Texas Monthly • 7th July 2020 ‘Outcry’ Offers a Nuanced Look at a Wrongful Conviction in Central Texas The five-part Showtime docu-series avoids the worst pitfalls of the true-crime genre, favoring character over sensationalism.
Texas Monthly • 27th May 2020 In Texas’s Food Deserts, Food Banks Struggle to Do More With Less The COVID-19 pandemic has led to what one expert calls “a perfect storm”: more hungry people, fewer volunteers, and declining donations.
Texas Monthly • 7th May 2020 New to Backyard Chicken-Keeping? Here’s Some Eggspert Advice As Texans flock to the hobby in record numbers, we convened a virtual staff roundtable to share tips.
Texas Monthly • 1st May 2020 Lawrence Wright on the Politics of the Pandemic The Austin author says he wrote his new pandemic thriller as a “cry of warning,” but he never expected it to be released during an eerily similar crisis.
The Texas Observer • 13th January 2020 The Internet Broke Democracy. To Fix It, Design for Human Rights. "What we’re seeing with the major platforms right now is a scrambled attempt to rebuild the plane while the plane is being flown."
The Texas Observer • 13th January 2020 How the San Antonio Police Are Rethinking Mental Health A new documentary on policing in San Antonio makes a simple suggestion: Instead of arresting mentally ill people, listen to them.
The Texas Observer • 14th October 2019 Mr. Reynolds' Opus Walk into composer Graham Reynolds’ East Austin studio, and the first thing you’ll notice, perhaps surprisingly, is the books.
The Texas Observer • 7th May 2018 The Time-Traveler's Guide to the Lower Pecos Hidden away on private land in Southwest Texas is some of the oldest and best-preserved prehistoric rock art in the world. The Rock Art Rendezvous offers a rare glimpse.
The Texas Observer • 10th July 2017 Ride Like a Girl Women riders take the reins in the macho world of charrería.
The Texas Observer • 7th January 2019 Plight at the Museum The best Texas history museum you’ve never heard of is staring down a financial crisis. Will it survive?
The Texas Observer • 4th December 2017 Sunk Costs Back-to-back record flooding along the Brazos River has forced people in Richmond to make an excruciating choice: Stay or go?
The Texas Observer • 30th August 2019 Two Houston Archives Gather Harvey Memories for Historians of the Future They’re a time capsule of the destruction wrought by the deadliest storm to hit Texas since 1919.
The Texas Observer • 11th March 2019 Fearless and Funny, Molly Ivins Comes to Life in ‘Raise Hell’ If only she were around today.
The Texas Observer • 5th August 2019 'Seadrift' Dredges Up a Little Known—and Deeply Disturbing—Texas Story An electrifying new documentary captures a forgotten conflict in the sleepy coastal community of Seadrift.
The Texas Observer • 14th May 2018 The Ghosts of Abandoned Texas Buildings Rise Up in an Eerie New Photo Book “Lost, Texas” features starkly beautiful photos of once-thriving rural Texas towns.
The Texas Observer • 6th April 2017 'Another Book, Another Month, Another Day Closer to You' Some 65,600 mothers are incarcerated nationwide, a 131-percent increase since 1991.
The Alcalde • 21st August 2018 View from the Top “When the Space Station would fly over Texas, Jack would look up and wave and say, ‘Hi, Mommy.’”
The Alcalde • 1st July 2017 A Cure for Clara In 2014, the average orphan drug cost $118,820 per patient per year. That means families’ campaigning may not end even once they’ve found and funded the cure.
The Alcalde • 31st October 2014 Through the Unthinkable Palliative care is often confused with hospice—a narrower subtype of palliative care focused on the end of life—but increasingly, it isn’t only for people who have a terminal prognosis.
The Alcalde • 1st November 2013 A Classroom at the Edge of the World "If you don't know what you're doing in Svalbard, Svalbard will kill you."
The Alcalde • 11th January 2013 The Alcalde: 40 Acres Field Guide | Multimedia Feature UT is an urban university in the heart of the city, yet the campus and its environs teem with fascinating plants and animals—from tropical parakeets to the world's weirdest cactus.
The Alcalde • 28th February 2012 Star Power The one thing Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn't like to talk about is his time at the University of Texas.
The Alcalde • 2nd January 2012 Minds on Fire What happens when disadvantaged adults learn to read Shakespeare and debate philosophy? How the Free Minds Project is changing lives through the humanities
21st August 2018 So You Have a Million-Dollar Idea. Now What? Austin has more new startups per capita than any other U.S. city, including the Silicon Valley area. What’s up for debate is whether local investors have enough money to support them.
Rice Magazine • 21st August 2018 On the Nose Even as Texans quietly mastered great but obscure wines like garnacha and mourvèdre, the world didn’t seem to notice.