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Adriana and Roberto Equihua never imagined they’d open a restaurant in the Big Bend. The Tijuana natives and San Diego residents had spent time in the Texas border regions as lawyers—Adriana as an immigration attorney and Roberto as a maritime attorney who had family in Alpine. One cousin in that far West Texas town had opened a restaurant, El Patio, and Roberto was a frequent visitor. In early 2020, Roberto’s cousin offered him and Adriana the restaurant, as well as a review of the finances. “I am really good at numbers,” Roberto says. “So I looked over the statements and sales. It was great.” Roberto convinced his wife the investment was worth their money and time, so they decided to accept the offer. Yet they didn’t…

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The first Border Biennial, a joint exhibition hosted by the El Paso Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, was held in 2008, and until its fifth iteration in 2016 it didn’t carry any particular theme. Border artists were free to follow their fancies in representing the region and its residents, culture, and environment. But since Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign, which at its inception placed the U.S.-Mexico border at the center of American politics, the biennial’s curators have encouraged artists—all of whom reside in the border region or hail from it—to submit work that considers the political questions and anxieties that the border provokes. That ongoing project was interrupted by the pandemic, which led to the twenty-month closure of the…

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Kelly Evers has experienced the highs and lows of barbecue in nine years as a business owner. In 2015, he and his wife, Melody, opened Creekside Cookers, a Saturday-only barbecue truck in Wimberley named after their competition barbecue team. Evers would fire up the smokers every Friday evening after a week of teaching sixth graders so he could serve it up the next day. It was an exhausting routine, so he went full time into barbecue the following year, giving up his long teaching career and role as a golf coach.Creekside Cookers outgrew the trailer. Evers sold it in late 2019 when he partnered with an investor to open inside a century-old building in downtown Wimberley. With impressive brisket and pork ribs, the restaurant made…

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Nick Offerman is a distinctly unique figure in contemporary popular culture. In and of itself, the fact that he wears a lot of hats—screen actor, touring comedian, author, activist, outdoorsman, philosophizer—does not set him apart. But the way he achieved that status, and what he does with it now, is singular. His breakthrough role was playing the solitary, anti-government, America Firster Ron Swanson on the old sitcom Parks and Recreation, which may be the single most beloved series of the peak TV era. But in his various works since the show’s close, in 2015, he’s made his way by somehow both leaning into and knocking down Swanson’s often cartoonish sense of patriotism, in the process revealing what he, Offerman, believes is truly great about America.…

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If the University Interscholastic League has dotted all its i‘s, crossed all its t‘s, and gotten the math right, the organization’s biennial announcement of Texas public high schools’ athletic reclassification and realignment will occur Thursday, February 1, at precisely at 9 a.m. This is the moment when schools across the state will learn what classification and what district they’ll be competing in, depending on changes in enrollment over the previous two years.Experience tells deputy director Jamey Harrison, who oversees the endeavor, his cellphone will ring with the first complaint and/or request for a change at 9:07, taking that long only because of the time required to sift through the considerable volume of the statewide release.Followed soon after by “some colorful emails from members of the…

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