West Texas Oil Field Workers Have a New Favorite BBQ Joint
David Holbrook was just reelected mayor of Kermit. He’s held the position in the small West Texas town near the New Mexico border since 2022, but it’s just one of his day jobs. The other is runnin...
“We’re Open for Business. And We’re Still Healing.”
On July 4, Vinny Mifsud was only halfway through his first season running GlowRow kayak tours from his property at the foot of the Sidney Baker Bridge, in Kerrville. His small, clear, fiberglass water...
Texas’s Best New Art Museum Is Hiding in a Small Hill Country Town
On opening day at Arthouse, a new museum in Marble Falls, modern art collectors (and owners) Jeanne and Mickey Klein stood in its gallery, discussing the aesthetics of limestone. The architect on the ...
Why Greg Abbott Spent a Week Bullying the City of Grand Prairie
In the day-to-day, the churn of politics in Texas consists of events and proclamations that seem, taken on their own, nonsensical. But put deranged events together, and quite often, by some strange ad...
The True Story of “the Wickedest Town in Texas”
Adapted from Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas by Joe Pappalardo, by permission of St. Martin’s Publishing Group. Frequent Texas Monthly contributor Joe Pappalardo’s rollicki...