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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was humiliated on his 82nd birthday Sunday when the Detroit Lions came to town and thrashed his team — and he took it out on some local radio hosts. The ass-whipping was so bad that the Lions repeatedly ran trick plays just to try and
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Two hundred and seventy miles north of Edinburg, Abby Garcia walked into mariachi rehearsal at Texas State University on a Wednesday in September. Three years ago, she filmed with a documentary crew for “Going Varsity in Mariachi,” which Netflix released on August 29 after it dazzled the Sundance Film Festival
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Before even setting foot on stage to kick off the first of two headlining sets at this year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival, Dua Lipa made headlines for her adventures in the capital city. The professional vacationer, also known as the “Vacanza Queen,” made all the right stops while
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The top-ranked Texas Longhorns face the underdog Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. And for a game in October, it is going to be unseasonably hot. Temps are expected to hit 96 degrees in North Texas — that’s just a degree away from setting a
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Texas hasn’t gotten its due as a major piece in the complex puzzle of American art. We’re here to rectify that. Every two weeks, H. Drew Blackburn will conduct a thoroughly scientific analysis of the 254 essential (one for every county) books, movies, tv shows, albums, podcasts, songs,
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Last year, I realized I had opinions about Taylor Swift. And not just “she sucks,” which would have been my go-to before having a daughter. But over the years of driving to and from daycare, swimming lessons, school, volleyball practices, basketball games, playdates, doctor visits, dental checkups, vacations, road
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They’re not just crawling across your lawn — they’re on a mission. These lawn-destroying caterpillars move like a tiny, hungry army, munching on everything in their path: grass, plants, even the weeds. Meet the armyworm, so named because they roll deep in Texas this fall, launching an all-
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Out in the Tamaulipan thornscrub of South Texas, Mario Garza has spent years looking for something sacred. To the untrained eye, the ranchland he visits might seem unremarkable, or even hostile — a wide expanse of mesquite and huisache thickets littered with rattlesnakes and tasajillo spines, among other natural hazards. But
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Houston can have Michelin. Dallas is too busy building their own national stock exchange. The new leadership group for the Texas Stock Exchange gathered in Austin with Gov. Greg Abbott to announce their new venture has plans to start trading in late 2025 according to Axios. The founders (who, to
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Somebody—well, a man—bought a perfectly good Taylor Swift guitar just to smash it up. It happened recently in Waxahachie at the Ellis County Wild Game Dinner, where a man paid a reported $4,000 for the guitar (plus a wall hanger), according to WFAA. But the winner brought
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Whether by a sick twist of fate or cruelty, while the late Botham Jean’s family was left to celebrate his 33rd birthday on Sunday in his absence, the former Dallas Police officer who killed him, Amber Guyuger, became eligible for parole on the same day — Sept. 29 — according to
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Score one for Houston. The famed Michelin Guide will be announcing its first-ever picks for best restaurants in Texas in Space City, passing over its eternal rival, Dallas. The guide, famous for its iconic star ratings and tire man mascot, says it’ll announce which restaurants in Austin, San