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Connor-Wood-Comedian-TikTok-Los-Angeles-3Connor Wood started his first-ever hometown show with a suitcase next to the mic stand. In an unfortunate series of events, he explains to the crowd of over three hundred at Austin’s Cap City Comedy Club, his planned one-hour flight from Dallas to Austin had taken at least six. Due to a different flight delay the day before, Wood drove from Houston to Addison, about 255 miles, to make his 7:30 p.m. show that night. The 27-year-old comedian, more popularly known by his handle @fibulaa on TikTok, where he has almost 830,000 followers, continued complaining about his past few days of travel. “We should be kissing on the mouth when the plane lands,” he said to the audience. Though he’s a fresh Gen Z babyface on…

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tcr oyster restorationOn a sunny day in Corpus Christi, dozens of volunteers stand knee-deep in the Gulf, forming an assembly line. It’s all part a coastal restoration effort from Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M–Corpus Christi that involves recycling oyster shells from local restaurants. Texas Country Reporter visited with Danielle Downey, a research specialist at the Harte Research Institute, to learn more about how Sink Your Shucks became the first initiative in Texas to reclaim oyster shells and return them to our local waters.

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The bump stock ban and overturning exemplifies the american gun debateThe shootings at the elementary schools in Newtown, Connecticut, and Uvalde, Texas, have outsized purchase in the minds of Americans and Texans—and for good reason. The victims were mostly little kids. Even if you aren’t a parent, you were a child once, and with that experience in hand, it’s not too hard to imagine the terror of being hunted by a gunman and realizing the adults around you can’t do anything about it.But the mass shooting in October 2017 in Las Vegas is perhaps a better expression of the dull, banal horror of spree violence in the United States. School shootings can only happen to those who go to school or work there. In Las Vegas, a deranged real estate investor and gambler took up…

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A Houstonian carries water on his shoulder as volunteers at the Memorial Assistance Ministries distributed water and ice in mid-May.Alia Gunnell used to get away with sleeping in until 8 a.m. before heading to properties across Marfa, where she runs a landscaping company. But last June, when average daily temperatures were some of the hottest on record across Texas, Gunnell started to feel especially irritable after days of spent fertilizing and watering plants in the heat. Now she starts her workday at 6 a.m. so she and her employees can get indoors by mid-afternoon when temperatures spike. She says she and her husband, Jason, come home and lie together, in silence, on their home’s cool concrete floor. “Otherwise it just feels like your brain is cooking all day,” Gunnell told me recently. This year, the heat dome—a high-pressure system that traps warmth in the atmosphere—arrived…

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Andrea Ordonez, Aaron Parsley, and Juleanna CulilapOver the last couple of months, Texas Monthly has been fortunate to welcome three new members to the ever-growing editorial staff. In April, we welcomed Andrea Ordonez in a dual role as a copy editor and web producer. Andrea was born in New Rochelle, New York, but moved with her family to Keller, in Tarrant County, in elementary school. She later returned to New York to attend Hofstra University.Most recently, Andrea has spent several years as deputy copy chief at BuzzFeed, where she managed the team that edited content from the company’s acquired brands, including HuffPost, Complex Networks, and First We Feast’s show Hot Ones. As part of that job, she maintained the BuzzFeed Style Guide, a resource many of us consult, especially for its takes…

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Checklist TwistersFilmTwistersIn theaters July 19In a whirlwind two years, Glen Powell—who was born and raised in Austin—has appeared in Top Gun: Maverick, the rom-com Anyone But You, and Hit Man, a Netflix film directed by fellow Texan Richard Linklater that’s loosely based on a Texas Monthly story. Now he’s at the swirling center of what may be this summer’s biggest blockbuster, a stand-alone sequel to the 1996 megahit Twister, which starred Helen Hunt and the late, great Fort Worthian Bill Paxton. In Twisters, Powell plays Tyler Owens, a blowhard social media personality who chases storms (and clout) while sporting a cowboy hat as the self-described “Tornado Wrangler.” While filming his atmospheric adventures, Owens crosses paths with Big Apple–based meteorologist Kate Cooper, played by Daisy Edgar-Jones, who…

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The "French Cowboys" Buying Up Hill Country HotelsFour years ago, two young entrepreneurs from France began scouring the Texas Hill Country, looking to buy land and hotels for a new venture. A few months into their search, business partners Franklin Dusserre and Dylan Petrich had talked to dozens of real estate agents and toured more than 120 properties in Blanco, Johnson City, Wimberley, and other small towns with growing tourist presences. Word was getting out that a couple of guys definitely not from Texas were in the market. “They were a bit confused by us,” Petrich says. “We didn’t dress like we were from Texas. We didn’t have boots yet. And we spoke French.”During a tour of a ranch on the Pedernales River near Johnson City, a broker—a Texan wearing Wranglers and boots,…

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Taqueria MTZ AmarilloIndolfo Martinez came to Texas with luggage full of dreams. The native of the Mexican state of Michoacán was 17 when he arrived in Dallas on April 15, 2000. The next day he got a job at a Saltgrass Steak House and he stayed with the company for 22 years, rising through positions from bus boy to regional manager of eleven restaurants across Colorado, Las Vegas, and West Texas.In 2011 Landry’s, Saltgrass Steak House’s parent company, relocated the Martinez family to Amarillo. In 2022, after a pandemic-related pay cut and general instability in the job, Indolfo quit to open a food truck. It was better than the status quo. “I felt like a sponge full of water, where they squish you and squish you until…

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George Strait Performs on November 5, 2021, in Atlanta.The record for the largest attendance at a ticketed concert in the United States stood for nearly fifty years, when a 1977 Grateful Dead performance attracted 107,019 fans to Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey. That record was shattered on Saturday when George Strait—who previously held the record for the largest indoor concert attendance for the final night of his 2014 The Cowboy Rides Away Tour at AT&T Stadium in Arlington—blew past the milestone held for the past 47 years by Jerry Garcia and friends.At Texas A&M’s Kyle Field in College Station, Strait bested both his indoor and the outdoor record by drawing 110,905 fans to what was billed as his only show in Texas this year.  The attendance record for the stadium itself—including at…

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texanist july chips and whetstonesQ:  I was blessed with a mother from Central Texas whose speech was enriched with phantom diphthongs (“Let’s go out to the raynch”), stony rhotics (“and rahde harrsses”), and funny sayings. Recently, while shopping with a girlfriend, a Yankee from New Jersey, I lamented that my bank account was down to “chips and whetstones.” My friend had never heard the expression and asked if it was a Texas saying. I had to think about it for a while, to no avail. Is it?Molly Dare, San Marcos, CaliforniaA: The Texanist, as a native speaker of Texan, is quite familiar with the crazy colloquialisms, disparate dialects, idiotic idioms, and funny phraseologies used across the Lone Star State. Indeed, he’s heard them all. Or so he thought. The Texanist…

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