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Kinky Friedman’s Final Album Is a Hard Look at Mortality. It Might Be His Best.
Kinky Friedman is ready for another comeback. There’s a good chance the unofficial Texas poet laureate of political incorrectness would have made a crack along those lines upon the arrival of hi...

Nearly Forgotten, a 1969 Double Murder in Austin Still Haunts Some
I met John White for the first and only time on an afternoon in December 1968, or perhaps very early in January that next year. I was a junior at the University of Texas at Austin, living with a rotat...

The Story of Enchiladas Suizas Involves a Department Store, a Mexican Chef, and Switzerland
Enchiladas suizas are a tale of two sauces: traditional Mexican tomatillo and decadent cream. As legend has it, a chef at the restaurant in a Sanborns department store in Mexico City invented the dish...

Exclusive: GOP Rep. Pushes Bills That Would Strip Rioting Students Of Visas And Financial Aid
Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, believes that foreign national students who decide to scoff at the privilege of being in the United States by rioting and assaulting police officers should be stripped of...