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Meanwhile, in Texas: Thirty Pups (and a Miniature Horse) Hit the Waves for Charity
More than thirty dogs (and one miniature horse in a lifeguard costume) hit the waves in Galveston for a dog surfing competition to raise money for a local animal shelter.After technical problems rende...

‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ at Fifty Is Not as Horrifying as You Remember
On a recent rainy evening in Manhattan, five Texans gathered for a talk at the Museum of Modern Art. The discussion touched on the topics you’d expect: Technique. Composition. Cultural context. Them...

A Taxonomy of Post Malone’s Collaborators, From Justin Bieber to Dolly Parton
When Post Malone announced his intention to cross over to country earlier this year, he took everyone by surprise, as a guy who began his career as a rapper. But the shift didn’t come entirely o...

The Texanist: Do I Have to Swap Out My Straw Hat for a Felt Hat on Labor Day?
Q: My lovely wife tells me that proper etiquette requires me to wear my straw hat from Easter until Labor Day and then switch back to my felt hats. But early September seems way too early for felt sin...

Is James Ho Too Brash for Even Trump to Make Him a Supreme Court Justice?
Long before he became one of the most powerful judges in the country, James Ho sat down with one of his heroes, Edwin Meese III, in Washington, D.C. Ho was 26, fresh out of the University of Chicago L...

Meet Muenster, the Fredericksburg of North Texas
I got an amusing mix of responses when I told friends and family I was visiting Muenster, which sits about 15 miles south of the Red River, 65 miles north of Fort Worth, and 5,000 miles west of its na...

The Off Beat: Music Commission Passes Recommendation to Support Texas Music Museum
Commish suggests Council direct $850,000 in aid to Eastside gallery...

With a New Reissue, Spoon Reminds Everyone They’ve Been Doing This (and Well) for a Long Time
When I was a teenager, I spent a lot of time driving around El Paso in my friend Bianca’s Corolla. We were in her car because I didn’t have one, and she was driving because I didn’t yet know how...

The Dallas Teacher, Navy Vet, and Devout Christian Who Fought to Overturn Texas’s Sodomy Law
Texans You Should Know is a series highlighting overlooked figures and events from Texas history. As a just-out-of-college reporter for the Dallas Morning News in 1979, I watched a landmark event in ...

A Good Guy With a Gun vs. the National Rifle Association
Cedric Dark believes violence is a disease. Sometimes it manifests in quiet, private ways; other times, it’s public and deafening. As a mosquito transports malaria, a gun delivers violence, Dark say...