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Jasmine Crockett Q&AIn May, a House Oversight Committee hearing took a turn into reality TV territory when Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene made a personal jab at Dallas Democrat Jasmine Crockett. “I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading,” Greene said. It looked as though the committee was about to devolve into fisticuffs. Then, moments later, Crockett, under the guise of asking a question, fought back at Greene. “If someone in this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blonde, bad built, butch body,” she asked, “that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”Overnight, quite literally, a political star was born. A clip of their exchange—which also featured Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, reprimanding Greene with a “baby girl, don’t even play”—quickly made…

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Rabid Wolf SpiderTexas is home to some of the creepiest, crawliest, and otherwise oddest animals on the planet. We introduce you to them in What in Tarnation?!, an occasional series. I have a confession to make. From June 2021 until the spring of 2023, I murdered dozens of innocent victims. I didn’t even bother to learn their names. As soon as one appeared, the closest shoe or magazine became a fatal weapon. All I knew was that these enemies were terrifying, mud-colored creatures, and they were everywhere: the garage, the porch, the grass, the shed. My MO was to eradicate them by any means necessary, because unless you are an arachnophile, spiders look scary, and therefore they must be squished. Cut to 2024, and I would not harm a wolf…

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Rabid Wolf SpiderTexas is home to some of the creepiest, crawliest, and otherwise oddest animals on the planet. We introduce you to them in What in Tarnation?!, an occasional series. I have a confession to make. From June 2021 until the spring of 2023, I murdered dozens of innocent victims. I didn’t even bother to learn their names. As soon as one appeared, the closest shoe or magazine became a fatal weapon. All I knew was that these enemies were terrifying, mud-colored creatures, and they were everywhere: the garage, the porch, the grass, the shed. My MO was to eradicate them by any means necessary, because unless you are an arachnophile, spiders look scary, and therefore they must be squished. Cut to 2024, and I would not harm a wolf…

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Jake Worthington and Miranda Lambert's new songWhen Miranda Lambert penned “Hello Shitty Day” with Jesse Frasure, Jessie Jo Dillon, and George Strait hit machine Dean Dillon, she knew just who she wanted to record the song: Jake Worthington, a rising honky-tonker who shares her reverence for traditional Texas music and barroom weepers.“Jake was the first person I thought of to sing it,” Lambert says of the new tune, released September 27. “We’re both Texans who grew up on the same traditional country music, and I love watching his star rise. I was really proud to hear that he wanted to cut this song for his project, and I was thrilled to sing on it with him.”The La Porte–raised Worthington, however, never expected to receive a call from the Grammy winner about a song she wrote…

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How College-town Boutiques Get Ready for Football SeasonStep inside the co-op at University of Texas at Austin these days, and you can feel the buzz of a winning season. The jerseys of quarterbacks Quinn Ewers and Arch Manning hang from wall racks, too in demand to dangle there for long. The members of the bald mannequin family by the front door show off their excitement about joining the Southeastern Conference. They sport SEC T-shirts and other burnt orange gear—even their plastic dog wears a Longhorns-branded harness. Beside them, a sign advertises a new “Celebrate the Win” T-shirt, a tribute to UT’s recent triumph over the University of Michigan—a souvenir to ensure the sweetness of victory lasts a little longer.As the world of Texas college football spins this fall, the collegiate shops across…

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Chicken N Pickle adaptive pickleballTaylor Nichols is no small gherkin on the pickleball court. During a recent weekday match at Chicken N Pickle, a new sports and entertainment complex in the blink-and-you’d-miss-it town of Webster, halfway between Houston and Galveston, the 33-year-old Fort Worth native zipped around the court, dinking and lobbing and backhanding the ball in a furious nine-hit rally with his opponent.Pickleball is Nichols’s bread and butter, and he dominates most matches he plays. Although this contest unfolded as most do in the booming recreational sport—including all of those earsplitting cracks, thwacks, and pops—there was one key difference: Nichols played from a sports wheelchair, a souped-up ride with intimidatingly angled wheels and Evel Knievel–red spokes.Before becoming enamored with all things pickleball, Nichols was an able-bodied professional motocross…

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a mouth-watering tray of barbecue from BBQ FriendsSmoked brisket and ribs weren’t featured at family barbecues when Sebastien Quintanilla was growing up in Corpus Christi. Family members would grill fajitas and chicken quarters while Quintanilla’s grandmother Rosa made beans, rice, salsas, and tortillas by hand. She cooked every day, not just for family gatherings, and a young Quintanilla was there to help. “She passed before I could get a lot of her recipes,” he said. But he watched; now he tries to make those dishes from memory while cooking for his BBQ Fiends food truck, just outside Hutto, about thirty minutes northeast of Austin. Since April, he’s been serving four days a week in front of Rockabilly Brewing.The barbecue business has matured along with Rockabilly over the past few years. Quintanilla began…

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kacey musgraves at snl 2024Kacey Musgraves’s third taping for Austin City Limits, which took place in June for an episode that will be the show’s fiftieth-season premiere when it airs Saturday, was a looser affair than most, despite the Golden, Texas, native complaining about the difficulty of sitting down in her restrictive, sequined minidress. Though her episode is one of the few to feature a single artist for the show’s full hour, Musgraves and her band took more than two hours to get through their set, retaking songs, retuning guitars, and generally revealing, as the singer put it at one point, “how the sausage gets made.”From another artist, the process might have come off as sloppy. But from Musgraves, especially at this point in her career, it played less…

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Only a few key races in Texas have the potential to flip congressional or state House seats from red to blue—or blue to red. In the latest episode of Answer Me This, senior editor Alex Samuels discusses which districts are ripe for upsets.

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Reader Quiz: Help Us Create the Definitive Map of Texas RegionsIn Austin, just north of our imposing pink granite seat of government, inlaid on the new Texas Capitol Mall, is a large map of the state. Visitors to the promenade can walk across seven geographical regions, strolling from the Panhandle Plains, in the north; to Prairies and Lakes, in the north-central area; to the Piney Woods, in the east; to the Gulf Coast and the South Texas Plains; and from Big Bend Country, out west, to the Hill Country, in the middle-ish part of the state. Travel Texas, the state’s tourism office, uses the same seven regions in the way it divides the state. And Texas Parks and Wildlife seems to follow suit, though it spells “Piney Woods” as one word. But this particular convention, despite…

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