Filmmaker Yen Tan Couldn’t Find a Movie About Pet Grief. So He Made One.
‘Marley & Me’ just wasn't hitting the spot.
Dina Gachman is a Pulitzer Center grantee, an award-winning journalist, and a frequent contributor to Texas Monthly, the New York Times, Vox, and more. She’s an NYT best-selling ghostwriter, and her second book, “So Sorry for Your Loss”: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns, was published in April 2023. She lives in Hutto.
‘Marley & Me’ just wasn't hitting the spot.
By Dina Gachman
The singer, who left a troubled life of addiction behind in California, embraces the sounds of the Lone Star State on his new album.
By Dina Gachman
In Van Zandt County, you'll find art, festivals, and history in these neighboring destinations.
By Dina Gachman
In We Were the Universe, Parsons builds a world that feels deeply rooted in Texas culture, but mercifully devoid of any old-school, clichéd depictions of the state.
By Dina Gachman
Amanda Stronza pulls over to document coyotes, deer, and squirrels killed along highways.
By Dina Gachman
This “grown-up drill team” will strut and sparkle in five parades this month.
By Dina Gachman
For decades, Hill Country ranches let “rock hounds” come and hunt for rare Texas blue topaz. Now access is closed—unless you know a secret spot.
By Dina Gachman
The beloved indie rocker was set to coheadline a summer tour with his sixteen-year-old son. When Dorian died this February, his father sought refuge the only way he could: in their shared love of music.
By Dina Gachman
. . . and Allison Orr, the founder of Forklift Danceworks, helps them turn their everyday movements into choreography with a mission.
By Dina Gachman
The Dallas country-cooking chain started in 1975, and it’s down to just one location in Arlington. One writer makes a pilgrimage to learn about the folks keeping this place open and to stock up on rolls, fried okra, and squash casserole.
By Dina Gachman
For many women inside Texas prisons, a crumb of color—such as a red ribbon or a floral postage stamp—is against the rules, but worth the potential risk.
By Dina Gachman
They’re changing the state’s male-dominated fly fishing scene.
By Dina Gachman
The coauthor of memoirs by Vanessa Lachey, Shep Rose, and Chrishell Stause spills about the glamour—and grit—of helping the famous tell their stories.
By Dina Gachman
She weaves the state’s climate disasters, including droughts and floods, into terrifying tales.
By Dina Gachman
Near Fort Stockton, Hoven Riley has been quietly growing more than 20,000 of the prized plants, which are being illicitly uprooted from public and private lands to meet a growing demand.
By Dina Gachman
At the state-level drag pageant, senior queens sparkle, lip-synch, and try to forget that queer rights in Texas are under siege.
By Dina Gachman
Nacogdoches researcher Ashley Wahlberg, whose arachnid collection is nightmare fodder for many, says spiders help us more than they hurt us.
By Dina Gachman
These Texans think so.
By Dina Gachman
Ladies, start your engines.
By Dina Gachman
In her funny, vulnerable essay collection ‘Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing,’ Hough takes on the cult she grew up in, coming to terms with being a closeted lesbian, and her complex relationship with her home state.
By Dina Gachman