Tinder-owner Match Group has appointed two new members to its board of directors and signed an agreement with Elliott Management, the company announced on Monday. Chief marketing officer at Instacart, Laura Jones,…
Texas Monthly – Stone Cold Steve Austin Turned “Texas Tough” Into Megacelebrity
The Texas Rattlesnake. The Bionic Redneck. The Bottom Line. Steve Austin has been known by many names, but two words rise above them all to define this true-blue Texan phenomenon: Stone Cold. The…
Texas Monthly – Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Spy Kids’ Showed Us That Kids Have Something to Say. It’s Time to Listen.
Within the first three minutes of Spy Kids 3: Game Over, eleven-year-old Juni Cortez (Daryl Sabara), decked out in a monochromatic brown outfit, struts in slow motion down an empty Congress Avenue,…
Texas Monthly – What Did Houston Do to Deserve a Celebrity Like C. J. Stroud?
Dang, but C. J. Stroud had a hell of a year on the football field. As the rookie quarterback for the Houston Texans, Stroud, who turned 22 in October, passed for 4,108 yards…
Texas Monthly – How Lyle Lovett Taught This Non-Texan That Texas Wants Me Anyway
I’m not from Texas, and I didn’t get here as fast as I could, but as crooner and Klein native Lyle Lovett told me, “Texas wants you anyway.” My transition from Brooklyn to…
Texas Monthly – Texas Monthly Is Crowning a Winner in the Ultimate Texas Celebrity Bracket. Cast Your Vote!
Texans are passionate about our homegrown talent. We’re proud when they go on to become world-famous stars, and we’re also a little bit happy when they don’t and we get to keep…
Texas Monthly – Dakota Johnson Doesn’t Lack Media Training. She’s Just Texan.
When a new Dakota Johnson film comes out, her press appearances often overshadow the movie itself. Most of her interviews fall into two categories: either Johnson has generated online discourse for saying…
Texas Monthly – If Texas Has a Soul, It Lives in Matthew McConaughey
I moved to Austin in 1997, but I didn’t feel as though I’d truly arrived here until nearly nine months later, when I first saw Matthew McConaughey ambling alone down Sixth Street…
Texas Monthly – Beer Nerds, Get Thee to the Library!
In the corner of the Munday Library archive reading room at St. Edward’s University in Austin sits a four-by-three-foot sculpted metal sign advertising Waterloo Brewing. The first brewpub in Texas, which operated…
El Paso Matters – EPCC pleased with early results of 8-week semester pilot program
Jesus Flores was not sure how his learning disability would affect his plans to attend college, but a suggestion from an El Paso Community College financial aid adviser prior to the fall…