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By Alexandra Samuels Parks & Recs Developers Offered a Texas Family Millions for Their Land. They Chose to Make It a Park Instead. By Pam LeBlanc Energy When Is a Pipeline in the Public Interest? By Russell Gold Tacos Taqueria 10 de 10 Is a Feast for the Eyes, but Will It Make Your Stomach Happy Too? By José R. Ralat Books Colleen Hoover Is a Wildly Successful Author. Why Did She Stop Writing? By Lauren Larson Trending Archaeologists Dug Up a Vanished Texas Town and Found 10,000 Artifacts By Pam LeBlanc Colleen Hoover Is a Wildly Successful Author. Why Did She Stop Writing? By Lauren Larson An Underground Joint in Dallas Goes Legit, and Its Barbecue Has Never Been Better By Daniel Vaughn Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. By Christopher Hooks Today in Barbecue History: The First Written Mention of Aaron Franklin’s Brisket By Daniel Vaughn The Doctor, the Dentist, and the Killer By Skip Hollandsworth Why So Many Fuzzy Black Caterpillars Are Crawling Across Texas By Charlie Scudder Developers Offered a Texas Family Millions for Their Land. They Chose to Make It a Park Instead. By Pam LeBlanc Oh, the Things an At-home IV Therapist Will See As told to Sasha von Oldershausen Meet the King of George Strait Impersonators As told to David Courtney Popular Videos Previous Next more News & Politics Politics & Policy Thirty-Eight Minutes With Ted Cruz, Annotated The Texas senator discusses whether he’ll accept the 2024 election result, the ethics of his podcast deal, and that trip to Cancún. By Alexandra Samuels Politics & Policy Henry Cuellar Has Been Indicted on Charges of Bribery and Money Laundering By Matthew Choi, the Texas Tribune Energy When Is a Pipeline in the Public Interest? By Russell Gold Politics & Policy Henry Cuellar Wouldn’t Answer Questions About His Indictment. He Offered Us a Playlist Instead. By Pablo Manríquez Ken Paxton Watch Ken Paxton Mistakes Catholic Teachings for Bohemian Commandments” By Sandi Villarreal Politics & Policy What Azerbaijan Wants From Texas Politicians By Christopher Hooks Environment Iowa Is Cleaning Up Its Massive Pile of Wind Turbine Blades. Why Can’t Texas? By Russell Gold More News & Politics TM Classics A half century of chronicling Texas. December 1987 The Trip to Paradise Small Texas towns live either in our memory or in our imagination. The ones with the storybook names live in both. By Horton Foote June 1989 Rock Bottom A series of terrible decisions and bad breaks ruined Gibraltar Savings. Is rescuing it another mistake? By Peter Elkind August 1985 Isle Without End An early castaway described Padre Island as a wretched, barren sandbank.” It’s better known today as the Gold Coast of Texas, but its identity is still rooted in wildness and age-old solitude. By Stephen Harrigan July 1988 Bargains! Bargains! Bargains! Attention, tightwads! Act now! Suits to nuts—the big bang for the little buck! Check out our supersavin’, dollar-bustin’ bible of buys! Everything must go! (Offer available in Texas only.) By Joe Nick Patoski More from the Archive Arts & Entertainment Books Colleen Hoover Is a Wildly Successful Author. Why Did She Stop Writing? This Texas author’s novels of romance and trauma made her one of the best-selling writers of all time, and her first film adaptation hits theaters this summer. Readers wonder what’s next. So does she. By Lauren Larson Sports Inside Major League Rugby’s Texas-Size Growth Plan By Daniel Vaughn Books Horny Moms and Lost Souls: How Kimberly King Parsons Crafted a Modern, Hallucinatory Texas Novel By Dina Gachman Music Del Rio’s William Beckmann Proves That Even Twentysomethings Can Be Cowboy Crooners By Kaiya Little Sports Texas Might Be Ready to Fall Back in Love With the WNBA By Jeff Miller Film & TV Ethan Hawke’s ‘Wildcat’ Proves a Good Film Is Hard to Find By Scott Ray Sports Meet the Houston Power Couple Spurring a Pinball Renaissance By Dwight Silverman More Arts & Entertainment Being Texan The Texanist The Texanist: What’s the Best Way to Tell if a Watermelon Is Ripe? Q: When I was a child, my grandfather, a farmer in Ranger, instructed me on how to tell if a watermelon was ripe. He would hit the fruit with the side of his thumb and determine which ones had the deepest thump.” Are there other techniques? My granddaughter can’t seem By David Courtney Health Oh, the Things an At-home IV Therapist Will See As told to Sasha von Oldershausen Being Texan Texas Parents Are Terrified for Another Triple-Digit Summer By Saba Khonsari Best Thing in Texas Four Years After COVID Canceled Prom, College Kids at Sam Houston State Got a Second Chance By Bryan C. Parker Texas History Archaeologists Dug Up a Vanished Texas Town and Found 10,000 Artifacts By Pam LeBlanc The Texanist The Texanist: I’m Moving From California to Galveston. What Words Should I Learn? By David Courtney The Texanist The Texanist: Texas Gets More Tornadoes Than Any Other State, but Don’t Freak Out By David Courtney More Being Texan Our Writers Sasha von Oldershausen Sasha von Oldershausen is an associate editor who writes about news and politics. View Articles Health Oh, the Things an At-home IV Therapist Will See As told to Sasha von Oldershausen News & Politics What Is Alex Jones Doing in This Tiny Far West Texas Town? 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