Rose Cahalan

Rose Cahalan is managing editor at the Observer and also edits the magazine’s arts and culture coverage.

A Weird End for a Weird Year: Our Eight Favorite Strange Texas Stories of 2020

A wild horse chase, an alligator with a big appetite, and a cloned cat made this year a little stranger—in a good way.

Two new books lay out convincing evidence that the suburbs have been unfairly maligned and overlooked.

Weird news from far-flung Texas.

From Muscovy ducks in Pearland to a detective agency devoted to cooking grease theft in Irving, it's been another weird month, y'all.

There’s no shortage of talented Latinx writers with all kinds of stories to tell. Let’s make space for them.

A new documentary on policing in San Antonio makes a simple suggestion: Instead of arresting mentally ill people, listen to them.

Author Samuel Woolley argues that a slew of new technologies will further degrade political life unless we rein them in.

There’s a thin line between spreading hate, as the governor continues to do, and inciting violence.

A monkey on the loose, a sharpshooting great-grandmother, activist witches, and more quirky news stories that caught our eye this year.

Weird news from far-flung Texas.