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Big Fish Energy: Austin Anderson on Catching a Record 71lb Smallmouth Buffalo in Downtown AustinTexas is big. So are our fish. In this occasional series we talk to Texas anglers about their monster catches. Name: Austin AndersonAge: 28Hometown: CoppellYears fishing: 26+Favorite fishing holes: Lady Bird Lake and Lake MichiganAustin Anderson, a 28-year-old professional carp and buffalo fishing guide, was fishing by himself on June 10 from the bank of Lady Bird Lake when he hooked into a life-changing fish. Two days before, the Austin-based angler had been fishing with a buddy in the same spot when he saw a huge fish jump, or crash, far from shore, almost in the middle of the downtown Austin lake. “Immediately something in my mind clicked. I don’t know what it was, but I was just like, ‘That’s her. That’s the fish I…

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Caddo Lake film reviewCaddo Lake feels primordial. The cries of birds and other creatures unseen echo among the cypress trees draped in ragged Spanish moss that loom over glassy water. It is a place, in other words, that cannot help but inspire yarns, which locals in tiny towns with eerie names such as Uncertain are quick to tell wandering out-of-towners.Lately, Caddo Lake has served as the setting for storytellers of the professional variety. The renowned Texan novelist Attica Locke set her 2019 crime thriller, Heaven, My Home, there. The book centers on the disappearance of a nine-year-old boy. Strangely, another thriller centering on a missing child arrives Thursday, this time on the small screen. Max’s film Caddo Lake, from producer M. Night Shyamalan and writer-directors Celine Held and Logan George, is not only set in Karnack,…

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ACL FashionSo you’re saying your ideal concert is several competing shows happening simultaneously along the perimeter of a large, dusty field with limited shade coverage? Happy festival weekend, y’all!With highs in the nineties and not a single cloud to pray to, thousands bravely gathered at Zilker Park for the Austin City Limits Music Festival last weekend with plans to get scolded by Chappell Roan, witness Dua Lipa’s improved choreography firsthand, and, of course, show off their own three-day lineups of festival looks. Before we even made it to the park this year, we reminisced about the styles of ACLs past, nostalgic for a time when “festival fashion” carried no SEO weight and a simple halter top and baseball cap did an outfit make. But while ACL’s 2024…

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ACL FashionSo you’re saying your ideal concert is several competing shows happening simultaneously along the perimeter of a large, dusty field with limited shade coverage? Happy festival weekend, y’all!With highs in the nineties and not a single cloud to pray to, thousands bravely gathered at Zilker Park for the Austin City Limits Music Festival last weekend with plans to get scolded by Chappell Roan, witness Dua Lipa’s improved choreography firsthand, and, of course, show off their own three-day lineups of festival looks. Before we even made it to the park this year, we reminisced about the styles of ACLs past, nostalgic for a time when “festival fashion” carried no SEO weight and a simple halter top and baseball cap did an outfit make. But while ACL’s 2024…

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Tip-Sharing Practices Have Landed Some BBQ Joints in Hot Water With the U.S. Dept. of LaborTwo years ago, the Texanist fielded a question about tipping at barbecue joints. Reader Justin Schwartz was making his way through the Top 50 barbecue list and sought ethical clarity on the acceptable percentage to leave the staff. Unlike restaurants with servers, where a 20 percent tip is customary, most barbecue joints hand orders to customers over a counter rather than deliver them to a table. Still, the Texanist asked readers to consider the time and effort that goes into smoking meat, along with the uncomfortable pit-room environment. “We should think of a generous gratuity for our barbecue workers as a chance to show our appreciation for that with which we have been blessed,” he wrote. I agree, but where do those tips go—and where…

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Wendish Festival SerbinIn the Year of Festivals, Texas Monthly writers gamely join community celebrations across the state. Bring on the pageants, cook-offs, and parades! Until she was 22, Amy Mueller Reynolds didn’t know she was Wendish.“We didn’t realize we were not German,” she says of her immediate family. “The word ‘Wendish’ was never introduced.” We’re sitting in the main building of the Texas Wendish Heritage Museum, a lacy white structure that looks like it belongs on the front of a Christmas card. On this late-September morning in Serbin, a blip-on-the-highway town an hour east of Austin, the sun is slowly baking the throngs of people milling around outside. It’s the day of the town’s annual Wendish Fest, and 35-year-old Mueller Reynolds, the Texas Wendish Heritage Society’s marketing director, is telling me how…

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ted cruz colin allred debate illustrationTed Cruz often sticks to the usual Republican talking points when condemning Democratic opponent Colin Allred: He’s too radical, he wants to allow criminals to cross the border into the state, and he’s generally not conservative enough for a state as red as Texas. Cruz has also leaned heavily on the accusation that Allred is hiding from the media, dubbing him Can’t Comment Colin. Allred has fired back at Cruz for repeatedly declining to give specifics about his stance on abortion, a key issue for voters in a state where the procedure is illegal in most cases. But neither candidate will be able to hide while participating in a televised debate on October 15. Both have publicly expressed excitement about the spectacle—and for good reason.…

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ted cruz colin allred debate illustrationTed Cruz often sticks to the usual Republican talking points when condemning Democratic opponent Colin Allred: He’s too radical, he wants to allow criminals to cross the border into the state, and he’s generally not conservative enough for a state as red as Texas. Cruz has also leaned heavily on the accusation that Allred is hiding from the media, dubbing him Can’t Comment Colin. Allred has fired back at Cruz for repeatedly declining to give specifics about his stance on abortion, a key issue for voters in a state where the procedure is illegal in most cases. But neither candidate will be able to hide while participating in a televised debate on October 15. Both have publicly expressed excitement about the spectacle—and for good reason.…

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Native American Texans Dance at Palo Duro Canyon to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Red River WarWoody Taptto wouldn’t have been in Palo Duro Canyon last month, shaking a metal rattle to the pulsing beat of a drum, if history had played out just a hair differently. The 83-year-old was among the eldest of two dozen dancers gathered at a pavilion on the canyon floor for the gourd dance, a Southern Plains tradition with roots going back to at least the nineteenth century. Taptto wore a blue broadcloth vest and a beaver-skin hat bearing the U.S. Marine Corps insignia as the setting sun rimmed the canyon with a pink line of fuzzy, fading light. Just two years ago, the resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, traded regalia and rattle for a hospital gown; a bad fall caused an aggressive infection in his…

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Texas Supreme Court Justices up for reelectionLauren Miller’s story has become a familiar tale in Texas: A woman, facing complications that put her life at risk during pregnancy, was forced to seek reproductive care out of state because of extreme abortion laws. In Miller’s case, she was pregnant with twins. When it became clear that one would not survive, the nonviable fetus also became a threat to the other, healthy baby. Miller later became one of 22 women to sue the state in Zurawski v. Texas, a 2023 lawsuit that sought to clarify medical exceptions to the state’s abortion ban, under which doctors performing abortions could be penalized with as many as 99 years in prison, more than $100,000 in fines, and the loss of their state medical license. In May, the…

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