Ahead of the Solar Eclipse, Hill Country Towns Are Bracing for Chaos
In the hours before the sky turns dark on the afternoon of April 8, highways crisscrossing the Texas Hill Country, the scenic landscape west of Austin, are expected to turn into parking lots. A trip t...
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, ...
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 one late and beer...
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 Lon...