Kathy Blackwell

Austin

Exec Editor @texasmonthly. Board, @austinfilm and American Short Fiction. Past board: @austinbatcave. Email: [email protected]

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Articles

The Top 25 Texas Gifts of 2024

Nov 26, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Kathy Blackwell

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‘Shōgun’ Cocreator Rachel Kondo Loves Costume Dramas, Japanese Punctuation, and Texas

Oct 25, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Kathy Blackwell

The most acclaimed television series of the year, FX’s historical samurai saga Shōgun took home eighteen Emmy Awards last month, the biggest haul ever for a show in a single year. Based on the 1975 best-selling novel by James Clavell, which was turned into a hit 1980 miniseries, this version was lauded for its authenticity—it’s mostly in Japanese, with subtitles, and uses a mostly Japanese cast—as well as its refreshing focus on strong female characters.
These Classic and Retro Dallas Stops Take You Back in Time

Oct 23, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Kathy Blackwell

Although more than sixty years have passed since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in downtown Dallas, visitors still come daily to Dealey Plaza to pay their respects (or discuss conspiracy theories). They take tours—on foot, on Segways, by trolley, in electric cruisers, and even in a restored 1963 midnight-blue Lincoln Continental convertible.
In the Trend-Driven Austin Restaurant Scene, Wink Maintains Its Cool

Jul 17, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Kathy Blackwell

As the evening’s first customers stroll into Wink Wine Bar on a Saturday, my friend and I notice that they head straight for the leather-backed seats at the bar. The bartender warmly greets one with a “Well, there you are!” as if she’s been waiting for him all night. It’s not even five o’clock.
Mary Claire Haver Wants to Change How We Think About Menopause

Jul 16, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Kathy Blackwell

Dr. Mary Claire Haver was finishing her obstetrics and gynecology residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston, when she overheard some professors whispering about a new study that appeared to link hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with an increased risk of adverse outcomes, including breast cancer. She remembers that day in 2002 vividly.
Mary Claire Haver on How to Handle Hot Flashes

Jul 16, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Kathy Blackwell

Dr. Mary Claire Haver, the noted Galveston ob-gyn who’s become a leading national voice for women’s health, wants everyone to know this about menopause: the change is inevitable, but suffering is not. Haver, who turns 56 in August, became a social media star, first on Facebook and then with her off-the-cuff videos on TikTok and Instagram, where she’s found an audience of millions of women hungry for information about menopause—the life stage when menstrual cycles end.
Reese Witherspoon on The Morning Show Season 3, Her Book Club + Hello Sunshine

Jun 12, 2024 | backstage.com | Kathy Blackwell

When she was a young actor, Reese Witherspoon never imagined she’d one day form a production house dedicated to stories centered on female protagonists.
The Legend of the Avocado Margarita

Mar 21, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Kathy Blackwell

This story is a part of Texas Monthly’s Taco Week, a series dedicated to proving that Texas is the center of the taco universe. I fell in love with the avocado margarita the way many Texans do: by taking a tentative sip of a friend’s at Curra’s Grill, in Austin. Tentative, because it didn’t look or sound like anything I would want to drink. The color, a cross between lime and chartreuse, seemed almost unnatural.
A New Film Says Goodbye to an Austin Legend and the Austin of Legends

Mar 13, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Kathy Blackwell

You never knew what John Aielli was going to say. Or play. For more than fifty years, the idiosyncratic radio host on the Austin NPR affiliate KUT, and later KUTX, welcomed us into our mornings from the University of Texas campus. He could be poetic; he could be prickly. He took long pauses. He would most certainly go off on tangents that made sense only to him. He would mispronounce name of famous singers and get even the most basic facts about a song wrong.
A New Film Says Goodbye to an Austin Legend and the Austin of Legends

Mar 13, 2024 | dfwliving.com | Kathy Blackwell

You never knew what John Aielli was going to say. Or play. For more than fifty years, the idiosyncratic radio host on the AustinNPR affiliate KUT, and later KUTX, welcomed us into our mornings from the University of Texas campus. He could be poetic; he could be prickly. He took long pauses. He would most certainly go off on tangents that made sense only to him. He would mispronounce name of famous singers and get even the most basic facts about a song wrong.