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Post Malone collaborators, Dolly Parton, Beyonce, Taylor SwiftWhen Post Malone announced his intention to cross over to country earlier this year, he took everyone by surprise, as a guy who began his career as a rapper. But the shift didn’t come entirely out of the blue. The Grapevine artist, whose driver’s license reads “Austin Richard Post,” has long been interested in genre bending and has incorporated country elements into his work as far back as “Go Flex” from his 2016 debut, Stoney. That album also teased Post’s superpower: his ability to work with a wide array of artists from across the spectrum of popular music. Stoney featured appearances from Justin Bieber, Kehlani, Quavo, and 2 Chainz; on his official country debut, F-1 Trillion (out August 16), fifteen of the eighteen tracks involve guest artists, ranging from current megastars such as Chris Stapleton and…

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Q: My lovely wife tells me that proper etiquette requires me to wear my straw hat from Easter until Labor Day and then switch back to my felt hats. But early September seems way too early for felt since it stays hot until much later. Does this rule apply to Texans?Randy Hroch, New BraunfelsA: The Texanist is quite familiar with the traditional guidelines associated with seasonal cowboy-hat donnery. And yes, it is customary to wear straw hats, which are lighter and breathe better than felt hats, between Easter and Labor Day (the first Monday in September). Felt hats, which keep the noggin warm, are customarily worn the rest of the year. The observance of these dates is, the Texanist will note, a fairly modern convention. As…

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Long before he became one of the most powerful judges in the country, James Ho sat down with one of his heroes, Edwin Meese III, in Washington, D.C. Ho was 26, fresh out of the University of Chicago Law School, and had come to interview Meese for a law journal article. Sixty-seven-year-old Meese had been a conservative star since the eighties, when he ranked among President Ronald Reagan’s most trusted aides, serving as counselor and attorney general. He had endeared himself to Christian leaders by declaring in a speech that out of all the laws written by mankind, “we haven’t improved one iota on the Ten Commandments.” Meese had resigned in 1988, after an independent counsel investigated possible ethics violations, then drifted into Washington’s small…

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German Village Factory MuralI got an amusing mix of responses when I told friends and family I was visiting Muenster, which sits about 15 miles south of the Red River, 65 miles north of Fort Worth, and 5,000 miles west of its namesake, in Germany. “I thought Muenster was a cheese.” “Is that where Eddie Munster lives?” And my favorite: “That’s near Rednecks With Paychecks!” from an enthusiastic cousin. (RWP, I would soon learn, is a biannual off-roading festival held outside the neighboring hamlet of Saint Jo.) This tiny town of about 1,600 may not be on every Texan’s radar, but it’s a hidden gem for those in the know. And there are a lot of them: Metroplexers looking for a weekend escape; oenophiles eager to sample North…

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When I was a teenager, I spent a lot of time driving around El Paso in my friend Bianca’s Corolla. We were in her car because I didn’t have one, and she was driving because I didn’t yet know how. We did standard Texas teenager things, like spend a weird amount of time in the Sonic parking lot. On the weekends, Bianca drove us outside the city, where the streets gave way to desert, and we’d park and wait for friends with cars more terrain-friendly than hers to pick us up and drive us over the dunes until we found the bonfire everyone was gathered around. I remember how at night the sand looked almost like water, and I remember how distinctly young I felt…

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Texans You Should Know: Don BakerTexans You Should Know is a series highlighting overlooked figures and events from Texas history. As a just-out-of-college reporter for the Dallas Morning News in 1979, I watched a landmark event in Texas history unfold, though it would be years before I understood its significance. That November, a former sixth grade teacher from Dallas named Don Baker filed a class action federal lawsuit (Baker v. Wade) challenging Texas’s notorious “Homosexual Conduct” law, known throughout the state’s gay communities simply by its state statute number, 21.06.Gay activists across the country had made strides in the seventies, as twenty states repealed their sodomy laws during that decade. But Texas went the other direction by passing the homosexual conduct law in 1973, making “deviate sexual intercourse” a crime punishable by…

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Cedric DarkCedric Dark believes violence is a disease. Sometimes it manifests in quiet, private ways; other times, it’s public and deafening. As a mosquito transports malaria, a gun delivers violence, Dark says—making death an all too likely prognosis.For Dark, a bookish and unflappable 45-year-old, this isn’t just a matter of semantics. Like millions of Americans, he’s lost a loved one to gun violence. But it’s his job, as an emergency medicine physician in Houston, at one of the state’s top level I trauma centers, that gives him a close-up view of what a bullet does to the human body. Nearly every day, he and his colleagues dig their hands into the wounds of gunshot victims to try to stop the bleeding and prevent vital organs from…

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Smoked jerk chicken, crispy onion strings, and a wedge saladThe smoked chicken at Mimsy’s Craft Barbecue, in Crockett, about two hours north of Houston, needed an overhaul. For two years after the 2020 opening of their restaurant, owners Kathy and Wade Elkins heard complaints from a few customers that their marinated and smoked half chicken seemed undercooked or that the skin wasn’t crispy enough. The couple had a hunch that a deep fryer might solve both issues. Proof that their theory was correct lies in the juice that collects on your plate once you break through the new-and-improved chicken’s crackling skin.“It really revitalizes the product,” Wade says of the bird’s hot-oil bath. The preparation begins long before that step. Forty-eight hours before the poultry goes into the smoker, the cooks submerge it in a…

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The Detours series celebrates lesser-known locales worth visiting across the state. The crusted peaks of the Christmas Mountains have stood for about 42 million years, the Terlingua Ranch Lodge for about 50. You’ll find them both at the end of a winding sixteen-mile road that cuts through some of the 190,000 acres of the Terlingua Ranch, with its hundreds of cinder block houses, rustic adobes, shacks, sheds, tents, and trailers. This is where the desert rats live, escaping civilization. The lodge, which offers 32 guest rooms across eight cabins, boasts the only pool for miles around—a sparkling blue rectangle surrounded by ocotillo, yucca, boulders, and mountains. After a swim in the cool water, lie on a plastic deck chair and stare at the surrounding slopes and crags…

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Steve SarkisianFor all the recent “The Longhorns Are Back!” talk, the revitalization of the University of Texas’s football program might be the second most intriguing comeback story of Steve Sarkisian’s time in Austin. Just a decade ago, Sark, as friends and fans call him, was regarded as a wunderkind, having energized a dormant University of Washington team and then taken the reins at the University of Southern California, in 2014. But at USC he flamed out spectacularly, showing up drunk to athletic department events before being fired in the middle of his second season.Sarkisian got sober, and University of Alabama coach Nick Saban offered him a lifeline: a $30,000-a-year job as an offensive analyst. From there, Sarkisian rebuilt his reputation and, as Saban’s offensive coordinator in…

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