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AUSTIN, TEXAS -- Lawrence Wright, the author and longtime New Yorker staff writer, is not as serious as he may seem. He is not obsessed with terrorism and religion, as [...]

Byline: MICHAEL HOINSKI AUSTIN, TEXAS -- Lawrence Wright, the author and longtime New Yorker staff writer, is not as serious as he may seem. He is not obsessed with terrorism [...]

BLANCO, Tex. -- Marsha Milam's father struck gold drilling in oil patches in Illinois back in the day. Ms. Milam also struck gold when the 86-proof, single-barrel bourbon whiskey she [...]

Byline: MICHAEL HOINSKI AUSTIN, Tex. -- Some doctors are so inundated with the business of medicine that good bedside manner has become a lost art. As a preventive measure, the [...]

In the contemporary western ''Hell or High Water,'' which generated buzz at Cannes, Jeff Bridges comes full circle in his portrayal of a steely, wisecracking Texas Ranger whose final mission [...]

Life on the campaign trail for support staff often involves long days that lead to lonely nights in scantly furnished short-term rentals, with no real-life social network to engage in [...]

For Scott Birnbaum, finding Tracy Podell was akin to solving a complex math problem. Mr. Birnbaum, a data-mad web executive looking for love, found himself taking deep dives into the [...]

SAN MARCOS, TEX. -- On the day before New Year's Eve, after making the 19-hour drive to Texas from Wisconsin, the writer and artisan Gaylord Schanilec began checking the status [...]

Our quirky, discerning picks for the most interesting things to do around the state this week. AMARILLO Her Art Georgia O'Keeffe's stints in Texas -- as an art teacher at [...]

Our quirky, discerning picks for the most interesting things to do around the state this week. DALLAS Moonstruck Forty-five years ago this week, Neil Armstrong took one small step for [...]

One recent Sunday afternoon, Dale Watson, the Austin country singer and guitarist with a signature white pompadour, zipped along winding wooded roads near Dripping Springs in his 2012 Mini Cooper. [...]

Our quirky, discerning picks for the most interesting things to do around the state this week. SAN ANTONIO Mack's Last Stand The Texas Longhorns are learning a clichd-but-true lesson: Be [...]

During the mid-19th and early 20th centuries, a distinctive form of fiddle music emerged in Texas. Known for idiosyncratic timing and phrasing, this style was commonly played with banjos or [...]

HOUSTON Oh, Death ''Funeral Party,'' the title of a performance piece by Emily Sloan, is not an oxymoron. Ms. Sloan, an artist from Houston, sees death as cause for celebration. [...]

HOUSTON -- Trenton Doyle Hancock stood at the back of his art studio, a warehouse space in the Acres Homes neighborhood that is filled with piles of cut-up paintings that [...]

QUITAQUE Herd Mentality Once there were millions of bison roaming North America. But they were slaughtered in startlingly large numbers during the 19th century -- in part for meat, in [...]

Texas' first lady, Anita Perry, appeared nervous and excited one morning earlier this month as she guided reporters through the governor's mansion in Austin, open for the first time since [...]

GALVESTON -- Jack Johnson stood on a pedestal behind Old Central Cultural Center, ready to throw a left hook and then come back with a right. On the grounds surrounding [...]

Each morning Lama Lobtsul, the lama in residence at the Buddhist center Palri Pema Od Ling in Austin, enters the temple and performs the important task of arranging offerings of [...]

FORT WORTH -- Bach's Concerto in D minor for two violins filled the conference room in the administrative corridor of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra office building. The interpretation was [...]

Our quirky, discerning picks for the most interesting things to do around the state this week. AUSTIN Living the Life The night life may not be a good life for [...]

We have all experienced gravity, but even to the brightest minds in science, it remains largely a mystery. Gary J. Hill, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin, [...]

MARFA, Tex. -- The three-member staff of Marfa Public Radio was in a meeting room appointed with a miniature wooden shack housing an ornamental radio -- a ''radio shack'' -- [...]

''WE said 4:44, and we meant 4:44,'' Michael Nesmith, the wedding officiant, said with mock insistence before about 125 guests on March 4 in Butler Park, which looks out at [...]

Our quirky, discerning picks for the most interesting things to do around the state this week. SAN ANTONIO Squeeze Play Flaco Jimenez is as much a cultural ambassador as he [...]

Our quirky, discerning picks for the most interesting things to do around the state this week. MESQUITE Hold On Tight The Mesquite Championship Rodeo is one of the sport's most [...]

Among the many photos of Ann Richards on the wall of Holland Taylor's dressing room was one in which the former Texas governor's dark wardrobe blended into the photo's dark [...]

The threat came in 2002. Borders, the chain retailer of books and music, had announced plans to open a store a couple hundred feet from Austin's largest independent book seller, [...]

TAYLOR KITSCH is showing off an advance copy of the January issue of Men's Health magazine. On the cover, he's posing shirtless, his chiseled frame and laser stare in prime […]

'HOW was Hawaii?' a woman asked Turk Pipkin, the towering comedian, writer and actor with a new consciousness-raising film to his list of credits. 'Ah. ' Mr. Pipkin hesitated, realizing […]

'WHEN you get older, you've got to force yourself to have fun,' James McMurtry, the 43-year-old roots-rock singer and songwriter, said earlier this month as he drove his pickup north […]

Chuck Berry used to hire inferior pickup bands, in part to ensure that the spotlight shone on him. These days, the neo-hippie Devendra Banhart is more inclusive, bringing scores of […]

Soon to roll down the lost highway: a fuchsia teardrop trailer wearing a 10-foot-long cowboy hat and smoking a cigar. It will be a mobile kiosk -- stuffed with T-shirts, […]

When the mannequin makers at Dorfman Museum Figures asked Ceilia Stratton, civilian director of the Fourth Infantry Division Museum at Fort Hood, Tex., what kind of stance she wanted Saddam […]