It Doesn’t Get More Texas Than This New Food Hall and Market
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 Distr...
A Lonely Man, a Bizarre Billboard, and a Quest for Everlasting Love
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 r...
Auden Hits the Ball Out of Autry Park
“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 cas...
The Checklist: Three Reasons This Is a Great Month in Texas Culture
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 pro...
Dine on Birria and Ceviche by the Sea at This Coastal Taco Truck
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 Birri...
Inside the Episode: Bonus Video for ‘Shane and Sally’ Episode 7
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 ret...
Fighting a Syphilis Surge in Houston
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 m...