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Celebrity Cowboy Fashion 2024When Beyoncé decided to hint at her forthcoming country album drop, she did so with fashion: a black, studded jacket from Pharrell Williams’s fall–winter 2024 Western spin on Louis Vuitton, worn to the 2024 Grammy Awards. Celebrity Western-wear designers once outfitted country royalty—Buck Owens, Porter Wagoner, Hank Williams—for the stage, helping craft an image of the American cowboy (the singing kind, at least) as a collaboration between musician and designer. The fringed and swaggering rhinestone cowboy of the American imagination emerged in part from that collaboration. This February, Beyoncé in her studded jacket called to mind the old cowboy mythmaking machine.That was just the start: Everyone wanted cowboy boots this year. Leather fringe. Denim on denim. With Cowboy Carter leading the charge, Western wear became…

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buda trip guide photoI live in Buda, and I’ll be the first to admit that my city doesn’t always make the best first impression. As Interstate 35 wends its congested path southwest of Austin, passersby may experience this fast-growing suburb as merely rows of fast-food joints, industrial warehouses, and gas stations that dot the highway. But if you take a little time to explore, you may be surprised to learn that Buda has a historic downtown so picturesque, there’s now an entire weekend dedicated to painting scenes of it every year.Buda sits on the eastern edge of the Texas Hill Country, rich in history and culture, yet it still has the unfair reputation as a commuter town for wannabe Austinites. In fact, it’s been a thriving community for…

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episode 7 landman stillFind our ongoing coverage of the first season of Landman here. Son Cooper is out of the hospital. Company owner Monty is making risky business deals. And teenage daughter Ainsley can’t stop talking about her sex life. Our land man has a lot to deal with in just one short day, so let’s dive right in. (Our regular disclosure: The show is based on the Texas Monthly and Imperative Entertainment podcast Boomtown, and TM is an executive producer.)Let’s start with Cooper, who is about as cheery as an Aggie in Austin during homecoming week. I’d say his concussion is to blame, but that would be giving the beatdown he got two episodes ago too much credit. He’s been discharged from the hospital, and his dad is there…

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liz lambert photoIn our series Stuff Texans Love, our state’s most stylish celebrities share their shopping lists. Hotelier Liz Lambert, the creative wunderkind behind projects such as Austin’s Hotel Saint Cecilia and Marfa’s hotel-campground hybrid El Cosmico has a tried-and-true method of gift giving.“If I like something, I go and tell everybody,” she says. She only sets a present under the tree when she’s passionate enough to “do an informercial for the thing.”More than two decades ago, the former attorney pivoted her career trajectory, turning her detail-oriented eye to Texas hospitality. Her Midas-like touch has transformed run-down properties into artistic getaways, and Lambert’s sense of style and taste naturally extend to her selection of these six go-to holiday gifts.Flamingo Estate Roma Heirloom Tomato Dish Soap ($30)Lambert asks readers…

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Texas Monthly is pleased to announce that Paula Forbes, a longtime Texas Monthly contributor and expert cookbook critic, will be our new senior food and drink writer. She’ll be taking the baton from legendary restaurant critic Patricia Sharpe, who is retiring at the end of this year after fifty years with the magazine.“I could not be more pleased to have Paula Forbes take over my role at the magazine and make it her own. She has all the right credentials and excellent writing chops,” Pat says.Having been a contributor to Texas Monthly since 2019, Paula comes to this role possessing a deep knowledge of what the magazine does. Her passion for Texas’s food scene has been on display in such articles as a cowritten feature…

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texas and tennessee logosWhen the College Football Playoff begins this weekend, UT will take on Clemson in the first round. Four hours later, on another TV network, UT will take on Ohio State. Good thing Steve Sarkisian has two quarterbacks!Of course, the Longhorns aren’t playing twice—rather, this twelve-team iteration of the College Football Playoff features two schools that abbreviate their names the same way: the University of Texas (which will face Clemson) and the University of Tennessee (Ohio State).This would not ordinarily be a big deal. The two UTs have coexisted since the nineteenth century without rancor or confusion, save for the occasional search engine mix-up. You'd think that with the massive amount of data that Google has on me that they would be able to see me…

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The Monarch Butterfly Might Be Listed As Endangered. What Does That Mean for Texas?After Kathy Marshburn lost a child, she didn’t know how she’d move on. Violet was only two months old when she died unexpectedly, of a heart condition, in 2002. Marshburn, who lived in the Houston suburb of Humble, was unmoored by grief. Finding a way forward felt impossible, especially around the anniversaries of Violet’s birth and death. Then Kathy saw a butterfly release at the funeral of a friend.Something about the natural spectacle made her decide that raising the colorful insects would be her way to both honor her daughter and help others with their grief. “I just had an epiphany,” says Marshburn, who today is the executive director of the International Butterfly Breeders Association. “I was like, ‘That is amazing, that’s beautiful, and it’s hopeful…

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Viva-Tejano-Episode-Bonus-Paula-Mejía-Johnny-CanalesTM Audio subscribers have access to this episode one week early. Visit our FAQ page to learn how to link your subscription to your podcast app. This bonus episode of Viva Tejano features a conversation with Paula Mejía about Mejía’s feature in the December issue of Texas Monthly, which covers Johnny Canales, the golden age of nineties tejano, and—most of all—why the boom in regional Mexican music today owes so much to Canales and his work in the eighties and nineties.(Read a transcript of this episode below.)Viva Tejano is produced by Ella Kopeikin and Patrick Michels and produced and engineered by Brian Standefer. Our executive producer is Megan Creydt. Additional production is by Aisling Ayers. Consulting producer is Adrian Arredondo. Graphic design is by Jenn Hair Tompkins and Victoria…

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W.A. Parish Generating StationMost days, when she leaves her house in Fort Bend County, south of Houston, she does so wearing a mask. Donna Thomas, a 63-year-old environmentalist, doesn’t take the precautionary measure because of COVID-19 concerns. Instead, she aims to protect herself from the gray plume of smoke—a “menacing storm cloud,” as she puts it—that sometimes wafts from a coal-fired power plant about fifteen miles southwest of the neighborhood where she’s lived since elementary school. Thomas, who has asthma, says she feels an intense weight on her chest when she spends too much time outside, and she sometimes has to retreat indoors because the air reeks of “trash and sewage.” As president of the small air-monitoring neighborhood council Fort Bend County Environmental, Thomas has worked for more than…

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Pachuco's MidlandThe paintings on the walls of Johnny’s Barbecue in Midland left a bigger impression than the barbecue when I visited over a decade ago. Anthropomorphic swine showed off outfits, including those of a nurse, a construction worker, and a Dallas Cowboy. Another wore a cowboy hat and boots while happily munching on a rack of ribs. When the restaurant closed in 2022, after seventy years in business, new owner Ruben Carrasco Jr. had a photographer document the images. (He’s planning to create a coloring book.) Now there’s new artwork, inspired by Carrasco’s native El Paso and his family, including his late brother, Jeffrey. Carrasco’s serving barbecue out of the old building with his restaurant, Pachuco’s, which opened two years ago, but the menu is like…

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