Graduation Gifts

Tanya Foster 4/18 10:00A Tanya Foster

Yay for the Class of 2024! Can you believe we're already at the cusp of graduation season? This means it’s time to start gathering ideas for what to give the graduate! It's important to get the...

How to Get Lost at the Galleria

Texas Monthly 4/18 6:53A Courtney Bond

I like to think I am a well-traveled Texan, but until a couple of months ago, I had never been to the Houston Galleria. My previous trips to the Bayou City had revolved around exploring its renowned...

Has Texas Motor Speedway Been Lapped?

Texas Monthly 4/18 6:45A Jeff Miller

After multiple do-overs of the final two laps known as overtime in NASCAR verbiage, allowing for a normal finish in the event of a late-race caution flag fan favorite Chase Elliott thrilled much of...

Grovel Alert: 2024 Equest Blue Ribbon Gala

My Sweet Charity 4/18 6:30A Jeanne Prejean

With less than ten days until the big fundraiser, the Equest Blue Ribbon Gala Co-Chairs Calvert Collins-Bratton and Melissa Oates have passed the word that the hoedown is nearing a sold-out status....

The Globe Collector Who Can’t Sleep Until He Checks eBay

Texas Monthly 4/18 5:53A Laura Mallonee

The collection104 globes.The rarest itemAn eighteenth-century pocket globe in its original sharkskin case in its day, a status symbol for those who could afford a fairly useless thing. The tiniest...

The Texanist: Can You Explain to My Frito Pie–Hating Husband Why He’s So, So Wrong?

Texas Monthly 4/18 5:49A David Courtney

Q: When I introduced my English husband to Frito pie, I was surprised to find him less than enthused. Could you explain the origins of this ingenious meal, and why Texans find it so tasty?Mary Lowry,...

New Markers Remember Enslaved People Brought to Texas by Sea

Texas Monthly 4/18 4:39A Patrick Michels

In April of 1836, around the time of other well-memorialized events in Texas, a ship sailed through Sabine Pass in Port Arthur, at the state s southeast tip. It carried a group of at least eight Black...

The Former Slave Who Became a Cowboy, a Rancher, and a Texas Legend

Texas Monthly 4/18 3:38A W.K. Stratton

One day in the late 1930s, Daniel Webster Wallace 80 John, as he was known in ranching circles rode his favorite horse, Blondie, from his Mitchell County ranch to the Loraine post office. It was a...

MySweetCharity Photo Gallery Alert: The Azalea Luncheon

My Sweet Charity 4/17 12:30P Jeanne Prejean

With the azaleas on the grounds of Kathy and Harlan Crow s estate in perfect harmony with the Turtle Creek Association s Azalea Luncheon, guests were welcomed from the doorstep to what many claim was...

Scott Orr Named Dallas CASA Board Of Directors Chair Along With Four New Board Members

My Sweet Charity 4/17 10:30A Jeanne Prejean

Over the past decade, Dallas CASA has experienced tremendous growth. Why, in 2023 alone, 1,088 Dallas CASA volunteers were assigned to serve 2,151 children in protective care in Dallas County. As a...

What I’m Using for My Linen Closet Organization

Brighton the Day 4/17 8:26A megan hopkins

Organizing my linen closet has been on my to-do for a long time. I think we can all agree that s one of the toughest spots in a home to keep tidy — or at least for me it is. Between my lack of ability to fold a fitted sheet (does anyone know how...

Hunting for Texas’s Prettiest Purple Mushroom

Texas Monthly 4/17 7:51A Patricia Sharpe

This is where I saw the fairy ring, said my mushroom guide, Angel Schatz. We paused in the deep shade of a nature trail improbably located a mile from a busy Central Texas highway. For a minute the...

Gifts Moms Really Want This Mother’s Day

Brighton the Day 4/17 7:16A megan hopkins

Every holiday I get to celebrate with my kids is special, but there s something I love so much about Mother s Day. They ve reached an age where they want to do sweet things for momma on this day, and it pulls at my heart strings. We re still...

13 Texas State Parks Near Fort Worth to Explore

A Cowboys Life 4/17 6:36A Chastity Velasquez

Looking to head out of town for a day or the weekend? Head to one of these beautiful Texas State Parks that are 2 hours or less from Fort Worth. Texas has more than 80 State Parks! Whether you are...

Rule One of Wind Turbine Repair Work: Don’t Leave Your Phone at the Top

Texas Monthly 4/17 5:18A Rose Cahalan

Caroline Esquivel, who is 39, maintains wind turbines for RWE, a renewable energy firm that operates 26 wind farms across Texas. My day starts at 4 a.m. I have an hour-long commute from Odessa to Big...