November Best Sellers

Brighton the Day 12/4 2:31P Brighton Keller

Happy December, friends! We re officially at the end of 2023 and my mind is blown. We just started the year?? Regardless, it s also time to look at the November best sellers. These are the pieces that you loved the most (and for good reason). A...

Bryan’s House Halloween Party Brought Smiles All Around

Philanthropy Lifestyles 12/4 11:50A SharonAdams

(Featured photo: John Pickett with the children at Bryan s House.) On The Scene: American Airlines employees decorated the doors for

2023 Fur Ball’s Lt. Dan Had Paws And Paddles Raised High For SPCA Of Texas Fundraiser

My Sweet Charity 12/4 11:30A Jeanne Prejean

While DIFFA Dallas Burgers and Burgundy was partying it up outdoors at The Village Dallas on Friday, October 20, the animal-lovers were donning their best bib and tucker for the SPCA of Texas 2023 Fur...

This 1879 Map Is Now the Priciest Map of Texas Ever Sold at Auction

Texas Monthly 12/4 9:31A Dan Solomon

Not every collectible asset holds its value. Anyone who ever inherited their parents china collection and assumed they might be able to finance a nice vacation in the South of France, only to find the...

You Can Say It Now: The Texas Longhorns Are Back

Texas Monthly 12/4 8:06A Richard Justice

Way back in the second week of the 2023 college football season, when at least a dozen schools believed this would be their year of destiny and long before we could have known that Steve Sarkisian had...

Camp Fire First Texas Interim President/CEO Brian Miller Named Permanent President/CEO

My Sweet Charity 12/4 7:30A Jeanne Prejean

Brian Miller* After serving as interim president/CEO of Camp Fire First Texas since April, Brian Miller , M.S., LPC, has had the “interim” removed from his title. After a search by “five diverse Camp...

In Galveston, a New First Response to Mental Health Crises

Texas Monthly 12/4 4:00A Will Bostwick

After a neighbor called 911 on her, Melissa Perez explained to two responding police officers that she had cut the fire alarm wires to her southwest San Antonio apartment building because the FBI was...

The Bogeyman: How a Pattern of False Confessions Was Traced Back to One Austin Cop

Texas Monthly 12/4 4:00A Michael Hall

Hector Polanco was a legend in more ways than one. He joined the Austin Police Department in 1976 and spent years as a patrolman before becoming a homicide cop. Polanco was handsome and charismatic...

Does Rice University Have a Drinking Problem?

Texas Monthly 12/4 3:57A Michael Hardy

A group of Rice University undergraduates poured all the alcohol they had on hand into a bathtub one night in 1972, stripped down to their underwear, and threw a party that entered college lore as the...

MySweetWishList: Texas Women’s Foundation

My Sweet Charity 12/4 3:30A Jeanne Prejean

Carrie Freeman Parsons* According to Texas Women’s Foundation Board Chair Carrie Freeman Parsons , “At a time when gender-focused granting wasn’t widely embraced, Texas Women’s Foundation was a...

The G.O.A.T. of Landscape Management? Goats.

Texas Monthly 12/4 3:14A Lauren Larson

Romeo approaches the electrified fence, lovestruck. What light through yonder fence breaks? It is the east, and Carolyn and Kyle Carr are the sun. The Carrs own Rent-a-Ruminant Texas, a grazing...

The Bishop Who Picked a Fight With the Wrong Nuns

Texas Monthly 12/4 1:00A Nate Blakeslee

Among the compensations of life in a cloistered monastery, an existence defined chiefly by its deprivations, is the chance to live in a world largely devoid of bureaucracy. There are no trips to the...

2023 Gift Guide: Beauty Gifts

Tanya Foster 12/3 11:00A Tanya Foster

Happy Monday! Did everyone have a nice weekend? Today I’m sharing another great 2023 Gift Guide… BEAUTY GIFTS ! Getting or giving beauty gifts is always fun during the holidays, but there are so many...

EMPOWER Announces New Director of Permanency Support

Lakewood BubbleLife iReporter 12/2 12:00A Culver Public Relations

EMPOWER is pleased to announce  that Brenda Littlefield is the new Director of Permanency Support. EMPOWER, a child welfare collaborative led by Texas Family Initiative LLC (TFI), serves as the...

EMPOWER Announces New Vice President of Permanency

Lakewood BubbleLife iReporter 12/2 12:00A Culver Public Relations

EMPOWER is pleased to announce Brittney Pearson has been selected as the new Vice President of Permanency. EMPOWER, a child welfare collaborative led by Texas Family Initiative LLC (TFI),   serves as...