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There’s more at stake than bragging rights in today's new space race. A sci-fi vision of a bustling lunar economy by the 2040s depends, in part, on the success of competitors like Intuitive Machines and Firefly. 🚀 Read our September cover story here:
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“Instead of stalking our ex-boyfriends online, we started a newspaper.” Founded in 1966, during the Vietnam War, the original 'Rag' emerged out of a sense that free speech was under fire. It's back again.
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These UT Students Are Fed Up With Social Media. So They Revived a Newspaper From the Sixties.
“Instead of stalking our ex-boyfriends online, we started a newspaper.”
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ut-underground-newspaper-the-rag-revived/
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Happy National Dessert Day! 🗣️ One of our favorites? Luby’s Chocolate Ice Box Pie.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/lubys-chocolate-ice-box-pie/
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The Best Dessert in Texas Comes on a Cafeteria Tray
The Texanist offers his pick for the Ultimate Taste of Texas. Did someone say Luby's?
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/lubys-chocolate-ice-box-pie/
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In today's word wrangler, search for ten true crime stories written by Texas Monthly’s Skip Hollandsworth. 🔍
https://www.texasmonthly.com/games/word-wrangler-october-14-2025/
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Word Wrangler: October 14, 2025
Ten true crime stories written by Texas Monthly’s Skip Hollandsworth.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/games/word-wrangler-october-14-2025/
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Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day. Read our cover story from 2024 about the Karankawa, the people who inhabited the coastal plains and barrier islands of Texas:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/karankawa-people-today/
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The Karankawa Want You to Know They’re Not Extinct
Emerging from a long history of oppression, slanderous folklore, and rumors of their demise, the Gulf Coast people are finding a place for themselves in the twenty-first century.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/karankawa-people-today/
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The Trump administration’s immigration policies have made it much harder to find agricultural labor in the state—but that’s just the latest blow in a deepening, industry-wide crisis.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/is-this-the-end-of-texas-farming/
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Are We Living Through the End of Texas Farming?
The Trump administration’s immigration policies have made it much harder to find agricultural labor in the state—but that’s just the latest blow in a deepening, industry-wide crisis.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/is-this-the-end-of-texas-farming/
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Taylor Bruck, a county clerk in upstate New York, has been pulled into a legal battle that will test whether Texas can enforce its abortion laws in other states.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ken-paxton-new-york-abortion-lawsuit/
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How a Local New York Official Became Ken Paxton’s Most Wanted
The Ulster County clerk has been pulled into a legal battle that will test whether Texas can enforce its abortion laws in other states.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ken-paxton-new-york-abortion-lawsuit/
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There’s something missing in Greg Abbott. Over the last decade, he seems to have learned to fill it by moving troops around, a hobby which is having a stranger and stranger effect on his country as time goes by:
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What the Texas National Guard Deployment Tells Us About Greg Abbott
Our governor can be a maddeningly inscrutable figure. His latest exercise in ordering troops around can help us understand him.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/what-texas-national-guard-deployments-say-about-greg-abbott/
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“I’m sure there are a lot of folks who will only attend Oscar Wyatt’s funeral to make sure he’s dead. The Houston oilman, who died Wednesday at age 101, made plenty of enemies.” That
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Oscar Wyatt Typified the Texas Tycoon. We May Never See His Like Again.
The shrewd, ruthless billionaire defied convention—and defined the mythology of the oilman.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/oscar-wyatt-dead-101-tycoon/
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In today's word wrangler, search for ten foods we’ve highlighted in our monthly Tex-Mexplainer column. 🌮🌟
http://texasmonthly.com/games/word-wrangler-october-13-2025/
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Word Wrangler: October 13, 2025
Ten foods we’ve highlighted in our monthly Tex-Mexplainer column.
http://texasmonthly.com/games/word-wrangler-october-13-2025/
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Yes, they’re deep-fried. But that’s not the most important part.
