A Weekend in the Biggest Antiques Playground in Texas
I had barely taken a bite of breakfast when the interrogation began. I’d ordered myself a sausage, egg, and cheese taco at Round Top Coffee Shop, housed in a quaint green cabin right off the main dr...
A Famed Austin Pitmaster Starts His Redemption Arc
For better and worse, Churchrow Tejas BBQ is not Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ. Churchrow’s kitchen is helmed by Miguel Vidal, the former owner, chef, and pitmaster of Valentina’s, a groundbreaking jo...
He Went With Ken!
The news that President Donald Trump would weigh in on the Texas GOP Senate runoff, bestowing life or death on his loyal gladiators Ken Paxton and John Cornyn with a flick of his thumb, came as a surp...
A New Nolan Ryan Book Just Came Out. Its Author Has a Theory.
I saw Nolan Ryan pitch in the summer of 1989. Months earlier, after spending 22 seasons with the New York Mets, the California Angels, and the Houston Astros, he had signed with the Texas Rangers for ...
We Have Found a New Way to Stuff a Jalapeño
Texans love to stuff jalapeños. The classic version, of course, is the jalapeño popper, in which the pepper is filled with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon—it’s so common you can get poppers pr...