I recall reading many years back that their subscriber base in Hollywood is strong. Everybody is looking for the next big Texas movie idea. Dunno if that's still the case these days.

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All hail tu, Austin and Dallas
Hate : Aggies, Aggieland and Houston
Their politics is 100% old style Jim Hightower Ralph Yarborough (sp) central Texas democrat holier than thou ( we have black friends -snicker snicker ) white rich aristocracy politics. And as stated above it is mostly a yankee written and edited publication

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This pretty much sums it up for me, along with just about every other post. I had a subscription for a while, but dropped it several years ago because they just kept getting worse and worse.

TM is not directed at 'real' Texans, it's directed at 'progressives' who want to believe they are 'real' Texans. That said, I live in Tulsa, so anything Texan, fake or not, is refreshing.

Very AUSTIN centric. It's a magazine for the wealthy yankees moving into Texas, and the hipsters and politicos around Austin, and DFW and a little bit of Houston.

It's not a bad rag, if you understand it in that context. The adverts very much cater to the weathly crowd that is trying to appear native Texan without being associated with the lower middle class or lolpoors.

The mag is very hipsterlike in its fascination with "authentic experiences", which is why you see them do a litany of articles about discovering out of the way places and unique experiences that are really neither.

I like Dallas and Austin. Hate TM. Way too much advertising.

It's been a liberal rag for as long as I can remember.

My dad ditched it for texas highways seems like 20 years ago.

#2 tells me you've never had good brisket.

I subscribed when it was starting up. Then the first anti-Aggie/A&M article showed up. I literally haven't touched it since. Didn't their motto used to be "Just a breath away from t.u."?

liberal t-sip rag

Very good post

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I post this here because for the most part, the OB is pretty Texan. We talk about travel, hunting, fishing, BBQ, etc. If wrong board, let me know.

I picked up a Texas Monthly yesterday. To me it seems like it portrays an Austinite's wetdream version of what Texas really is. I'm either unable to put my finger on it or I don't have the words to express what I mean. A few things I pick up on:

1. They really idealize this Hill Country mystique - like everyone in the Hill Country is rich, highly educated and runs a wine shop in Fredericksburg.

2. They think that one Texas BBQ joint is actually that much better than another. When it all comes down to it at the end of the day, it's just brisket, sausage and ribs.

3. They idealize Texas in a weird way. Don't get me wrong, I love Texas. But, Texas is much more redneck than they would like to think. It seems like they want to portray this idea of the intellectual cowboy: the cowboy who analyzes Cormac McCarthy while tending to his cattle.

4. They really love Marfa.

So, do you all think Texas Monthly "gets" Texas? I don't think I will buy it anymore.

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The intellectual cowboy stuff does make me laugh and, like you said, we are way more redneck that they'd like to portray. Texas is backwoods as hell in a lot of areas and ways. The endless barbecue articles have made me actually less interested in whatever it is they're trying to promote. I'll take a good catfish buffet in East Texas if given the choice. That is probably hyperbole, but decent barbecue is all over.

I had barely been to the hill country until I was about 24 years old. While East Texas is certainly not wealthy and the houses aren't made of limestone, sneaking onto somebody's property and swimming in a dark old lake or walking down a shady blacktop road with a .22 is as Texan as watching some mother effing bats coming out from under a bridge.

I was eventually exposed to the Hill Country as a camp counselor. I found it did not have enough trees or fish for my liking, and not enough humidity or birdsong to call home.


Oh, but if you are in Wimberley, The Leaning Pear is run by an Aggie friend of mine, Matt Buchanan. Tell him hello for me.