Dan Solomon

Jan 28, 2025 | texasmonthly.com | Dan Solomon |Rose Cahalan

The past week or so has been a disorienting one for Americans and their allies. Are we about to declare war on Canada, Greenland, and Panama? Are you allowed to use the letters d, e, and i anymore? Do trans people have rights? Is “sending your heart” out to a crowd of supporters by placing your right hand over your chest and then extending your arm out at a stiff, 45-degree angle in a movement virtually identical to the salute the Nazis used a normal public speaking gesture?

Jan 27, 2025 | texasmonthly.com | Dan Solomon

When Kevin Von Erich moved back to Texas last year, the first thing that struck him was the weather. “It was three months in a row of hot spell,” he says from his new home in the Hill Country. His second realization was that he’d been hauling around his collection of memorabilia from his famous family’s pro-wrestling dynasty in an eighteen-wheeler storage container for nearly two decades—from Texas to his longtime home in Hawaii and then back to Texas and to his current home, in Boerne.

Jan 17, 2025 | texasmonthly.com | Dan Solomon

Texans love H-E-B. It is, as we discovered through many rigorous rounds of voting a few years back, our readers’ favorite Texas brand. We like its curbside-pickup system. We like the way it takes care of Texans during a crisis. We like the novelty potato chip flavors. We like (most of) the food-themed scented candles. We like the Selena bags (boy, do we ever!). We like how one little boy loved H-E-B so much that he celebrated his fifth birthday there.

Jan 17, 2025 | texasmonthly.com | Dan Solomon

Greg Kwedar never expected any of this. He never expected that his movie Sing Sing, which is back in theaters this weekend after a brief release last summer, would be generating awards-season buzz. His last film, 2016’s Transpecos, was a taut, tense border thriller that received positive reviews but failed to find a theatrical audience.

Jan 16, 2025 | texasmonthly.com | Dan Solomon

Just a week into the new year, University of Texas at Austin president Jay Hartzell tendered his resignation, announcing that he’d accepted the same position at Southern Methodist University, a few hundred miles up the road in Dallas.