This Barbecue Joint Is the World Cup’s Biggest Winner in Dallas
During the first full week of the FIFA World Cup, the Dallas location of Terry Black’s Barbecue brought in $2 million in sales. The following week, it made the same amount in just five and a half da...
Inside the Itchy, Sticky World of Competitive Sand Sculpting
The elements are rarely more salient than at a sand-sculpture event. “There’s always a battle every year with the weather,” says Tim Parke, the president and logistics coordinator of Texas SandF...
Meanwhile, in Texas: Cows Trail a Tiny Tot on a Toy Truck
A two-year-old boy in Henrietta went viral on social media after he was filmed herding more than a dozen cows while driving a toy truck on the ranch where his mother works.A Grapevine Chick-fil-A empl...
‘Where the River Took Us,’ Episode 7: “Where We Go”
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the transcript below. Subscribe Apple — Spotify “It’s like this cognitive dissonance, that how can this worst thing that’s ever hap...
Ranch Water, Meet Dirty Martini
I’ve never encountered a savory cocktail I didn’t love. My default steakhouse order is a gin martini, very slightly dirty, with plain olives. (Get out of here with your blue cheese–stuffed olive...
The Texanist: The Surprising Origins of the Phrase “Stock Tank”
Q: As a child, were you taught to call a small body of water a “tank”? It’s a West Texas vernacular word. As I got older I realized this term was not standard English, and I began to ask why we...