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Sepsis Kills Millions Each Year. This UT-Dallas Device Aims to Stop That.
Fourteen years ago in Birwadi, a town of less than 10,000 in west-central India, Ambalika Tanak’s grandmother suffered a heart attack. But her doctors didn’t know it. The 72-year-old’s symptoms were...
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Joshua Ray Walker’s Music Is a Vivid Portrait of Working-class Life in Dallas
Three minutes into his song “Voices,” Joshua Ray Walker summons an astonishing falsetto. As it rings out, his face contorts into a grimace, as if reaching these notes takes something out of him. Even...
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The Texanist: Why Do I Get So Many Robocalls From Small Texas Towns?
Q: I love small-town Texas, but I’ve recently noticed that the majority of spam calls I get on my cellphone come from numbers in small or even tiny Texas towns like Granger, Mentone, Sour Lake, and so...
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The History of the Paloma, Summer’s Simplest Cocktail
The margarita may be one of the most popular cocktails among American tourists visiting Mexican resorts, but it’s not actually the most beloved cocktail in Mexico. Some uninformed cocktail lovers might...
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Benji Is One Down Dog
Benji has the square, earnest jaw of a high school quarterback who’s about to win state. His eyes are the rich, liquid brown of a half-melted chocolate bar. His distinguished salt-and-pepper fur is...
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Hot Pants, Love Potions, and the Go-go Genesis of Southwest Airlines
Go-go boots clattered across the tarmac as a group of young women scrambled into place at Dallas’s Love Field airport. The boss wanted a photograph. “Okay, girls,” said Lamar Muse, the president of...
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2021: The Best and Worst Legislators
Since 1973, our biennial list of the best and worst legislators has tried to make the chicanery (and occasional valor) of the Texas Legislature a little more visible through brief portraits of the...
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Frosty Paletas Put Summer’s Heat on Ice
San AntonioPaleteria La Flor de MichoacánOf the many culinary contributions made by the state of Michoacán (carnitas among them), the infinitely variable paleta is undoubtedly the crowd-pleaser....
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A Forgotten Burial Site in Presidio Tells the Story of a Disappearing Border...
The little hillock in Presidio does not look like a cemetery. The place is surrounded by modest houses stuccoed white, peach, or gray, and a lone line of wire strung on T-posts is all that demarcates...
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Texas Parks by Horseback Offer a Whole Other View
Clattering hooves, swishing tails, and high-pitched whinnies have enlivened the soundtrack to the story of Texas since Spanish explorers first brought horses here in the 1500s. Pickup trucks and...
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Seven Outstanding Parks for Riding or Renting Horses
Many equestrians like to take their horses to the wide prairies or acres of hills on public lands across the state, both for a change of scenery and for training. Twenty state parks allow horseback...
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How I Came to Love My Grandma’s “Ugly” SAS Shoes
Because my grandmother Rosemary was born during the Great Depression, she thought it was ridiculous to spend money on new, fancy clothing when she could stop by a thrift shop and pay $5 for a used,...
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Meanwhile, in Texas: A Woman Fed Flamin’ Hot Cheetos to Monkeys at the Zoo
A faculty member called campus security to remove a peacock that was blocking the entrance to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. A woman climbed into an enclosure at the El...
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Dining Guide: Highlights From Our July 2021 Issue
Texas Monthly adds and updates approximately sixty restaurant listings to our Dining Guide each month. There’s limited space in the print issue, but the entire searchable guide to the best of Texas...
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Houston’s Luminare Crunches Medical Data to Save Lives
Sarma Velamuri, an internal medicine doctor in Houston, has seen hundreds die from sepsis, but no case hit him as hard as the death of a friend’s 22-year-old daughter. She’d been admitted to his...
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San Antonio, After All That
Because I am from San Antonio, where preserving the past is almost a religion, I am pretty good at the game of What Used to Be. I can tell you, for instance, what used to be where the Fuddruckers now...
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The Resurrection of Bass Reeves
The story begins in 1884, on a stormy day in June. Two men on horseback are traveling through the Chickasaw Nation, in what is today southern Oklahoma, moving southwest among the timbered hills and...
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Debut Novelist Kelsey McKinney on Losing Her Religion and Leaving Texas
Over the last seven years, Kelsey McKinney has made a name for herself as a journalist by writing insightful stories about pretty much anything. Sports, music, and food are her bread and butter, but...
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Houston’s El Topo Is Not Your Everyday Taqueria
Gingerly I lifted the edge of the soft, thick blue-corn tortilla and peered inside. Tucked within its steamy depths was nothing I’d seen in a Texas taco: three kinds of mushrooms—lion’s mane, chestnut,...
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Roar of the Crowd: July 2021
The Power of BooksI enjoyed Skip Hollandsworth’s remembrance of Larry McMurtry [“The Larry I Knew,” May 2021], so I want to share this story. I grew up in Waco in the fifties and sixties. In 1990 I...
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