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These Tacos Are the Best Thing I’ve Ever Eaten at the State Fair of Texas
Yes, they’re deep-fried. But that’s not the most important part.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/texas-state-fair-deli-mex-tacos-smokey-johns/
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Independent media and tourism ventures have sprouted near the South Texas spaceport. But the City of Starbase’s new powers are making things more complicated.
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Scrappy Streamers Watch SpaceX’s Every Move. Will Elon Musk’s Company Town Shut Them Down?
Independent media and tourism ventures have sprouted near the South Texas spaceport. But the City of Starbase’s new powers are making things more complicated.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/starbase-video-streamers-vs-spacex/
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Not long ago, both Texas MLC teams were world-beaters. Until, suddenly, they weren’t.
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What Happened to the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers?
Here’s why Texas’s two baseball clubs missed the playoffs.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/astros-rangers-miss-playoffs-what-next/
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We spoke to Wesley Hunt, the congressman and Trump surrogate, about why he wants to oust Cornyn, whether he thinks he’s helping Paxton win, and what it would take to win Trump’s endorsement.
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Texas’s Newest U.S. Senate Candidate Says It’s “Fine” if Ken Paxton Wins
We spoke to Wesley Hunt, the congressman and Trump surrogate, about why he wants to oust Cornyn, whether he thinks he’s helping Paxton win, and what it would take to win Trump’s endorsement.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-senate-race-wesley-hunt-ken-paxton/
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Unlikely cheese? Don't mind if we do.
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In El Paso, an Unlikely Cheese Reigns Supreme
Originating in medieval Alsace, this semisoft, orange-rind cheese is commonly used in Mexican dishes in the modern border region.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/muenster-el-pasos-favorite-cheese/
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In some circles, September 1 marks the first day of fall. In others, it comes a little further into the month, on September 22. In Texas, you have to laugh.
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Signs It’s Time to Start Cosplaying Fall in Texas
In some circles, September 1 marks the first day of fall. In Texas, you have to laugh.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/signs-fall-texas-football-hatch-chile-weather-shiner-oktoberfest/
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For over a decade, “Dreamers” have lived and worked in the U.S. without fear of detention. More than a dozen have been swept up in this year’s immigration crackdowns.
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They Thought DACA Kept Them Safe From Arrest. They Were Wrong.
For over a decade, “Dreamers” have lived and worked in the U.S. without fear of detention. More than a dozen have been swept up in this year’s immigration crackdowns.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-daca-dreamer-arrests/
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"Wyatt was sui generis. Love him or hate him, we may never see the likes of him again—he was an exemplar of the brash, wily, hell-for-leather Texan. J. R. Ewing was a cheap imitation," writes @mimiswartz.bsky.social of the late Oscar Wyatt.
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Oscar Wyatt Typified the Texas Tycoon. We May Never See His Like Again.
The shrewd, ruthless billionaire defied convention—and defined the mythology of the oilman.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/oscar-wyatt-dead-101-tycoon/
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Turns out you can put a fringed hem on anything. The best of ACL fashion, in photos:
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What Folks Are Wearing at ACL Fest
Austin's Zilker Park has become a stage for personal style, from thrifted finds to custom accessories.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/style/what-folks-are-wearing-at-acl-fest/
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Base Power has become one of the buzziest young companies in Austin—drawing particular attention because of who’s running it: 29-year-old CEO, Zach Dell, the son of billionaire Michael Dell.
