1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (751+ words) “Swing your corner. Promenade.” The caller’s voice echoes across a room in the Waco Convention Center as hundreds of dancers weave across the floor in small groups, or squares, with practiced ease. I walk into the organized chaos, and everyone…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (413+ words) “We called it crinoid heaven,” Higginbotham, a member of the Dallas Paleontological Society, says. “We found fossils everywhere.” Today, Higginbotham’s “crinoid heaven” is Mineral Wells Fossil Park—an 8-acre free public park where visitors can take home the fossils they…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (452+ words) I spent my childhood in Decatur wrapped up in county fairs, monthly 4-H meetings, and pledging to make the best better. I knew my way around a sewing machine as well as I knew how to show a goat, and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (428+ words) Nelson Mandela loomed large as a heroic figure during his life, first as an anti-apartheid activist, then as a political prisoner, and finally as South Africa’s first democratically elected president. However, in 2018, on what would have been his 100th birthday, his…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (107+ words) “You know what your granny would say,” my mom remarks, eyebrows raised. Judgmentalism runs along the matrilineal line in my family. “I never would’ve been allowed to wear this,” I say, holding up a particularly daring gown. Welcome back! Would…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (450+ words) Pasadena may not be home to the biggest strawberry festival in Texas, but like a younger sibling to the better known annual celebration in Poteet, the Pasadena Strawberry Festival deserves some love and attention, too. When people think of strawberries…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (894+ words) Nitia Musico recalls the moment she realized that she and her husband, Mike, made the right decision to move from Dallas to Denison more than a decade ago. While walking downtown one night just after they settled there, she could…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (243+ words) The architect Rafael Viñoly—born in Uruguay, but who lived in New York City until his death in 2023—designed the building. Its Exhibition Hall, a 200-by-200-foot steel structure that hovers 40 feet above the ground, is supported by five columns,…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (210+ words) Visitors to the Big Bend region are familiar with roadside art projects popping up, like the trio of miniature faux stores: Prada Marfa, Buc-ee’s Sanderson, and the now-defunct Target Marathon. But before the New Year, they were less familiar with…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (130+ words) Texas Highways The March issue celebrates Texas’ underrated blooms If there’s a cover subject that’s been featured more than any other in our 52-year history, it’s most certainly the Texas bluebonnet. And while the beloved state flower can still be…...