Texas Monthly

“Fifty years ago this month, the Dallas-based carrier first took flight. Those who were there reflect on its past as it confronts a future shaped by the pandemic.”

“At the Big Squeeze, the state’s most talented teen accordion players are keeping a historic Texas tradition alive.”

“Panicked and unable to stop, Red Man Bay attempted a jump, but his chest slammed into the steel bars. Josey was catapulted like a rag doll over the top and thrown facedown onto the pavement on the other side.”

“DNA evidence proved Lydell Grant’s innocence. So why won’t the state’s highest criminal court exonerate him?”

“No one had ever done this before. No one had ever put a dog in the middle of the Civil War. How do you actually make that happen?”

“Over a decade, Theodore Robert Wright III destroyed cars, yachts, and planes. That was only the half of it.”

‘Eight days inside America’s Auction Academy, learning the secrets of “the dynamo from Dallas.”’

“But for heaven’s sake, the best-selling author, unapologetic cusser, and fifth-generation Texan would rather not be called that.”

“The anguish that has plagued the Murchison students presages the kind of long-tail trauma that many of today’s witnesses to shootings will be burdened with for the rest of their lives.”

Willie Nelson’s been playing the same guitar — a Martin N-20 classical — for 50 years. In this fantastic profile from 2013, Michael Hall chronicles not only the life and times of Willie and his trusted sidekick, Trigger, but the laborious care and tending of an instrument that is the primary tool of a living musical legend.