Prices for admission vary by day. As of last year, the State Fair is implementing a clear bag policy upon entry. Exceptions are made for medical bags, parenting bags, and soft-shell coolers after ...

When the New York rock band The Strokes announced they would play at El Paso’s Abraham Chavez Theatre in the fall of 2025, the steady bass beat of my heart quickened. While live music was not scarce ...

The real story behind Terlingua's Mimi Webb Miller, a former debutante and local legend once fictionalized in Narcos: Mexico ...

Turn your eyes to the American flag hanging from the ceiling, and you might get an idea of how long this downtown San Antonio restaurant has been in operation. Yes, that’s 48 stars. Meaning founder ...

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In a time of daily commutes and increasing congestion, it may be counterintuitive to think of driving as a relaxing activity. But for many decades in the last century, peaking in the 1950s, an ...

As a kid growing up in Fort Worth during the late 1970s and early ’80s, a Sunday drive with my maternal grandfather, Pampaw, was as exciting as a trip to Six Flags. Instead of spinning in circles on ...

At Arthouse, a new museum opening this spring in Marble Falls, the inaugural exhibition highlights an underappreciated visual arts element. Words Matter features artworks that all contain an element ...

My dad cut the head off a cottonmouth snake when I was 9 years old. He draped the body delicately over a tree branch and continued to hike, alongside my mom, two brothers, and me, down to Pedernales ...

“As a filmmaker, you go through the world thinking of any situation and what kind of film you might make about it,” Richard Linklater once said about making Dazed and Confused. “What would my teen ...

My empty nest was closing in on me. I texted my friend Anne, also the mother of absent college kids: “Want to drive to Big Bend and stay in a dome in the Chihuahuan Desert?” I’d recently seen photos ...

In the opulent confines of his office in Southwest Houston, Johnny Dang reclines in a plush leather chair. Known as the King of Bling, the longtime jeweler-to-the-stars is surrounded by ornate décor ...