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 ...
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 ...
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...
Texas’s Best New Restaurants in 2025
Is it our imagination or are Texas restaurants more, well, imaginative than ever? On our visit to an idiosyncratic spot in the Gulf Coast town of Kemah, we were treated to billowing dry ice, a blowtor...