The Best Thing in Texas: Everyone Who Helped Us Survive the Winter Storm
Celebrities and regular folk alike came together to offer hot food, clean water, and warm beds.
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.
Celebrities and regular folk alike came together to offer hot food, clean water, and warm beds.
By Dan Solomon
Austin’s mayor, Steve Adler, and the state’s junior senator, Ted Cruz, are the latest Texas politicians to take ill-considered vacations.
By Dan Solomon
Texans on social media have kept warm by burning the fuel of white-hot rage.
By Dan Solomon
Widespread “assurance testing” could effectively end the pandemic before the vaccine does, but a lack of federal coordination has left some citizens to fill screening gaps.
By Dan Solomon
Turns out not everyone loves Texas-size gas stations (or 13 varieties of jerky).
By Dan Solomon
The mayor set his sights a little lower in his latest ill-advised social media post.
By Dan Solomon
It's a simple victory in an extremely complex story.
By Dan Solomon
The official case count doesn’t reflect the pandemic’s reality. I found the satisfaction of ferreting out the actual number to be cold comfort.
By Dan Solomon
Thank goodness.
By Dan Solomon
The curse of Houston is a curse of management, which makes it the saddest of all.
By Dan Solomon
Pedro Pascal, star of the Disney Plus series ‘The Mandalorian,’ shared the junior senator’s office number on Twitter.
By Dan Solomon
The superstar defensive end has probably played his last game for the Houston Texans. They should remember him properly.
By Dan Solomon
It’s beautiful! Enjoy shoveling all of that.
By Dan Solomon
For the music industry, the bad times are getting worse.
By Dan Solomon
Austin’s mayor, already a punching bag for his state’s powerful right wing, lectured his city’s residents to stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19—while on a beach vacation.
By Dan Solomon
Researchers Daniel Wrapp and Jason McLellan owe a scientific honor they won this week to a Belgian camelid named Winter.
By Dan Solomon
Three questions with the Houston chef, whose “gambling man” pal David Chang took a big risk to raise money for the Southern Smoke Foundation.
By Dan Solomon
The Lions have been mired in mediocrity—but Deshaun and the Texans may have helped break the fever.
By Dan Solomon
Every other retailer has made this holiday season’s hottest item an online exclusive during the pandemic—except the Grapevine-based chain.
By Dan Solomon
Let people have some joy for once in their lives.
By Dan Solomon
Are possums ugly? Not when they’re wearing tiny purple sweaters, they’re not!
By Dan Solomon
Expect marijuana, college football, and compromise to play central roles.
By Dan Solomon and Emily McCullar
The team’s uniforms are the latest milestone in the club’s journey to the state’s capital.
By Dan Solomon
The Beaver nominally approves.
By Dan Solomon
The NBA’s first female assistant coach is the star of a new 60-second documentary.
By Dan Solomon
Democrats like when lots of voters cast ballots. Republicans generally don’t. But we won’t know until tomorrow whether high participation rates favored one party over the other.
By Dan Solomon
In North Dallas, Genevieve Collins challenges Colin Allred, whose win two years ago proved that Democrats could compete in the Texas suburbs.
By Dan Solomon
The legendary collaboration between Queen and David Bowie gets a remake by an intergenerational pair of icons.
By Dan Solomon
The Houston psychedelic rockers are a fixture on listeners’ turntables.
By Dan Solomon
In Texas's Second Congressional District, challenger Sima Ladjevardian sees an opportunity in the representative’s COVID-19 response.
By Dan Solomon
The conservative incumbent has alienated members of his own party, leaving room for challenger Wendy Davis to pick off centrist voters in Texas’s Twenty-first Congressional District.
By Dan Solomon
Ghosts? Aliens? Cheese? A 4G cell tower? We list the possibilities.
By Dan Solomon
When longtime GOP congressman Kenny Marchant announced his retirement, his seat representing the district surrounding DFW Airport became a prime pickup target for his party’s opponents.
By Dan Solomon
We’re number one! We’re number one! For now, anyway!
By Dan Solomon
“Bonkers” is, of course, a technical term.
By Dan Solomon
In the district just west of Houston, Republican challenger Wesley Hunt's campaign has focused on his opposition to the Green New Deal.
By Dan Solomon
After the football team’s latest loss, the coach and most of his players are at odds with the athletics director and many fans and supporters over the university’s controversial spirit song.
By Dan Solomon
The incumbent rarely faced competitive races before labor lawyer Mike Siegel’s challenge in 2018. Now, winning a rematch is no sure thing for McCaul.
By Dan Solomon
Gina Ortiz Jones lost by fewer than 1,000 votes to popular retiring Republican Will Hurd in 2018 in the sprawling southwest Texas district. Now, she faces a less well-known rival in Tony Gonzales.
By Dan Solomon
The Republican touts his bipartisanship in an appeal to this increasingly blue congressional district northeast of Dallas, but he’s been a reliable vote for Donald Trump’s policies during his first term.
By Dan Solomon
This election will be highly unusual. Here’s what you need to know before voting.
By Dan Solomon
Sheriff Troy Nehls won his primary as a Trump ally, but has distanced from the president in his race against Democratic challenger Sri Preston Kulkarni.
By Dan Solomon
Once a Democratic stronghold, then gerrymandered to be a Republican one, the district includes a large swath of Austin and part of southern Tarrant County near Fort Worth.
By Dan Solomon
It looks like they had fun making it!
By Dan Solomon
The best day on the internet comes at a relatively low price tag, in crowdfunding terms.
By Dan Solomon
It’s the largest penalty for a criminal food safety case in U.S. history.
By Dan Solomon
There's still a lot we don't know about the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses.
By Dan Solomon
This might be the end of the LuAnn Platter.
By Dan Solomon
Its influence is evident in the way new releases such as ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ and ‘Cobra Kai’ use time in their storytelling.
By Dan Solomon
Siena, Italy, crams 30,000 people into the amount of space occupied by a five-stack interchange in the Bayou City.
By Dan Solomon