Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas Lives Up to Its Title

Stephen Harrigan chronicles the Lone Star State’s last 500 years

"...as "the most startling geographic feature of the High Plains," one that "attacks the eye with its suddenness, as..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

Plenty of fun still to be had in 2019

"...lesser sandhill cranes in North America call the Texas Panhandle its winter home. The magnificent birds with long spindly..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

9 Texas Day Trips That Will Inspire You to Hit the Road

We dip our toe in the nearly 1,500 columns from our resident day tripper

"...Park and Trailway outside of Quitaque in the Texas Panhandle seems to catch fire as the first light of..."

May 13, 2019 Events Post by Gerald E. McLeod

A Mile Above Texas

Gorgeous images of land and water shot from the air provide a fresh perspective on the Lone Star State

"...edges, following the Gulf Coast, Sabine River, Red River, Panhandle border, Big Bend, and Rio Grande. Shot from so..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Presidio by Randy Kennedy

For his debut novel, Kennedy creates a road story that portrays the harsh West Texas terrain beautifully and fills it with sympathetic characters.

"...fiction these days. But for his superb debut novel, Panhandle-bred Randy Kennedy so vividly captures the sprawling, flat, arid..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Joe Ely

"...crashed and burned, or rather seeped back into the Panhandle, Athos retreated back home to Lubbock after sustaining three..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The 2016-17 Austin Music Awards’ Texan Tower of Song

Thirty-five years of AMAs? More like 181 years of Texas on one stage, on one night!

"...Texas banter into a cosmopolitan sophistication shared with the Panhandle poet...."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Terry Allen’s Manifest Monographs

Lubbock don stages a vintage show for the ages

"...a 30-minute intermission, its hour-and-a-half map of both the Panhandle and high plains hearts proved as entrancing as Jo..."

Jan. 16, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Terry Allen Revisits His Definitive Albums

Lubbock musician on Juarez and Lubbock (On Everything)

"...me for six or seven years to re-license Juarez," explains Allen from his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico...."

Oct. 21, 2016 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

News Roundup: Storms, Season's Greetings, and Open Carry

Reminder: Open carry law takes effect Jan. 1

"...snow in Lubbock, as Winter Storm Goliath pummeled the Panhandle and the Southern Plains. An estimated 1,450 homes were..."

Dec. 29, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

He Took the Cat to Texas: Part 2

Suicide was the last lens through which Mayer Vishner gazed upon life

"...the next night. We were filming on the High Plains. Flat land, stiff wind, utter sky. I told him:..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

'Is There Life After Lubbock?'

Jaston Williams, Joe Ely, and Jo Carol Pierce say, 'There is, there is'

"...curious breed of Texan who survived life in the Panhandle and went on to make names for themselves in..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Race to 270 (and 51, and 218 …)

An hour-by-hour viewer's guide to Tuesday night's election coverage

"...likely to pick up three seats in the upper Plains states – Nebraska, North Dakota, and perhaps Montana –..."

Nov. 6, 2012 News Post by Nick Barbaro

Day Trips

Shamrock, Texas, is worth exploring if you're ever near the intersection ofI-40 and U.S. 83

"...the edge of the rippling prairies of the High Plains have a good appreciation of their history...."

June 10, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Letters at 3AM: For All Reasons

Terry Allen's music reflects the Lubbock mindset

"...ground is what's most plentiful on these Great High Plains. Lubbock has no obvious reason for being where it..."

July 30, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3am: Somehow It Gets to Be Tomorrow

For many American families, one salary is not enough to keep everyone in the household fed

"...to later.) And my monthly contributions to the South Plains Food Bank don't make me feel any better...."

Feb. 26, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Day Trips

Fort Richardson State Park outside of Jacksboro mixes the story of the Old West with outdoor recreation for the modern family

"...hunters from harvesting the last herds in the Texas Panhandle...."

Aug. 22, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Exhibits new and old at the Cameron Park Zoo in Waco will keep patrons of all ages dazzled and delighted

"...the river valley from the Gulf Coast to the plains of the Texas Panhandle. Along the way the explorers..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Roadside Playboys and Texana Dames

The Hancock Family's long, strange, supernatural musical journey

"...Cotton Club was the most sizable stopover in the Panhandle for touring musicians driving coast to coast. Hank Williams...."

Dec. 31, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM

Hot news about global warming.

"...he's being proven right. And not only about the Panhandle...."

Aug. 4, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...of Austin songwriters, a Lubbock native who plied his Panhandle poetry into some of the most visionary music ever..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...years since his MCA debut release bringing the high plains and vistas of Texas and the Southwest to life,..."

May 8, 1998 Music Review

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