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Interview with filmmakers of Zurawski V TexasIn the chaotic months following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 reversal of its Roe v. Wade abortion-rights decision, state legislatures across the country passed tight restrictions on abortion, and Texas filmmakers Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault understood that they needed to document what was happening in their home state. Their film Zurawski v Texas, which debuted at the Telluride Film Festival in August and will be available to stream for free this weekend, offers an intimate look at the lives of several Texas women who banded together to sue the Lone Star State, and at the attorney who represented them. Denied access to abortion care when their complicated pregnancies posed dire threats to their health, the plaintiffs asked the state to clarify what constitutes a “medical…

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Michelin Restores Rescinded Invitations to Two Notable Texas BBQ JointsFor many chefs, receiving a Michelin star for their restaurant is a lifelong dream. But chefs in Texas haven’t had much hope of the same recognition until earlier this year. In July Michelin announced it would be covering Texas, or at least the major cities in Texas, for the first time. Earlier this month, many hopeful chefs and pitmasters received invitations to Michelin’s big announcement event on November 11 in Houston. Two of those pitmasters were almost left out after a mix-up from the Michelin communications team.Ernest Servantes is the pitmaster and co-owner of Burnt Bean Co., in Seguin, the number four barbecue joint on our most recent Top 50 list. Like many other restaurateurs, he and fellow co-owner David Kirkland received a request for…

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Uniqlo comes to TexasPeople who were unfamiliar with the Japanese brand Uniqlo might have been taken aback by the delirium that struck various parts of Texas in October, when five stores—two in Houston area and three around Dallas—opened their doors to the devoted. The lines of shoppers trying to get into Houston’s Memorial City store on opening day snaked throughout that mall, with the patiently fervent, or fervently patient, rewarded with cans of jasmine green tea. (On my visit two days later, the routinely mobbed Zara store across the way looked forsaken.) Just hours after the store opened at 10 a.m. on a school day, the line outside Uniqlo’s spanking new First Colony Mall location, in Sugar Land, was divided into three sections; two inside spanned the length…

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The Shaky Comeback of the Red-Cockaded WoodpeckerThe red-cockaded woodpecker is an unusual bird. An eight- or nine-inch ball of black and white feathers, it’s found in East Texas forests with an open understory, carving its nest cavities in living pine trees and drilling little holes around the openings, which drip sticky sap to deter predators, such as rat snakes. The males have a tiny, nearly invisible red streak, or cockade, on the upper border of the cheek. Unlike most woodpeckers, mated pairs of this species don’t raise their offspring alone. “Typically, the young of the previous year, most often the males, will stick around for a few years and help their parents raise their younger siblings,” says Tania Homayoun, an ornithologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife. “They’ll stick fairly close to…

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Alvin and Wanda Schulze opened Schulze’s Bar-B-Que in Rosenberg, southwest of Houston, in 1990. Their son, Clifford, and daughter, Teresa Schulze-Mielsch, helped run it for decades before Alvin died in 2021. Around that time, Clifford and his wife, Sherry, had been looking for the right property for a second location. A plot of land in Fulshear didn’t work out, so they looked farther west, to New Braunfels, where they reached another dead end. “Everything we tried, we were just hitting a wall, and I thought, this just isn’t meant to be,” Sherry said. Then their realtor asked them what they thought about Seguin.A big red metal building that once housed Smoking Charlie’s Barbecue had sat vacant for years on the north side of Seguin, east…

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In the sixteen years since its Santa Fe, New Mexico, founding, Meow Wolf, the immersive arts and entertainment company, has taken for its mission the all-encompassing task of creating whole worlds out of boxy warehouse spaces. These colorful, maximalist realms exist in their own universe, often with no reference to the worldly places—Las Vegas, Denver, Santa Fe, Grapevine—whence they came. To step into a Meow Wolf installation is to suspend any concept of geography: You could be in an art exhibit in Nevada or a cave on Mars. But with the opening of its Houston location, the fifth in the larger Meow Wolf multiverse, it seems the company could not resist a few nods to another enterprise invested in its own myth-making and paracosm: the Lone Star…

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North Crowley high school football photoRay Gates wasn’t expecting much out of his first interview for a high school football head-coaching job five years ago. The former Tarleton State defensive lineman, then in his mid-thirties, simply wanted to experience the process. The folks at North Dallas High, coming off a 2–7 finish in 2018, thanked the Cedar Hill assistant for coming in and turned elsewhere for their next coach.Not long after that, Gates was granted a virtual interview at Dallas’s Carter High, but the school didn’t ask him back for an in-person follow-up. At Richardson’s Berkner High in 2021, Gates participated in multiple interview rounds with the Metroplex school, but he again lost out on the job to another coach.In the spring of 2022, Gates was confident he’d landed the…

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concrete cancerJanell Gregerson’s toenails are painted hot pink, a tropical color that evokes the joys of lounging by the water, margarita in hand. But as the single mother of four walks out her back door in Cedar Park, a suburb northwest of Austin, to “show off” her swimming pool—which she installed in 2021 for $120,000, after saving for six years—it’s clear she hasn’t been enjoying much aquatic R&R. After less than three years of use, her pool has become a gaping, dangerous hole, its plaster crisscrossed by dozens of cracks. In the deep end, a nine-foot drop from where Gregerson stands, hundreds of mosquito larvae wriggle through a murky green pond fed by two months’ worth of rain. Gregerson says red wasps like to congregate at the…

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Phil King's conflict of interestEarlier this year, state senator Phil King took the unusual step of wading into a fight between Oncor, the company that owns and operates the electrical wires throughout much of North and West Texas, and its customers—among them some of his constituents.Oncor had asked the Public Utility Commission of Texas, in June 2023, for permission to charge its ratepayers higher fees to make up for $153 million in costs it had incurred for repairs and expansion of its local wires. Then it filed for another $56 million that September, plus $81 million the following March. Lawyers representing a coalition of municipal governments pushed back, arguing that Oncor couldn’t ask to pass on its expenses more than twice in a twelve-month period. In response, Oncor said…

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Phil King's conflict of interestEarlier this year, state senator Phil King took the unusual step of wading into a fight between Oncor, the company that owns and operates the electrical wires throughout much of North and West Texas, and its customers—among them some of his constituents.Oncor had asked the Public Utility Commission of Texas, in June 2023, for permission to charge its ratepayers higher fees to make up for $153 million in costs it had incurred for repairs and expansion of its local wires. Then it filed for another $56 million that September, plus $81 million the following March. Lawyers representing a coalition of municipal governments pushed back, arguing that Oncor couldn’t ask to pass on its expenses more than twice in a twelve-month period. In response, Oncor said…

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