With the help of some of the state’s film buffs, critics, and cinephiles, The Barbed Wire has rounded up a list of love stories as big as Texas. Whether they were filmed here, set here, or brought to life by some Texas-raised talent, we’ve curated a selection
Texas hasn’t gotten its due as a major piece in the complex puzzle of American art. We’re here to rectify that. Every three weeks, H. Drew Blackburn will conduct a thoroughly scientific analysis of the 254 integral (one for every county) books, movies, tv shows, albums, podcasts, songs,
It started, as all great midlife crises do, with an impulse purchase on the internet. While some men my age are out buying motorcycles or taking up CrossFit, I went in a different direction: I bought a bird feeder with a camera. A state-of-the-art, live-streaming marvel
A private school in Fort Worth is proud of its low vaccination rates — it even put it on a T-shirt. Mercy Culture Preparatory Academy had a measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination rate of 14.29% among kindergartners in the 2023-2024 school year, the lowest in the state, according
A deadly measles outbreak in West Texas has taken one life and reached over 150 cases and counting, spurring many families to seek out vaccinations at clinics that state and local health officials have set up to encourage people to get the shot. The majority of cases where vaccination status
Last year, Bella Hadid was snapped grinning from ear to ear at the rodeo in Arlington, her wide-brimmed cowboy hat casting a shadow over eyes fixed on her boyfriend, cutting horse champ Adan Banuelos. That night, her leather pants, silver rings, and meticulously beaded top were the last whispers
Since neither tax incentives nor government propaganda are solving the country’s fertility crisis, self-described proponents of eugenics and race science will gather to think of solutions at a natalist conference in Austin, as was first-reported by The Guardian. Returning for a second time on March 27-28,
Congressman Sylvester Turner, who was just two months into his first term representing the 18th Congressional District of Texas, died on Tuesday, according to the Texas Democratic Party. He was 70 years old. Turner told the press in 2022 that he was cancer-free after secretly receiving treatment for bone
It’s been nearly five years, but Tashara Parker still remembers the October morning well: She woke up at 1:45 a.m., went to the Downtown Dallas WFAA TV studios where she worked as a morning anchor, sat in on the daily editorial meeting, did her makeup, put on
Five minutes after my first date with Alex, my phone lit up. He was a tall Massachusetts transplant with blue-green eyes and a mop of brown Lyle Lovett curls, and he wanted a second date. Our IRL date banter had lived up to our hilarious texting courtship. Unfortunately, I
Texas’ Republican lawmakers have long argued that drag shows endanger children. That was always a stretch, but Texas A&M University has taken things a step further. The university’s Board of Regents voted to ban drag performances on its 11 campuses, and the resolution, which unanimously passed on
Our friends at Texas Observer are reporting that your elected Republican officials — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and GOP state senator Charles Schwertner, specifically — want to establish a Bitcoin reserve for Texas. If that isn’t the dumbest sentence you’ve read this morning, let’s keep going! The “Texas Strategic