Chapter 14: The Night Before the Battle
Editors’ note: The character who kills Dracula at the end of Bram Stoker’s classic novel is Quincey Morris, a Texan who does the job with a bowie knife. Our serialized novel tells his story—a...
Will Anyone Be Punished for What Happened in Uvalde?
On Wednesday, after a three-week trial and seven hours of deliberations, a jury found former Uvalde school officer Adrian Gonzales not guilty of 29 counts of abandoning or endangering children. Gonzal...
Photos: What Crews Found When They Drained the San Antonio River
Last November, one brave (or foolish?) woman took a dip in the murky waters of the San Antonio River to search for her dropped phone, earning a nearly unanimous reaction of disgust from passersby and ...
A Prepper’s Guide to Surviving the Winter Storm
During Texas’s 2021 “snowpocalypse,” Paul Martin fared better than most. In his yard stood a 31,000-gallon rainwater tank, shaped like a twelve-foot-tall silo, and a generator capable of powerin...
Behind the Fight for the Throne at the Texas Renaissance Festival
The Texas Renaissance Festival, in the woods northwest of Houston, is the nation’s largest attraction of its kind by attendance, drawing half a million visitors each year to a bygone fantasy land of...