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Placing an order with the Interrupted Baker is a bit like trying to get tickets for a Beyoncé concert. Within minutes of baker Stacy Kiley sending out her Thursday-evening text message with an ordering link, all the pastries on offer that week—confections like Dirty Boba Soufflé Cake, Biscoff brioche buns, and ube cookie choux—are in online carts and dozens of people sit on the virtual wait list. When the lucky few show up to claim their treats on Saturday morning, they go to the parking lot of a brewery in North Austin, where Kiley hands out the coveted boxes of pastries from either the Con Todo taco truck or the trunk of her car. Kiley is one of a growing number of home bakers who run their…

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At one point in Giant, the epic 1956 film about the wealthy Benedict ranching dynasty in far West Texas, the family’s youngest daughter, Luz Benedict II, vows to fly to Dallas and go to Neiman Marcus to buy a “starlight-white evening dress” that’s “very plain and simple and deadly.”So when Vicki Chapman chaired Dallas’s Cattle Baron’s Ball—a lavish annual fundraiser for the American Cancer Society—on the occasion of the movie’s fortieth anniversary, she thought it only fitting that Neiman’s agreed to cohost the world premiere of a newly restored version of the film as the kickoff to the Western-themed event.On the Friday night before Saturday’s hoedown at a ranch in Kaufman County, Giant cast members, including Jane Withers (who played Vashti Snythe) and Earl Holliman…

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The anticipation was building. For four months, Houston Public Media had been working on an eagerly awaited podcast about the state’s takeover of the Houston Independent School District and its controversial installation of Mike Miles as superintendent. Called The Takeover, the four-part series would be hosted by Dominic Walsh, an award-winning public-education reporter who had spent the past year covering Miles’s ambitious overhaul of the state’s largest school district. He’d broken stories and won awards for his coverage of the intervention. Now he would bring it all together for a national audience. “We’re super-excited,” wrote the podcast editor in an internal email obtained by Texas Monthly. “I don’t think a lot of people understand the significance of what’s happening” in Houston, wrote another employee. “Can’t…

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The air conditioner struggled to cool the crowd crammed into Billy Bob’s Texas to see Midland, one of country music’s unlikely success stories, play a sold-out summer show. But a rapid trade in Shiner and Dos Equis kept the fans chilled until the members of the Dripping Springs–based trio, generally considered too traditional for country radio stations and a little too slick for their Americana counterparts, swaggered onstage in their signature retro-rhinestone, cowboy-chic attire. After admitting to partying until 5 a.m. following a performance the night before, Mark Wystrach, Jess Carson, and Cameron Duddy forged ahead with a slew of classic-sounding, dance floor–ready honky-tonk tunes.One song, though, stood out from the rest: a now-iconic arpeggio was all it took to get the crowd to scream,…

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The Pacific Crest Trail winds for 2,650 miles through deserts, mountain passes, and canyons on the West Coast. The Appalachian Trail, its counterpart to the east, traverses dappled forests and river gorges for 2,200 miles. Somewhere in the middle, the Continental Divide Trail follows the spine of the Rocky Mountains for 3,100 miles.Along those three trails, dubbed the Triple Crown of Hiking, long-distance hikers blister their toes, wear clothing to a frazzle, whip their bodies into shape, and learn all about themselves. As anyone who’s read the books Wild or A Walk in the Woods, or seen their movie adaptations, can attest, finding yourself and pushing your limits on a through hike has become a time-honored American tradition. And now, trail advocates say, it’s time…

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