The Texas Billionaire’s Guide to Befriending Clarence Thomas
Harlan Crow and Jerry Jones have bought access to the Supreme Court justice through carefully curated gifts. What do Michael Dell, Tilman Fertitta, Elon Musk, and others have to offer?
Dan Solomon writes about politics, music, food, sports, criminal justice, health care, film, and business. Dan started working with Texas Monthly as a freelancer in 2013 before becoming a staff writer, covering topics from the Baylor sexual assault scandal to the gentrification of Austin barbecue to the legacy of Texas outsider artist Daniel Johnston. His reporting has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Fast Company, Billboard, and Deadspin.
Harlan Crow and Jerry Jones have bought access to the Supreme Court justice through carefully curated gifts. What do Michael Dell, Tilman Fertitta, Elon Musk, and others have to offer?
By Dan Solomon
Last week, the thirty-six Big Tex Choice Award semi-finalists were announced, and we take a closer look at some of the mostly fried and sometimes alarming selections.
By Dan Solomon
The multiplatinum artist, who has released a new deluxe version of the 2012 record, reflects on the dark (and fun) L.A. summer when it was written.
By Dan Solomon
On the latest single from ‘Texas Wild,’ a forthcoming tribute album stacked with state classics, you can hear the joy in Bingham’s weathered voice.
By Emily McCullar and Dan Solomon
The far–East Austin bar is an elephant graveyard for restaurant signs of decades past, but we’re still trying to figure out who it’s really for.
By Dan Solomon
The Texas Country Jamboree doesn't exist, and Garth Brooks wasn't booed off its stage. That didn't deter Greg Abbott.
By Dan Solomon
The 1950s-set comedy is being hailed as the director’s best work in years, and I can’t figure out why.
By Dan Solomon
The Lege approved the highest film incentives budget the state has ever seen. Here's what that massive check means for productions and the biz overall.
By Dan Solomon
Texas Monthly reporter Dan Solomon just published his first work of young adult fiction, ‘The Fight for Midnight.’ These are the books that inspired him.
By Dan Solomon
The rising Alabama alt-pop artist and the Arlington country star aim for a classic Texas breakup song. Do they hit the mark?
By Dan Solomon
It’s rare to see a conservative American politician use language such as “horrific and wrong” and “human rights abuse” to describe a law that targets gay people.
By Dan Solomon
Texas Republicans have been in the midst of a cold war with one another for much of the 2023 session. The impeachment vote simply caused it to heat up.
By Dan Solomon
The attorney general, under indictment since 2015, now faces potential impeachment from the Texas House.
By Dan Solomon
The 2022 census update, released late last week, indicates growth in Austin and Fort Worth—as well as the Texas suburbs—isn’t slowing down.
By Dan Solomon
Ted Cruz wants the Beer Institute, the industry’s self-regulatory body, to investigate whether Bud Light broke the law by reaching out to a transgender influencer.
By Dan Solomon
David Robinson, Tim Duncan, and now Victor Wembanyama—when the Spurs draft number one overall, they get Hall of Fame big men.
By Dan Solomon
Hypnotic, the supernatural thriller starring Ben Affleck that opened on Friday, is Robert Rodriguez’s twenty-first movie. The lifelong Texan is more prolific than almost any of his ’90s indie-film contemporaries—Quentin Tarantino, whose Reservoir Dogs debuted about a year before Rodriguez’s El Mariachi, has only made ten!—and that’s including a
By Dan Solomon
The longest-tenured governor of Texas, who is famously great with groups of three, aims for a failed campaign hat trick.
By Dan Solomon
Legal sports gambling in the state still faces a long and complicated path that would require a constitutional amendment.
By Dan Solomon
He's from California, but we're still proud of him and his namesake.
By Dan Solomon
The show’s infamous second season was shortened because of the strike, but that’s not the whole story.
By Dan Solomon
Chris Vaughn, the team’s assistant director of college scouting, shared the good news with sixth-round pick Deuce Vaughn.
By Dan Solomon
The former Baylor linebacker and NFL player has won the last three elections in his Dallas congressional district.
By Dan Solomon
This month, fans have a chance to bid on books, guns, and a pinball machine owned by the definitive chronicler of twentieth-century Texas.
By Dan Solomon
The living legend and the bluegrass young gun unroll a pot-smoking, finger-picking good time.
By Dan Solomon
Amid a debate over competing property tax–relief plans, the lieutenant governor isn’t holding back. But is “California Dade” a good insult?
By Forrest Wilder and Dan Solomon
The Texas Rangers’ new uniform design takes great pains—including the creation of a new, mythical mascot—to make fans throughout the Metroplex feel seen.
By Dan Solomon
Our man picks a fight with a San Antonio icon. Maybe they should settle this on the court—or in the 2024 election?
By Dan Solomon and Ben Rowen
The unprecedented move means that access to abortion across the country could, in some ways, be restricted like it is in Texas.
By Dan Solomon
Update: An ethics complaint against Representative Bryan Slaton, who skipped the session’s most consequential debate, has been filed alleging an “inappropriate relationship.”
By Dan Solomon
The Jewish billionaire has long been the target of antisemitic attacks from the far right. What are Republican leaders signaling when they single him out as the main force behind the former president’s woes?
By Dan Solomon
This week, the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs advanced two bills that would criminalize many drag performances. The bills, both filed by Republican Bryan Hughes of Mineola, take aim at men or women who use “clothing, makeup, or other similar physical markers” to “exhibit” as
By Dan Solomon
Mavs great Dirk Nowitzki, along with four San Antonio Spurs—Gregg Popovich, Becky Hammon, Tony Parker, and Pau Gasol—headline the 2023 class.
By Dan Solomon
In the end, it could only ever have been H-E-B.
By Dan Solomon
It all comes down to this.
By Dan Solomon
During the thirtieth anniversary of the Branch Davidian tragedy, no less.
By Dan Solomon
H-E-B. Whataburger. Blue Bell. Southwest Airlines. Four iconic Texas brands remain, but only one can be crowned champion of them all.
By Dan Solomon
Can anything stop H-E-B? Plus: a recap of the bracket's tightest matchup yet, between Schlitterbahn and Austin City Limits.
By Dan Solomon
Torchy’s flames out, Chili’s cools off, and Chip and Joanna Gaines get fixer-uppered—while H-E-B, Whataburger, and Dr Pepper keep rolling.
By Dan Solomon
The top seeds remain dominant, Mattress Mack scores an upset, and Dairy Queen faces a surprisingly tough test.
By Dan Solomon
Recruiting, mostly. But also trying to see New Order.
By Dan Solomon
The Corpus Christi native’s directorial debut is a self-assured, joyful ode to inclusivity and snack foods.
By Dan Solomon
Which of these 64 iconic Texas businesses is the most beloved? This March Madness, there’s only one way to find out—with your help.
By Dan Solomon
After banning almost all abortions in the state post-Roe, GOP lawmakers have proposed eighteen new ways of limiting access to the procedure.
By Dan Solomon
As the alternative meat industry grows—including San Antonio-based vegan chicken sandwich chain Project Pollo—one writer tests the future of eating in America.
By Dan Solomon
No, it doesn't involve a spoonful of sugar.
By Dan Solomon
Bob Hall has long sought to outlaw gender-affirming treatments for minors. Now he seeks to effectively ban care for consenting adults.
By Dan Solomon
. . . Y’all okay?
By Dan Solomon
Austin’s response to last week’s mild freeze is further evidence that some of the structures of society we used to count on are no longer reliable.
By Dan Solomon
A debate between Andy Langer, Dan Solomon—and Ice Cube?
By Dan Solomon and Andy Langer