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Bless his heart, he’s just in the wrong place. The Legislature is not right for him. His conservative beliefs are too extreme, his suspicions are too easily aroused, his learning curve is too flat. The...
View ArticleSports • Tara Lipinski
IF YOU LIVED IN HOUSTON in the early nineties, maybe you got the chance to see hera frail-looking little girl with tiny legs and a wisp of a body, her brown hair pulled back in a bun, her lips pressed...
View ArticleNational Politics • Tom DeLay
THE NEXT TIME YOU HIRE SOMEONE to exterminate roaches from your home, imagine him as the majority whip of the United States House of Representatives. For customers of Albo Pest Control in the Houston...
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The Smoked Sausage at the BBQ Barn Continues a Family Legacy
When Mark Albright opened the BBQ Barn in 2016, he had no idea that the joint would bring him new, stronger family ties. Barbecue had been just a weekend hobby for him before he was laid off from his...
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Remembering Reginald Moore, the Activist Who Uncovered Sugar Land’s Dark Past
When I first met him in 2016, Reginald Moore was deeply frustrated. The retired longshoreman had spent much of the previous two decades trying—without much success—to bring attention to the brutal...
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Where to See Holiday Lights and Meet Santa (Safely) This Year
Long-distance travel and kissing strangers under the mistletoe may be on hold in 2020, but Texas still knows how to show up for the most wonderful time of the year. Communities across the state have...
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Texas’s Best (and Weirdest) Minor League Baseball Team Names, Ranked
It’s been a weird year for sports, and even weirder for the lower-level sports leagues that rely on fan attendance to bring in any money. In 2020, minor league baseball canceled its season for the...
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Yet Another Buc-ee’s Trademark Lawsuit Is Upon Us
There’s nary a week that passes when, in some corner of Texas, someone isn’t getting up to something that we can only describe as “antics.” These stories capture our attention and imagination, and we...
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Stories We Wish We’d Published This Year
The second year of a pandemic. The January 6 riot at the capitol, with all its Texans. The failure of the electric grid. The passage of an abortion ban and restrictive voting bill. The return of the...
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A Requiem for Swatson and Moe, the Mosquito Mascot Kings of Texas Minor...
Texas has long been spoiled by its abundance of fantastic mascots in semipro, independent, and minor league baseball. We’re the home of Henry the Puffy Taco and his nemesis/colleague Ballapeño. The...
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Meet the “Not Smart” Texans Who’ve Run a Marathon in All Fifty States
They’re usually out the door early at the Boone household, shaded by oaks and magnolias in the north Houston suburb of Humble.Around 5 a.m., Steve, 73, laces up to run between seven and twelve miles,...
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Minority Rule: How 3 Percent of Texans Call the Shots for the Rest of Us
If you want to see the future of Texas, take a drive down Synott Road, in Sugar Land, the booming suburb twenty miles southwest of Houston. Start at the intersection with Old Richmond Road. Here,...
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Four Reasons November Will Be a Great Month in Texas Culture
TV SHOWLawmen: Bass Reeves Paramount +, November 5 Bass Reeves’s legendary exploits have led many to speculate that he was the inspiration for the Lone Ranger. Although that’s probably not true,...
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How Muslim Chefs Handle Fasting During Ramadan
Growing up in a Muslim community, I knew many people who would fast during Ramadan, a month-long religious observance where participants abstain from food and water from sunrise to sunset. My family...
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Keshi Braces for Superstardom
Keshi stays vigilant at his local H-E-B. Is anyone following him through the produce section? Did that shopper’s gaze linger as he waited in line to check out? “I’m always surprised where I’ll get...
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