The Internet Can’t Stop Talking About the Chili’s “Booth Boots”
Chili’s contains multitudes. The Dallas-based chain isn’t just the home of the Triple Dipper or a place where hungry suburbanites can come as they are and dine on sizzling fajitas. With its new �...
Help the Family in Our Guadalupe River Flooding Story Help Others
At Texas Monthly, we cover the breadth of the human experience in our state. Our stories involve triumph, hardship, and sometimes tragic loss. Such themes often inspire heartfelt messages from readers...
The Story: The Last Ninepin Bowling Clubs in America
Editor’s note: This segment first appeared on ‘Texas Monthly Presents,” a television program airing on Texas PBS stations and on PBS.org. Fewer than twenty places in the United States, all of th...
August 2025 Pit Perks
TM BBQ Club “Pit Perks” are exclusive perks and discounts that Texas Monthly’s network of barbecue joints generously offer to members like you each month. Proof of membership is required to rede...
San Antonio’s Ex-Mayor Doesn’t Mind if You Think He’s Boring
After eight years, four elections, hundreds of protests, and a pandemic, Ron Nirenberg walked out of San Antonio’s city hall as mayor for the last time on June 18. Once referred to as “Liberal Ron...
Texas Monthly and Texas Book Festival Announce a New Book Club
For decades, Texas Monthly has partnered with Texas Book Festival, the state’s premier literary event, serving as a media sponsor and regularly participating in the festival’s programming. Now we�...
‘King of the Hill’ Always Got the Texas Sky Exactly Right
This story is part of “The Hills Are Alive,” a tribute to King of the Hill that appears in Texas Monthly’s August issue. See why the animated series is the most significant work of Texan culture...
The Unbearable Weight of Being Arch Manning
It’s Christmas at the Manning house, a stately, foursquare affair with gray shutters and an immaculately trimmed lawn nestled among the live oaks, double porches, and Greek Revival columns of fashio...