The Pioneering Surgeon Who Dreamed of a Better Heart

Texas Monthly 10/15 4:00A Mimi Swartz

This past July, cardiac surgeon O. H. Bud Frazier helped achieve the near culmination of his life s work: the implantation in a patient s chest of an artificial heart that, theoretically, will last...

Can an Arthouse Cinema Succeed in Cattle Country?

Texas Monthly 10/15 3:00A Sean O'Neal

For more than a hundred years through both world wars, the Great Depression, and countless agricultural busts and booms the residents of Clifton have been able to watch a movie at the Cliftex. The...

‘Landman’ Star Billy Bob Thornton Isn’t Actually From Texas. Don’t Tell Hollywood.

Texas Monthly 10/14 4:00A Natalie Weiner

Billy Bob Thornton shrugs when I ask why exactly he plays so many Texans. Wearing that perennially you-know-what-eating grin, he takes a drag on his American Spirit. If you re from the South, you must...

Oliver Stone Brought ‘JFK’ Home

Texas Monthly 10/14 4:00A Sean O'Neal

This October, fans of the horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre can attend a special fiftieth anniversary screening on the lawn of Hooper s, the Kingsland restaurant that s situated inside the...

Welcome to Frankenstein’s Lab, Where We’re Fusing Frito Pie With Chili Mac

Texas Monthly 10/14 4:00A Paula Forbes

Neither Frito pie nor chili mac are dishes that need improving but why not at least try? Mashing up these two beloved staples of the chili sauce genre is just twisted enough to work. (Next thing you...

The Border Crisis Won’t Be Solved at the Border

Texas Monthly 10/14 2:00A Jack Herrera

More than a decade after he first got deported, Marco was staring into the United States from a bank of the Rio Grande. Across the turgid river he could see a tangle of mesquite and huisache trees in...

Outfit Recap from Last Week

Brighton the Day 10/11 5:09A megan hopkins

I m here to share an outfit recap from last week! I ve been enjoying playing around with some fall looks—however, it s still in the high 80s, low 90s during the day here, so I ve been including lots of layers. This oversized vest has been a...

Good Luck, Little Lizards: The San Antonio Zoo Releases Fifty Horny Toad Hatchlings

Texas Monthly 10/11 3:27A Josh Alvarez

WHO: Scientists at the San Antonio Zoo (and partners across the state and nation).WHAT: Fifty newly freed lizard hatchlings in Blanco County.WHY IT S SO GREAT:The Texas horned lizard, affectionately...

Hot Fall Color Trends

Tanya Foster 10/10 11:00A Tanya Foster

Let's talk about hot colors for fall. This season it is all about the jewel tones. Burgundy, emerald green, and turquoise are all hot fall color trends. Chocolate brown is another gorgeous fall color...

Mary Kay Celebrates Success of 20th Annual MK5K® Benefiting Mary Kay Ash Foundation®

Southlake BubbleLife iReporter 10/10 4:57A Michelle Buckalew

ADDISON, TX Oct. 10, 2024 Mary Kay Inc. proudly hosted the 20th Annual MK5K® on Saturday, October 5, in Addison, Texas, raising critical funds to support the Mary Kay Ash Foundations mission of...

This Newly Born-Again Rice Professor Calls Texas a “Wonderful Idea”

Texas Monthly 10/10 4:00A Michael Hardy

One ordinary evening in March 2023, while serving spaghetti at the family dinner table, Timothy Morton experienced a road-to-Damascus moment. I palpably saw that my whole life had been a...

How Former UT Quarterback Colt McCoy Suits Up for Game Day

Texas Monthly 10/10 4:00A Clayton Maxwell

In our series Stuff Texans Love, our state s most stylish celebrities share their shopping lists. From his early childhood helping out his high school football coach dad on the sidelines to his...

The Texas Doctor Working to Expand Abortion Access in Ohio

Texas Monthly 10/10 4:00A Sophie Novack

Step by step, Texas has driven away doctors like Bhavik Kumar. After the state legislature in 2021 enacted a ban on abortions beyond roughly the sixth week of pregnancy, the family medicine physician,...

This Halloween, Road-Trip to the Horror Bookstores of Central Texas

Texas Monthly 10/10 4:00A Richard Z. Santos

To enter the windowless basement that serves as the best new bookstore in Lockhart, you walk down a flight of stairs lined with a couple hundred Dracula masks and strings of garlic. While many...

Big Fish Energy: Austin Anderson on Catching a Record 71-Pound Smallmouth Buffalo in Downtown...

Texas Monthly 10/10 3:00A Forrest Wilder

Texas is big. So are our fish. In this occasional series we talk to Texas anglers about their monster catches. Name: Austin AndersonAge: 28Hometown: CoppellYears fishing: 26+Favorite fishing holes:...