Queer Texas
It was the summer of 2024. Ash Gordon, a barber from Austin, was ready to hit the road for Queer Camp, when all of his friends and campmates backed out at the last minute. “I was really terrified because I was going to this event alone, there were projected to
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Texas airports were hit with thousands of delays and hundreds of flight cancellations over the weekend after the Federal Aviation Administration announced last week it would be cutting flights at the top 40 airports in the nation. Dallas Love Field, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, George Bush Houston Intercontinental Airport,
Culture
Professional boxer Vergil Ortiz Jr. is standing in the serene, swanky lobby of a five-star hotel in late February. He orders a cup of coffee, his bruised face looking slightly out of place amid the gold accents. It’s the morning after the 27-year-old won a career-
Immigration
I remember meeting Ya'akub Vijandre a little more than two years ago. We were at the first Dallas protest held in the aftermath of Israel’s bloody siege of Gaza following the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas. This was back when I was still working with Dallas
News
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of flight delays at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. There were 1,000 delays over the weekend into Monday, not 10,000. The Barbed Wire regrets the error. Three-hour wait times. Missed flights. TSA lines stretching out the
Culture
It turns out that attendance at the State Fair of Texas was not doing just fine this year. After viral posts at the beginning of the month showed fewer crowds at the fair and many online commenters blamed higher prices, State Fair representatives downplayed concerns and assured Texans that fair
Money
“Y’all Street” is gearing up for a bull market — with longer horns. Last Tuesday, the Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) announced it received approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate as a national securities exchange. The SEC go-ahead means that the stock exchange is
Culture
If you weren’t actively rooting for the Cowboys or Texans to make it all the way this year — we have new motivation to unlock your inner armchair coach. Bad Bunny is headlining the Super Bowl halftime show in February. That’s right, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio will succeed Kendrick
Immigration
On July 12, Amber Lowrey arrived at her sister’s apartment in Fort Worth. The FBI had raided it days earlier, Lowrey said, and she surveyed the wreckage: shattered windows, broken doors, damaged floorboards from a flash bang. Agents seized four “pages of map documents,” according to a property receipt
Culture
Well, it turns out that even the great Brandon Aubrey couldn’t kick his way out of a slightly cringe-y weekend for Texas football. Welcome back to The Barbed Wire does football, in which our team of completely unqualified-to-write-about sports writers recap the highlights (and lowlights,
Crime & Justice
Children were back on campus for just under two weeks when a student at Ryan High School in the Dallas suburb of Denton allegedly stabbed a classmate. It happened at 9:10 a.m. Friday, reported The Dallas Morning News. Both students were boys under the age of 17. The
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