An Austin Pitmaster Takes a Deep Dive Into Sausage History

Texas Monthly 4/25 4:00A Daniel Vaughn

At InterStellar BBQ, outside Cedar Park, owner John Bates has just begun a year-long exploration into the roots of Texas barbecue sausages. He first chose to survey the origins of Polish sausage in...

How TikTok Made Line Dancing Cool Again

Texas Monthly 4/25 4:00A Rose McMackin

The dance steps come in on the lyric, Did your boots stop workin ? : Right heel, left heel, right heel, lift and tap the right foot forward then back, pivot turn, and swirl an arm overhead like a...

April 27, Saturday: 2024 Park Cities Car Show Presented by Preservation Park Cities Sponsored by...

Philanthropy Lifestyles 4/24 8:13A SharonAdams

(Featured photo from previous car shows.)* Free and open to the public! It s fun to browse through the car show

Bringing Stories to Life

Texas Monthly 4/24 5:14A Dan Goodgame

No matter how enterprising its reporting may be, or how lyrical its writing, a magazine hasn t earned a spot on your coffee table unless its stories are enlivened with handsome photography and...

Festival of Joy to bring sights, sounds and flavors of India to Klyde Warren Park this Saturday

Mesquite BubbleLife iReporter 4/24 4:40A Taylor Mayad

Experience the sights, sounds and flavors of India at the fifth-annual Festival of Joy this Saturday (April 27) at Klyde Warren Park! Celebrating Indian culture and spirituality, the free event kicks...

What the Bleep Is Going On With Texas Home Insurance?

Texas Monthly 4/24 3:00A Michael Hardy

My wife and I recently decided to buy our first home together. For the past two years, we ve been living in a two-bedroom townhouse in Houston s Montrose neighborhood that I purchased in 2021, when I...

Dallas Families and Children Invited to Council for Lifes Family Fun for Life

Mesquite BubbleLife iReporter 4/24 3:00A Council for Life

DALLAS, TX Families and children of all ages are invited to Council for Lifes second annual Family Fun for Life on May 5, 2024 . This free event will be held at the SMU Armstrong Fieldhouse and will...

Millennial Philanthropy: Next Generation Fund Development for Professionals and Nonprofits

Philanthropy Lifestyles 4/23 11:09A SharonAdams

(Featured photo: Dr. Holly Hull Miori.) As the United States philanthropic scene continues to evolve, nonprofit organizations must continue to

It Doesn’t Get More Texas Than This New Food Hall and Market

Texas Monthly 4/23 9:10A Sandi Villarreal

Walking through San Antonio s new 40,000-square-foot specialty grocer and eatery, Pullman Market, I couldn t help but draw parallels to my first time visiting Eataly in New York s Flatiron District....

2024 Sold-Out Junior Symphony Ball With 2,700+ Guests Results In Record-Breaking $497,000 Check

My Sweet Charity 4/23 8:30A Jeanne Prejean

While North Texas high schoolers are getting ready for final exams and graduations, some of them have literally closed the books on the Dallas Symphony Orchestra League s (DSOL) 2024 Junior Symphony...

A Lonely Man, a Bizarre Billboard, and a Quest for Everlasting Love

Texas Monthly 4/23 5:32A Peter Holley

The smiling, geriatric face, plastered upon a twenty-foot-tall billboard, looms above a four-lane roadway on the edge of Sweetwater, Texas, a dusty 10,000-person town an hour west of Abilene. To the...

Auden Hits the Ball Out of Autry Park

Texas Monthly 4/23 5:00A Patricia Sharpe

Here s your Chicken 65, announced our server. We stared at the bowl, steam rising from the heap of golden brown nibbles of fried meat. You d expect to find the southern Indian snack in a casual...

The Artist Who Wonders What Creatures on Other Planets Will Think of Chuck Berry

Texas Monthly 4/23 5:00A Michael Agresta

Sprawled across the shag carpet in his San Antonio living room in 1979, six-year-old Dario Robleto was convinced that extraterrestrials had made contact with humankind. Robleto, home with a mild fever...

The Checklist: Three Reasons This Is a Great Month in Texas Culture

Texas Monthly 4/23 5:00A Josh Alvarez

FilmHit ManIn select theaters May 24 Loosely based on Skip Hollandsworth s 2001 Texas Monthly story of the same name, this romantic comedy/thriller stars Austin native Glen Powell as an amiable...

When It Comes to Texas Public Schools, Jesus Is Already in the Building

Texas Monthly 4/23 4:49A Bekah McNeel

The lunch hour at Harlandale Middle School, on San Antonio s South Side, is one of the only times during the school day students are allowed to use their phones. Between the streams of incoming...