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Q: Two friends at my weekly 42 dominoes game are from the Rio Grande Valley. When I asked them why Texans call a flat floodplain a “valley,”when a valley is actually the low spot between hills or mountains, their answer was, more or less, “It’s a valley.” Is it, though?Tim Ziegler, AustinA: The southernmost portion …
This week, two Texas barbecue joints have received serious accolades from national magazines. Barbs B Q, in Lockhart, was named one of Bon Appétit’s best new restaurants, and Jalen Heard, Lane Milne, and Jonny White, of Goldee’s Barbecue, in Fort Worth, were named to Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs class of 2024. The two …
One recent morning, eager to satisfy his breakfast craving, Robert Wunderlich stepped into his Frisco front yard and turned his eyes to the sky. He spotted a small dark object to the north, approaching his home at 35 miles per hour. Soon enough he could make out the boxy shape of an unmanned aerial vehicle—a …
When Alex Ross moved to Texas from Portland, Oregon, the first thing he noticed was how different the colors were. “It was less green,” he laughs, when I ask him what he remembers about making the move at age six—first to DeSoto, where his father, a United Church of Christ minister, had been hired to …
Working Life is a monthly column in which Texans talk about their jobs. Austin Lee, who is 33, oversees the raising of the iconic Texas and American flags at the Austin–area speedway as its senior director of campus services.I grew up in San Antonio working on lawn mowers, building fences and decks, doing a little tile …
In his book The Great Plains, from 1931, Texas author Walter Prescott Webb wrote that, geographically, the Great Plains begin west of the 98th meridian. The town of Stoneburg sits at 97.9 degrees west, and about twenty miles south of Red River Station, where cattle drives along the Chisholm Trail crossed into Oklahoma. “It still …
I opened my eyes about halfway through the Japanese sound bath. Lee Johnson, a 65-year-old rancher and dead ringer for the actor Sam Elliott, was tiptoeing around the room in his white tube socks, ever so gently ringing a small bell at various distances from the heads of my fifteen classmates, who were lying on …
The summer sun is slip-sliding away when my pal Courtney and I arrive at a labyrinthine two-story compound that houses our destination: Ishtia, an unexpectedly experimental restaurant in the stunningly improbable location of Kemah, a coastal town of about two thousand souls 25 miles southeast of Houston. We have semi-starved ourselves in preparation for the …
TM BBQ Club “Pit Perks” are exclusive perks and discounts that Texas Monthly’s network of barbecue joints generously offer to members like you each month. Proof of membership is required to redeem. SEPTEMBER PERKS BrisketU | Get $15 off any BrisketU Class with code TXMNEWS24scTW Juan and Allie’s BBQ | 20% discount on order*; Address: 114 Texas Spur 511 Sunset …
“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 from two storms just several weeks apart: the derecho of May 16 and Hurricane Beryl, which hit July 8, both of …
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