Roar of the Crowd: May 2025
Your Second OpinionsIn a month of truly varied feedback, two pieces of commentary caught our attention most. Both concer...
How You, Too, Can Become a Pepper Deity
There are two kinds of gardeners. First we have the laissez-faire growers who prize plants that thrive when ignored. These are succulent people, well-adjusted and simple. Then there are the gardeners ...
Seltzers Just Might Make It Out of Texas’s THC Takedown Alive
Two years ago, I wrote about how THC-infused seltzers were sweeping the state, with pioneers such as Dripping Springs’ Tejas Tonic and Houston’s Bayou City Hemp Company getting into the game. Sinc...
Very Well, I Shall Be the CEO of Tesla
Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that a month earlier, the Tesla board of directors had begun looking for a successor to the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk—presumably someone not ...
Even Astronauts Get the Blues
Working Life is a monthly column in which Texans talk about their jobs. Alexandra Whitmire, fifty, works at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where she studies how prolonged isolation and confinement mi...
If You’re Out in West Texas, Put Hoodoos on Your List of To-Dos
The Detours series celebrates lesser-known locales worth visiting across the state. Walking among the weird spires of rock that sprout like giant mushrooms in Big Bend Ranch State Park feels like wa...
How Root Beer, an American Favorite, Became a Staple in Sonora
It was approaching 100 degrees in Hermosillo, the capital of Mexican border state Sonora, in mid-April, and it wasn’t even noon. Tucked in the sparse corridors of an open-air market called Tianguis ...