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Never Mind the Playoff. It’s College Football Bowl Week.
Poor SMU. Not only did the Mustangs lose to Penn State, 38–10, in the first round of the College Football Playoff, but every other Texas team is undefeated so far this postseason. Everybody knows ab...

The Stories We Wish We’d Published This Year
Consider briefly, the editors. In 2024, we covered two elections, the billionaires influencing them, and the shows and music we watched or listened to to distract ourselves from them. We knew we’d b...

2024: The Year Country Music Broke
When Post Malone decided to go country, he did it in a big way. Other pop artists who’ve plotted country crossovers have done so humbly, usually after their sales have started to slip. But that’s ...

Nora and Johnny Canales’s Love Story Began With a Grito
One night in 1994, Nora Perez stood onstage at a cavernous Corpus Christi nightclub, awaiting her turn to unleash a scream before a crowd of sweaty partygoers. As the prismatic stage lights glimmered ...