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Texan You Should Know: Painted Church Architect Leo M. J. DielmmanTexans You Should Know is a series highlighting overlooked figures and events from Texas history. September 4, 1906, was a joyful day in Fredericksburg. On that date, many of the town’s 1,600 or so residents came out to celebrate the blessing and dedication of the new Church of the Immaculate Conception. The church was, and remains, an architectural gem. Designed in a modern, German Gothic style, its rough white limestone walls frame high-arched entryways and tall, elegant stained-glass windows. The spire atop its right-side tower reaches about 130 feet in the air and could be seen for miles from every direction of the Hill Country. A reporter from the Southern Messenger, a Catholic newspaper in San Antonio, noted the “very large attendance of the faithful at…

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Central Texas Leaf KatydidKatydids prefer to be heard rather than seen. The insect’s name, an onomatopoeic transcription of the male mating call, first appeared in print in 1784, in Scottish American physician J.F.D. Smyth’s travelogue A Tour in the United States of America. “Their noise is loud and incessant,” Smyth wrote, “one perpetually and regularly answering the other in notes exactly similar to the words Katy did, or Katy Katy did, repeated by one, and another immediately bawls out Katy didn’t, or Katy Katy didn’t.”Scientists have now identified more than eight thousand species of katydids around the world, including around seventy in Texas. But the variety keeping you awake this summer is most likely the Central Texas leaf katydid, a.k.a. the truncated true katydid (Paracyrtophyllus robustus). Although most…

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Tacos, Topo Chico, and Korean Banana Boba Tea at Chas Market and KitchenJong Kim doesn’t like to stop working. He’s either reorganizing the beverage fridges or running to and from the back with boxes of products to restock. The thin, seventy-year-old man wearing a loose cap, a striped polo tucked into his pants, and sensible black sneakers takes a break to wipe his brow with his forearm and drink water. There’s always something to do, and Kim is going to do it. This was the scene during my visit to Chas Market and Kitchen, an 88-year-old business housed in a concrete-block building. It’s easily missed when seen from Interstate 35 in San Antonio’s Government Hill neighborhood. Even a white sign bearing the words “Taco. Hamburger. Fish Plate,” as fetching as it is in its stark design, is hard…

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The Problem with ErikThis is an early-access episode, available only to TM Audio subscribers. Connect access to your TM Audio feed to the podcast player of your choice here. To troubleshoot any issues, visit the TM Audio FAQ.Read the transcript below.“Well, they thought they got away with it. What else you going to do? That’s why you paid all that money, to silence everything.”—Salem Joseph Sr.Executive producer is Megan Creydt. The show is reported and written by Katy Vine and written, produced, and reported by Ana Worrel. It was produced and engineered by Brian Standefer, who also wrote the music. Story editing and production by Patrick Michels. Additional production by Aisling Ayers. Additional editing by Karen Olsson. Fact-checking by Jaclyn Colletti. Studio musicians were Jon Sanchez, Glenn Fukunaga, and Pat…

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The Problem with ErikListen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the transcript below. Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Spotify “Well, they thought they got away with it. What else you going to do? That’s why you paid all that money, to silence everything.”—Salem Joseph Sr.Executive producer is Megan Creydt. The show is reported and written by Katy Vine and written, produced, and reported by Ana Worrel. It was produced and engineered by Brian Standefer, who also wrote the music. Story editing and production by Patrick Michels. Additional production by Aisling Ayers. Additional editing by Karen Olsson. Fact-checking by Jaclyn Colletti. Studio musicians were Jon Sanchez, Glenn Fukunaga, and Pat Mansky. Artwork is by Emily Kimbro and Victoria Millner. Theme music is “Entrance Song,” by the Black Angels. Transcript Katy Vine…

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Hurricane Beryl post-storm heatThe rain has been reduced to a drizzle, and the winds have abated, but for many Houston-area residents, Hurricane Beryl’s impact is far from over. In addition to downed trees, impassable roads, and widespread flooding, millions of Texas are now contending with an increasingly hazardous threat: the dangerous combination of summer heat and power outages. Hurricane Beryl, which left at least 11 in the Caribbean islands dead—plus at least 4 Texans—has also left more than 2.1 million electric customers (the highest number in the provider’s history) without power across a wide swath of Houston, according to a statement released by CenterPoint Energy on X. By comparison, Hurricane Ike, a strong category 2 storm, left nearly the same number of customers without power after it made landfall in…

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Ranch Water RecipeWith a mere three ingredients, this fizzy highball with fuzzy origins (both Austin and West Texas lay claim to it) couldn’t be simpler. An explosion in popularity in recent years has inspired a glut of canned versions, but none compare to a homemade ranch water. Evoking a stripped-down, bubbly margarita, it’s dry, bracing, and the perfect refresher for our hot summers. Print Ranch Water This mix of lime, tequila, and Topo Chico couldn’t be simpler. Keyword PartyType CocktailMain Ingredient Tequila Servings 1 Ingredients1 lime2 ounces blanco tequila½ cup Topo Chico InstructionsCut a wedge out of the lime. Squeeze the rest of the lime juice into a tall glass filled with ice.Add the tequila. Top with the Topo Chico and garnish with the lime wedge. NotesIf…

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A Former College Football Player from Dallas Invented Concussion-Reduction HeadwearOn Nov. 6, 2021, Jason Hogg watched both of his sons play football. Carter was on the field in front of him in a Texas high school state final with the Episcopal School of Dallas. Jason cheered him on from the stands while streaming his other son FJ’s game on an iPad. FJ, a junior linebacker at Washington and Lee University, was playing in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference championship.In the second quarter of FJ’s game, he and a teammate were going for a tackle and collided. On the screen, it looked like a routine tackle. FJ was hit on the top right portion of his helmet, but he got up, finished the game, and took a picture with his team while celebrating their win.…

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Willie Nelson performs at his 2024 Fourth of July Picnic in Camden, New JerseyHe’s on the road again.Nearly two weeks after bowing out of his Outlaw Music Festival Tour with an undisclosed illness for what turned out to be eight missed shows, Willie Nelson was back on stage making music with his friends (and Family), just in time for his annual Fourth of July Picnic.“How’s it going?” the singer, who celebrated his ninety-first birthday in April, said over a joyous din of high-pitched cheers from fans at the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey, Thursday night. With Trigger hanging from the familiar red, white, and blue guitar strap, Willie sat down on a padded stool and got down to business: Whiskey River, take my mind. His voice was a bit rough-hewn at the start, his phrasing more deliberate and talky, but the guitar fingers were firing on…

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south padre island texas shark attacksShark attacks are vanishingly rare. The chance that any given American swimmer will be bitten is just 1 in 11.5 million, according to the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File, which tracks shark-bite statistics. The odds are even lower in Texas, where only 48 people have been bitten in the past 113 years. “Over the last ten years, if anything, there’s been a slight drop in the number of unprovoked bites,” said Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research, noting that about 60 to 80 people are bitten worldwide each year. Still, the seemingly random nature of attacks and pop-culture portrayals of horror beneath the waves instill a persistent fear—which Texans may be feeling more strongly than usual this summer.On July…

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