Lucien Smith Gets a Job
Photo: Zander Taketomo
No one would accuse Lucien Smith of being original, least of all Smith himself. “I’ve always role-played as a painter, role-played as a fine artist,” he...
How Texas Made the Old West Even Wilder and Bloodier
You can still stand beside him at El Paso’s hardscrabble Concordia Cemetery, a dirt-and-gravel expanse just a stone’s throw from Interstate 10. With eighteen-wheelers rumbling by, it can be hard t...
Two Pitmasters Let Their Mom Take Over the Kitchen on Weekends
Ask for the pork belly at Teddy’s Barbecue on a Saturday, and you’ll need to be more specific. The joint run by brothers Joel and Jesse Garcia a few miles east of McAllen offers four varieties tha...