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Enjoyed a Little Salt on the Rim of Your Beer? You May Have Twang to Thank for That.
Elysia Treviño-Gonzales remembers watching pickup trucks with barrels full of empty Twang packets back into her family’s driveway in San Antonio. It was 1986, and it was the responsibility of Trevi...

The Leaning Tower of . . . Texas?
The Detours series celebrates lesser-known locales worth visiting across the state. Why go to Italy to get an awkward photo of yourself pretending to hold up a tilted tower when you can head to the ...

Don’t Fear Your Neighborhood Gray Fox (Unless You’re a Chicken)
Each month, we get to know one of the state’s many wonderful and quirky critters. Latin Name: Urocyon cinereoargenteusSize: About 30 to 44 inches long and 8 to 15 poundsHabitat: Statewide Even if ...

Don’t Poke Congressman Tony Gonzales in the Chest
Congressman Tony Gonzales represents Texas’s Twenty-Third District, which stretches from western San Antonio all the way to the outskirts of El Paso. Its area is larger than that of 26 states, but G...

Kinky Friedman’s Final Album Is a Hard Look at Mortality. It Might Be His Best.
Kinky Friedman is ready for another comeback. There’s a good chance the unofficial Texas poet laureate of political incorrectness would have made a crack along those lines upon the arrival of hi...

The Ultimate Taste of Texas Bracket Crowns Its Pillowy Champion
Over the course of five grueling days last week, we tasked y’all with a nearly impossible mission: to compare not just apples to oranges, but Dr Pepper to frozen margaritas, Buc-ee’s Beaver Nugget...

Nearly Forgotten, a 1969 Double Murder in Austin Still Haunts Some
I met John White for the first and only time on an afternoon in December 1968, or perhaps very early in January that next year. I was a junior at the University of Texas at Austin, living with a rotat...

The Texanist: Why Can’t I Find Bison, Elk, or Duck at Barbecue Joints?
Q: I love game meats, and many of them are better for you than beef and pork. So I’m curious why so few Texas pitmasters are doing bison ribs, venison sausage, elk roasts, and chicken-fried duck.�...

The Story of Enchiladas Suizas Involves a Department Store, a Mexican Chef, and Switzerland
Enchiladas suizas are a tale of two sauces: traditional Mexican tomatillo and decadent cream. As legend has it, a chef at the restaurant in a Sanborns department store in Mexico City invented the dish...

Exclusive: GOP Rep. Pushes Bills That Would Strip Rioting Students Of Visas And Financial Aid
Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, believes that foreign national students who decide to scoff at the privilege of being in the United States by rioting and assaulting police officers should be stripped of...