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Michael Dell’s Son Raised $1 Billion to Upend the Texas Energy Market
Battery company Base Power hopes to convince homeowners to buy in to its new model of providing power.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/base-power-battery-dell/
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We wrap up the first two months of the new Texas Book Club by discussing the enduring power of Larry McMurtry’s 1985 epic. 📚 Listen here:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/podcast/tm-out-loud-book-club-lonesome-dove/
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Why We Keep Returning to ‘Lonesome Dove’
We wrap up the first two months of the new Texas Book Club by discussing the enduring power of Larry McMurtry’s 1985 epic.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/podcast/tm-out-loud-book-club-lonesome-dove/
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In our Weekly Top 5: * The right to die (5280 Magazine) * When the dart players come to town (Victory Journal) * A warrior for justice (
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads
This week we are featuring stories from Robert Sanchez, Amos Barshad, Mark Dent, Zoya Teirstein, and Caity Weaver.
https://longreads.com/2025/10/10/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-582/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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A team of researchers believes the Dixon’s whiptail has been mistakenly identified as another lizard for decades. So they braved the desert to find out once and for all.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/dixons-whiptail-lizard-conservation/
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To Save This West Texas Lizard, They Must First Prove It Actually Exists
Researchers believe the Dixon’s whiptail has been mistakenly identified as another lizard for decades.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/dixons-whiptail-lizard-conservation/
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Houston oilman Oscar Wyatt died Wednesday at age 101. The rules didn’t seem to apply to the shrewd, ruthless billionaire. He defied convention—and defined the mythology of the oilman.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/oscar-wyatt-dead-101-tycoon/
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Oscar Wyatt Typified the Texas Tycoon. We May Never See His Like Again.
The shrewd, ruthless billionaire defied convention—and defined the mythology of the oilman.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/oscar-wyatt-dead-101-tycoon/
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At weekend one of Austin City Limits, we saw brightly colored boots, bejeweled hats, belt buckles of turquoise and hammered metal, and miles upon miles of fringed hem. 🤠👢✨ Here’s who stood out to the Texas Monthly crew:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/style/what-folks-are-wearing-at-acl-fest/
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What Folks Are Wearing at ACL Fest
Austin's Zilker Park has become a stage for personal style, from thrifted finds to custom accessories.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/style/what-folks-are-wearing-at-acl-fest/
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"Workers, long bound by confidentiality about plant operations, often didn’t know what they could share publicly about how Pantex had affected them, even with doctors."
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This Amarillo Woman Devoted Years to Maintaining America’s Nuclear Arsenal. She’s Paid a Hefty Price.
Spurred by her own painful loss, Sarah Ray has spent two decades helping others seek compensation for cancer and other illnesses likely contracted at the Pantex plant.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/amarillo-pantex-nuclear-weapons-cancer/
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Gonna need to grab your Stetson for this one, y'all. 🤠 An excerpt from new book, "Stetson: American Icon," explores how the archetypal Western hat got its start in Hollywood—and why it endured.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/style/stetson-in-hollywood/
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How the Stetson Got Its Start in American Movies—and Why It Endured
An excerpt from a new book explores how the archetypal Western hat got its start in Hollywood—and why it endured.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/style/stetson-in-hollywood/
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Calling all Houstonians. 🚨 Here's the best barbecue to find in the city:
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Our Top Barbecue Joints in Houston
From Cajun and Asian influences to the Texas classics.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/bbq/best-bbq-in-houston/
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🫧 You may 🫧 now 🫧 kiss the 🫧 bride. 🫧
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Meet Dallas’s “Bubbliest” Wedding Officiant
Judge Adam Swartz marries couples in style.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/dallas-judge-bubbliest-wedding-officiant/
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Oil tycoon Oscar Wyatt Jr. has died at 101 years old. “. . . he was so sure of himself, a larger-than-life character,” Jan Jarboe Russell said of her 1991 profile on Wyatt for Texas Monthly. Read the full story here:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/world-of-oilman-oscar-wyatt/
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Meaner Than a Junkyard Dog
“Guys like me like Iraq,” says Houston oilman Oscar Wyatt. “That’s the way the real world works, baby.”
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/world-of-oilman-oscar-wyatt/
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We spoke to Wesley Hunt about why he wants to oust Cornyn, whether he thinks he’s helping Paxton win, and what it would take to win Trump’s endorsement.
