It Doesn’t Get More Texas Than This New Food Hall and Market

Texas Monthly 4/23 9:10A Sandi Villarreal

Walking through San Antonio s new 40,000-square-foot specialty grocer and eatery, Pullman Market, I couldn t help but draw parallels to my first time visiting Eataly in New York s Flatiron District....

2024 Sold-Out Junior Symphony Ball With 2,700+ Guests Results In Record-Breaking $497,000 Check

My Sweet Charity 4/23 8:30A Jeanne Prejean

While North Texas high schoolers are getting ready for final exams and graduations, some of them have literally closed the books on the Dallas Symphony Orchestra League s (DSOL) 2024 Junior Symphony...

A Lonely Man, a Bizarre Billboard, and a Quest for Everlasting Love

Texas Monthly 4/23 5:32A Peter Holley

The smiling, geriatric face, plastered upon a twenty-foot-tall billboard, looms above a four-lane roadway on the edge of Sweetwater, Texas, a dusty 10,000-person town an hour west of Abilene. To the...

Auden Hits the Ball Out of Autry Park

Texas Monthly 4/23 5:00A Patricia Sharpe

Here s your Chicken 65, announced our server. We stared at the bowl, steam rising from the heap of golden brown nibbles of fried meat. You d expect to find the southern Indian snack in a casual...

The Artist Who Wonders What Creatures on Other Planets Will Think of Chuck Berry

Texas Monthly 4/23 5:00A Michael Agresta

Sprawled across the shag carpet in his San Antonio living room in 1979, six-year-old Dario Robleto was convinced that extraterrestrials had made contact with humankind. Robleto, home with a mild fever...

The Checklist: Three Reasons This Is a Great Month in Texas Culture

Texas Monthly 4/23 5:00A Josh Alvarez

FilmHit ManIn select theaters May 24 Loosely based on Skip Hollandsworth s 2001 Texas Monthly story of the same name, this romantic comedy/thriller stars Austin native Glen Powell as an amiable...

When It Comes to Texas Public Schools, Jesus Is Already in the Building

Texas Monthly 4/23 4:49A Bekah McNeel

The lunch hour at Harlandale Middle School, on San Antonio s South Side, is one of the only times during the school day students are allowed to use their phones. Between the streams of incoming...

Dine on Birria and Ceviche by the Sea at This Coastal Taco Truck

Texas Monthly 4/23 4:00A José R. Ralat

On a late February evening in 2023, the winds off the Gulf of Mexico turned the temperature in Corpus Christi from mild to teeth-chattering. Nevertheless, a friend and I were determined to cross...

Inside the Episode: Bonus Video for ‘Shane and Sally’ Episode 7

Texas Monthly 4/23 3:35A Texas Monthly

The final episode of Shane and Sally ties up whatever loose ends are capable of being tied. But as Karen and Rob discuss in this closing interview, not all the questions have been answered. They...

Fighting a Syphilis Surge in Houston

Texas Monthly 4/23 3:00A Carrie Arnold

Like so many of Dr. Irene Stafford s impoverished and unhoused patients, the twentysomething woman showed up, in labor, at the Houston hospital having received no formal prenatal care. Stafford, a...

I Biked 165 Miles Behind the Pine Curtain of East Texas

Texas Monthly 4/23 3:00A Morgan O'Hanlon

On a damp March morning, I strapped bags full of camping gear to the frame of my gravel bike and joined about 250 cyclists for the fourth annual East Texas Showdown, one of the state s biggest and...

The Ghost Wolves of Galveston Versus Margaritaville

Texas Monthly 4/23 3:00A Forrest Wilder

Bridgett vonHoldt was grabbing lunch at Viet Cajun, a restaurant on the Galveston Island Seawall, when a chatty local approached her. The man had pegged her and her group, correctly, as...

‘Shane and Sally,’ Episode 7: “The Cold Case”

Texas Monthly 4/23 1:00A Rob D’Amico and Karen Jacobs

Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the transcript below.Learn more about the case with original videos, archival photos, and documents from our reporting in our episode guide....

Texas Monthly Art Department Recognized in the Society of Publication Designers’ Annual Competition

Texas Monthly 4/22 7:12A Texas Monthly

Earlier this month, the Texas Monthly art department was named a finalist in seven categories by the Society of Publication Designers one of them being brand of the year. TM is in prestigious company...

Grover Alert: Day At The Races Is Nearing The Finish Line With A Patron Party Tuesday Night For...

My Sweet Charity 4/22 6:30A Jeanne Prejean

It s not too late, but then again maybe it is. According to very well placed sources, Turtle Creek Park Conservancy s Day at the Races presented by Truist on Saturday, May 4, is within a whisker of...