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Texas Moms Champion Beto With a Giant Roadside Reminder of the Uvalde Shooting
Starting this week, Texans driving westbound on U.S. 90 from San Antonio toward Uvalde will be reminded of the tragic May shooting at Robb Elementary that ended in the murders of nineteen children and...
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Kacey Musgraves Is Just Too Chill to Yell and Scream—Except at Ted Cruz
The thing is, I was really looking forward to rage-screaming about heartbreak over the first weekend of Austin City Limits. The festival’s headliner lineup seemed stacked for brokenhearted catharsis...
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The World’s Foremost Collector of Barf Bags Spews It All
The collection374 airsickness bags spanning 70 countries and 136 airlines, 57 of which are now defunct.The most beautiful bagA “disposal bag” from China Airlines featuring an illustration of an orchid....
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Dripping Springs Was a One-Stoplight Town. Now It Hosts 1,000 Weddings Per Year.
On the first morning of the weddingest weekend of the weddingest year since 1984, Kari Shelton is calmly preparing to spin dreams into reality. She’s the owner and head florist of the Flower Girl, and...
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Delve Deeper Into the Violent, Complex History of the Texas Rangers With...
The Texas Rangers are older than Texas itself—at least by one metric. Stephen F. Austin created the group of cowboy-lawmen in 1823, thirteen years before the founding of the Texas Republic and more...
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This Merry Texan Keeps Hundreds of Santas in Her Safe Room
The lootHundreds of vintage Christmas tree ornaments, mid-century Santa figurines, and old-timey plastic lawn ornaments known as blow molds.Her favorite pieceA plaster Santa figurine her grandparents...
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Texas’s Foremost Neon Artist Reflects on a Lit-Up Life
There is a look and feel to the old, mythic version of Austin that holds space within the collective memory. It goes something like this: Guy Clark on the radio, artists abounding, and the bright...
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A Fashion Lover’s Guide to SXSW 2023
In Texas, festival fashion in the fall means fringe, hats, and sparkle. But in the spring, during the two weeks in March when South by Southwest (SXSW) takes over Austin, fashion coalesces around one...
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15 Treasure-Filled Spots to Antique in Small-town Texas
The thrill of the hunt, the glory of the find: antiquing is a rite of passage for any small-town tourist. In Texas, antique shops are as ubiquitous as the tchotchkes they hawk—and their wares are just...
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West Texas’s Baby Buc-ee’s Is Back, Baby
In April 2022, the world’s tiniest Buc-ee’s first appeared in West Texas along a Sanderson-bound strip of U.S. 90. Parodying earlier artworks themselves satirizing American consumption, including the...
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The Bad Boy Tattoo Guru of Wimberley
Some four thousand years ago, and by the hands of some tens of thousands of workers, the Giza pyramids were constructed as a monument to great Egyptian pharaohs. A world away, yet on the same...
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Meow Wolf Opens Its Maximalist, Multicolored Doors in Grapevine
Before we begin, a strobe light disclaimer. Those prone to seizures or acid flashbacks should not proceed. Those uncertain about uncertainty should venture on with caution. The world we are about to...
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To Have and to Hold: Why Texans Love Their Koozies
It was 1979, a stifling hot day on a Texas construction site. A worker was consuming a cold one when he noticed that the nearby tubing installation material fit perfectly around his can. The makeshift...
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13 Must-Visit Thrift and Vintage Shops in Texas
For previous generations, finding a bargain pair of pants or shoes in an out-of-the-way thrift store was its own prize. Just ask your mom—no conversation about fashion is quite so satisfying as...
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North Texans Are Rallying to Save a Marvel of Space-age Architecture—and a...
When Lindsey Sherritt moved to North Texas fourteen years ago, she lived on Belt Line Road, the looped thoroughfare that encircles Dallas. Each time she exited on the way to her rented home, she’d pass...
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This Collector Has 49,000 Crayons—But Only One “Torch Red”
The collection49,000 crayons.Years in the makingTwenty.Most rare itemA single Torch Red crayon. The color, a true primary red, was only available for one year before its name was changed.There are few...
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ACL Fest Boasts 50-Plus Food and Drink Vendors. These Are the Ones We Don’t...
We know you’ve already planned your music lineup for Austin City Limits 2023, which kicks off this weekend and closes out the next. Whether you’re camping out at the Honda stage to catch country-pop...
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Six Witchcraft Stores to Visit This Spooky Season
If you believe in such superstitions, the veil separating our world and the metaphysical one thins on Halloween. It’s an ideal time to conjure La Llorona, curse the Texas Lege, or otherwise generally...
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These Texas Thanksgiving Recipes Will Give You Something to Be Thankful For
It’s feasting time, y’all! ’Tis the season for big ol’ plates piled high with all manner of beiges, browns, and greens, from gravies and carbs to sweet, sweet slabs of pie. While the building blocks...
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Come Let Us Adore This Woman’s Collection of Nearly 600 Nativity Sets
The collectionSix hundred Nativity sets.The tiniest artifactA Nativity rendered out of pinto beans and glued onto an overturned salsa dish.The best method of procurementOne set came by way of a New...
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Need More Reasons to Celebrate This Season? Try These 7 Holiday Cocktails
As we round out the final few weeks of the year, both the stressors and the celebrations are hitting their apexes. It’s high time, then, to pour one—or three—out. Whether you prefer bourbon, vodka, or...
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It’s Slurp Season. Here Are 9 Essential Texas Soups to Keep You Warm and Full.
It’s too cold out there, y’all. When the temperatures dip, and ERCOT comes calling, Texans know: ’tis the season to slurp. While the Lone Star State is better known for its stifling heat and scorching...
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The Most Texan Things to Serve at Your Super Bowl Party
Let’s get this out of the way: I don’t really know who’s playing at the Super Bowl this year. I have a vague notion Taylor Swift will be there, and I’m aware Usher is slated to entertain us at...
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The Best Looks From the Houston Rodeo’s Opening Day
Have you heard the good news? Beyoncé is releasing a country album.The Houston native’s announcement this month cemented the fact that the Western country lifestyle—and the look that goes with it—has...
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A Rennie’s Guide to HBO’s Texas Renaissance Festival Documentary
Almost every year since 2016, my friends and I pack our cars with booze, bustles, corsets, and camping equipment and head east for the Texas Renaissance Festival, the largest ren faire event in the...
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