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Texas’s Newest U.S. Senate Candidate Says It’s “Fine” if Ken Paxton Wins
We spoke to Wesley Hunt, the congressman and Trump surrogate, about why he wants to oust Cornyn, whether he thinks he’s helping Paxton win, and what it would take to win Trump’s endorsement.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-senate-race-wesley-hunt-ken-paxton/
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It was Mission X Tacos’ al pastor that caught the attention of Hill Country Ice House’s owner, but the sopes are the reason to drive all the way there.
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Tiny Sopes Are the Sleeper Hit at This Austin Taco Truck
Mission X Tacos got noticed for its al pastor, but this bite-size Mexican dish makes it worth the long drive.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/mission-x-tacos-austin/
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In today's word wrangler, hunt for ten films featuring Matthew McConaughey, Texas’s most beloved actor. 📽️
https://www.texasmonthly.com/games/word-wrangler-october-7-2025/
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Word Wrangler: October 7, 2025
Ten films featuring Matthew McConaughey, Texas’s most beloved actor.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/games/word-wrangler-october-7-2025/
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Independent media and tourism ventures have sprouted near the South Texas spaceport. But the City of Starbase’s new powers are making things more complicated.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/starbase-video-streamers-vs-spacex/
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Scrappy Streamers Watch SpaceX’s Every Move. Will Elon Musk’s Company Town Shut Them Down?
Independent media and tourism ventures have sprouted near the South Texas spaceport. But the City of Starbase’s new powers are making things more complicated.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/starbase-video-streamers-vs-spacex/
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For over a decade, “Dreamers” have lived and worked in the U.S. without fear of detention. More than a dozen have been swept up in this year’s immigration crackdowns.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-daca-dreamer-arrests/
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They Thought DACA Kept Them Safe From Arrest. They Were Wrong.
For over a decade, “Dreamers” have lived and worked in the U.S. without fear of detention. More than a dozen have been swept up in this year’s immigration crackdowns.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-daca-dreamer-arrests/
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Happy National Orange Wine Day. 🍊🍷 Read our story from 2021 when the beverage was just catching on:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/the-rise-of-orange-wine/
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The Funky, Floral Rise of Orange Wine in Texas
This versatile wine is catching on, and at least one sommelier considers it to be the best pairing for Texas barbecue.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/the-rise-of-orange-wine/
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In today's word wrangler, search for ten Olympic medalists who are from or live in Texas. 🏅
https://www.texasmonthly.com/games/word-wrangler-october-6-2025/
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Word Wrangler: October 6, 2025
Ten Olympic medalists who are from or live in Texas.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/games/word-wrangler-october-6-2025/
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Marc Fadel is leaning into his Lebanese heritage at Habibi Barbecue, in Arlington.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/bbq/habibi-barbecue-arlington-review/
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How a 19-Year-Old Pitmaster Transformed His Trailer Into a Barbecue Destination
Lebanese flavors and barbecue are a winning combo at this North Texas food truck.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/bbq/habibi-barbecue-arlington-review/
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Tim Kennedy, the popular manosphere influencer, has built a career on his reputation as an MMA fighter and a veteran. But his dodgy relationship to the truth could bring it all crashing down.
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Tim Kennedy vs. the Truth
The popular manosphere influencer has built a career on his reputation as an MMA fighter and a Green Beret. But can we believe everything he says?
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/tim-kennedy-manosphere-mma-green-beret/
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As the State Fair of Texas kicks into high gear, Binh Tran will be up early every morning driving around the Dallas metroplex in search of coconuts. This year—after years of trying—his coconut-pineapple slushie is a Big Tex Choice Awards finalist.
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Pineapple Man Is Finally Getting the Recognition He Deserves at the State Fair of Texas
It only took Binh Tran twenty-plus years to become a Big Tex finalist.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/pineapple-man-texas-state-fair/
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A good diner is an old friend, even on the first visit. Houston’s Agnes and Sherman, which bills itself as a modern Asian American diner, puts its own spin on the classic format but crucially keeps things comfortable—and comforting.
