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Podcast: Mayor Steve Adler on SXSW and the ‘Inevitability’ of COVID-19 in Austin
Subscribe Apple — Google Play — Stitcher — Spotify By Tuesday, March 3, close to 50,000 people had signed a petition requesting that Austin leaders cancel South by Southwest amid concern that festival...
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Kenny Rogers: The Complete 2013 Texas Monthly Interview
In 2013, Kenny Rogers told Texas Monthly: “I’m a Texan. That’s not something you can ever just set aside.” The country music superstar, who died Friday at age 81, grew up on the outskirts of the Fourth...
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Dan Rather Believes in the Good Sense of the American People
Few people have witnessed firsthand as many of our country’s triumphs and trials as Dan Rather. History and innate optimism inform Rather’s belief that Americans can pull together through the COVID-19...
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Chris Shepherd’s Dream Is That There Will Actually Be Restaurants Left for...
Every morning , Houston chef/restaurateur Chris Shepherd gathers six feet apart from the managers of his Underbelly Hospitality team and asks if they want to keep providing to-go service for the...
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Tim Ferriss on Using Quarantine to Methodically Confront Your Fears and Desires
“Anyone who says they’re 100% certain of outcomes—right now—is either delusional or lying. At best, they are gambling with a blindfold on, not betting intelligently.” —Tim Ferriss in a February 14,...
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Dr. Peter J. Hotez on Why a COVID-19 Vaccine Might Not Be Enough
Over the past few weeks, Dr. Peter Hotez, codirector of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, offering his views on the typical...
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Boomtown Host Christian Wallace on a New Reckoning for Texas Oil
Quarantined at home in San Marcos, Texas Monthly staff writer Christian Wallace has spent the bulk of his week working the phones, talking to energy experts and oil executives for next week’s special...
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Yoga With Adriene in the Time of Quarantine
Each August, Adriene Mishler begins trying to identify a theme for the annual 30 Day Yoga Journey she runs throughout January on her uber-popular YouTube channel for free online classes, Yoga With...
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Mattress Mack Believes Houston Can Pull Together and Persevere. Again.
These days, Houston’s Jim McIngvale, better known as Mattress Mack, has gotten very good at framing “social distancing selfies.” At his Gallery Furniture’s flagship store on North Freeway, McIngvale...
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Dr. Hana El Sahly on Remdesivir and How Little We Still Know About COVID-19
In the coming days, Dr. Hana El Sahly of Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine will begin registering hospitalized participants at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center and Ben Taub Hospital for the second...
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José Ralat Believes the Taco Is Pandemic-Proof
If not for the pandemic, right about now José Ralat would be on the way home from New York City, where he was scheduled to promote his new book, American Tacos: A History and Guide, with a May 20 event...
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Congressman Michael C. Burgess on Balancing Public Health and the Economy
Texas congressman Michael C. Burgess says he remembers initially hearing about the novel coronavirus that would become classified as COVID-19 right around January 22, when China shut down public...
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Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly Yearns for the Days When We Argued About...
March was a particularly bad month for Southwest Airlines. In its final days, with almost all of the country under stay-at-home orders, the airline’s “load factor”—the percentage of available seating...
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Peniel Joseph on Black Power and the Struggle for America’s Soul
Dr. Peniel Joseph, the founding director of the LBJ School’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, believes the events of the last few weeks—George Floyd’s death while in police custody in...
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Tavel Bristol-Joseph Wants the Culinary World to Have a Hard Conversation...
Just a little over a month ago, while the five Austin restaurants he co-owns were offering curbside pickups and just beginning to solidify their reopening plans, Tavel Bristol-Joseph found out he made...
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Dr. Peter J. Hotez on How the Federal Government Failed Texas on the Coronavirus
As one of the nation’s leading experts on drug and vaccine delivery, Dr. Peter Hotez, codirector of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, has become an almost ubiquitous...
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With Students Returning to Campuses This Fall, Contact Tracing Is Key
Last month, the Texas A&M University Health Science Center and the Brazos Valley Health District announced plans to team up to form the COVID Investigation Operations Center. At its core, it’s a...
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Watch Sarah Jarosz on Texas Monthly’s Sound Check
Three-time Grammy winner Sarah Jarosz joins us today for the first in our summer 2020 Sound Check series. Jarosz released her new album, World on the Ground, a collection of stories inspired by her...
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Watch Charley Crockett on Texas Monthly’s Sound Check
For the second installment of Texas Monthly’s summer 2020 Sound Check series, Charley Crockett performed a pair of songs from his just-released album, Welcome to Hard Times. In a recent Texas Monthly...
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Paul Begala Wrote the Book on Defeating Donald Trump
There are a surprising number of Texas references in You’re Fired: The Perfect Guide to Beating Donald Trump, veteran political strategist Paul Begala’s book focused on what it’ll take for Joe Biden to...
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