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Exploring the Cosmos at Space Center Houston and Beyond
In Houston the other day, children outfitted with virtual reality goggles were careering through the universe when an elderly man stopped to admire the world’s largest pallasite, a type of meteorite....
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The Texas Roadside Photographer Who Finds Beauty in the Banal
Texans have an insatiable thirst for the photos of (you guessed it) Texas. Lucky for us, we’re living in a golden age of Lone Star imagery. Just look at Instagram, where many of the state’s most...
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Rich With History, Brownsville Steps Into the Future
The farther afield you venture from our urban bastions, the more likely you are to encounter folks who feel that their patch of the Lone Star State is unappreciated, misunderstood, or ignored. You hear...
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When ‘Angels in America’ Came to East Texas
Raymond Caldwell finished reading the play that would nearly ruin his life on an early August night in 1999. He reached the last line and sat back in his recliner, which overlooked the backyard garden...
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The 12 Most Dangerous Critters in Texas
Forget heart disease and cancer and all the other tragic or banal ways most of us will exit this world of the living. Instead, seek distraction via our completely unscientific and by no means...
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Can the Bobwhite Quail Be Saved?
It’s a late September morning and opening day for the northern bobwhite quail is still weeks away, but Ronald Kendall is already on the hunt for the once ubiquitous game bird, known to its aficionados...
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A Procrastinator’s Guide to Free (or Cheap) Public Hunts in Texas
Opening day for whitetail deer, somehow not a state holiday, is just days away on November 2. Most Texas hunters will have long ago figured out their plans for deer season. Many will be readying the...
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A Final Toast to the Quirkiest Little Dive Bar in the Piney Woods
The best bartender in Texas—or, at any rate, the only one I knew by name—lived until Sunday in a small room once occupied by a pool table at Ray Gene’s It’ll Do Tavern, in Longview. Ray Armstrong,...
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The Lost Texans of the Louisiana Pines
To see the first capital of Texas, you’ll have to leave the state. If you time your visit right, you can join the multitudes who gather for the annual presentation of the royal court of the tamale...
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Feral Hogs Are Invading Yankeeland. Northern Friends, Here’s What You Need to...
Dear Yankee, The South has fallen. Apparently so has Canada. Now an invading army of feral hogs is threatening to come for you. Trust us, we’ve seen the worst down here in Texas. When the hogs arrive...
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How Fishing in Texas Got So Good—and Kind of Weird
On sunny days less than a mile south of the Texas Capitol, an armada of kayaks and paddleboards often paints a multicolored scene of tranquility on Lady Bird Lake. While fewer pleasure-boaters are...
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Kayak Fishing 101: What You’ll Need
So you’re ready to plunge deeper into fishing? Maybe your hometown lake is calling your name, or you’re an adventurous sort who wants to paddle a remote river like the Pecos, or the Neches. Enter kayak...
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The Great Texas Fishing Safari
The shark attacked before Eric “Oz” Ozolins even finished putting out his baits. For an hour or so, Ozolins had been bobbing in his orange kayak, ferrying chunks of stingray four hundred yards off...
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How a Battle Between Recreational and Commercial Fishermen Spawned a...
On fall and winter nights through the better part of the twentieth century, Rudy Grigar would wade into Galveston Bay and listen to the roar of the redfish. Swimming in schools up to five hundred...
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Strong as Grass: A Year After a Devastating Tornado, the Caddo Nation...
Phil Cross was ten or twelve years old when he first heard his elders reminisce about the grass houses their people used to live in. Cross was transfixed. The old structures looked sort of like...
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For Years, an East Texas Carpenter Has Been Building a Gothic Contraption of...
Because it was involved in so much of the state’s early history, San Augustine calls itself the Main Street of the Texas Republic. Platted in 1833 deep in what is now called the Piney Woods, the town...
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The Surprising Story of How Salt Has Helped Shape Texas
The most peculiar natural spring in Texas is saltier than the Dead Sea and deeper than anybody knows. Called the Estelline Salt Springs, it wells up from underneath the reddish surface of the Texas...
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Meet the Unruly Clan That Once Ruled the Hill Country
Today, expensive homes dot the hills of Austin’s western fringe. But there was a time, not so long ago, when respectable townspeople avoided the highlands just outside the city. There, along the...
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Airbnb for the Outdoor Set
Sure, you could drop a few hundred bucks to “camp” in a luxury tree house or air-conditioned yurt, but for many Texans camping still means roughing it outdoors. However, securing a site at a state or...
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Meet the Carrion-Craving Falcon That’s Taking Over Texas
Heads up, Texans. The crested caracaras are coming for your roadkill. The caracara is a beautiful and fierce-looking falcon that ranges throughout Latin America and into the southern tip of the United...
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