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Beer and Tacos: Celestial BeerworksTortilla chips and margaritas. Chocolate and red wine. Caviar and champagne. They’re all excellent food and beverage matchups, but a less talked-about pairing that deserves more attention is tacos and beer.While it’s hard to go wrong with a Mexican lager (Modelo alongside a suadero taco is difficult to beat), there are a myriad of other options to try if you want to expand your palate. I visited some of my favorite craft breweries that have on-site taquerias to ask what they recommend to their customers.Molly Reynolds, co-owner of Celestial Beerworks and its in-house truck, Cosmic Cantina, in Dallas, prefers washing down Cosmic’s chipotle and tomato–stewed chicken tinga taco with Celestial’s Satellite, an American light lager. On Reynolds’ recommendation, I ordered the Single Star hazy IPA…

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When Kinky Friedman launched his independent bid for the Governor’s Mansion in the 2006 campaign, it initially sounded like the legendary Texan wit doing what he did best: having fun by playing a prank on the rest of us, the cigar clenched between his teeth as he tried to keep a straight face. The campaign utilized slogans that did nothing to persuade Texans to take Friedman seriously: they included “He Ain’t Kinky, He’s My Governor,” “How Hard Could It Be?,” and “Why the Hell Not?”Texans took him seriously anyway. His campaign became a legitimate factor in the race; for two quarters in 2006, Friedman’s fund-raising totals surpassed those of Democratic nominee Chris Bell, whom he also polled ahead of at several points in the summer.…

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A Stroke Didn’t Stop Me From Paddling Eighty Miles Down the Nueces River to the SeaIt was something I always had wanted to do—go under my own power down a river to the sea. At its core was both the idea and the sensation of freedom. Living in a world so thoroughly carved up and sold off, there were only two ways I had discovered to really experience freedom in nature the way it once must have been everywhere. One way was hiking through a national forest. The other was traveling on a river, which, although usually flanked by private property, nevertheless was itself considered public, and by Texas law one was allowed to camp along its banks when en route. I had thought first of a canoe trip, perhaps floating down the Colorado from Austin to the Gulf of…

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The Problem With ErikListen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the transcript below.“Maund was freaking out. Everything is at a fever pitch, and that’s when Gilad Peled says, ‘The guys on the ground have offered to take him out.’ ”—Rob McGuireFacing the blackmail threat, Erik Maund decides not to pay up or go to the police. Instead, he turns to Gil Peled, a security guy at the Maund family car dealership who seems qualified to solve sensitive problems. Built like a bodybuilder, Peled claims to have experience in the Israeli special forces, and he spent years in Hollywood protecting Charlie Sheen. But Gil Peled isn’t quite the success story he pretends to be.Executive producer is Megan Creydt. The show is reported and written by Katy Vine and written, produced, and…

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The Problem With ErikListen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the transcript below. Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Spotify “Maund was freaking out. Everything is at a fever pitch, and that’s when Gilad Peled says, ‘The guys on the ground have offered to take him out.’ ”—Rob McGuireFacing the blackmail threat, Erik Maund decides not to pay up or go to the police. Instead, he turns to Gil Peled, a security guy at the Maund family car dealership who seems qualified to solve sensitive problems. Built like a bodybuilder, Peled claims to have experience in the Israeli special forces, and he spent years in Hollywood protecting Charlie Sheen. But Gil Peled isn’t quite the success story he pretends to be.Executive producer is Megan Creydt. The show is reported and written by…

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The Problem with Erik Episode 1Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the transcript below. Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Spotify “I got this emotion inside of me, and I could feel what they were feeling. And I knew that this was the morning of these two people’s deaths.”—Matt GarrettBill Lanway met Holly Williams through mutual friends in the Nashville EDM scene. Soon after they started dating, he moved into her apartment. It was only then, after snooping around on her phone, that he discovered Holly was an escort. Bill reacted with jealousy and violence against Holly, but the scheme he hatched next put them both in peril.Executive producer is Megan Creydt. The show is reported and written by Katy Vine, and written, produced, and reported by Ana Worrel. It was produced…

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The Problem with ErikListen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the transcript below. Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Spotify “He’s the most simple rich person you’ve ever met in your life. Wouldn’t hurt a fly. He was as happy as he could be just being what he was.”—Joe JosephIn early 2020, Erik Maund—an executive at one of the top Toyota dealerships in the country, founded by his grandfather—had a problem. A stranger was blackmailing him for having an extramarital affair. Erik’s response to the threat set off a series of fateful decisions that left two people dead.One of those victims was Holly Williams, a Nashville woman who’d trained as an aesthetician, loved to party in the local EDM scene, and worked as an escort. After months in an abusive relationship,…

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True Texas Project Stand Your Ground TrainingThe middle-aged man, seated near the front of the room for a training on when he could use deadly force, expressed displeasure upon being told that doing so often was not legally advisable. He had driven to a suburban Fort Worth church to attend a seminar hosted by the True Texas Project, a prominent right-wing group. He asked what he could do if he returned to his home to find a squatter there—a “common problem” around the state, as he put it. Former police officer John Arenz, who volunteered to help lead the seminar, advised him there could very well be legal consequences for shooting someone who did not pose an immediate threat. “It doesn’t matter how indigent the person is, and it doesn’t matter…

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The Hidden Texas Roots of the Colorado Chautauqua ResortIt’s quiet hour at the Colorado Chautauqua, that almost eerie, old-fashioned, two-hour step back through the decades between 1 and 3 p.m. when every summer resident at the vacation community returns to their cabin for a siesta. Some sleep; others play cards or read. The sounds of the mountain meld into a sonorous silence: a combination of faraway chatter, the purr of cars on the curves up Flagstaff Mountain, and the symphony’s tuneful cacophony as it warms up in the historic auditorium for the night’s performance. A tradition at this mountain playground in Boulder for most of Chautauqua’s 126 years—or at least as long as anyone can remember—quiet hour is honored as a sacred practice. “Don’t you dare scream during quiet hour,” says 78-year-old Mary…

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