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Good-Looks-band-Austin-SXSW-featGood Looks frontman Tyler Jordan stood beneath exposed pipes on a creaking plywood stage in a basement of student housing co-op on the University of Texas campus in Austin. Across a room decorated with decades of graffiti an undergrad sold Lone Star, Modelo Especial, hard seltzer, and earplugs from behind a worn wooden bar. “I thought we were past playing co-ops,” Jordan told the small crowd, before realizing how that might sound. “But we’re really happy to be here!” His band then ripped into the jangling guitar intro of a new single from their then unreleased sophomore album.That Sunday evening in March, Good Looks played a tight set of mostly new songs from Lived Here for a While, the album that’s out Friday, but sprinkled in tracks…

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TM BBQ Club “Pit Perks” are exclusive perks and discounts that Texas Monthly’s network of barbecue joints generously offer to members like you each month. Proof of membership is required to redeem. JUNE PERKS BrisketU | Get $15 off any BrisketU Class with code TXMNEWS24scTW Juan and Allie’s BBQ | 20% discount on order*; Address: 114 Texas Spur 511 Sunset Texas 76270 Bar-A-BBQ | Looking for the Perfect Father’s Day gift? We’ve got you covered! Book a private BBQ class! Email: info@barabbq.com and pick any day between Tuesday-Sunday between 12:30 and 4 pm. Smoke’N Ash BBQ | See calendar for specials!; 10% off on a Tex-Ethiopian platter for 2 or a Tex-Ethiopian Platter for 4 (dine-in only).* Happy hour cocktail all day Tuesday – Thursday;…

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Glen Powell Costumes of Hit ManWhen she was a freshman in college, Juliana Hoffpauir caught a screening of Richard Linklater’s pivotal Slacker at a small arthouse theater in Kansas. While for many, the cult film shone a light on a deeply thoughtful but otherwise unmotivated subculture of young adults idling across Austin, Hoffpauir felt simply homesick. “There was the Drag, and I went to St. Austin [Catholic Church] on the Drag,” Hoffpauir said. “It was like my life flashing before my eyes.” When she looks back on the memory now, Hoffpauir considers the screening the start of a true full circle story. She recently led the costume and design work on Linklater’s newest film, Hit Man, which the director cowrote with starring actor and fellow Texan Glen Powell. The film, which…

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Lake Somerville Is the Disneyland of Texas State Parks“Whatever your outdoor passion, you can pursue it here.” So declares Texas Parks and Wildlife’s enticing web page for Lake Somerville State Park & Trailway. Encircling an almost 12,000-acre man-made lake, the park sits smack-dab between Austin and Houston. This vast hub of open-air amusement comprises two units (Birch Creek at 2,365 acres and Nails Creek at 3,155 acres), the 13-mile Lake Somerville Trailway, and the 350-acre Flag Pond, a habitat for migrating birds.Other parks are more showy, like Big Bend Ranch, with its desert vistas, and Colorado Bend, with its transporting waterfalls. I anticipated something more straightforward with Lake Somerville, but I should have known: it is often the unassuming parks that offer the biggest surprises.Lake Somerville is one of only 22 of Texas’s…

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Weslaco Lady Panthers softball team.WHO: The Weslaco High School Lady Panthers softball team.WHAT: A state championship win in a league of its own.WHY IT’S SO GREAT: For most of Saturday’s state championship softball contest in Austin, it looked like it just wasn’t Weslaco’s game. The Rio Grande Valley school’s opponents, from Waco’s Midway High School, jumped out to an early lead, which they extended to a daunting 9–3 advantage with a pair of home runs at the top of the seventh and final inning. Weslaco’s run to the state title game seemed destined to end in another second-place finish. But the Rio Grande Valley girls still had one more half inning to play—three outs to save their championship hopes. Surely and steadily, Weslaco cut the lead to two runs after…

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Tiffany Masterson runs Houston-based skin care company, Drunk Elephant.In our series Stuff Texans Love, our state’s most stylish celebrities share their shopping lists. Tiffany Masterson is a pro in the art of simplification. Her skin care company, Drunk Elephant, which she launched in 2013 while a stay-at-home mother of four, was built on a philosophy of knowing what to keep and what to leave out—in this case, unnecessary ingredients such as dyes, essential oils, and fragrances. Soon, her small Houston-based business rocketed to top of sales at Sephora, and, six years after founding it, she sold Drunk Elephant for $845 million to Shiseido, where she continues in her role as chief creative officer. “It still feels exciting every day,” she says. “I know what I don’t know and can’t do, and I know what…

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Dr. Pepper overtakes PepsiWHO: Dr PepperWHAT: A new report from the trade publication Beverage Digest about the Texas-born soft drink’s statureWHY IT’S SO GREAT: There are few brands more iconically Texan than Dr Pepper. Why, we here at Texas Monthly have been covering the beverage since our very inception: in the magazine’s first issue, published in February 1973, we ran a 2,500-word essay, “Understanding Dr Pepper,” by former LBJ speechwriter Leo Janos. In the five decades hence, the drink has rarely been far from our hearts. We love Dr Pepper. You love Dr Pepper. We are Texans, and this sweet, sticky, slightly spicy soda runs, if not in our veins, then readily down our throats on a hot day. But does the rest of the country understand? In a…

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Texas-tortoise-South-Rio-Grande-Valley-featThe elusive Texas tortoise is slow, brown, and shaped like a rock—all traits that make this small, rare reptile tough to spot as it scoots through the dense Tamaulipan thornscrub of the Rio Grande Valley. Jackie Tleimat, a PhD candidate in biology at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, knows this better than anyone. She’s spent a lot of time trying to find Texas tortoises, which live only in South Texas and parts of Mexico.In 2022, Tleimat placed about 45 game cameras across Cactus Creek Ranch, a four hundred-acre expanse outside the small town of Rio Hondo. Then she waited . . . and waited. While the camera captured plenty of deer, fiddler crabs, and nilgai, it was exceedingly rare for a tortoise to stroll in front of the…

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tesla cybertruck meetupThey know you think they’re members of a personality cult and that their $100,000 truck looks like it was designed by a drunk toddler. They’ve seen the stories about their vehicles getting coal rolled or their stainless steel bodies targeted by vandals. They also know that somehow—during a period in American history so polarized that elected leaders are calling for a “national divorce”—the very sight of their futuristic-looking truck is enough to unite some progressive-leaning Americans and staunch conservatives in an unlikely coalition of mutual contempt. Over the past few months, Cybertruck owners have been on the receiving end of so much hate—typically in the form of middle fingers from their fellow motorists—that they say they understand your anger better than you do. The truth, they…

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Bastrop-Elon-Musk-organic-farm-Boring-CompanyWhen they learned that Elon Musk had purchased 280 acres of land a short drive from their organic farm, it seemed like a miracle. For more than a decade, husband and wife Skip Connett and Erin Flynn had worked to turn Wilbarger Bend, a rural agricultural area located in a lush floodplain along the Colorado River about a half-hour drive southeast of downtown Austin, into a community-based farming hub like others around the country. Though they’d enjoyed some success over their five years of working the land, it had become apparent that their vision would require more money and more property. For years, Flynn had joked that what the couple needed was for a benevolent billionaire to drop out of the sky—someone who was willing…

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