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Christopher Brown’s Abandoned Lots Are Anything but Empty
Christopher Brown has urged me to take a long and meandering walk. Or, at least, his new book, A Natural History of Empty Lots, has inspired one. Sadly, the empty lots I find in my East Austin neighbo...
A Cup o’ Joe in the Walmart Parking Lot With ‘Yellowstone’ Star Cole Hauser
Yellowstone’s Rip Wheeler has branded human flesh with a cattle iron, thrown a rattlesnake into a man’s face, and beat the daylights out of a gang of bikers, to name just a few of his escapades. I...
‘The Problem With Erik’ Update: Judge Orders a New Trial for Erik Maund
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the transcript below. Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Spotify After the verdict in the Erik Maund murder-for-hire trial, this bizarre story f...
Abortion Is on the Ballot in Ten States. Here’s Why It Won’t Be in Texas.
When former President Donald Trump told the national audience in his first, and likely only, debate against Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris that abortion rights are “the vote of the pe...
In Frisco, Folks Line Up Early at This Market Stall for Smoked Oxtails and Rib Tips
Back in 2017, the barbecue competition special BBQ Rig Race aired on Food Network. At the end of it, the Tu Bones BBQ team, led by pitmaster Michael Prince and his friend Kirk Boudreaux, took home th...
Why Put Another Sports Franchise in Houston?
The WNBA might be the American sports league with the most potential for growth. It’s hard to imagine the NFL or NBA getting that much bigger than they already are, and although Major League Basebal...
Willie Nelson’s Take on the Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize??” Is a Masterpiece
In 2002, Johnny Cash recorded what turned out to become one of his legacy-defining songs. It was unlikely to happen at that point in his life. Cash was seventy years old by then, nearly a decade into ...
The Maternal Mortality Rate Surged in Texas in 2020 and 2021
The rate of Texas women who died because of pregnancy or childbirth rose sharply in 2020 and 2021 to the highest since the state started tracking maternal deaths, in 2013. Even excluding deaths relate...
What Interviewing a Suspected Serial Killer and His Victims Taught Me About Empathy
The first time he called, I was home with family on a Saturday afternoon in 2022. I asked if he had time later to continue our conversation. “Yeah, I have nothing planned,” he laughed. It was a f...
A New Trump Ad Cites My Texas Monthly Reporting—And Distorts It
I awoke last Friday to learn that I had been conscripted into the fracking wars. It wasn’t my choice, and it wasn’t the first time.Earlier in the week, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had r...
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