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The Incarnate Word College Football PipelineTexas and SMU are still more than a week away from their first playoff games. The University of the Incarnate Word has been there, done that.This year, the not-so-little private Catholic university in San Antonio won the Southland Conference for the fourth time in the past seven seasons and also earned its fourth trip to the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) playoffs, with a best-ever number-six seed in the 24-team bracket. The Cardinals enjoyed a first-round bye before beating eleventh-seeded Villanova in a second-round matchup last weekend; on Saturday they’ll be in Brookings, South Dakota, to face two-time defending national champion and number-three-seed South Dakota State in the quarterfinals. Not too shabby for a school that didn’t even have a football team until 2008 and only…

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By the middle of September, Kenzie Kingston has already shown half a dozen new students around her TikTok-famous campus. The senior and student ambassador at Walnut Grove High School, in Prosper, about 35 miles north of downtown Dallas, is used to hearing them react with a single word: wow. From the outside, Walnut Grove, which opened in 2023, is a block-long wall of two-story beige brick, broken in the middle by the building’s neoclassical-style entrance. Inside is a soaring atrium that contains the school’s open-concept library, furnished with blond-wood bookcases and sleek navy-and-gray armchairs.Walking down one sunlight-flooded hallway after another, Kingston opens the door to robotics and manufacturing labs, a vast commercial kitchen for culinary education, and the broadcast studio where a student-produced newscast is filmed.…

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Beyonce and SaguaroBeyoncé! Is there anything she can’t do? The answer has long been rumored, at least ’round these parts, to be “absolutely not.” However, as of Wednesday morning, we have a compelling counterargument. Should you find yourself on Jeopardy! and get the question “Houston pop icon Beyoncé Knowles can do anything—except correctly identify that this famous breed of cactus doesn’t actually grow in her native Texas,” click in quick with “What is saguaro,” and you’ll be in control of the board. Bey made this tacit admission in a promo she cut for NFL Christmas Gameday Live on Netflix, a football doubleheader that marks the streaming giant’s first entrance into America’s most beloved sporting pastime. To effectively set the tone that these two games aren’t just regular-degular NFL…

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Hal LindseyOf all the places to wait for the apocalypse, one could do worse than the Texas Hill Country. In rustic Bandera, inside one of five ranch-style houses sprawled across acres of waving golden grasses, Houston-born evangelical author Hal Lindsey seemed to have sequestered himself while doing just that. The self-appointed “father of modern-day Bible prophecy,” who died on November 25 at the age of 95, spent a half century accruing fame and fortune by predicting the end of the world. I made the trek to the Cowboy Capital of the World in March 2022 hoping to speak to the man. Because I could not get the operator who answered the phone for Hal Lindsey Ministries to help coordinate an interview (aptly, the number is 1-888-RAPTURE), I…

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The far West Texas desert is not a subtle place, and the flora that live there aren’t subtle either. If plants could talk—cacti such as the prickly pear, the horse crippler, and the Chihuahuan fishhook; thorny shrubs like the ocotillo and the allthorn; rolling balls of thistles like the tumbleweed—they would all say one thing: Stay away or I will hurt you.And so, if you’re like me, you keep your distance. You wear gloves and boots. You don’t walk barefoot in a cactus patch. You also don’t walk barefoot in your home. Because out in far West Texas, there’s a plant that is sneakier and more insidious than the ones with the dramatic names. This plant bears a fruit that hides in plain sight where you…

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tamale christmas shipping photo illustrationEvery holiday season, Texans’ favorite gift wrap is a steamy corn husk. A chill is in the air and a craving for masa-wrapped treasures suddenly surfaces. Tamales are historically synonymous with Christmastime, but those who’ve left the state for less delicious pastures have a harder time indulging in the tradition.Many Tex-Mex restaurants around the state—and plenty of industrious online-only operations—are gearing up for their busy season, and each has its specialty filling, whether it’s classic spicy pork or sweet strawberry. So order ASAP to have as many as fifteen dozen or as few as half a dozen tamales, precooked and frozen, at your door by Christmas Day—even if you’re across the pond. If you’re not lucky enough to have an abuela who has spent decades perfecting…

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wrangler x whataburger collab photoshoot photo“What’s better than a great combo? That’s right, a Texas combo!” Legendary rodeo announcer Bob Tallman stood at the counter at a seventies-era Whataburger in Mesquite, about fifteen miles east of downtown Dallas. His made-for-the-arena voice boomed through the dining room in one of the chain’s last A-frame buildings in the state. Fresh-faced professional cowboys named Gus, Kash, and Pecos stood next to him, surrounded by swirling smoke from burgers searing on the flattop. They’re all clad in cowboy hats, big belt buckles, and crisp denim shirts, and they looked ready for a day of riding broncs and eating burgers. But instead, the rodeo pros were stepping out of their comfort zone to model a new apparel line: a whimsical Western collaboration between Whataburger and Wrangler.You…

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cybertruck collageIt’s high July in Mason, in the heart of the Hill Country. Several thousand have turned out for the town’s annual rodeo roundup parade, a splendidly small-time procession that circles the county courthouse twice before dispersing into a subworld of barbecue, corn dogs, funnel cakes, and handicrafts. Flags flutter. Floats rumble by featuring the camo-themed Yonker Brothers Meat Market & Processing, the rodeo queen’s court, and, in case you have forgotten what part of the country you are in, “Texans for Trump.”The parade is picture-perfect. It is also perfectly predictable, except for one wildly singular participant: a blinding collision of dystopian triangles known as the Cybertruck. Though it’s hard to tell by looking at it, the vehicle is an electric pickup made by Tesla, one…

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cybertruck collageIt’s high July in Mason, in the heart of the Hill Country. Several thousand have turned out for the town’s annual rodeo roundup parade, a splendidly small-time procession that circles the county courthouse twice before dispersing into a subworld of barbecue, corn dogs, funnel cakes, and handicrafts. Flags flutter. Floats rumble by featuring the camo-themed Yonker Brothers Meat Market & Processing, the rodeo queen’s court, and, in case you have forgotten what part of the country you are in, “Texans for Trump.”The parade is picture-perfect. It is also perfectly predictable, except for one wildly singular participant: a blinding collision of dystopian triangles known as the Cybertruck. Though it’s hard to tell by looking at it, the vehicle is an electric pickup made by Tesla, one…

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Favorite Mexican and Tex-Mex Bites of 2024What a taco year it’s been! I traveled thousands of miles across the state for “The 50 Best Tacos in Texas,” so you’ll see some of the taquerias from that project featured here. I didn’t journey much outside of Texas, but the places I did go—Mexico City and the Phoenix area—yielded plenty of gems. Some dishes, such as the barbacoa de borrego at Barbacoa Renatos de Horno and the trompo negro at Tacos Del Valle, both in Mexico City, would have had places on the list if they’d been served in Texas. So I wanted to give a shout-out to the refreshing, thrilling, and out-of-this-world tacos—and related items—that I ate in 2024.Aguacate Tatemado Tizne Tacomotora, Mexico CityThe smoking specialists at Tizne Tacomotora treat avocado right. The…

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