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If you think you have to stick to the big cities to experience the state's best dining, shopping, and culture, then you don't get out enough. From fine art in [...]

An armadillo incense burner. An Andy Warhol self-portrait. The keys to the Alamo. Who knew what startling treasures you could find without ever leaving the state? Why go to a [...]

FROM A LUXURY HOTEL IN SAN ANTONIO TO A POSH FORMER JAIL CELL IN CLIFTON, THESE TEN DESTINATIONS ARE ACCEPTING RESERVATIONS FOR THE PERFECT GETAWAY. HOTEL EMMA San Antonio OPENED [...]

RUM DISTILLED FROM RAW MOLASSES! BEER BREWED WITH WILD YEAST! WINE FERMENTED FROM HILL COUNTRY GRENACHE GRAPES! TEXAS ARTISANS ARE TURNING OUR CROPS INTO A SLEW OF AWARD-WINNING ADULT BEVERAGES. [...]

SHOULDERS TENSE? SKIN SALLOW? MIND ON EDGE? THESE WELLNESS RETREATS WILL HELP YOU KICK THOSE WINTER BLAHS, INDULGE IN SOME PAMPERING, AND SEE YOUR LIFE (AND COLON) IN AN ENTIRELY [...]

YOU MAY LIKE DINING OUT, BUT WHEN'S THE LAST TIME YOU DINED OUT? WE FOUND TEN FAR-FLUNG DESTINATIONS WHOSE IMPRESSIVE FOOD AND MEMORABLE SETTINGS ARE WORTH TRAVELING FOR--AND SPENDING THE [...]

THAT'S WHAT SUMMER BOILS DOWN TO: THIRTEEN OPPORTUNITIES TO RIP UP YOUR FRIDAY-TO-SUNDAY ROUTINE AND GO IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE ON THE HIGH PLAIHS. OR UTTER RELAXATION ALONG A LANGUID [...]

On their first out-of-town date, Paige and Smoot Hull drove from Houston to Texas Hill Country, where they stayed in a romantic. antiques-filled B&B. 'We started daydreaming, as you do [...]

The twenty-mile stretch of Texas Highway 237 that runs north of La Grange is, most of the year, as quiet and undisturbed as the cow pastures it cuts through. But [...]

It's no surprise that, as a recent study revealed, Texans prefer to vacation in Texas. Given the state s sine, we have more than enough staycation options. But since our [...]

The boom is on in Texas--and for once we're not talking oil. The state is in the middle of an all-out arts explosion that is boosting our cultural capital and [...]

ELOISA TAMEZ * 75 TAMEZ IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF NURSING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE AND TEXAS SOUTH MOST COLLEGE IN 2009 THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY [...]

WHEN IT COMES TO CHOOSING A getaway, the Hill Country doesn't have to campaign hard for our affections. Its lush expanses of bounding green hills and serpentine rivers stretch over [...]

LIFE IS TOO SHORT NOT TO LIVE IT IN TEXAS. But recently we asked ourselves an uncomfortable question: If we had only one year left on earth, what would we [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] STORIES OF disembodied spirits still clinging to their former lives-some out for revenge, some merely too stubborn to cross over-are so intertwined with Texas history that they've become […]

There's no greater antidote to the summer heat than a well-concocted adult beverage. So we asked five of the state's most innovative mixologists (that means bartenders) to create cocktails that […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RANSOM RHODES (CENTER), 25, GHOSTBAR, DALLAS, DECEMBER 27, 2008 I change up what I wear every day. Ghostbar doesn't like sneakers, but I'm definitely rocking some black Nikes […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A few years after a Texas Tech professor lent him his first 35mm camera, Wyman Meinzer had an epiphany. A rancher's son, he was living in a half […]

[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] "YOU'LL BE EATING IN YOUR CAR MOST OF THE TIME." The younger writers looked alarmed. Eating in your car? The speaker, senior editor Mike Hall, was addressing the […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * School isn't even over yet, but--we'll stick our necks out here--your kids are already acting like animals! Never fear. There's more to do than the same old […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the three decades that contributing photographer Wyatt Mcspadden has been shooting for Texas as monthly, the Amarillo native has trained his camera on almost every cultural icon […]

EVERY PHOTOGRAPHER IS LIMITED by certain constraints--the subject of a story, an art director's vision, a client's directives--so the images he produces are not truly his own. You might say, […]

Sew Hip HOUSTON, AUSTIN, BELTON, CANYON This month the congenial domestic art of quilting escalates from mere hobby to cultural phenomenon with a slew of patchwork presentations across the state. […]

Stone Phillips, co-anchor of Dateline NBC, Texas City, 1955-1965 I remember living in the house during Hurricane Carla and evacuating to the family farm in Waxahachie. When we returned, we […]

Galveston is a strange city,' I scribbled in my notebook on a recent visit, a sentiment that over the next several days would only grow more pronounced, along with my [...]

As soon as I landed in El Paso, I wanted to get as close as I could to the point where Texas ends and Mexico begins. On previous trips I'd [...]

Route 66 may begin in Chicago and end some 2,278 miles later in Los Angeles, but guess which state fittingly lays claim to being in the center of it all? [...]