The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food. The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of PFAS — also known as "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.

My most recent painting of Barton Springs ATX!!

Best story I’ve read this year….

Barton Springs like you've never seen it before, by @bobby-aleman.bsky.social for @texashighways.bsky.social. This hike is calling you, hiker people of Austin. texashighways.com/outdoors/tra...

New OPEN ROAD essay : Texas Highways "Running isn’t a contact sport, though I’d argue the pain inflicted during endurance sports hurts more intensely than a hit you might take on the football field. In essence, you’re suffocating yourself." @iandille.bsky.social texashighways.com/culture/runn...

Follow a hypothetical raindrop from South Austin to Barton Springs on a 12-mile inner city eco-hike. We stop by Whirlpool cave, an old ranch, & the prettiest spot in the greenbelt, on our way to the crown jewel of Austin, Texas— #nature #photography #hiking texashighways.com/outdoors/tra...

"acebuche" by ire'ne lara silva "for months i slept only 45 minutes at a time for months i barely wanted to eat for months i dreamt of all my teeth falling out and a screaming baby in the freezer" waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...

And in 2023, @bobby-aleman.bsky.social wrote about The Narrows, a magical watering hole along the Blanco River. This is the all-time most-read feature on the @texashighways.bsky.social site. texashighways.com/outdoors/bra...

I found myself in Sunset Valley this morning at a farmer’s market. Micro-greens, pickles, honey, & jams in jars We stepped in line for sourdough croissants filled w choc. The bakers told me they had been up since 7 the night before. Grabbed some Turkish coffee & saw a baby with most silver-blue eyes

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“If you could shrink down to the size of a raindrop and flow into one of these caves, you’d travel for miles underground and end up at Barton Springs!” @bobby-aleman.bsky.social for Texas Highways texashighways.com/outdoors/tra...

A jury on Wednesday convicted an Illinois sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder, a lesser charge, in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 to report a suspected prowler. https://to.pbs.org/49ykzxM

Check the Drip. Texas Highways Magazine.

The new Netflix documentary "The Perfect Neighbor" has recast the spotlight on the case of Susan Lorincz — the white Florida woman who fatally shot her Black neighbor through a locked front door.

A Texas motorcyclist finds his bliss on Park Rd 4. Read here: texashighways.com/outdoors/a-b... #motosky #kawasaki #motorcycle

I miss REDBOX. Long live analog.

Shout-out to Texas Highways contributor Fowzia Karimi on her Notable Essay nod in Best American Essays 2025.

“A Barton Springs devotee traces its water source on a 12-mile inner-city hike.” Story out now for Texas Highways subscribers. Check the Drip. More to come—

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Just a reminder …

Yes! @texashighways.bsky.social writer-at-large Lauren Hough and her dog, Woody Guthrie, go in search of a ghost town. #longreads texashighways.com/travel/the-q...

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walking back to Rollingwood

One of the coolest stories @texashighways.bsky.social has ever published is coming soon, in the November issue, by the one and only @bobby-aleman.bsky.social.

“I just want to work in peace.”

Ceviche bar Pullman’s was a nice surprise

I love reading @marissarmoss.bsky.social's profiles in @rollingstone.com of my fave country musicians. So, I was excited to discover, from this essay she wrote for @texashighways.bsky.social, that her love of country comes from riding horses in Texas. #longreads texashighways.com/culture/an-e...

Rode by some cotton fields in Southern Georgia this morning. Looks like they're ready for harvest. #motosky #motorcycle #shovelhead

I don’t think ZZ Top gets enough credit for being early adapters of electronic mixed with hard rock. Listen to Legs or Sharp Dressed Man or Gimme All Your Loving, that’s a Human League drumbeat and synth line. It’s Giorgio Morodor or New Order with loud guitars.

blogging outdoor stories was my form of busking—doing it for the reps and the love

I mean, really, follow @benzajdel.bsky.social. Basketball szn is about to begin.

This former Dallas Cowboys standout made a surprise retirement announcement with the season poised to begin

“Like a hologram glitch, I was moving in-and-out of a ‘vanishing state,’ lulled by the hum of my motor as it gently vibrated through the handlebars—It’s almost as if I wasn’t there.” Read my latest for Texas Highways magazine: texashighways.com/outdoors/a-b... #motosky #motorcycle #kawasaki

If swimming in the River Seine in Paris was on your bucket list this summer, but you thought you might have missed the boat, don’t worry — there’s still time. The city will extend its experiment with public bathing in the river for two more weeks, its mayor said.

"Our national parks are really the place that preserves our history," Theresa Pierno, the president and CEO of the National Parks Conservation Association, told us last month. "National park rangers are the most beloved and important storytellers in this nation." https://to.pbs.org/458FUKD

Her great-grandma Jeanne worked in couture at Neiman Marcus in the '50s & ’60s & taught her that what we wear can be a form of art & self-expression. Shannon Perri visits the Dallas flagship as it teeters on the brink of extinction—for @texashighways.bsky.social. texashighways.com/culture/look...

Spacing's new waterfront issue, available any day now, includes an article by Charlotte Reed about how Toronto could incorporate more swimming beyond beaches in the waterfront. cen.acs.org/environment/...

I had the great pleasure of editing this @texashighways.bsky.social story by Alice Scott, one of our summer interns (and a McCallum High grad). Alice is a natural—this is a fantastic piece about the one and only LARRY MCMURTRY. texashighways.com/culture/arts...

I still think Netflix’s Chef’s Table brings the best storytelling on TV—or is it that every come-up in Food & Bev has a compelling arc?

Roland Reisley is the last original client of Frank Lloyd Wright, still living in the Usonian home designed by the famed architect. Even after 73 years, he told NPR, he still marvels at the beauty of the home.

Hey y’all, @texashighways.bsky.social has resumed posting to Bluesky. Give us a follow, will ya?

Breaking News: A former Louisville police officer involved in the fatal raid of Breonna Taylor’s home was sentenced to nearly three years in prison.

Watch "Inside Tracks II: The Lost Albums" on Bruce’s official YouTube channel to learn more about all the lost albums now!

www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t... Read this story a few days ago and haven't stopped thinking about this part. Heartbreaking on various levels.

🚨🫨💥 @texashighways.bsky.social’s acclaimed Open Road essays now come in audio versions narrated by the authors. Our 1st one is live: Emily Gogolak’s “Amarillo by Morning,” which just happens to be our most clicked story of 2025. Please listen! More stories soon! texashighways.com/open-road-au...

Bruce Springsteen said an album “is a record of who you are and where you were at that moment in your life.” With “Tracks II: The Lost Albums” he adds seven full ones to his catalog. Read our wide-ranging interview with Springsteen ahead of the release. nyti.ms/4kWYb4b

Brown is beautiful.

Brown is beautiful.