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Texas Public School Bible Courses Sparsely Offered, Poorly Taught

Six years after lawmakers agreed Bible courses could be offered in Texas schools, the Texas Freedom Network finds that course offerings are neither "legally appropriate nor academically sound," according to a report released today. Lawmakers, after much wrangling that included input from Jewish Hou ... More >>

T for Textbooks

A new doc explores the Texas Board of Education's fight against science, history.

Psophonia Dance Company: New Pulse

TCU to the Big 12: What's Changed Since the Southwest Conference Went Kaput

​Earlier this week, Texas Christian University officially accepted an invitation to join the Big 12 Conference, which sort of models the old Southwest Conference, a division that the Horned Frogs competed in from 1923 to 1996. We gotta tell you, horny toads, compared to '96, the league is goi ... More >>

Miracle Faker

Rick Perry is right: America can learn from Texas. He's just wrong about what the lesson is.

UH Football Announces Two More Start Times for 2011 Season

​Today, the University of Houston announced two more start times for the football team's highly anticipated run at a Conference USA championship. The September 24 match-up against the Bill Curry-led Georgia State Panthers, which is entering just its second season of competitive football, will ... More >>

Racy Cowgirl Postcards: An NSFW Tour Of An Odd Subculture

​As the Dixie Chicks sang in "Little ol' Cowgirl": She's a little ol' cowgirl from out Texas way Countin' the nights 'til the fiddler plays Workin' all week just doin' her thing She likes punchin' doggies but she loves to swing The cowgirl has been a source of fascination since the cowgirl w ... More >>

Return to Sender

What Would Comprehensive Immigration Reform Look Like If the Feds Got Off Their Duffs?

Blowing Smoke

Could Valero empty the coffers of Texas schools?

The Tug of War

Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison are locked in a pitched battle over the soul of the GOP. They are also running for governor.

Getting Schooled

A group of former condo owners say SMU defrauded them of their homes to make way for the new Bush library.

Calorie Restrictors Stay Hungry in Hopes of Living Longer

An SMU biologist searches to unlock the secrets to the fountain of youth

No Pressure. It's Just Texas High School Football.

Katy High School was going to play against a Florida team on national TV. Now all it had to do was find a way to win again.

“John Alexander: A Retrospective”

The Lone Star artist, on display at the Museum of Fine arts, Houston, made multiple points

¡Viva la Margarita!

The drink that changed the way we eat

History Lessons

Tracy Daugherty delivers a slice of Houston's hidden past in Axeman's Jazz

Judging Rory

Jurist Rory Olsen can put you in a mental institution and cost you hefty court fees. Critics wonder whether he can handle the job. Big deal -- he's a bottom-of-the-ballot Republican.

Dallas Domination

The Metroplex schools Houston when it comes to the indie scene

Keeping Good Company

Jack Ingram takes his rightful place in the long line of masterful Texas singer-songwriters

Unnecessary Roughness

Inmate Mark Knox claims Texas prison guards brutalized him. The ACLU fears that in an expanding and unwieldy TDCJ system Knox is far from alone.

Bible Belt Blues

Mesmerizing God's Man in Texas ponders the question of where the Almighty fits into a church obsessed with politics

Calling Jews to Jesus

Southern Baptists go on a not-so-kosher search to convert Jews to Christ

Wunderkind

Flutist Christina Jennings poised to shine

Warming Up

The Texas Music Festival brings new meaning to the term "summer school"

The Great Sucking Sound

Bart Sipriano's well dried up four days after Ozarka started pumpin massive amount of water nearby. Under the state's archaic "rule of capture," the East Texan has no right to complain.

Making a Killing

In the '70s, Walter Waldhauser arranged four contract murders. Nearly 20 years later, he has a new name and a new line of work -- but he still generates a profit from death.

Three from Texas

With a spate of independent movies, the state once again leaves its mark on film

Twang of the 'Burbs

Jack Ingram isn't a real rebel, but he plays one on CD

The Brother Graham (Part II)

Once upon a time in Humble, there lived two guys named Pat and Mike. They had a way of making people believe, and those people included some of Texas' highest public officials. While it turned out that their stories usually were just too good to be true

Ardent Idea

Can a Spot from Dallas do better than a Big Star from Memphis?

The Road from College

Dallas, and SMU, favorite Jackopierce gets a call to the big leagues, and answers

Candidate

With big bucks and blessings from on high, Eugene Fontenot comes out from behind his wall to buy a seat in Congress