David Courtney

Evan Smith, then Texas Monthly’s editor in chief, gives the behind-the-scenes story of how the 2007 Bum Steers cover came together. 

An Austin woman would like to see more of our state’s past on the big screen.

A McKinney woman was criticized for saying “crème brûlée” with a Texas accent and she’s not happy about it.

The East Texas city stakes that claim for itself, but a Santa Fe man is skeptical.

A long history of the beloved (and hated) tradition.

Lyle Lovett, Miranda Lambert, Parker McCollum, and more are stepping up to help their fellow Texans after a historic flood hit the Hill Country on July 4.

The famed comedy trio were New Yorkers through and through. Or were they?

We traveled 1,400 miles across the state to sample our watery best.

For Jessi Milam, presiding over a school district in Big Bend means being a jack-of-all-trades.

A Dallas man wonders about a long-standing tradition that stretches from Abilene to Westphalia. (But not, so far as we know, to Zavalla.)