Soup season is upon us! It's the best time of the year. 🍲 Slurp up our favorites: https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/9-essential-texas-soups-to-keep-you-warm-and-full/

the 2025 michelin guide to texas will be announced in houston on tuesday

we're going nationwide!!!

Earlier this month, we asked readers to send us pictures of their homecoming mums and share memories or reflections on the custom. 🏵️🔔✨ Boy, did y'all deliver: https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/texas-homecoming-mums-photos/

what a great profile of Skip Hollandsworth by Sarah Hepola 🩷 www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

in case you need a reminder today that there are people trying to do good in the world www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

I now think of @lonlozzin.bsky.social when I go to a Buc-ee’s bathroom thanks to this piece www.texasmonthly.com/style/bucees...

NOW HIRING: open fact-check position at @texasmonthly.bsky.social, come work with us and potentially save me and my colleagues from ourselves www.texasmonthly.com/about/jobs-a...

THE Skip Hollandsworth on the case from his teens that set him on the path to becoming a true crime writer: www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/s...

By any measure, Tim Kennedy’s life is full of genuine accomplishments. But if you look past the broadest strokes of his résumé to confirm the details of what he says and writes about his life, much of it proves elusive, or just plain wrong. https://txmnth.ly/3Wcwutg

want to read a palate cleanser this weekend? enjoy this absolute delight of a story by JK Nickell about tagging along with undergrads in Baylor’s irreverent secret society @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

If you haven't read Aaron's piece for @texasmonthly.bsky.social -- it's a must read. Beautiful, and absolutely heart wrenching. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

thank you, Juana, for sharing Aaron's story ❤️

"Peering out the windshield at the plant’s western side, she said seeing it now 'reminds me of people who died.'" @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

What is the city but the people?

Oh, hi there... 👀 We've got THE @bcdreyer.social (of Dreyer's English) teaching an unlimited-enrollment online class for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social on everything that make prose good...

It's funny! It's heartwarming! It made me cry a few times! @phillymag.com's preeminent teen-chronicler Emily Goulet spent months behind-the-scenes with the town that throws America's biggest prom. A must read:

give me a bag of these and you don't even have to worry about the money

psssttt…..a reminder that the application deadline for @texasmonthly.bsky.social’s research chief role is AUGUST 25, aka MONDAY! www.texasmonthly.com/about/jobs-a...

Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.

from 2022: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Colleague and I were setting up LinkedIn ads yesterday. Colleague asked LI's new "AI assistant" where to find a field. It gave wrong answer. Colleague said "tell me I'm not crazy. It's not here, is it?" It was not. He reverted to old interface. I found answer via help page. We are not saving time

Texas Monthly announced the fund yesterday: www.texasmonthly.com/the-stand-up...

So many have asked how to help after a tragedy that affected so many families, including mine. We hope that the Clay Parisher Legacy Fund will be a way to channel the kindness, love, and support of friends, family, and followers through a gift or gifts in the future made in my nephew’s name.

Thank you to everyone who read my family’s story in @texasmonthly.bsky.social. The response in letters, emails, messages, comments, and from people I’ve met in person has been overwhelming. We are so grateful. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Y'all read? 👀 📚 We're partnering with Texas Book Festival to bring you the Texas Book Club. Whether you’re a longtime reader with a towering to-be-read pile or someone who hasn’t hit a rhythm turning pages in a while, the Texas Book Club is for you.

#journalismjob alert: We've just posted a new role at @texasmonthly.bsky.social, a research chief who will supervise our team of fact-checkers and do some fact-checking themselves www.texasmonthly.com/about/jobs-a...

KEDT, which serves Corpus Christi, parts of the Rio Grande Valley and other parts of the Gulf Coast, gets 39% of its budget from the CBP. Their president told me that the cuts are existential, and could force them to shutter entirely. www.kedt.org

#journalismjob alert: We've just posted a new role at @texasmonthly.bsky.social, a research chief who will supervise our team of fact-checkers and do some fact-checking themselves www.texasmonthly.com/about/jobs-a...

My god, read this. Now. It is astonishing — both that the author survived what happened and that he was able to produce such a powerful, beautiful, heartbreaking, life-affirming account of it so quickly.

As @texasmonthly.bsky.social has covered the floods this week we've all had our editor Aaron Parsley in our thoughts. His family's tragedy was horrific, and the fact that he was able to share it here, so clearly and movingly, is extraordinary. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

“One of the hard parts is that almost every one of these animals that I’m working on, their people are all missing or deceased." Kerrville and Austin Pets Alive have rescued many dogs and cats whose owners and homes have been lost.

Fifty years ago, Prudence Mackintosh explored the culture of summer camps in the Hill Country for @texasmonthly.bsky.social, describing “the mystique of the legendary girls’ camps like Waldemar and Mystic” www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

“Pastor, I just need to be reminded: Is God good?” @allegrahobbs.bsky.social went to Kerrville First United Methodist Church this morning for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

@texasmonthly.bsky.social senior writer Peter Holley (@peterjholley.bsky.social) is on the ground in Hunt, Texas. For coverage, see our Instagram stories at @texasmonthly.

Here's how you can help those impacted by the catastrophic flooding in Texas Hill Country, along with safety tips for dealing with flood warnings and what to do when you encounter flood waters.

Catastrophic flooding hit Kerrville overnight. Fourth of July revelers and campers are feared lost in the floodwaters.

🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT: @texasmonthly.bsky.social has an opening for a SENIOR WRITER! This is a full-time opportunity to join a staff of brilliant colleagues + write stories about the country's most fascinating state. Applications due July 13. More details here: www.texasmonthly.com/about/jobs-a...

now that it’s officially summer I’m thoroughly movie theater pilled. gotta be in a dark cold room with popcorn watching a motion picture at least once a week

🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT: @texasmonthly.bsky.social has an opening for a SENIOR WRITER! This is a full-time opportunity to join a staff of brilliant colleagues + write stories about the country's most fascinating state. Applications due July 13. More details here: www.texasmonthly.com/about/jobs-a...

I don't know how many times these people have to say "non-whites are not americans unless they are part of my inner circle, we want to do ethnic cleansing" before people start listening bsky.app/profile/pale...

This WSJ story about the decline in search traffic because of AI summaries is so grim. Every single outlet spent 15+ years contorting their coverage to cover the same things as everyone else trying to grab SEO, only for Google to rugpull them, just like social networks did. tinyurl.com/bdpzc399

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

It was a joy to get to rep @texasmonthly.bsky.social at this year’s City and Regional Magazine Association conference. This was my third year attending and I always come away impressed and inspired by my magazine peers. And Texas Monthly winning eight awards was a great way to conclude the event!

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Whittling down a list of 120 barbecue joints to 50 is no easy feat. What’s even more difficult is deciding the Top 10. Our 2025 best barbecue joints 🧵: www.texasmonthly.com/interactive/...

the list is out online next Tuesday and the guesses are beginning... houston.culturemap.com/news/restaur...

The problem with AI is not what it *can* do in a perfect world. It's what people actually use it for. The Chicago Sun-Times/Philly Inquirer AI-generated newspaper debacle is a pretty good preview of the AI future/present. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...