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It’s hard to overstate the precise attention to detail, as well as the financial investment, that went into designing the San Francisco headquarters of the influential social media company formerly known as Twitter. Designers famously relocated not one but two nineteenth-century homesteader cabins from rural Montana to the inside of the company’s luxurious downtown office. The purpose: providing employees with a novel space for lounging—an activity countless other workplaces have supported with a few couches and a coffee machine.During a short-lived era of tech-company extravagance, there was much relaxation, often in the guise of “brainstorming” and “team building,” to be had at the Twitter headquarters. The company stylishly localized the multistory space, but not in a way that might have been construed as cliché. Designers…

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Nearly four months after launching her self-titled era, Megan Thee Stallion is showing the world that she’s at home with herself by honoring her roots with the sultry new song “Bigger in Texas.” The Grammy winner dropped Megan: Act II earlier today, along with a standout music video for the aforementioned track that features Houston landmarks and legends—and a lot of Lone Star pride.After opening with Pen & Pixel graphics, a ginormous Texas flag, and a heavy but relaxed bass line reminiscent of early-2000s Dirty South hip-hop, “Bigger in Texas” really kicks off with Megan, in a skimpy, all-denim ensemble, leaning on a slab, a clear callback to H-Town car culture. “I’m at the top of my game, I’m who they hate,” she raps confidently.She…

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Midland Legacy running back Damien Johnson bulled his way through the middle of the line for his fourth touchdown of the game. That pulled the Rebels into a 55–55 tie with Euless Trinity last November, on Trinity’s home field, during the second possession of the second overtime of a second-round playoff game—with the mandatory 2-point attempt to follow, Trinity having failed to convert its 2-point possession.Legacy coach Clint Hartman pulled off his headset, handed it to a student helper, and announced he would race down the sideline toward the end zone and high-five his players after they scored and won the game.Which is exactly what happened. Quarterback Marcos Davila rifled a pass toward the right sideline to Jordan Williams, who eased in for the winning…

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Sally Duval, a 59-year-old first-time candidate for the Texas House, has just taken what can only be described as a heroic bong rip, vigorously bubbling the water in the glass bong’s bottom chamber and then expertly riding the weed-packed bowl out of its holster as she inhaled deeply. Sitting at her kitchen table, she holds it in her lungs for several seconds while making that clenched, expectant face that pot smokers make—like a cat that’s swallowed a canary—before exhaling a cloud of smoke. It’s a product called Presidential Kush, from the High Hippy Flower Company, purchased at an Austin cannabis store, one of an estimated seven thousand across Texas selling what are essentially legal marijuana products.“Is this stuff pretty strong?” I ask. Duval is a…

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A man stands in the dairy section of the Central Market on North Lamar in Austin, inspecting the inside of a crate of Vital Farms eggs. He is white, middle-aged, Midwestern-born, a married father of two—in other words, a Wilco fan. “Fan” as in “fanatic.” He has attended fifteen concerts at thirteen venues across eight cities in four states over 25 years (and counting); listened to the band’s thirteen studio albums (plus various Jeff Tweedy solo albums and side projects) front to back countless times; read all three of Tweedy’s nonfiction books (including an autographed copy of the latest) and even thumbed through his poetry collection, a true measure of the man’s fandom; and clad his children in Wilco-branded clothing more or less since they were born.And yet,…

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