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You Had Us at "Cheeseburger Fried Rice"
Houston's Agnes and Sherman gives comfort food classics an Asian spin.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/agnes-and-sherman-diner-review-houston/
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Dylan Gossett doesn’t consider his music Texas country, but his ACL festival homecoming is triumphant all the same.
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Two Years Ago, This Country Singer Was Playing Songs in His Bedroom. Now He’s Starring at ACL Fest.
Dylan Gossett doesn’t consider his music “Texas country,” but his ACL festival homecoming is triumphant all the same.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/dylan-gossett-austin-city-limits/
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Creating hexagonal pucks of drinking chocolate is, somehow, more complicated than it sounds. An Austin-based maker creates small-batch Mexican drinking chocolates that are steeped in tradition.
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The Chocolaty Drink You Need for Fall
An Austin-based maker creates small-batch Mexican drinking chocolates that are steeped in tradition.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/style/hijita-chocolate-maker/
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Staff writer Michael Hall’s first story about Austin's yogurt shop murders, “Under the Gun,” detailed the flaws in that initial investigation. This week, Hall was back on the case as Austin police announced new DNA evidence that points to an entirely different suspect.
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How Police Finally Solved Austin’s Most Notorious Cold Case
Michael Hall on new DNA evidence that pointed to a killer in the 1991 yogurt shop murders.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/podcast/tm-out-loud-yogurt-shop-murders/
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Joshua Coleman loved his family, custom trucks, Nike shoes, and barbecue. When he passed away in a tragic accident at the age of 36, his mother and brother decided they would continue to celebrate Josh’s life through barbecue.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/bbq/joshua-coleman-top-50-bbq-tribute/
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He Died Before Visiting All of Texas’s Top Fifty Barbecue Joints. His Family Is Finishing His Quest.
Josh Coleman loved his family, custom trucks, and barbecue.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/bbq/joshua-coleman-top-50-bbq-tribute/
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And the Texas Book Club's October pick is . . .
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-stand-up-desk/announcing-the-texas-book-clubs-october-pick/
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Announcing the Texas Book Club’s October Pick
The Texas Book Club is capping off its first read and preparing to dive into a dystopian novel set in Texas, where (gasp) books are against the law.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-stand-up-desk/announcing-the-texas-book-clubs-october-pick/
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Yes, they’re deep-fried. But that’s not the most important part . . .
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These Tacos Are the Best Thing I’ve Ever Eaten at the State Fair of Texas
Yes, they’re deep-fried. But that’s not the most important part.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/texas-state-fair-deli-mex-tacos-smokey-johns/
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Diaper eating fungus for the win?
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/diaper-eating-fungus-company-hiro-miki-agrawal/
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An Austin Start-Up’s Diaper-Eating Fungus Aims to Solve Our Plastic Waste Problem
Hiro hopes to give parents an alternative to adding to a persistent environmental issue—by making a dirty job just a wee bit dirtier.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/diaper-eating-fungus-company-hiro-miki-agrawal/
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“You are preparing to invite children to swim in the very river that may still hold our daughter’s body when you plan to ‘open your gates,’” the new statement from CiCi and Will Steward reads.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/camp-mystic-reopening-parents-unthinkable/
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David Barton calls church-state separation a myth. He’s now an adviser on state social studies curricula.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/david-barton-texas-public-school-curricula/
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He Calls Church-State Separation a Myth. He’s Now Weighing In on Public School Curricula.
David Barton, far-right Christian activist and founder of Wallbuilders, has been appointed by Texas's board of education to advise on social studies instruction.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/david-barton-texas-public-school-curricula/
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In today's word wrangler, search for ten state parks to leaf your troubles behind. 🍂 🍁 🍂
https://www.texasmonthly.com/games/word-wrangler-october-3-2025/
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Word Wrangler: October 3, 2025
Ten state parks to leaf your troubles behind.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/games/word-wrangler-october-3-2025/
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