Solar eclipse tourism could bring up to $603 million to Texas economy, UTSA prof says

In case anyone is wondering how much money visitors are bringing to Texas as they descend on the Hill Country to view Monday's eclipse, a San Antonio college professor has crunched the numbers. Bülent  Temel, a political economist at UTSA, estimates that tourism to witness the celestial event will d

How Texas teens lost the one program that allowed birth control without parental consent

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Teenagers come to Access Esperanza’s family planning clinics in the Rio Grande Valley for birth control.

Aterciopelados pay tribute to the album that put Colombia on the rock en español map

In 1995, future three-time Latin Grammy winners Aterciopelados did the unthinkable: make Argentine rockeros pay attention to Colombian rocanrol. "Have you heard 'Bolero Falaz'?" two-time Oscar- and multi-Grammy-winning producer and composer Gustavo Santaolalla asked me around that time.

Bad Takes: Dante's Inferno has it right about liars and cons like Donald Trump

Editor's Note: Bad Takes is a column of opinion and analysis. If you're like me and only pretended to read the Italian poet Dante Alighieri's Inferno in high school, good news: a recent four-hour documentary on PBS breathes new life into the musty classic. Though seven centuries separate us, Dante's