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Johnny Canales’s death was announced on June 13, 2024. He was 77 years old. His long-running television show was a launching pad for musicians (notably Selena) and had a familiar presence in the homes of many Tejanos, including Sauceda’s. He sat down in the studio to reflect on Canales’s lasting impact.

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Supreme Court Rules Against Mifepristone RestrictionsMifepristone, a common abortion inducing medication, will remain on the market without additional restrictions after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected an antiabortion group’s challenge to the drug’s approval.In the high court’s first abortion-related ruling since it overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the nine justices ruled to change nothing about the drug’s legal status. The ruling is a rebuke to the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and district judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of Amarillo. The opinion was written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, with a concurring opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas.Medication abortion, typically performed with a combination of mifepristone and misoprostol, is the most common abortion method in the United States. In the nearly 25 years since it was first approved by the U.S. Food…

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TM BBQ Fest 2024Thank you for your interest in TM BBQ Fest 2024! We are looking forward to celebrating with you down in Lockhart for the fifteenth annual event during the first weekend in November. Below, we’ve included all of the information you will need to access early bird tickets beginning June 14 at 11 a.m. CDT. Please read through the below information carefully. To get access to early bird tickets on Friday, follow the instructions below: Head to our main event page: texasmonthly.com/BBQFest  Click the “Get Tickets” button Select the type of ticket you’d like to purchase Click on “Click to unlock hidden ticket” Enter code “15THANNUAL”  Select your ticket quantity and proceed to checkout. NOTE: Tickets will not be available until 11 a.m. CDT on June 14,…

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In 2004 the yellow Livestrong bracelet went viral, selling five million units in a matter of months. For some it was a fad, for others a symbol of hope. And as Lance Armstrong’s doping scandal unraveled, it was caught up in controversy. Staff writer Emily McCullar discusses how the bracelet’s impact is much deeper than many understand and why she wanted to write the July 2024 cover feature, “Making the Band: An Oral History of the Livestrong Bracelet.”

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Daniel Radcliffe, left, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez participate in the curtain call during Broadway's celebration of "Merrily We Roll Along," at the Hudson Theatre, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023, in New York.What: The current Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along.When: The 77th Annual Tony Awards on June 16. The show earned seven nominations, including nods for director Maria Friedman and stars Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez, and Daniel Radcliffe, who will perform live at the Tonys.But Is It Texan? If it’s not yet, it will be soon. Consider the performance an indirect sneak preview of Richard Linklater’s film adaptation, which the Austin director is shooting over a period of twenty years. Based on the 1934 play of the same title by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, Merrily We Roll Along was an infamous and unexpected Broadway flop. It was Sondheim and director Hal Prince’s first show after 1979’s…

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Luv Martha Swimwear in LockhartDesigner Martha Hudson was touring the country, sewing custom-made swimsuits in her converted school bus, when she stopped in San Marcos. Originally from Sacramento, she visited a childhood friend who had relocated to the town—with its spring-fed, year-round 72-degree river—and Hudson parked her bus in her friend’s driveway for long-term stays. “I had a long list of things I wanted in a home, but daily access to fresh water for swimming was one of them,” she told me over coffee in South Austin. “Living on the road, there were a ton of places I loved, but San Marcos hit so many marks. That river is what really sold me on moving to Texas.” The goal of Luv Martha, Hudson’s one-woman “bikini-slinging business,” founded in Sacramento in…

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Johnny Canales ObitGrowing up along the Gulf Coast in La Porte, east of Houston, I could predictably rely on Johnny Canales’s presence in my childhood home. After mass on Sunday mornings, while my mom made chorizo or prepared barbacoa, my siblings and I changed out of our church clothes and turned on the TV in time for The Johnny Canales Show. We ate and watched together while the charismatic host, dressed in one of his flashy fringe jackets, introduced a new episode of a musical variety show that changed the lives of both the performers on stage and the members of its vast audience in studio and at home.To many non-Hispanic Texans, the name Johnny Canales may not ring a bell. But to Tejanos, it evokes the music of…

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Jamie Diaz and Gabriel Joffe share an issue of W magazine.A day after her release from prison after serving nearly thirty years of a life sentence for aggravated robbery, Jamie Diaz headed to a Dallas salon to have her makeup done. She sat in a chair, her cane within reach, waiting for her appointment. She wore a pink long-sleeved sweater and thin black sweatpants. Her large hands were folded in her lap, left over right, the latter swollen and clenched in a fist since her stroke earlier this year. With gray hair that fell to her shoulders, a furrowed brow, and thin lips that formed a slight smile, Diaz wore an expression both warm and quizzical. She attempted to say something, but her speech was severely impeded.It was the first time I’d seen Diaz. She…

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Book review: MalasLeo Tolstoy’s famous line about all happy families being alike has a fatal flaw: there are no happy families. Happy moments, happy days, maybe even happy years—sure. But look closely enough, and you’ll find the trauma.One way that ambitious authors explore these ordeals is by writing multigenerational epics that draw on historical events to illuminate the past and the present. Given how much Texans love a big story, it’s a little surprising that so few novelists have written books that stretch across the centuries to take advantage of our violent and event-filled history. Philipp Meyer’s The Son is a rare exception, though James Carlos Blake, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, and Larry McMurtry have all told era-spanning stories over the course of series of novels. (Oddly, two of…

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Texans You Should Know is a series highlighting overlooked figures and events from Texas history. Clad in a sharp Western jacket, necktie, and skirt, the 26-year-old rising country star is magnetic as she takes the stage for a December 1955 broadcast of a TV variety show called Ozark Jubilee. As soon as the camera is on her, she sways, steeling herself for the opening notes of “Burn That Candle,” in which she makes a plea to her mother to keep a candle burning and the door open wide until she strolls back home with her “sugar pie” by her side. Her brassy vocals seem better suited for a neon-lit Texas honky-tonk than the Jubilee set, whose backdrop was a quaint suburban home. But as audiences across…

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