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New Markers Remember Enslaved People Brought to Texas...

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2024/04/18

Volunteers and historians are breaking new ground in a less widely told story of slavery in Texas.

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The Former Slave Who Became a Cowboy, a Rancher, and...

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2024/04/18

Daniel Webster Wallace was born in bondage in South Texas. By the time of his death, nearly eight decades later, he'd amassed a fortune—and a place in West Texas history.

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Hunting for Texas’s Prettiest Purple Mushroom

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2024/04/17

The wood blewit has a lovely lavender hue and, oddly enough, is said to smell like frozen orange juice. It also tastes great in a breakfast taco.

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Rule One of Wind Turbine Repair Work: Don’t Leave...

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2024/04/17

A Big Spring wind turbine technician says the views three hundred feet above West Texas are magnificent—just watch out for the flying ants.

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A Dallas MotoGP Mechanic Opens Up About the Nomadic...

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2024/04/17

Yuji Kikuchi, a gearbox specialist with the Honda LCR team, brings us inside the engineers’ paddock before the Grand Prix of the Americas, in Austin.

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How a Del Rio Family Turned a Class Project into a...

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2024/04/17

A mother and her two daughters incorporate playful nods at their Hispanic culture with Cinnamon Girl Soaps.

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What Is Alex Jones Doing in This Tiny Far West Texas...

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2024/04/17

The bankrupt Infowars host is the latest colorful character to stake out a place in the desert outpost of Terlingua.

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This Pork Steak is the Best Drive-Through Meal I’ve...

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2024/04/17

As Helberg Barbecue, near Waco, recovers from a devastating fire, it’s pivoted to serving drive-through meals, like this citrusy wonder, from a trailer.

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Permian Producers Will Pay You to Haul Their Natural...

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2024/04/17

Assuming you own a pipeline, that is. The region is wrestling with a glut of the fuel.

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This Spot Has Found a Way to Legally Cook Traditional...

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2024/04/16

Restaurants that cook Hidalgo-style barbacoa de borrego often have challenges adhering to health department regulations. But El Grandpa Mexican BBQ, in Georgetown, has made it work.

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This Astronomer Isn’t Buying the Latest Round of UFO...

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2024/04/16

Nicholas Suntzeff doubts the latest round of conspiracy theories about extraterrestrials. But he hasn’t given up on finding neighbors in the universe.

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Where Your Ancestors Lived—More Than Your Race—May...

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2024/04/16

A new book by a UNT historian argues that American medicine overlooks how the ailments of many Black Americans are influenced by the diets of their African forebears.

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When a Defendant Gets Lost in Translation

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2024/04/16

An Indigenous man couldn’t understand the court proceedings when he was charged with a crime in Texas. He was sentenced anyway.

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Smoked and Fried Chicken Wings With Curry Lime Sauce

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2024/04/12

I can’t stop eating this sauce from Feges BBQ, which tastes good on everything from chicken to noodles.

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‘The Official Love & Death Podcast’ Nominated for...

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2024/04/11

Voting is open until Thursday, April 18.

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Did Chip Gaines’s Social Media Crusade Keep Scott...

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2024/04/11

After the Magnolia star spent Wednesday in a holy war with University of Kentucky basketball fans, Baylor’s coach decided to stay put.

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The Rich Legacy of a Bighearted Beer Guy

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2024/04/11

Carlos Alvarez, who died this week at 73, made a fortune bringing Corona to the U.S. and reviving Shiner Bock. Then, from his base in San Antonio, he cheerfully gave much of that fortune away.

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Jeff Hiller Is Living His Best Gay Christian Life

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2024/04/11

How the San Antonio native and ’Somebody Somewhere’ star became a middle-aged ingenue.

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Texas’s First College for Black Women Lies in Ruins....

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2024/04/11

In a small East Texas town, Mary Allen College offered opportunity to thousands of Black women, and later men, for nearly nine decades. It’s been shuttered since 1977, but efforts are underway to restore it.

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This Food Truck Offers a Taste of El Paso in the...

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2024/04/11

At El Paso Flauta, in Austin, Arturo Reyes recreates—and even surpasses—Sun City's famous dishes, such as the chile relleno burrito and tacos ahogados.

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