How Houston Is Leading the Way on Keeping Poor Defendants Out of Jail
Last month, a federal judge signed off on a legal settlement that largely ends the use of cash bail in Harris County for low-level offenses, dramaticaRead More…
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Jia Tolentino Explores the Perils of Self-Delusion in Her First Book
The thirty-year-old New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino has been called the millennial era’s Joan Didion for her incisive essays on everything froRead More…
The Texanist: If You Didn’t Live in Austin, Where Would You Live?
Q: From reading your columns over the years, I know you have lived in Austin for a long time. But if you had to move to another part of Texas, where wRead More…
Russell Gold: “Texas Has Become an Incredible Leader in Renewable Energy.”
Subscribe Apple — Google Play — Stitcher — Spotify From Austin, Russell Gold has reported on energy for The Wall Street Journal since 2002.Read More…
Roy Head’s “Treat Her Right” Gets The Star Treatment In Quentin Tarantino’s New Flick
Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, derives much of its roller-coaster-like excitement from “Treat Her Right”—a bluRead More…
An Early Internet Meme Found Its Way Onto a Houston World War II Memorial
At the epicenter of the Houston Heights neighborhood, in the median of Heights Boulevard at the corner of busy West 11th Street, stands a World War IIRead More…
Austin, Fort Worth, and Houston are at Risk of a Measles Outbreak—Thanks to Anti-Vaxxers
A study from the University of Texas and Johns Hopkins University, published last week, looked at the measles resurgence in the U.S. There are a few tRead More…
Wherever the NFL Takes Him, Ed Oliver Will Always “Be Someone” in Houston
Ever since it first appeared on a Union Pacific railway trestle over Interstate 45 seven years ago, the huge, bold, and blue “Be Someone” graffitoRead More…
Dressing Down Parents at Houston’s Madison High School
Earlier this month, the principal of James Madison High School, in Houston, Carlotta Outley Brown, sent out a directive to parents. Any parent wearingRead More…
Enjoy Houston’s Intoxicating Jasmine Air While You Can
“This is the best time of year to sell a house in Houston,” confessed my friend Cliff, the high-end realtor, and he wasn’t talking about the weaRead More…
Houston and Dallas Lead the Nation in Distracted Driving
Distracted driving is a scourge of our hyperconnected age. The nationwide statistics are shocking: More than 6,000 pedestrians were killed last year bRead More…
Southern Q BBQ Brings Its Spicy Boudin to a Second Location
Smoked boudin has become increasingly popular at barbecue joints throughout Texas—not just along the Louisiana border. Most of it comes from just twRead More…
Is This the Most Houston Historical Marker of All Time?
This sign not only commemorates a “historic” parking garage, something that seems it could only happen in Houston—it commemorates one thRead More…
Blood Bros. BBQ’s Innovative Menu Combines Asian, Cajun, and Texas Flavors
I sat at a picnic table on the patio of Blood Bros. BBQ with a banh mi and a bowl of gumbo on one tray. The banh mi was stuffed with the cucumber, cilRead More…
The Houston Astros are the Best Bet in Major League Baseball
Spring is nearly here, and with the season of renewal comes another fresh start: the beginning of baseball season. To the faithful, those familiar sceRead More…
Travis Scott May Manifest His ‘Astroworld’ Dreams Into an Actual Amusement Park
Travis Scott genuinely loved AstroWorld. When the rapper named his album—and his tour, and the one-day festival he held last fall in Houston—afterRead More…
Measles Cases Confirmed in Houston Area
On Monday morning, three cases of measles were confirmed in Harris County. By the middle of the day, two additional cases were confirmed, one each in Read More…