According to legend, the cowboy cookie originated as a kind of midcentury breakfast bar: a mash-up so packed with high-calorie, energy-generating goodies like pecans and coconut flakes that it could sustain even…
Texas Monthly – Are Texas Waters Clean Enough for Swimming? (Short Answer: Yes)
Outside of an incoming hurricane, few threats discourage Texans from plunging into the Gulf of Mexico more than the dangerous fecal contamination frequently reported along our coastline. Last year a widely publicized…
Texas Monthly – It’s Always Five O’Clock at South Padre’s Margaritaville
My impressions of resort life have been informed chiefly by HBO’s dark comedy The White Lotus, filmed at luxury resorts around the world. Unfortunately, our HBOverlords have not yet given us the…
Texas Monthly – Feeling at Home at One of the Oldest Gay Bars in the State
I walk into Robert’s Lafitte just after 8 p.m. on a Thursday in March. Early, I know, but now that I’m in my thirties, “nightlife” is no longer synonymous with “late nights.”…
Texas Monthly – To the Lighthouse, on a Kayak
As I peer through binoculars from my kayak, watching a great blue heron promenade through a tangle of mangroves along the Aransas Channel, I hear a ripple of water and a puff…
Texas Monthly – A Monthly Block Party Marks a Proud New Era for Corpus Christi
One of the biggest street parties in South Texas started winding down an hour ago, at 10 p.m., but the crowd gathered on this balmy March night in Corpus Christi, at the…
Texas Monthly – The Ultimate Gulf Coast Seafood Crawl
Dirty Al’sSouth Padre IslandIt’s hard to decide what’s most charming about this restaurant near the southernmost tip of South Padre Island—the friendly service, the marina setting, or the delightfully crude murals of…
Texas Monthly – A Father and Son’s First Fishing Trip, in Rockport, Becomes Something to Brag About
Are there hammerheads? Blacktips? How big do they get? Do you ever catch them? My son, George, is ten years old. Neither of us has ever fished off the Texas coast, so…
Texas Monthly – Donald Trump says he’d consider Ken Paxton for U.S. attorney general
Trump told a reporter in Texas this weekend that Paxton is “a very talented guy.” Read: Read More
Texas Tribune Donald Trump says he’d consider Ken Paxton for U.S. attorney general
Trump told a reporter in Texas this weekend that Paxton is “a very talented guy.” Read: Read More