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Two Pitmasters Aim to Bring Out-of-This-World Barbecue to Southeast Houston
When Hurricane Beryl hit the Gulf Coast last year, the Houston area was once again flooded. Pitmasters answered the call...

How Much Should an Ounce of Weed Cost in Austin?
This week’s super-sized The Austin Chronic tackles the tough questions about cannabis in Central Texas...

Does Dan Patrick Even Understand the Cannabis Industry He’s Trying to Kill?
Texas Lege’s draconian bills are making even the stoners frustrated...

The Impossibly Expensive Plan to Save Texas’s Water Supply
The year is 1969, and revolution is in the air. Protests clog American campuses and streets. Richard Nixon enters the White House on behalf of his “silent majority.” NASA puts men on the moon. And...

A Big Art Museum Comes to a Small Town in the Piney Woods
James Surls thinks on a large scale. A few years ago, after telling me about the late Houston artist Bert Long’s ambitious but impractical concepts—such as dragging an iceberg into the Gulf—the...

One of the Most Effective Programs to Reduce Child Hunger Is Caught in DOGE Limbo
Jeff Graham is preparing for another long, hot East Texas summer. He’s tending to the okra and cantaloupe in his vegetable garden on his plot of land in Log Cabin, a city of fewer than a thousand pe...

Breakfast Tacos Wouldn’t Be the Same Without This Chorizo
In the 1960s and 1970s, Luis Flores Jr. supported his family by driving a tractor on a watermelon farm in the Rio Grande Valley and selling parts at a J. C. Penney automotive service department. ...

Announcing Our New Podcast, ‘The Final Flight of Captain Forrester’
Karoni Forrester was only two years old when her father, U.S. Marine Corps Captain Ron Forrester of Odessa, disappeared while flying over North Vietnam in 1972, two days after Christmas. No one knew w...

Brunch Is Better With This Texas-y Cornbread Casserole
Brunch is usually a restaurant affair: The cocktails and coffee drinks are fancier, the eggs are expertly poached, and the hashbrowns are always crispy. But having brunch out is also a hassle, what wi...

Cybertruck Drivers Don’t Understand the Hate
In the days leading up the second annual Cybertruck Rodeo, I reached John Cronin, one of the event’s organizers, by phone. Cronin, who lives in Austin, recently drove his Cybertruck from Texas to Pl...