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Logan Glenn was ready to get back into barbecue. He had his first taste of the business in 2013 while working in the pit room at Oak Leaf Smokehouse, in Houston. The joint closed two years later, and Glenn moved to a job at a meal-prep company and then at a gelato shop. At Oak Leaf, he had worked with David Welch, who now owns Fire Craft BBQ, in Kingwood, a neighborhood in northeast Houston. The two got back together to cook for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in 2022, and the fire for barbecue was rekindled in Glenn.Welch offered him a job, but Glenn wasn’t ready to give up on gelato just yet. Glenn’s sporadic barbecue pop-ups would have to scratch the itch.…

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The Texas–Texas A&M football game is back this week, after a thirteen-year hiatus. Texas Monthly, which has long covered the rivalry, rejoices in its return with a full collection of stories about the game’s history, off-the-field antics, major players, and more. Read everything here. Across the whole century-plus-long span since Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin’s first gridiron get-together, the football rivalry has produced too many memorable moments to count. Most of these have, of course, taken place on the field—extraordinary plays, nail-biting victories and losses on both sides, and even a few instances of tomfoolery here and there. Who could forget 1965’s “Texas Special,” the flawlessly executed trick play pulled off by the Aggies that involved an intentionally bounced pass that appeared…

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Texans You Should Know is a series highlighting overlooked figures and events from Texas history. On May 12, 1966, spectators packed into a Los Angeles County Superior Court building. They were eagerly waiting to find out if the elegant woman sitting among them was Corinne Griffith—acclaimed early-Hollywood actress and one of the wealthiest women in the world at the time—or just a stand-in who had replaced her. In an unexpected turn of events for an otherwise straightforward annulment hearing, the plaintiff didn’t purport to be the renowned actress. She claimed to be an imposter hired by Griffith. A witness was called to the stand: Betty Blythe, a star who had worked with the Texarkana-born actress in the late 1910s. “Is Corinne Griffith in the room?” the defense…

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The Texas–Texas A&M football game is back this week, after a thirteen-year hiatus. Texas Monthly, which has long covered the rivalry, rejoices in its return with a full collection of stories about the game’s history, off-the-field antics, major players, and more. Read everything here. Growing up in College Station meant a life governed by the tides. Waves of students would roll into town each August and then recede again the following May. As the adolescent sons of members of the Texas A&M faculty, in those pre-internet days, my friends and I would eagerly await the annual spring exodus so that we could comb the dumpsters of the emptying apartment complexes for discarded girlie magazines. We’d stash them in our clubhouse, which we’d built from construction scrap salvaged…

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WHO: Miranda Lambert, Parker McCollum, and the iconic George Strait. WHAT: A tribute to this year’s Country Music Association’s Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award winner, performed by two stars from the current generation. WHY IT’S SO GREAT: The CMA’s lifetime achievement award—named for its first honoree, Willie Nelson—isn’t the sort that gets handed out easily. The association doesn’t run down a list and simply pick the next name in line. It was first issued in 2012, but some years, there isn’t an awardee. Last night in Nashville, though, the ninth performer (and third Texan) to be presented with the prize got an all-star tribute as part of the CMA Awards ceremony. We’re talking, of course, about George Strait, the seventeen-time CMA Award winner and legendary King of…

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