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For more Best Things in Texas coverage, read about the Texas Olympians who dominated at the Paris Games, the greatest show over Earth, the issue that brought Republicans and Democrats together, and the Man of the Year, Brisket Powell. For less dignified behavior, read the 2025 Bum Steer Awards. The Texas horned lizard, affectionately called the horny toad, may be iconic, but Texas hasn’t always treated it with due respect. The population of the state’s official reptile has dwindled over the past sixty years, to the consternation of Texans who grew up seeing the spiky, four-inch-long critters everywhere. Driven largely by urban sprawl as well as invasive fire ants and pesticides, the decrease in numbers has left parts of the state, including most of East…

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For more Best Things in Texas coverage, read about the Texas Olympians who dominated at the Paris Games, the greatest show over Earth, the horny toad’s likely comeback, and the Man of the Year, Brisket Powell. For less dignified behavior, read the 2025 Bum Steer Awards. Robert Roberson likely would have died this past fall if not for the actions of a few Republican and Democratic lawmakers. On October 16, a day before the now 58-year-old death row inmate was set to be executed, the legislators subpoenaed him to travel to Austin from the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, in Livingston. In a state that has executed 591 felons since 1982 (more than four times as many as any other state), the move was a legal…

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Find our ongoing coverage of the first season of Landman here. We’re taking a three-hundred-mile field trip from Midland to Fort Worth during this episode, folks, so pack a snack.The action opens in one of the tonier western suburbs of Cowtown, where we finally see Demi Moore, as Cami Miller, wife of oil baron Monty, doing something other than swimming leisurely laps in the pool of her palatial mansion. She welcomes Tommy, who has driven from Midland to brief Monty on sundry new threats to his business. She fetches Tommy a cup of coffee. (Just pause here for a moment and imagine Demi Moore fetching you a cup of coffee.) As Tommy waits, we get the lay of the land. The Miller mansion has everything: ugly, oversized…

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In August, Michael Flores stopped doing his irregularly scheduled pop-ups under the banner of Friends’ Barbecue to join his family’s business, Jiménez Tortilleria y Taqueria. You may have read about the Lubbock restaurant’s amazing tacos de guisado from our taco editor, José Ralat, last year. Now that Flores is on board full-time, the family has tweaked the name to Jiménez y Friends Barbecue y Taqueria, and it offers a full barbecue menu every Saturday and Sunday.I first met Flores at the 2023 Texas Monthly BBQ Fest, in Lockhart. He was serving tacos with his mother, Maria Flores, and his half brother, Mark Jiménez. He handed me a smoked barbacoa taco and a link of sausage split lengthwise, showing off bits of jalapeño and cubes of…

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Each month, we get to know one of the state’s many wonderful and quirky critters. Latin name: Acanthocybium solandriSize: 3 to 5.5 feet long and 50–70 poundsTexas habitat: Gulf CoastOver two days last February, the seventeen guests and crew members on board the Dolphin Express charter fishing boat caught 109 wahoo in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, almost two hundred miles from the vessel’s dock, in Port Aransas. Iridescent blue-and-silver scales glinted in the sun as fish piled up on the deck. “It was epic,” recalls Captain Tim Oestreich. “There were seventy-pound wahoo free-jumping” in the waves. Wahoo swim in tropical and subtropical waters worldwide. Texas anglers fondly call the peak season Wahoo Winter, which lasts from late December to mid-March. What’s unusual about them?Wahoo…

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