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One hundred years ago, hotels in Texas advertised 75-cent to $1 daily rooms (with special rates for families), cool breezes in summer months, proximity to streetcar lines, and, if you were flush with cash, perhaps even your own private bathroom. While their amenities have been upgraded significantly in the intervening years, many historic hotels still endure in Texas, with their creaky floors and old pipes, stately lobbies, and breezy, rocking chair–lined verandas—plus maybe a ghostly spirit or two that checked in and never checked out. At least thirty hundred-year-old hotels are still operating across the state, enduring among their more cookie-cutter chain peers. Among these treasures are the oldest continuously operating hotel—the Excelsior House Hotel, in Jefferson—and four that celebrated their centennials just this year, including…

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He first exhausted all other possible options, but President Joe Biden ultimately did the right thing for his party. I recently noted that his statements since the debate had been much too focused on his needs and self-conception instead of on the country’s best interest. But in his televised address to the country Wednesday, he finally broadened the “I” to “we” and “you.” It had been an honor to serve, he said, but “the choice is up to you, the American people.” It surely is.Democrats finally have a presumptive nominee in what they believe, correctly, is the most important election of their lifetimes, vice president Kamala Harris, and the speed with which they consolidated around her left Republicans agog. Last month Harris was the moderately…

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Media veteran Joe Weir has joined Texas Monthly as our new chief revenue officer, overseeing the company’s sales operations. Through the rest of the year, he’ll work alongside our CRO emeritus, Jalaane Levi-Garza, as part of the transition. Weir hails from the Panhandle city of Childress and received his liberal arts degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene. He began his media career as a sales executive in Dallas at Belo Corporation, where Broadcast & Cable magazine recognized him as a digital all-star. During his 20 years at the company, which would eventually become Dallas News Corporation, he learned all aspects of the business—from publishing to broadcast to sales and digital marketing. He would go on to oversee product launches that resulted in more than $25 million…

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The first time I saw Simone Biles in competition, she didn’t win. This, it would turn out, was an exceedingly rare experience, because winning has become synonymous with the Texan—it’s something she’s done more of than any other gymnast who ever tiptoed across a balance beam. Many gymnastics fans were introduced to Biles when she was already in the middle of her first gold medal run, at the 2013 world championships in Antwerp, Belgium. Others might have heard of her after she hoisted gold at the 2015 worlds in Glasgow. That competition wrapped up less than a year before the 2016 Olympics were set to begin. By the time the Rio Games began, even casual fans understood that Biles’s eventual win in the all-around was considered…

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When British singer Charli XCX released her sixth album, the hyperpop Brat, fans declared it to be a “brat summer,” indulging in lime green (the eye-catching color of the album art) and dancing through emotional crises to catchy club music.But the term reached a new stratosphere when Charli XCX posted “kamala IS brat” on social media platform X shortly after President Joe Biden endorsed Kamala Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination. Harris’s campaign page even changed its header image on X to reference the album cover.But brat summer is much more than presidential preferences, and being a brat isn’t about tantrums and toddlers. “You’re just, like, that girl who is a little messy, and likes to party, and maybe says some dumb things sometimes—who feels…

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