Mexican and Indigenous Women Deserve Credit for Creating Tex-Mex
While Anglo businessmen are often lauded for contributions such as Eagle Chili Powder, it’s important to remember the originators behind the cuisine.
Sierra Juarez is an assistant editor at Texas Monthly. She checks facts and writes about style, art, and food for the magazine. Sierra graduated from the University of Texas and previously worked as a freelance writer, editor, and fact-checker.
While Anglo businessmen are often lauded for contributions such as Eagle Chili Powder, it’s important to remember the originators behind the cuisine.
Because of our sole connection around the longtime San Antonio company, I am apparently on trend.
In reporting how Candy Montgomery came to murder her lover’s wife, the authors recall trying to capture a “time and place in Texas history.”
By Katy Vine and Sierra Juarez
The once modest coming-out parties have had a coming-out of their own.
These magical towns all offer something special, from outdoor excursions to artisan goods.
Plus, porch pirates spread manure on a home after getting pranked, a teen swallowed part of a dog toy, and more.
Plus, a man broke into an animal shelter and released more than 150 dogs, and a police officer completed an arrested driver’s food delivery.
While Anglo businessmen are often lauded for contributions such as Eagle Chili Powder, it’s important to remember the originators behind the cuisine.
Meet three independent fragrance makers that create distinctive scents you won’t find in large department stores.
Plus, Rice University engineers turned a dead spider into a gripping tool and a man ate 52 spring rolls in ten minutes.
The exhibit makes a nuanced argument about colonialism in Latin America. But Texans without roots in the region may not have the tools to understand it.
Plus, a man stole $10,000 worth of bleachers, and landscapers discovered human remains in a backyard barbecue pit.
Plus, a man broke ancient Greek vessels at the Dallas Museum of Art, and a mysterious figure walked near the fence of the Amarillo Zoo.
Haydee Alonso’s diverse influences include Mexican cookies, strong women, and the Rio Grande.
Following the lead of farm animals, heat-weary humans have embraced the budget joy of cooling off in these shallow metal tubs.
Plus, a man robbing a Port Arthur home stopped first to mow its yard, and a 77-year-old man went for his first skydive in decades.
The Mathis native and 2022 Guggenheim fellow ruminates on masculinity in his debut memoir.
Plus, a teacher resigned after she reportedly lit a student’s hands on fire, and a Dallas resident ran her thousandth marathon.
These inspired collections from three Austin-based brands include everything from bluebonnets to Prada Marfa.
Plus, authorities seized 31 pets from an animal hoarder, and two MMA fighters wrested away a shooter's weapon.
Plus, José Altuve pays a fan a visit, and a woman tries to smuggle four spider monkeys into the U.S. in a duffel bag.
Nosheen Iqbal incorporates her Pakistani heritage into the embroidery and wood pieces that she crafts in her home studio near Dallas.
Plus, a woman finds unidentified ashes in a Goodwill urn, and a Houston driver leaves a barbecue grill unattended in his truck bed.
Plus, a homeowner sets a Christmas light show to Lil Jon and fishers get rescued from a Lake Amistad sandbar.
Plus, a woman in Temple threw her soup at a restaurant employee.
Plus, a Lubbock couple found their chihuahua hidden in their suitcase at the airport, and other head-turning stories.
Jenny Nemlekar, who makes custom leather bags from her suburban home studio, learned to knit as a way to communicate with her Vietnamese grandmother.
Plus, a man sued a restaurant for allowing him to get “too drunk.”
Plus, home security footage captured a deer hoof-fight over corn feed.
With an Elle Woods–inspired application video, Lindsay Perry bested the competition for a paid position living, learning, and drinking on a California winery.
Plus, a boy flushed his grandmother’s wedding ring down the toilet, and a 72-year old trained for his 787th marathon.
Plus, a thirty-year-old woman in El Paso County posed as her thirteen-year-old daughter to attend middle school.
Orion Jean has also donated 100,984 meals and 619 toys, making the rest of us look lazy.
Plus, an elementary school was evacuated after a 10-year-old lit a toilet paper dispenser on fire.
Because of our sole connection around the longtime San Antonio company, I am apparently on trend.
Plus, a Houston woman went to Fort Worth to cut off 24 feet of fingernails.
Plus, a man pretends to be conducting a CIA investigation at a Longview children's museum.
¿Cuánto amamos a la Reina de la Música Tejana? Contemos las formas.
How do we love the Queen of Tejano? Let us count the ways.
Plus, the Stinnett police chief allegedly faked a document demonstrating an annulment of his marriage.
The nurse and activist helped secure the country’s first federal family-planning grant, which became a national model.
The West Texas city was spared the worst effects of this week’s storms, thanks to its preparations in the wake of a devastating 2011 deep freeze.
A list of some of those from the Lone Star State who gathered in Washington, D.C., on January 6.
By Sierra Juarez and Peter Holley
Plus, Post Malone donates thousands of pairs of custom-made Crocs to students.