the questions have been answered. They...

Fighting a Syphilis Surge in Houston

Texas Monthly 4/23 3:00A Carrie Arnold

Like so many of Dr. Irene Stafford s impoverished and unhoused patients, the twentysomething woman showed up, in labor, at the Houston hospital having received no formal prenatal care. Stafford, a...

I Biked 165 Miles Behind the Pine Curtain of East Texas

Texas Monthly 4/23 3:00A Morgan O'Hanlon

On a damp March morning, I strapped bags full of camping gear to the frame of my gravel bike and joined about 250 cyclists for the fourth annual East Texas Showdown, one of the state s biggest and...

The Ghost Wolves of Galveston Versus Margaritaville

Texas Monthly 4/23 3:00A Forrest Wilder

Bridgett vonHoldt was grabbing lunch at Viet Cajun, a restaurant on the Galveston Island Seawall, when a chatty local approached her. The man had pegged her and her group, correctly, as...