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The United States of Texas Barbecue: Honorable MentionsNarrowing down my list of best Texas-style barbecue joints in the United States outside of Texas has been no easy task. Even though there are a hefty 53 impressive options (it was hard to get the number to an even 50!), I felt there were a handful of other places around the country that deserved shout-outs as well—thus my additional lineup of 25 honorable mentions.I also wanted to acknowledge some joints that aren’t doing Texas-style barbecue per se but have menus worth celebrating across a variety of styles: Sonoran style, at Papalo, in La Mesa, California; Florida style, at Tropical Smokehouse, in West Palm Beach, Florida; Miami style, at Smoke & Dough, in Miami, Florida; Cleveland style, at Mabel’s BBQ, in Cleveland, Ohio (and Las…

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The United States of Texas BarbecueBarbecue is our country’s greatest contribution to the food world. What began as whole animals being basted with flavorful sauce while slowly roasting over coals outdoors eventually became known as Southern barbecue. From there, regional styles developed, and they became more rigid as restaurants gained popularity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Then barbecue came indoors with help from offset smokers and enclosed rotisseries. The last decade has seen a surge of barbecue joints opening across the United States. Some places serve Carolina whole hogs, Kansas City burnt ends, or Memphis dry-rub ribs, but the majority don’t bother to open without Texas smoked brisket. What’s more, we’re also seeing trays full of beef ribs, sausages, spareribs, and pinto beans. It’s clear that Texas…

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Korban Best, Jeremy Campbell, Fabian Romo, Kaitlyn Eaton, Jazmin Almlie-RyanTexans delivered at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. From Simone Biles conquering gymnastic skills named after her, to competitors from the Lone Star State claiming more medals than many countries, sports fans from the Rio Grande Valley up to the Panhandle had plenty of cause for cheer. But Texan athletes aren’t done with Paris just yet. As the 2024 Paralympic Games begin in the French capital, here are eight athletes hoping to bring more glory back to the state. With stars ranging from discus champion Jeremy Campbell to Jordan White, the youngest American archer to qualify for the Games, these athletes are sure to add some hardware to Texas’s already packed trophy case. Jeremy Campbell  Campbell is one of the best discus throwers in the world.…

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Last week, Razavi, who asked to be identified by his last name only, went to the Houston DPS office to change the name and sex on his Texas driver’s license. After transitioning to female a few years ago—and changing all legal documents accordingly—he said he’d realized he “would always be viewed as a second-class citizen.” So he detransitioned, and in March he obtained a court order from a district court in Travis County to change his license back. But after a new policy was quietly rolled out last week via an internal email, prompted by the office of the Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Department of Public Safety will no longer accept a court order as a basis to change a person’s sex on…

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Texas cobb salad.In my house, there are two kinds of salads. The first is a slapdash affair of whatever type of greens I have on hand topped with various bits and bobs: yesterday’s leftover chicken; salsa or pesto thinned into salad dressing; leftover bread turned into croutons; the tail end of a bag of nuts. These salads are not very good, but they serve their purpose (cleaning out the fridge and staving off hanger).The other kind of salad is very thoughtful—composed. Put together on purpose, often using ingredients that were bought specifically for the meal. I like to spend the too-hot-to-cook days of summer riffing on the classics. Caesar salad, but make it spicy. Nicoise, but trade the eggs for tofu and the anchovies for nori strips…

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Cadillac Ranch/Doug Michels ProfileTexans You Should Know is a series highlighting overlooked figures and events from Texas history. My distant cousin Doug Michels, a brash and enthusiastic futurist who, as a member of Ant Farm, helped create Amarillo’s iconic Cadillac Ranch fifty years ago, once wrote about the night that changed his life. Like his best tales, it was captivating, self-mythologizing, and hard to verify.His story went like this: Doug came to Texas from San Francisco in the spring of 1969 at the age of 25 to teach a seminar at the University of Houston architecture school. He led students on a wild journey of experiential learning, fueled by acid and pot, exploding conventions around the shapes and materials that make a building. They spent a night in the Astrodome…

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dog receiving a vaccineThere is no sadder story than Old Yeller. That’s true of both the 1956 novel, written by Fred Gipson—a Hill Country native who was born in 1908 on a farm in an unincorporated part of the area about a hundred miles northwest of San Antonio—and of the Disney film adaptation released a year after the book, which has been a cultural touchstone for many baby boomers since their childhoods.Today, only 24 percent of dog owners are baby boomers; millennials, on the other hand, make up 33 percent, the largest share among any generation—and they probably didn’t have Old Yeller on their fourth grade syllabus. This isn’t just a shame for a piece of enduring fiction—as we’ve learned in a few ways in recent years, it…

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If you turn to TikTok for fashion advice, chances are you’ll probably have to sift through some unintelligible internetspeak in order to find helpful tips. One of the biggest shifts in modern fashion terminology has been the rise of “aesthetics” and “cores,” sartorial genres that attempt to categorize your wardrobe into searchable—and marketable—themes. Wear a lot of hot pink? That’s probably “Barbiecore,” a nod to last summer’s blockbuster. Are you into vintage blazers and relaxed J.Crew vibes? You might be an “old money girl.” But whether it’s “mermaidcore,” “eclectic grandpa,” or “coastal cowgirl,” these niche fashion trends often rise and fall in a matter of weeks, making them difficult for average consumers to keep up with. This summer, a hot new bombshell has entered the villa:…

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central park new york citySheep Meadow is quiet on this Wednesday morning in June. The guitar-strummers and sunbathers who lounged on its lawn yesterday are gone, and now its only occupants are the elms and sycamores that cluster along its edge, where I now stand with the Central Park Conservancy’s historian of the past forty years, Sara Cedar Miller. I have come to the leafy center of Manhattan on a quest to find traces, however faint, of parkmaker Frederick Law Olmsted’s 1854 horseback ride across Texas. I may be 1,800 miles from the heart of Texas, but I’m drawn to the alluring, if unprovable, theory that this famous green sward—borrowing the word Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux used when they designed this park in 1858—could be inspired by…

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central park new york citySheep Meadow is quiet on this Wednesday morning in June. The guitar-strummers and sunbathers who lounged on its lawn yesterday are gone, and now its only occupants are the elms and sycamores that cluster along its edge, where I now stand with the Central Park Conservancy’s historian of the past forty years, Sara Cedar Miller. I have come to the leafy center of Manhattan on a quest to find traces, however faint, of parkmaker Frederick Law Olmsted’s 1854 horseback ride across Texas. I may be 1,800 miles from the heart of Texas, but I’m drawn to the alluring, if unprovable, theory that this famous green sward—borrowing the word Olmsted and his partner Calvin Vaux used when they designed this park in 1858—could be inspired by…

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