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In Texas, the arrival of the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments can only mean one thing—spring football is here!Kidding. Obviously, the days of Texas not being a basketball state are well behind us, even if Jones Ramsey’s quote that the only sports in Texas are football and spring football will never truly die.As recently as 2013, Texas had zero teams in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Since then, Texas Tech (2019), Houston (2021), and Baylor (2021) have made the Final Four, with Baylor becoming the state’s first team to win it all since Texas Western (now UTEP) in 1966.And of course, Texas has been much more of a women’s basketball state, with Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, and Baylor all winning national championships and…

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Most successful political leaders try to expand their party’s appeal. Across the country, many Republicans have concluded that nominating extreme far-right candidates gets in the way of that goal. But in Texas, where the Republican Party has maintained a thirty-year dominance of statewide races, the party, under the direction of chairman Matt Rinaldi, has concluded that its best path forward is continuing to march further rightward. Nearly a dozen candidates backed by members of the far right prevailed in the March primary over conservative incumbents, with many others forcing their opponents into runoffs, validating the chairman’s plan. Soon, however, Rinaldi won’t helm the Texas GOP. On Friday, the surly Dallas lawyer abruptly announced that he would not seek reelection, ending his three-year tenure as chairman. Delegates…

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WHO: The women of fictional girl group Girls5eva—Dawn (Sara Bareilles), Gloria (Paula Pell), Summer (Busy Philipps), and Wickie (Renée Elise Goldsberry), who definitely would not like being listed last—as well as songwriters Jeff Richmond and Meredith Scardino.WHAT: “Tap Into Your (Fort) Worth,” a song from the season-three premiere of the Netflix sitcom Girls5eva. WHY IT’S SO GREAT: Girls5eva, a satire on the music business centering on four middle-aged women attempting to revive their one-hit wonder girl group after twenty years, is great on its own, stuffed with high-speed Tina Fey–style humor (she’s an executive producer, though show creator Scardino likely deserves much of the credit). But in its best move yet, the show’s third season opens with an episode titled “Fort Worth,” set in the…

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AlbumA la Sala, KhruangbinDead Oceans and Night Time Stories, April 5 It may sound like trite exaggeration to say Khruangbin’s fourth studio album blows the doors off the barn—except the trio records its music in one, located on the family property of guitarist Mark “Marko” Speer, in tiny Burton (population three hundred), about 85 miles west of Houston. Speer, Laura Lee Ochoa on bass and vocals, and Donald “DJ” Johnson on drums create a globe-trotting surf-rock sound, though, that is about as far as you can get from stables and haystacks.ALBUmAct II, BeyoncéParkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records, March 29 Queen Bey is, at last, entering her country era, in the second installment of her three-act project, a genre-spanning exploration of American music’s Black roots. The first, 2022’s…

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This story was originally published in January 2022 and has been updated.The Metroplex is too big for just one barbecue guide. Fort Worth already got its own, so this one is dedicated to Dallas and its many suburbs, which are packed with smoked-meat stops both old and new. We have our favorites, of course. Last year Texas Monthly released a list of the best new barbecue joints in Texas. In 2021 we published our top fifty barbecue joints list, along with fifty more worthy of honorable mentions, but our barbecue recommendations don’t stop there. You can get a great meal at any one of the joints below.Before we get to the newer crop, here are some historical spots to visit. The Bryan family barbecue business began with the opening of Bryan’s Barbecue…

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