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The Texas Bracket: Vote for top Texans in round two
For the most part first round of the Texas Bracket pitted celebrities from Texas against Texan legends and little-known Texans against Lone Star giants. No. 1 seeds Willie Nelson and Audie Murphy...
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The Texas Bracket: The Lone Star 16
The first two rounds of the Texas Bracket are in the books and we are left with the Lone Star 16. Voting resumes Monday morning, so be sure to return and cast your vote for the most Texan of all...
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The Texas Bracket: Vote now for winners in the Lone Star 16
Which Texans will make the Excellent Eight? Voting is now underway among the Lone Star 16. With the first two rounds in the books, we are on track to vote in the Championship on Texas Independence Day....
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The Texas Bracket: Vote now for winners in the Excellent Eight
We knew this day would come: Music and the Arts Category Final … Willie Nelson vs. George Strait. Who is the most Texan of these two Texans? You can cast your vote right now. You don’t have to have...
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The Texas Bracket Final Four: Vote now for the winners
It was bound to happen. Willie Nelson had been cruising through the bracket with very little competition. It’s not surprising at all that George Strait, who endured a second-round battle with Janis...
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Hot fries and misdemeanors: Police warn against swiping Whataburger table tents
This table tent at the Southpark Meadows Whataburger was photographed in place on Tuesday, Feb. 28, and did not leave the store. As tempting as it might be to take your Whataburger table tent to go...
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Typewriters used to write ‘Lonesome Dove’ up for auction in New York
Tommy Lee Jones starred as Woodrow F. Call in the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove, based on the Pulitzer-winning book of the same name by Texas author Larry McMurtry. Photo by CBS “Call saw that...
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The Texas Bracket Finals: George Strait vs. Tom Landry
It all comes down to this: Texas’ cowboy culture vs. Texas’ love affair with football. Texas Independence Day has brought us a classic matchup of Lone Star legends. There’s no bad boys in the finals of...
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The Texas Bracket: George Strait voted Most Texan
Six rounds of voting are in the books, Texas Independence Day has come and gone and there’s only one Texan left standing tall in The Texas Bracket: George Strait. Voters have selected the beloved...
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Your Texas to-do list: Drink a tallboy, pluck a tab, help save a historic...
Donate a pull tab from a can and Lone Star Beer will donate $1 to Texas Dance Hall Preservation Inc. Photo by Dave Thomas To set boots to a worn wooden dance floor in a historic dance hall is to...
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Seven Chuck Norris facts that are true (really) for his 77th birthday
Chuck Norris accepts an award from Mayor Will Wynn in front of City Hall in 2007, where the mayor presented him with an Honorary Austin Citizen Award and declared Friday, September 22 as Chuck Norris...
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Willie Nelson, Farm Aid seek help for farmers, ranchers hit hard by recent...
A black Angus cow walks amid charred grass on Garth Gardiner’s ranch outside Ashland, Kan., March 17, 2017. Nick Oxford/The New York Times More than 750 square miles of the Texas Panhandle — as well as...
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How much to ‘go Rambo’ with an M60 at a Texas ranch? We break it down
No, you cannot cradle an M60 machine gun in your arms and blow away everything in sight like Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo. But for $700 you can feel like you did. Wednesday afternoon, we posted a story...
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Remember Rosillo! Texas won its (very brief) independence 204 years ago today
How well do you know your Texas history? You celebrate San Jacinto, of course. Certainly, you remember the Alamo. Perhaps even Goliad. But do you know the Battle of Rosillo? At a confluence of creeks...
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Annie Nelson introduces chocolates infused with ‘Willie’s Reserve’ marijuana
Once marijuana legalization started to take hold in places such as Colorado and Washington State (don’t hold your breath, Texas), it was only a matter of time before noted connoisseur Willie Nelson...
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Eight things you need to do in Central Texas before summer gets here
Spring has sprung. This is old news, of course. Winter — what there was of it — has been in Austin’s rear view mirror for weeks. But don’t get too comfortable. Summer is looming. In Central Texas, it’s...
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Would a cloud that rained tequila get you to visit Mexico? In Germany, they...
In Central Texas, clouds can bring rain, lightning, hail … normal weather stuff. But in Germany earlier this month, a display in Berlin featured a cloud that rained tequila. Photo by Ralph Barrera,...
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Five odd spots in Texas to look up for ‘Read a Road Map Day’
We had a subscription to National Geographic when I was young, back when you couldn’t buy it on the newsstand, and it seemed like being part of a secret club. And every few issues, a bonus! One would...
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It was a good week for Chuck Norris, but who else is an honorary Texan?
The Texas Senate named Chuck Norris an honorary Texan on Tuesday. This was not because Chuck showed up and roundhouse-kicked everyone into submission — naming honorary Texans is something the...
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187 years ago, Texas’ first immigration ban didn’t go over well
The government was deeply concerned. Immigrants were pouring into their northern lands. Immigrants who were armed. Who did not accept their values. And, perhaps most terrifyingly, did not share their...
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