This Barbecue Joint Is the World Cup’s Biggest Winner in Dallas
During the first full week of the FIFA World Cup, the Dallas location of Terry Black’s Barbecue brought in $2 million in sales. The following week, it made the same amount in just five and a half da...
‘Where the River Took Us,’ Episode 7: “Where We Go”
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the transcript below. Subscribe Apple — Spotify “It’s like this cognitive dissonance, that how can this worst thing that’s ever hap...
Ranch Water, Meet Dirty Martini
I’ve never encountered a savory cocktail I didn’t love. My default steakhouse order is a gin martini, very slightly dirty, with plain olives. (Get out of here with your blue cheese–stuffed olive...
Inside the Itchy, Sticky World of Competitive Sand Sculpting
The elements are rarely more salient than at a sand-sculpture event. “There’s always a battle every year with the weather,” says Tim Parke, the president and logistics coordinator of Texas SandF...
Meanwhile, in Texas: Cows Trail a Tiny Tot on a Toy Truck
A two-year-old boy in Henrietta went viral on social media after he was filmed herding more than a dozen cows while driving a toy truck on the ranch where his mother works.A Grapevine Chick-fil-A empl...
The Texanist: The Surprising Origins of the Phrase “Stock Tank”
Q: As a child, were you taught to call a small body of water a “tank”? It’s a West Texas vernacular word. As I got older I realized this term was not standard English, and I began to ask why we...