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Dominico Lee in his home studio, in San Antonio, on July 19, 2024.The heroines of Dominico Lee’s design sketches look as though they escaped the pages of a storybook. The intentionally frayed hems of the gowns, in silk and tulle, suggest a chase or struggle. The exposed boning of the corsets hints at a lingering sorrow, a heartbreak beneath the glamour, emphasized even more by dark accessories—cowboy hats and boots, all in black.  The allusions are purposeful. Twenty-six-year-old Lee, who grew up in Aransas Pass, near Corpus Christi, says he built his most recent couture collection, “La Doña de la Casa,” around one main idea: “What if there were a Texas version of the Cinderella moment?”  Lee’s rise from self-taught designer to couturier in the national spotlight represents a fairy tale of its own. His first atelier…

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The pollo alla griglia.You could be forgiven for thinking that the last thing Tiffany Derry needed was another restaurant. The chef had her hands full with Roots Southern Table, the Farmers Branch venue she opened to considerable acclaim in 2021. On top of that, she was busy babying along the two locations of her fast-food joint, Roots Chicken Shak, which she knew could go national. But Derry and her business partner, Tom Foley, hungered for a new concept. At a meeting, she mentioned how much she loved Italy. After graduating from culinary school at the Art Institute of Houston, she’d embarked on a tour of the country, eating regional specialties, wheedling recipes from cooks, and soaking up the culture. As it turned out, Foley was just as passionate. “My…

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Jefferson Trip GuideThere are two types of people in the world: those who love Jefferson and those who’ve never been. It’s nearly impossible to resist the charm of this small East Texas town, whose walkable streets are filled with antiques shops, restaurants serving up cornbread sandwiches and chicken-fried steak, and historic Greek Revival–style houses now operating as bed-and-breakfasts. In its mid-nineteenth-century heyday, this inland riverport town on Big Cypress Bayou, in Marion County about a thirty-minute drive from the Louisiana border, was the commercial center of northeast Texas. Back then, the place bustled with horse-drawn carriages and New Orleans–bound steamboats loaded high with cotton. During the peak of the river trade, in 1872, Jefferson’s population was just shy of 7,300, while today it hovers at around 1,800.The steamboat…

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Dr. Tandy Freeman in Weatherford, on June 8, 2024.When asked to define the two-word mantra that guides professional rodeo, cowboys generally issue a stream of synonymous directives. Be tough. Don’t quit. You ride hurt. You ride sick. If you’re not confined to bed, then you’re not really hurt. Toughen up. Don’t be a sissy. Don’t complain about it. Do your job. Get back out there. They all add up to the same thing: Cowboy up.But right now, a cowboy is down. For eight seconds—the time a bull rider must remain mounted to receive a score—a 29-year-old Brazilian named Kaique Pacheco managed to stay perched atop one ton of bovine muscle, a bull named Flashbang. But then, the ride complete, Flashbang launched Pacheco off his back and into the air. The rider landed headfirst. He…

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In the latest episode of Answer Me This, senior editor Alex Samuels examines which races have the potential to be swayed by the Harris campaign’s success with key voting blocks—and whether that sway is likely to change the direction of the race.

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A New Era for The Orange ShowThe wacko outdoor rooms of the Orange Show Monument usually dare a visitor not to grin from ear to ear, so I was dismayed this week to see its stucco walls crumbling in some places, with ceramic tiles missing, paint peeling, and a door splintered and disintegrating. Weeds poked up through cracks in the base.Jack Massing was pointing out how subsidence and a few years of extreme weather have done a number on the exuberant structure, which is Texas’s most iconic visionary environment. Still, he lost himself in a mosh pit of happy memories. His head was back in the freewheeling 1980s, when Houston’s art happenings could make wildcatting sound like prim business. No stage was better suited for shenanigans than the multilevel Orange Show…

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Lone Star beer cans throughout the years.At the end of the day, this Texas historian just wants a cold, affordable beer and the truth. Lone Star Brewing Company has long been making the first part easy. The second part? Not so much. For the better part of a decade, it has been stamping its products with “Since 1884.” But this year the company got aggressive about it, presumably for a nice, round-numbered anniversary, by putting a giant “140” on billboards, cans, hats, koozies, stickers, T-shirts, and tap handles. It’s true that a Lone Star Brewing Co. was established in 1884. The San Antonio–based company brewed, among other brands, Alamo Beer. But it never sold a beer named Lone Star. It went out of business in 1919. A second and separate Lone Star…

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Black BearEach month, we get to know one of the state’s many wonderful and quirky critters. Latin name: Ursus americanusSize: 125 to 500 pounds (adult males)Texas habitat: West and southwestCelebrating the end of our hike up the South Rim Trail, in Big Bend National Park, my friends and I tucked into steaming bowls of jambalaya before making camp. Dinner smelled wonderful—and we weren’t the only ones who thought so. A black bear popped its head up over the canyon rim, about forty feet away, sniffing with its velvety snout while ambling toward us. I felt both awe and terror before our uninvited guest lumbered off. Encounters like mine are increasing in West Texas, where black bears are making a comeback. How many live here?Likely “north of a hundred,”…

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surfing dogs meanwhile in texasMore than thirty dogs (and one miniature horse in a lifeguard costume) hit the waves in Galveston for a dog surfing competition to raise money for a local animal shelter.After technical problems rendered CenterPoint Energy’s power-outage map useless in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, a 55-year-old Tomball resident discovered that the store-locator feature on the Whataburger app displaying whether restaurants were open or closed worked as a reasonably good substitute.Two million dollars’ worth of rare baseball cards were stolen from a dealer at the Dallas Card Show, in Allen.A couple of Houston natives won the most recent season of the reality dating series Love Island USA.A volunteer firefighter from Alpine was charged with arson after allegedly starting multiple brush fires in Jeff Davis and Brewster…

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film still from The Texas Chainsaw MassacreOn a recent rainy evening in Manhattan, five Texans gathered for a talk at the Museum of Modern Art. The discussion touched on the topics you’d expect: Technique. Composition. Cultural context. Thematic intent. And then there were more unusual questions raised. Like, when Leatherface drops Pam onto the meat hook, do you really see the moment of impalement?“People on YouTube will write, ‘I saw the hook go through her chest!’ ” said actress Teri McMinn. “They’re adamant about it.”We were assembled for a fiftieth anniversary screening of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which first screened at MoMA less than year after its theatrical release. Just like Degas, de Kooning, or Abramovic, Chainsaw is in the museum’s permanent collection. It has been…

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