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Goodbye to All That Foliage
“Don’t fix that fence till you cut down that tree,” our new best friend, an arborist from the Davey Tree Expert Company, warned us. My husband and I were like so many Houstonians recalibrating f...

A Far West Texas Town Comes Together—And Then Comes Apart
If Sam Stavinoha were a religious man, you might say the decision to buy a small-town grocery was his come-to-Jesus moment. He cried a lot, as if mourning a loss, though he couldn’t name it. This wa...

This Taqueria in Houston Is an Under-the-Radar Gem Serving Exceptional Guisado Tacos
Taquerias are excellent at hiding. They’re often tucked away in ignored neighborhoods; they’re easily missed from your car or just outside of your peripheral vision. Azteca Taco House in Aldine, i...

Fur Is In: Texas Farm Animals Go Glam in a New Book
Randal Ford remembers the first animal portrait he ever made. “Before I photographed any dogs or cats or tigers or lions,” he said, “I photographed a cow.”A graduate of Texas A&M, Ford fell in...

Ken Paxton Is Suing Texas Counties Over Voter-Registration Efforts. What’s Legal and What’s Not?
Announcing the launch of a tip line for citizens who believe they are witnessing illegal electoral activity, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton penned a tongue twister. In a press release, he argued th...

Extremists Want to Make Abortion Punishable by Death—And They’re Gaining Power in Texas
The morning the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the first reaction of self-styled “abortion abolitionist” Bradley Pierce was to mourn. The 41-year-old lawyer from Liberty Hill would la...

You Can Buy Ma and Pa Ferguson’s Home for a Weirdly Reasonable Price
Texas has known its share of colorful politicians. Among the most memorable are James E. “Pa” Ferguson and Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson, who both served as governor of Texas in the early part of th...

The Lone Star Lithium Boom
A lungful of hydrogen sulfide nearly killed John Burba a few months into his first job in the West Texas oil patch. He’d grown up in the region, where his dad worked for Gulf Oil as a drilling super...

An Encyclopedia of Weird Texas Town Names
Perhaps through a combination of sheer size and pioneer spirit, Texas, of all the states, seems to feature the highest concentration of truly absurd town names. About a year ago, I made a categorized ...

The Quest to Build the World’s Fastest Car
Two things happen when the guy sitting next to me floors the gas pedal of his $2.7 million car. First, the raspy growl of the 1,817-horsepower engine mutates from that of a cornered wolf to something ...