The magazine also covers leisure topics such as music, art, dining, and travel.

Other Bum Steer "Hall of Famers" include Ross Perot, Tom DeLay, and Jessica Simpson.

The headquarters was scheduled to move to its current location in Downtown Austin in the summer of 2011.

[15] The magazine has received ten National Magazine Awards:[16] The complete archives of Texas Monthly (1972–present) are located at the Wittliff collections of Southwestern Writers, Texas State University.

[17] In the 1980s, Texas Monthly Press published such books as Goodbye to a River and Hank the Cowdog and authors such as Bud Shrake, Stephen Harrigan and Gary Cartwright.