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Kirk Franklin’s Carry-on Luggage
Gospel sensation Kirk Franklin doesn’t like to travel. He would much rather be at home in Arlington with his wife, Tammy, and their four children. But the seven-time Grammy Award winner, who has sold...
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East Main Street, Fredericksburg
1. SOMETHING DIFFERENT IICowhides and lassos may be de rigueur in other local home-decor shops but not this one. Just inside the bright-red front door (there’s no signage), you’ll find furnishings and...
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The Comeback Kid
It’s hard to pinpoint the moment when Woody Harrelson first became an on-screen punch line, a persona instead of a performer, the guy whose mere presence in a movie signals that you probably shouldn’t...
View ArticleThe Cardturner
LOUIS SACHAR’S young-adult novel Holes spent more than 175 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, which sets a daunting commercial benchmark for the Austin author’s new effort, THE CARDTURNER....
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The Marrowbone Marble Company
Loyal Ledford of Huntington, West Virginia, is the unassuming central figure of THE MARROWBONE MARBLE COMPANY, the lyrical second novel from Texas State grad GLENN TAYLOR, whose debut, The Ballad of...
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Anna Mitchael
Just Don’t Call Me Ma’am’s subtitle—How I Ditched the South for the Big City, Forgot My Manners, and Managed to Survive My Twenties With (Most of) My Dignity Still Intact—might be unwieldy, but it...
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Court Yard Hounds
Divide and conquer? That was the hope of Dixie Chick siblings Martie Maguire and Emily Robison when singer Natalie Maines’s extended hiatus made the prospect of the band’s relaunch an if-and-when...
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Americano
San Antonio’s KRAYOLAS arrived on the scene with matching suits and catchy Kinks-like material that already seemed retro in the new-wave eighties era. After some regional success, they hung it up, and...
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Country Music
On paper, the pairing of WILLIE NELSON and producer T Bone Burnett seems like a potential train wreck. Though both can get amazing results, their working methods couldn’t be more different. Burnett’s a...
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Carrie Rodriguez
The Austin-born, Oberlin-trained musician—and daughter of the hard-living Texas songwriter-activist David Rodriguez—at one time aspired to be a great fiddler. Then she went on tour with Chip Taylor...
View ArticleEnroncore!
A little over halfway through the new play Enron, the character based on Jeff Skilling declares, “I hate government because I know these guys . . . and let me tell you, the weakest, most ignorant, most...
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The Great Pretender
Before the local district attorney dubbed him “the biggest con man in the history of Nueces County,” Mauricio Celis led the life of a high-powered plaintiff’s lawyer. At the time of his arrest, in...
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Liliana Quevedo, Realtor
Quevedo grew up in Juárez and has been a realtor in El Paso for six years. She is an agent for One Realty El Paso.</emAs a bilingual realtor in El Paso, with roots in Juárez, I have a lot of...
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Alamo Heights
Over breakfast recently, San Antonio mayor Julián Castro, only 35 years old, struggled to place himself and his generation in the long, storied history of Mexican American politics in Texas. “I’m...
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How to Smoke the Perfect Brisket
The sacred cow of Texas barbecue is brisket, but smoking one to perfection can be tough. So what’s the secret? “Keep it simple,” says Wayne Mueller, the third-generation owner of Louie Mueller...
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Goodnight Moon
In a small Episcopal church in El Lago outside of Houston, a young man stood at the altar looking out at the solemn room. It was the summer of 1983. Sitting in the pews were his father’s family and...
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The Usual Suspects
Brent “Coondog” Coon, the Beaumont- and Houston-based plaintiff’s attorney who won millions from BP for his client Eva Rowe after her parents were killed in a plant explosion in Texas City in 2005...
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The Texanist: Do I Need to Stick With the One That Brung Me?
Do I need to stick with the one that brung me? Illustration by Jack UnruhQ: My husband and I go dancing almost every weekend, but I end up dancing with his best buddy more than I do with him. His...
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Weird Science
Quincy, the amazing bloodhound, sniffed the air around the body of Sally Blackwell, who lay half-naked in a field just outside Victoria. Blackwell, a supervisor for Child Protective Services, had been...
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Flying on the Space Shuttle
NAME: José Hernández | AGE: 47 | HOME: Houston | QUALIFICATIONS: Joined the Johnson Space Center as an engineer in 2001 and was selected by NASA for astronaut training in 2004 / Served in 2009 as the...
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