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A Scrappy Former Traveler Settles Down With a BBQ Truck

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2025/01/31

After years of hitchhiking and and train hopping, Jesse Weaver turned to smoking meat at his Weaver’s BBQ, in a small town in southeast Texas.

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The Ultimate Map of Texas Regions

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2025/01/31

Where does North Texas begin and end? Does Midland belong in “Big Bend Country”? We’ve got answers.

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Beyoncé Has Lost the Top Grammy Award Four Times. Is...

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2025/01/30

‘Cowboy Carter’ is nominated for Album of the Year. If Bey wins, it may be in part because the Recording Academy has some amends to make.

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When the Catholic Church Ran a Public School in...

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2025/01/30

In a bizarre precedent to today’s debates over faith in the classroom, a local ISD absorbed a parochial school and its nuns for twelve years. It went about as you’d expect.

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A Museum Exhibit Challenges the Myth of the White...

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2025/01/30

The Amon Carter added a mature content warning soon after opening “Cowboy,” a show originally aimed at “disrupting” the portrayal of the Western ideal as cisgender, straight, and white.

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Meanwhile, in Texas: Someone Put a Seat Belt on That...

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2025/01/30

A brief selection of recent events in our unpredictable state.

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A Lot Has Changed in Downtown San Antonio,...

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2025/01/30

At this German delicatessen, the split pea soup is hot and the root beer ice-cold.

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It’s Peak Birding Season in Texas. These Festivals...

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2025/01/30

Where to find your flock around the state.

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The World’s Second-Longest Conveyor Belt Is Rolling...

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2025/01/30

Transporting sand to petroleum frackers is often expensive—and dangerous. A big bet on a mammoth machine aims to change that.

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Wildfires Wreaked Havoc in L.A. Some Experts Say...

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2025/01/29

With increasingly hot weather and topographical features that resemble those in parts of Southern California, the booming Texas metropolis ranks fifth among U.S. cities threatened by wildfire.

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Texas’s Other Other Stonehenge

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2025/01/29

Not to rock your world or anything, but there’s an almost exact replica of Stonehenge in Odessa, on the UT Permian Basin campus.

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An Abilene BBQ Joint Blends Its Dance Hall Roots With...

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2025/01/29

Crane’s Craft BBQ renovated the mid-century Wagon Wheel Dance Hall into a smoked meat haven where you can still catch some live music.

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When Grackles Gather, This Falconer Makes Them Scatter

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2025/01/29

If Texas storefronts get swarmed by nuisance birds, they call falconer Steve Oleson and his hawks, Rico and Meego, to drive away the pests.

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Will This 98-Year-Old Sculptor Ever Find a Home for...

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2025/01/29

David Adickes hopes to literally cement his artistic legacy by installing 43 massive busts somewhere in Texas. But he’s running out of time.

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Billy Strings on What It’s Like to Play Willie...

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2025/01/29

Billy Strings, of the hottest guitarists alive describes the hole in Trigger, bringing roses to Willie, and a 90-mph live version of “Stay a Little Longer.”

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If We’re Renaming the Gulf of Mexico, Let’s Consider...

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2025/01/28

“The Gulf of America” sounds petty and insecure. “The Sea of Storms” sounds epic.

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More Reasons to Love the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog

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2025/01/28

This adorable rodent is good for our grasslands, researchers say.

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Why Yes, You Can Put Peas in Guacamole

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2025/01/28

The avocado-based dip is way more riffable than purists insist. Some parts of Mexico even include sweet fruits in their variations.

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Big Battle on the Little Wichita

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2025/01/28

A North Texas city wants to build a new reservoir to blunt the effect of future droughts. But many local ranchers say it would destroy their way of life.

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TM Audio Exclusive: Little Joe on Chasing Dark Clouds...

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2025/01/28

Little Joe, the "King of the Brown Sound," looks back at sixty years of recording Chicano music for progress, for healing, and for throwing a party.

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