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How Three Generations of One Family Made Texas’s Favorite 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...

Why Tariffs Could Make Your Willie Nelson and Beyoncé Records More Expensive
When Caren Kelleher was looking for a place to start Gold Rush Vinyl, the record manufacturing plant she founded in 2018, she picked Austin in hopes that being centrally located in the U.S. would help...

A Pitmaster Expands on His Family’s Legacy at His New East Texas Barbecue Joint
When Josh Burke took an ownership stake in Smitty’s Smokehouse, in Jasper, in 2017, he wondered if I had ever shared my opinion on his family’s barbecue business. He didn’t find anything in Texa...

The Only American to Design Hermès Scarves Really Understood the Assignment
Taking in the Hermès scarves displayed in an upstairs gallery of Galveston’s Bryan Museum, it’s hard to say which is more astonishing: the natural realism bursting from these square silk fragment...

Texas Wants to Become Hollywood (Without All That Liberal Hollywood Crap)
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is used to being the Legislature’s resident buzzkill, implacably opposed to both gambling and marijuana legalization. But drop the lights and part the curtain, and th...

208 Democrats Vote Against Legislation To Keep Noncitizens Out Of Elections
After sitting back for four years while the leader of the Democrat Party allowed millions of illegal aliens to invade the country, 208 Democrats voted against legislation Thursday that would keep fore...

The New Location of Vaqueros Texas Bar-B-Q Improves the Popular North Texas Joint
Glance into the pit room at the new Vaqueros Texas Bar-B-Q, in Allen, and you might think you’re looking at an art installation. From the sidewalk of the Watters Creek development, a pair of custom-...