Thirty Years Ago, Spoon’s First Album Changed My Life
Spoon is from Texas, but its music never felt Texan to me. Front man Britt Daniel was born in Galveston, grew up in Temple, and launched Spoon in 1993 in Austin, where it has remained—spiritually, i...
Remember the Forgotten Missions of Texas
For decades, each Sunday at daybreak Samuel Trujillo carried his paralyzed father, José, from their home to the doors of the Socorro Mission, about twenty minutes southeast of downtown El Paso. The e...
How Mary Kay Built a Billion-Dollar Empire
If you lived in Dallas in the eighties, as I did, Mary Kay Ash, founder of the eponymous Mary Kay cosmetics company, seemed to be everywhere all at once, promoting her business and herself. Ash telegr...
California’s Political Commissars Surrender To Elon Musk’s Lawyers
'The Commission agrees that it may not consider irrelevant factors in performing its function and specifically agrees that it will not take into account the perceived political beliefs, political spee...