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The brisket kolache at Taste at 555.A post oak fire burns overnight inside a smoker in the basement of a high-rise building in uptown Corpus Christi. I went searching for breakfast at AEP Texas, an electric utility company, where I heard brisket kolaches (or klobasniky, if you prefer) could be found. Down a flight of stairs from the lobby was a small food court with just one vendor operating (the other closed eight months ago). Taste at 555, which is named after its address, 555 North Carancahua, opened here in 2022. One of the stipulations owner Ricci Neer required in the lease was that she’d be able to bring her smoker, an Ole Hickory model designed to fit under a vent hood. Because, like everything else on the menu, the brisket…

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Lingerie on display at Petticoat Fair.Boobs and Texas go together like barbecue and Dr Pepper. Texas has been home to innovations in breast science, medicine, art, and display. But when it comes to the everyday support of the bosom, innovation is pretty flat. It’s possible that technology peaked with the brassiere. For those of us with big naturals or big enhancements, finding the right one once you’re out of a narrow cup-size range is a big hassle.When I was fifteen, my personal destiny manifested, prompting my grandmother to note that I was “really developing.” The assistant principal at Westlake High called me into the office for not just some offending band T-shirts (that Jane’s Addiction one with the naked puppets, for example) but for the “inappropriateness” of a spaghetti-strap dress…

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Detours Fern Cave Caprock CanyonTexas boasts more varieties of native ferns and lycophytes (“ferny plants” for nonbotanists) than any other state in the continental U.S. As you might expect, you can find them in wetter regions such as the Gulf Coast and the Piney Woods, but they also live in places that seem too harsh for such lush organisms, including the edge of the semiarid Llano Estacado in the Panhandle. There, tucked away in the upper western corner of Caprock Canyons State Park, in Quitaque (about 95 miles northeast of Lubbock), Fern Cave beckons hikers off two of the more challenging trails. A rugged landscape of hoodoos, burnt orange cliffs and mesas, and short-grass prairie (where the park’s famous bison graze) gives way to a shady, verdant sanctuary. Spring…

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stephenville bryan burroughThis week, famed in-depth reporting program 20/20 will feature the murder case of Susan Woods—the victim at the center of Texas Monthly‘s most recent true crime podcast, Stephenville. In the episode, best-selling author and host of the podcast Bryan Burrough explores the diary of the killer himself, as well as the missteps by law enforcement and prejudices of a small-town Texas community that led this case to go unsolved for nearly two decades. Check out an exclusive clip from the forthcoming episode above. The full two-hour episode will premiere tomorrow, January 19, at 8 p.m. CST. If you haven’t binged the full podcast series yet, make sure to listen on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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The Story: The Juror Who Found Herself GuiltyMichael Hall breaks down his February 2024 feature, “The Juror Who Found Herself Guilty,” and his quest to find the woman who set an innocent man free—finally reuniting them after more than three decades.

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Save Muny!“Let them play.”That was Austin mayor Taylor Glass’s response in 1950, after it was reported to him that two Black youths, one of whom worked as a caddie at the city’s only public golf course, Lions Municipal, had been detained after starting a round on the fairways and greens that had until then been strictly reserved for white golfers. The mayor’s three simple words made Muny, as the facility is known, the first desegregated public golf links in the former Confederacy and quietly vaulted it into the history of America’s civil rights movement—a distinction that supporters now hope will save the course from destruction and commercial development.Muny was built by the Austin Lions Club in 1924 near the east bank of Lady Bird Lake. Today…

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Key takeways from the DOJ's Uvalde ReportU.S. attorney general Merrick Garland said some victims of the 2022 Uvalde school shooting would have survived if Texas law enforcement officers—who waited more than an hour to confront the gunman—had followed “generally accepted practices.”Those assertions came Thursday after the U.S. Justice Department released a withering report into the hundreds of Texas law enforcement officers’ fumbled response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting, finding “cascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training.”The long-anticipated 575-page report detailed the many catastrophic errors of the May 24, 2022, response, but concluded the most significant was that officers should have immediately recognized that it was an active shooter situation and confronted the gunman, who was with victims in two adjoining classrooms.Garland called the response “a failure that should not…

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A lamb and brisket taco at Yellow Bell Tacos.John Bates couldn’t find the South Texas flavors that reminded him of home. But now, the Austin pitmaster, who grew up in Corpus Christi and gained renown when his restaurant, InterStellar Barbecue, was named a 2021 Texas Monthly Top 50 joint, is dishing out those hometown flavors with his new Yellow Bell Tacos trailer. “By getting closer to my heart and doing things that I really, really loved, we found a lot of success,” he says. “Tacos are kind of the same thing for me as well.” If Interstellar’s consistently long lines are any indication, Yellow Bell will follow suit. But customers will have to locate the trailer first.The seven-month-old mobile operation is tucked behind Austin Beerworks’ taproom in Sprinkle Valley. The location, in the…

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Averie Bishop near the Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing ArtsMost women who don the crown and sash of Miss Texas have the same ambition: to become Miss America. Averie Bishop, who was Miss Texas 2022, came pretty close, placing third in the pageant. Flush with that near-victory, she made a hard pivot: she decided to take on the political establishment. The 27-year-old from McKinney, about thirty miles north of Dallas, isn’t your typical agitator. The daughter of a Filipino immigrant mother and a fifth-generation Texan father, she attended college and law school at Southern Methodist University before becoming the first Asian American Miss Texas. In that role, Bishop made some unusual choices, speaking out on controversial issues, such as guns, racism, and reproductive rights. That brought her lots of media attention, giving her the…

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The-Letters-Andrew-Porter-American-Short-Fiction-featMy mother has been sending me letters lately. Not letters intended for me but rather letters she has been writing to various people in her life—important influences, she calls them. Relatives, friends, former classmates, coworkers. She has been writing two or three letters a week and sending them to me via email to look over and send back to her with comments. You’re a professor, she tells me, you know the right way to put these things. She says she wants me to be brutally honest with her, to pull no punches, but I rarely have anything negative to say. These letters are beautiful, after all. Not only beautifully written but filled with genuine emotion, honesty, thoughtfulness, insight. Each one is like a little portrait of…

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