Meet the 71-Year-Old Texan Who Broke a Big Record on a Tiny Boat
Robert Youens left Pensacola, Florida, in a sixteen-foot aluminum johnboat at 7:31 a.m. on July 12, with the goal of navigating America’s Great Loop as fast as he could. Roughly 4,800 miles, 64 lock...
How ‘King of the Hill’ Popularized a Less Cartoonish Vision of Texas
For a dozen years, the animated TV sitcom King of the Hill worked to shake Hollywood from its habit of depicting Texas as a fantasyland of cowboys and oilmen. Its original run ended in 2009, but now t...
Why Fire Ants Are Even More Evil Than You Thought
Texas has plenty of native things that can potentially hurt us, like scorpions and coyotes and, well, lawmakers, so the last thing we needed was a hostile carpetbagger from out of state. But in the 19...