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How Renée Rouleau Built a Texan Skin Care Empire and...

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2025/01/31

Aesthetician Renée Rouleau didn’t plan to build her skin care empire in Texas. She moved to the Lone Star State from Massachusetts in 1996 to be with Troy Aikman, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback. No, they weren’t dating, but Rouleau […]

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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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