Our May cover story features an excerpt from author @BryanBurrough's latest book "The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild." . The book explores the Texans who left an enduring mark on the gunfighter era, and how the frontier was a darker place because of it. Read more:

The James @beardfoundation announced this month that @TexasMonthly is one of three nominees for the organization’s award for food coverage in a general-interest publication. 🏆

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow grew up on the mean streets of West Dallas. She was a nice girl who wrote poetry, and he was a jug-eared psychopath. Ninety-one years ago they went down in a hail of bullets in Gibsland, Louisiana. From our archives:

T- 4 days until our 2025 list of the Top 50 BBQ Joints in Texas™️ is out in the world. 🌎. Peruse our honorable mentions from 2021 for now:

Fifty years after the last American helicopter departed Saigon, 1,572 Americans are still lost in Vietnam. This is the story of a missing Marine from Odessa, Texas, and how he was found, just in time, by government officials, a team of private researchers, and a tireless soul.

"It’s one thing to sit there and draw it, and it’s a whole other thing to go up there and risk your life to do it.". Storyboard artist Mark Bristol talks about creating "The Final Reckoning"’s heart-pounding stunts for Tom Cruise.

T- 5 days until our 2025 list of the Top 50 barbecue Joints in Texas™️ drops. While we’re here, what’s your favorite side? Check out our favorite corn dishes from the last list 🌽:

“What you’re looking at today is an irreplaceable artifact." 🚢. The last surviving dreadnought, which reopens as a museum in its new Galveston home next year, reminds visitors of its link to the Normandy invasion.

Two years ago, we reported on the makeovers coming to the U.S.S. Texas. Read all about 'em here:

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"For anyone expecting an apology, accountability, or even a clear and concise narrative of what happened at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022, well, you may be waiting a while longer—perhaps forever," writes Forrest Wilder. Read our story from 2022:

Here are some of the things we learned from the forty-minute conversation between Tesla/SpaceX/Neuralink CEO Elon Musk and Bloomberg:

Today's word wrangler topic: Texas casseroles. What's your favorite? 🤔

RT @OfficialAlamo: The Alamo's Senior Historian Ernesto Rodriguez was recently featured in @TexasMonthly and recognized for his outstanding….

To tell the story of the search for U.S. Marine Captain Ron Forrester, writer Josh Alvarez spent more than a year reporting and traveling around the world. Listen to the process by subscribing to 'TM Out Loud,' exclusive audio storytelling for audio subscribers:.

House Bill 1738, which is progressing through the House this month, has an unusual group of sponsors. 👀

“That means using animal fat instead of these new industrial oils; it’s using raw milk instead of pasteurized. There’s just a new movement of going back to live closer to nature. And that’s what Sapien Center is.”

The King (of the Texas Renaissance Festival) is dead. George Coulam, who was recently forced to sell the country’s largest Ren fair, was found at his home, Stargate Manor, near the festival grounds.

RT @tayloraprewitt: The king is dead.

It has now been three years since Kimberly Mata-Rubio lost her daughter Lexi during a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, on May 24, 2022. In this story, Skip Hollandsworth tracks Mata-Rubio’s first year as a grieving mother and gun control activist:.

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