Dan Solomon

1 month ago | texasmonthly.com | Dan Solomon

On Monday morning, Star Wars fans were treated to the trailer for the much-anticipated second season of Andor. The Disney+ series occupies a unique space in the franchise; whereas most Star Wars movies and TV shows sit comfortably in popcorn territory, Andor has been widely acclaimed for its dramatic heft, nestling it closer to the “prestige drama” category filled with shows like The Wire and Breaking Bad.

2 months ago | 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?

2 months ago | 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.