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The Texas Observer’s Best Features of 2018
For Texas Pronghorn, an Unusual 500-Mile Journey
Wildlife experts are airlifting and trucking pronghorn into West Texas in hopes of replenishing a shrinking population.
Wildlife experts are airlifting and trucking pronghorn into West Texas in hopes of replenishing a shrinking population....Read More
‘Cornyation’ Celebrates San Antonio’s Most Fabulous Fiesta Tradition
Amy Stone’s new history of Cornyation pays tribute to the closeted men and women who started the 66-year-old satirical extravaganza....Read More
High-Wire Act
Laughter, fear and Trump at the Spanish-language circus on the Texas-Mexico border.
Laughter, fear and Trump at the Spanish-language circus on the Texas-Mexico border....Read More
‘Another Book, Another Month, Another Day Closer to You’
The Women’s Storybook Project of Texas is an Austin nonprofit that encourages incarcerated mothers to read to their children.
The Women’s Storybook Project of Texas is an Austin nonprofit that encourages incarcerated mothers to read to their children....Read More
Adiós Utopia, Hello Texas
The first major U.S. show since 1942 of Cuban art comes to Houston.
The landmark exhibit Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950 is at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), from March 5 to May 21....Read More
Lives in Limbo
How activism, art and architecture are bringing the shadowy immigrant detention system into clearer view
“These are public institutions,” Lopez says. “It's taxpayer money. And it's immigration — a national issue. But it's not something that we're having the...Read More
Fungi Town
Taking a mushroom census in southeast Texas.
Fungi Town Taking a mushroom census in southeast Texas. – by Leah Caldwell December 8, 2016 David Lewis makes the occasional pilgrimage to Sand Ridge Cemetery...Read More
If These Walls Could Talk
The pictographs of the Pecos River have lasted millennia in a tempestuous desert, surviving mostly in silence. Now an archaeologist has cracked the code — and they can begin to speak again.
The pictographs of the lower Pecos have lasted millennia in a tempestuous desert, surviving mostly in silence. Now that a code has been cracked, and they can be...Read More
Chasing the Chupacabra
Texas chupacabras have a way of leaving behind bodies — or perhaps, bodies in Texas have a way of becoming chupacabras.
Texas chupacabras have a way of leaving behind bodies — or perhaps, bodies in Texas have a way of becoming chupacabras....Read More