Texas Observer Saved After GoFundMe Raises $300,000 for the Austin-Based Magazine

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Majors has been dropped from a slew of projects we hear on good authority including Protagonist Pictures’ feature adaptation of the Walter Mosley novel, The Man in My Basement, an ad campaign for the Texas Rangers MLB team, as well as an unannounced Fifth Estate Otis Redding biopic which the Primetime Emmy nominated actor was circling.

EXCLUSIVE: David Morse (The Chair), Bill Heck (Locke & Key) and Jaklyn Bejarano have been set to star in Santa Rita Film Co.’s La Gloria, a drama exploring the humanity and political abstractions surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border. The latter came aboard following a nationwide casting search in Mexico. 

Taylor Kinney made the military his focus as he returned to the red carpet on Saturday after taking a hiatus from the spotlight. The "Chicago Fire" star stopped by the Red Bull Grand Prix of The Americas for MotoGP races at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, with his girlfriend, Ashley Cruger.  Kinney, 41, attended the MotoGP VIP Experience & Charity Giving event for the MotoUp nonprofit, which benefits veterans through the "active participation and involvement in the global motorsports community."  Kinney looked relaxed at the motorcycle event, and wore a pair of jeans with a black T-shirt and a black hat.  Cruger shared a few behind-the-scenes images to her social media platforms of their day at the race, including jumping on a bike to test out turning styles.

One man is facing some unbelievably harsh Texas justice after — apparently — just spitting at police.

Matthew McConaughey said this week that although he had "considered getting in that run" for governor of Texas last year, he decided not to partially because he wanted to focus on being a father.  "I don’t think that’s where I can be the most useful right now," the "Greenlights" author told Chelsea Handler on her iHeartMedia "Dear Chelsea" podcast Thursday.  He continued, "I’m having too good of a time. I’ve got three kids — 14, 13, 10 — and the adventures we’re going on, I’m not going to get them again; and right now, I’m enjoying being a dad, a family man.

A close guess. Wheel of Fortune fans were confused when Alexa Hoekstra lost $100,000 on the Thursday, April 6 episode.

A woman from Texas showed very immediate regret after stabbing her fiancé — by trying to stitch up his wounds!

Paris Texas have shared the music video for their new single ‘PANIC!!!’ from their upcoming debut album.The duo made up of Louie Pastel and Felix, previously took to social media a preview and trailer for the song as well as what they call a “season 2” of Paris Texas music.The video for ‘PANIC!!!’, directed by Bradley J. Calder & Neema Sadeghi, follows the band into a raucous mosh pit.

According to a Texas federal judge Reed O’Connor, insuring against HIV transmission violates the religious freedom of businesses that object to LGBTQ+ people, meaning insurance companies cannot be forced to cover the medicines. As a result of his ruling, a host of preventative services required to be covered by insurance providers under the Affordable Care Act are in doubt. Photo: Screen grab from Administrative Office of the United States Courts’ video.

Taylor Swift is sharing the love!

Paris Texas, a duo spinning the last decade or so of underground rap into their own sound, are back with their first new song of the year. “PANIC!!!” follows their 2021 full-length Boy Anonymous and last year's one-off single "cyanide." The relatively quiet release schedule makes it all the more appropriate that Paris Texas would return with both barrels blazing.

Twice-impeached former president Donald Trump hasn’t been arrested yet, but Jimmy Fallon is pretty sure he’s starting to feel the heat. During Monday night’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” Fallon joked that the location of Trump’s first official 2024 campaign rally was the clearest sign of that.On Saturday, Trump stopped in Waco, Texas to make his first official campaign bid to the people and, as always, his speech was full of lies and gripes about how he’s being treated unfairly.

Texas Tribune on Sunday night, leading many of the Observer’s staffers to learn from another outlet that they were losing their jobs. Former board member Robert R.

Sophia Scorziello editor Gordon T. Dawson, known for his work on television series “Walker, Texas Ranger” and “Bret Maverick,” and his long association with Sam Peckinpah, has died. He was 84. Dawson died in hospice in West Hills on March 6 due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. His work in the industry spanned many facets, from child actor and wardrobe supervisor to script writer and producer. In his last television series, “Walker, Texas Ranger” starring Chuck Norris, Dawson worked as a writer, supervising producer and co-executive producer, writing 32 of the series episodes.

Wynonna Judd is set to return to the CMT Music Awards stage, nearly one year after her and Naomi Judd‘s final performance together at last year’s show, which came just weeks before Naomi’s death.

Giant theater chain Cineworld will convene a meeting of its shareholders on April 20 related to the Chapter 11 process currently underway in a Texas bankruptcy court.

Wynonna Judd is set to return to the CMT Music Awards stage, nearly one year after her and Naomi Judd's final performance together at last year's show, which came just weeks before Naomi's death.ET can exclusively reveal Judd will team up with recent tourmate Ashley McBryde for their debut television performance set to air live on April 2 on CBS from the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. Following Naomi's death last year, McBryde joined The Judds and they toured together as part of Wynonna's The Judds: The Final Tour, which continued as planned as a tribute to Naomi.Wynonna and McBryde recently kicked off the 2023 leg of the tour, which will also include Brandi Carlile, Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town and Tanya Tucker for select dates. Naomi and Wynonna brought down the house at last year's CMT Awards with an unforgettable performance, which also marked their triumphant TV return after more than 20 years.

Gordon T. Dawson, a costume designer-turned-screenwriter who worked on multiple movies with Sam Peckinpah and wrote on TV hits The Rockford Files and Walker, Texas Ranger among other films and series, died March 6 of pulmonary disease in West Hills, CA, his family announced. He was 84.

Ben Croll Montreal-based Also Productions, the rising premium outfit behind the Series Mania title “Disobey” and the popular police drama “The Sketch Artist,” will next hit international waters with the facts-are-stranger-than-fiction geopolitical thriller “Chain Reaction.” Based on the best-selling book from investigative journalist Vincent Larouche, the development project will untangle a multinational web that connected Quebecois businessmen to Swiss bankers to FBI agents to former Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, telling the unbelievable true story of a corruption scandal that nearly brought down the Canadian government. “The Sketch Artist” head writer André Gulluni will freely adapt Larouche’s page-turning exposé, which revealed the misdoings of SNC-Lavalin, a Montreal-based construction company alleged to have bribed and defrauded the Libyan government out of hundreds of millions of dollars. The ensuing (and cascading) financial scandal would soon rope in everyone from top politicos to Texas-based associates of Pablo Escobar.

A traditional Texas BBQ diner is set to open at an Ayrshire roadside.