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Dr. Tandy Freeman in Weatherford, on June 8, 2024.When asked to define the two-word mantra that guides professional rodeo, cowboys generally issue a stream of synonymous directives. Be tough. Don’t quit. You ride hurt. You ride sick. If you’re not confined to bed, then you’re not really hurt. Toughen up. Don’t be a sissy. Don’t complain about it. Do your job. Get back out there. They all add up to the same thing: Cowboy up.But right now, a cowboy is down. For eight seconds—the time a bull rider must remain mounted to receive a score—a 29-year-old Brazilian named Kaique Pacheco managed to stay perched atop one ton of bovine muscle, a bull named Flashbang. But then, the ride complete, Flashbang launched Pacheco off his back and into the air. The rider landed headfirst. He…

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In the latest episode of Answer Me This, senior editor Alex Samuels examines which races have the potential to be swayed by the Harris campaign’s success with key voting blocks—and whether that sway is likely to change the direction of the race.

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A New Era for The Orange ShowThe wacko outdoor rooms of the Orange Show Monument usually dare a visitor not to grin from ear to ear, so I was dismayed this week to see its stucco walls crumbling in some places, with ceramic tiles missing, paint peeling, and a door splintered and disintegrating. Weeds poked up through cracks in the base.Jack Massing was pointing out how subsidence and a few years of extreme weather have done a number on the exuberant structure, which is Texas’s most iconic visionary environment. Still, he lost himself in a mosh pit of happy memories. His head was back in the freewheeling 1980s, when Houston’s art happenings could make wildcatting sound like prim business. No stage was better suited for shenanigans than the multilevel Orange Show…

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Lone Star beer cans throughout the years.At the end of the day, this Texas historian just wants a cold, affordable beer and the truth. Lone Star Brewing Company has long been making the first part easy. The second part? Not so much. For the better part of a decade, it has been stamping its products with “Since 1884.” But this year the company got aggressive about it, presumably for a nice, round-numbered anniversary, by putting a giant “140” on billboards, cans, hats, koozies, stickers, T-shirts, and tap handles. It’s true that a Lone Star Brewing Co. was established in 1884. The San Antonio–based company brewed, among other brands, Alamo Beer. But it never sold a beer named Lone Star. It went out of business in 1919. A second and separate Lone Star…

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Black BearEach month, we get to know one of the state’s many wonderful and quirky critters. Latin name: Ursus americanusSize: 125 to 500 pounds (adult males)Texas habitat: West and southwestCelebrating the end of our hike up the South Rim Trail, in Big Bend National Park, my friends and I tucked into steaming bowls of jambalaya before making camp. Dinner smelled wonderful—and we weren’t the only ones who thought so. A black bear popped its head up over the canyon rim, about forty feet away, sniffing with its velvety snout while ambling toward us. I felt both awe and terror before our uninvited guest lumbered off. Encounters like mine are increasing in West Texas, where black bears are making a comeback. How many live here?Likely “north of a hundred,”…

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surfing dogs meanwhile in texasMore than thirty dogs (and one miniature horse in a lifeguard costume) hit the waves in Galveston for a dog surfing competition to raise money for a local animal shelter.After technical problems rendered CenterPoint Energy’s power-outage map useless in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, a 55-year-old Tomball resident discovered that the store-locator feature on the Whataburger app displaying whether restaurants were open or closed worked as a reasonably good substitute.Two million dollars’ worth of rare baseball cards were stolen from a dealer at the Dallas Card Show, in Allen.A couple of Houston natives won the most recent season of the reality dating series Love Island USA.A volunteer firefighter from Alpine was charged with arson after allegedly starting multiple brush fires in Jeff Davis and Brewster…

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film still from The Texas Chainsaw MassacreOn a recent rainy evening in Manhattan, five Texans gathered for a talk at the Museum of Modern Art. The discussion touched on the topics you’d expect: Technique. Composition. Cultural context. Thematic intent. And then there were more unusual questions raised. Like, when Leatherface drops Pam onto the meat hook, do you really see the moment of impalement?“People on YouTube will write, ‘I saw the hook go through her chest!’ ” said actress Teri McMinn. “They’re adamant about it.”We were assembled for a fiftieth anniversary screening of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which first screened at MoMA less than year after its theatrical release. Just like Degas, de Kooning, or Abramovic, Chainsaw is in the museum’s permanent collection. It has been…

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Post Malone collaborators, Dolly Parton, Beyonce, Taylor SwiftWhen Post Malone announced his intention to cross over to country earlier this year, he took everyone by surprise, as a guy who began his career as a rapper. But the shift didn’t come entirely out of the blue. The Grapevine artist, whose driver’s license reads “Austin Richard Post,” has long been interested in genre bending and has incorporated country elements into his work as far back as “Go Flex” from his 2016 debut, Stoney. That album also teased Post’s superpower: his ability to work with a wide array of artists from across the spectrum of popular music. Stoney featured appearances from Justin Bieber, Kehlani, Quavo, and 2 Chainz; on his official country debut, F-1 Trillion (out August 16), fifteen of the eighteen tracks involve guest artists, ranging from current megastars such as Chris Stapleton and…

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Q: My lovely wife tells me that proper etiquette requires me to wear my straw hat from Easter until Labor Day and then switch back to my felt hats. But early September seems way too early for felt since it stays hot until much later. Does this rule apply to Texans?Randy Hroch, New BraunfelsA: The Texanist is quite familiar with the traditional guidelines associated with seasonal cowboy-hat donnery. And yes, it is customary to wear straw hats, which are lighter and breathe better than felt hats, between Easter and Labor Day (the first Monday in September). Felt hats, which keep the noggin warm, are customarily worn the rest of the year. The observance of these dates is, the Texanist will note, a fairly modern convention. As…

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Long before he became one of the most powerful judges in the country, James Ho sat down with one of his heroes, Edwin Meese III, in Washington, D.C. Ho was 26, fresh out of the University of Chicago Law School, and had come to interview Meese for a law journal article. Sixty-seven-year-old Meese had been a conservative star since the eighties, when he ranked among President Ronald Reagan’s most trusted aides, serving as counselor and attorney general. He had endeared himself to Christian leaders by declaring in a speech that out of all the laws written by mankind, “we haven’t improved one iota on the Ten Commandments.” Meese had resigned in 1988, after an independent counsel investigated possible ethics violations, then drifted into Washington’s small…

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