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Lights, Camera, Carthage! »
Nearly fifteen years after Richard Linklater and I started talking about turning a TEXAS MONTHLY story into a major motion picture, it’s finally hitting the big screen, with a little help from Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Shirley MacLaine—and a seventy-year-old retired hairdresser from Rusk named Kay Baby Epperson.
May 2012 by Skip Hollandsworth
A Killer Role »
Matthew McConaughey keeps his shirt on. For a while.
May 2012 by Christopher Kelly
Behind the Scenes
A slide show of photos taken behind the scenes of the May 2012 cover shoot.
May 2012
Somebody Up There Likes Bob Byington »
The Austin-based writer and director's new film, which is premiering at the South by Southwest film festival, may soon find mainstream embrace.
March 2012 by Christopher Kelly
Playing the 'National Game of Texas' »
The Texas State Championship 42 Domino Tournament is in Hallettsville this weekend, and members of the Austin 42 Club, the largest league in the state, prepare for the big game.
February 2012 by Katy Vine
Putting the Band Back Together »
Thunder Soul, a documentary about the Kashmere High School Stage Band's return to the stage after 35 years, makes a powerful argument for the necessity of arts education.
October 2011 by Christopher Kelly
Drama King »
Less than two years after moving into the Wyly Theatre, the Dallas Theater Center has become the state’s drama darling. Is it the final curtain on the Alley Theatre’s time at the top?
September 2011 by Christopher Kelly
The Drop Everything List »
The Cow Parade, Gorilla vs. Bear Festival, WBNA All-Star Game, National Day of the American Cowboy, and the Summer Balloon Classic & Airfest. . .
August 2011 by Michael Hoinski
Q&A with Super 8's Ryan Lee »
Austin native Ryan Lee recently landed a plum role in J.J. Abrams' highly-anticipated action movie Super 8
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June 2011 by Olivia LaVecchia
Playing No-Limit Texas Hold ’Em »
Doyle Brunson on playing No-Limit Texas Hold ’Em.
July 2010 Interview by Brian D. Sweany
Curtis “Trey” Roark, 22 »
Curtis “Trey” Roark, bingo caller.
July 2010 As told to Jordan Breal
Saving the Llano »
What's missing from all the bureaucratic back and forth over permits and mining and dredging is a sense of the importance of the river itself.
May 2010 by Charlie Llewellin
Dreaming of Her »
On March 31, 1995, South Texas came to a standstill as the shocking news spread that the hugely popular Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla Perez had been shot and killed in Corpus Christi. Fifteen years later, the people who knew Selena best recall the life and devastating death of a star who touched us all.
April 2010 by Pamela Colloff
SXSW 2010
The SXSW Festival in 2010 once again flooded Austin with technological innovators, film icons, and music shakers. This convergence of creativity attracts commercial promoters, dedicated followers, and wanna-be acts alike, and the result is a spectacle experienced nowhere else in the world. See a glimpse of the festival from a street-side view.
April 2010 Photographs by Dylan Clement
Performing Comedy »
Adelina Anthony on performing comedy.
February 2010 Interview by Megan Giller
Short Cuts: Episode III
Rick Perry's road to the White House in under three minutes.
February 2010
The Manual 2.0
Watch the experts at Calle Ocho teach Andrea Valdez how to dance cumbia.
February 2010
Impersonating Elvis »
Donny Edwards on impersonating Elvis.
January 2010 Interview by Jordan Breal
Does Not Compute »
Why I won't plug in, boot up, or log on.
April 2002 by Kinky Friedman
Jamie Foxx »
Jamie Foxx pulls no punches.
March 2002 by Katy Vine
Picture This »
The Austin Museum of Art tries to right itself, again.
March 2002 by Rebecca S. Cohen
Bill Broyles, as Ever, at War »
Baytown wunderkind. Officer in Vietnam. Founding editor of this magazine. A-list screen writer. With a resume this stellar, you'd think he'd be satisfied. Not even close.
March 2002 by Gary Cartwright
Amon High »
With a massive addition to its gallery space and a host of new exhibitions in the works, Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum is back in the saddle.
January 2002 by Michael Ennis
aaaaaaiiiiieeeee! »
From Poltergeist to the Steel Eel, Texas has five of the nation’s best new roller coasters. And they’re all a scream.
August 1999 by John Morthland
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