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This time of year, shoppers who set foot inside Lowe’s Market in downtown Canyon Lake, are usually looking for two things: swimming gear and beer. The cramped and busy grocery store, which is located about an hour north of San Antonio and whose wide selection of disparate items gives it the feel of a mini-Walmart, is often the last stop for supplies before locals and tourists float down the nearby Guadalupe River, a Texas summer tradition. But for the last two weeks, something else has lured an endless stream of outdoor enthusiasts, ranchers, gun lovers, and tourists into the store, often with looks of excitement and curiosity splashed across their faces. It’s not the fresh produce, the sunscreen, or even the generous selection of wine and…

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The Detours series celebrates lesser-known locales worth visiting across the state. A Dallas resort’s sculpture garden serves as the final resting place for a bit of history: a propeller from the RMS Lusitania, the British passenger ship torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland during World War I. It belongs to real estate billionaire Harlan Crow, whose mother, incidentally, survived the sinking of the SS Athenia, the first British ship to be torpedoed by Germany in World War II. The propeller is one of more than a thousand artworks and artifacts—including pieces of the Berlin Wall—at the Crow-owned Hilton Anatole, which boasts one of the largest such collections of any hotel in the country. Of the remaining Lusitania propellers, one rests on…

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Inspectors for France’s world-famous Michelin Guide have been secretly eating their way across Texas for months in preparation for the publication, which is released at the end of the year.The guide’s expansion to Texas will include Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. The announcement was made on July 16 jointly by Michelin and Travel Texas, the state’s tourism agency, following yearslong efforts by the Texas restaurant and travel industry to entice the finicky French guide to cover the state.Texas will be its eleventh destination in North America. Other U.S. cities with Michelin coverage include Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Orlando, and San Francisco.The most-anticipated part of the coverage will be seeing which fancy restaurants receive Michelin’s coveted one-, two-, or three-star designations…

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In those backyard ball games in North Texas years ago, Bobby Witt Jr. and his buddies growing up in Colleyville imagined they were playing for the Texas Rangers. Now in his third season with the Kansas City Royals, the 24-year-old Bobby Jr. will play a big league home game in Arlington for the first time on Tuesday night as a member of the American League All-Star team, in the ninety-fourth edition of MLB’s Midsummer Classic, at Globe Life Field.“Just being an All-Star is an honor,” Bobby Jr. said. “First one being in the hometown is just incredible. I grew up going to the stadium across the street, grew up being a Rangers fan. It kind of gives me goose bumps just talking about it. My…

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There’s a story my folks used to tell when they wanted to get across what it was like to be older parents, in their fifties and sixties, with a young boy in the house. A boy, they understood, who was bored and restless with no siblings still living at home, who spent most of his days alone. A boy who seemed to live inside his own head and often lost track of time and of where he was and wished he were growing up anywhere other than Brownsville, isolated at the southern tip of the state, alongside the border and not far from the sea.Years later, my parents and I would kid one another about what happened that day when we all went to the…

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