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What the Heck Is on Our March Cover?
There are approximately 42 Emilys who work at Texas Monthly. People get exasperated around here when you say just “Emily.” Which one? For the sake of clarity, the Emilys tend to be referred to by ...

Roar of the Crowd: March 2025
’Xecutive Priv’lujIn our January 2025 issue, the Texanist advised on the appropriate protocol for two vehicles attempting to navigate a one-lane low-water crossing from opposite ends. A reader res...

Adrian Quesada on the Flamenco Heart of Willie Nelson’s ‘Teatro’
Adrian Quesada is one of those people who doesn’t much like to sit still, at least not artistically. When he encounters something he digs, be it a song or a musical style, he likes to take it apart,...

After Elon Musk Fired Her, She Kept Showing Up to Work—for Free
Bianca Sicich isn’t ready to let go of the prairie just yet. It’s the last Friday of February, the first green shoots of spring emerging from the overwintering tall grass, and she’s up early to ...

Diabetes Ravaged His Family. Now He’s Working to Spare Others in the Rio Grande Valley.
One of the fourth graders has diabetes, the school librarian tells David Ceron, who is getting ready backstage. It’s not the first time a young student attending one of Ceron’s presentations has h...

Basketball Referees Dream of Making It to the Final Four, Too
Working Life is a monthly column in which Texans talk about their jobs. Tommy Johnson, who is 43, is a Division I men’s basketball referee from Murphy, in North Texas. Last year he worked his first...

How to Eat at the Houston Rodeo Like an Expert
The first time I remember going to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was when I was four years old. I wore brown and pink square-toe boots with a matching ruffled skirt; gorged on all the foods my ...

The Guy Who Wants to Engineer Woolly Mammoths Has Engineered . . . Something
The two mice on display in Colossal Bioscience’s Dallas headquarters are noticeably woolly, covered in leonine tufts of light hair. Otherwise, they appear to be regular, albeit fancy and Disney-like...

Texas Monthly Taco Fests Unveil 2025 Taco Lineups
Texas Monthly is bringing the ultimate taco experience to Grand Prairie and Houston with its highly anticipated first-ever taco festivals: Taco Fest North and Taco Fest South. On Thursday, February 27...

Wait, Did El Paso Really Change the World?
Editors’ note: Richard Parker, the author of The Crossing, died just after the book’s release and soon after this review was published. Since, well, forever, outsiders have failed to recognize th...