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Dustin Rhodes profileProfessional wrestling has often been a family business. In Texas, the sport’s history is synonymous with clans like the Funks, the Von Erichs, and the Guerreros. But few surnames in wrestling history come with a legacy as Texas-sized as Rhodes. To fans across the globe, Austin native Dusty Rhodes was the American Dream, the blue-collar son of a plumber with the slickest tongue in the state, if not the entire wrestling world. Behind the scenes, he wielded tremendous influence as a booker and promoter, responsible for planning the narrative and competitive arcs other wrestlers would perform throughout their careers. In that role, Rhodes was regarded for his creativity, constantly scheming up new stipulations to spice up matches and new ways to tell stories in the…

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alexandria ocasio-cortez and bernie sanders rally photoThe Kamala Harris campaign hasn’t spent money campaigning in Texas this election season. It hasn’t spent much time here, either. Outside of a quick rally in San Antonio with second gentleman Doug Emhoff in late September before a fundraiser, there’ve been no further public campaign events. The reason for her absence is obvious: History suggests that she hasn’t got much chance of winning here. The last Democrat to claim Texas’s electoral votes was Jimmy Carter, nearly fifty years ago. The idea of a blue—or at least purple—Texas has tantalized national Democrats for at least a decade, but the real measure of how competitive they see the state is in where they’re spending their time and money. Progressive politicians appear to see it a little differently. This week,…

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How to Party (And Dress) Like It's ACL 2004The year is 2004. Myspace has more than one million users, and “Yeah!,” by Usher, is blasting on repeat on the radio. The Frost Bank Tower was just completed, making it the tallest building in Austin. You might not have a cellphone, and if you do, it takes the blurriest pictures you’ve ever seen. Life is good—so good, in fact, that you might even throw a tank top on over your bathing suit and head down to Zilker Park to catch Sheryl Crow at the third-ever Austin City Limits Music Festival. Don’t forget your chunky sunglasses! It’s hard to believe that in the olden days of yore, festival outfits were rarely a priority for concert attendees. (With the number of “festival fashion” press releases we journalists…

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Mums FashionFall means football in the state of Texas. But in other circles, far from the gridiron, cooler temperatures also indicate a changing of the fashion guard. With a new season come new trends, and lately, the two disparate autumnal interests are intersecting in the most kitsch of accessories: the homecoming mum. In July, Brooklyn-based fashion forecaster Mandy Lee posted a video to TikTok and Instagram Reels predicting that prize ribbons, also called cockades, would be a niche trend this fall. Texans viewing the video immediately clocked what Lee, a native New Englander, could not. “If you’re from Texas it’s just a homecoming mum IYKYK,” wrote TikTok user @lhxmax52. “It’s giving homecoming mums,” said @lupezzet. “Thinking about how it’s time to find my homecoming mum,” agreed @sestrera.mp4. …

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Mums FashionFall means football in the state of Texas. But in other circles, far from the gridiron, cooler temperatures also indicate a changing of the fashion guard. With a new season come new trends, and lately, the two disparate autumnal interests are intersecting in the most kitsch of accessories: the homecoming mum. In July, Brooklyn-based fashion forecaster Mandy Lee posted a video to TikTok and Instagram Reels predicting that prize ribbons, also called cockades, would be a niche trend this fall. Texans viewing the video immediately clocked what Lee, a native New Englander, could not. “If you’re from Texas it’s just a homecoming mum IYKYK,” wrote TikTok user @lhxmax52. “It’s giving homecoming mums,” said @lupezzet. “Thinking about how it’s time to find my homecoming mum,” agreed @sestrera.mp4. …

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Texas Prairie DogsBy sunrise on an August morning, the landscaping crew at the Marathon Grasslands Preserve in Brewster County is hard at work. Plump, sandy brown bodies scamper across the gently sloping ground at this 2,700-acre preserve about ten miles northeast of Marathon, pausing where a piece of too-tall grass needs to be chewed down. Dirt flies as a digger cleans out a burrow, her black-tipped tail bouncing as she works. It’s a social bunch that touch noses as they pass one another and keep up a steady chatter of birdlike chirps. Meanwhile, a sentry keeps watch for predators from her perch on top of a mound. She stands alert, her stumpy little T. Rex arms resting on her white belly, and scans the landscape.This industrious bunch…

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ACL Walkup: If You're Excited About These Headliners, Arrive Early to See These Texas ArtistsThe organizers of the Austin City Limits Festival work hard to balance the ticket with headliners, not-quite headliners, and a big smattering of up-and-comers to fill out the program and make sure fans have almost ten full hours of music each day. While the big names who close out each night are incredibly famous, the odds are that even the most voracious music lover hasn’t heard of every act booked at noon on Saturday. Most of those artists are local Austin- or Texas-based musicians who are at the very start of their careers; many of them don’t even have a full album out yet. But sifting through the dozens of unfamiliar names is a lot of work for even the most dedicated fan, especially because…

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keshi austin texas concert photoKeshi stays vigilant at his local H-E-B. Is anyone following him through the produce section? Did that shopper’s gaze linger as he waited in line to check out? “I’m always surprised where I’ll get caught,” he told me in August. He isn’t concerned with watchful store clerks—he’s not juggling tomatoes or pocketing Juicy Fruit. Instead, he’s bracing for the passersby who will recognize him and whip out their iPhones, the ones whose faces register “omigod it’s Keshi squeeeee!!!”In the years since Keshi’s first SoundCloud post, in 2017, the 29-year-old prince of lo-fi pop R&B has been finding it increasingly difficult to maintain anonymity in public, whether he’s strolling the New York City streets, dining after a show in Shanghai, or running errands around Houston. And…

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New treatment for rare fetal blood diseaseDaisy Farrar loves swimming, watching Bluey, and collecting stuffed animals. Some days the four-year-old pretends to be a princess, wearing sparkly shoes and a pink dress with a tulle skirt while she roams her family’s wooded three-acre property in rural North Carolina. Other days she’s more into robots, playing with Optimus Prime figurines with her dad. “To me, she is perfect,” says her mom, Brandi Starling Farrar. It’s a sentiment any loving parent might express—but in Daisy’s case, the fact that she is a happy, healthy kid is nothing short of incredible.Daisy made history before she was born—she was the first person to receive nipocalimab, an experimental drug that helped her survive a rare fetal disease. Daisy and Brandi were among thirteen pairs of expectant…

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What Happens When a Country Hit Namechecks a Boot Brand?The old joke goes that if you listen to a country song backward, you get your girl back, then your truck back, and, finally, your dog back. The joke works, in part, because country music often expresses abstract ideas—take grief, for instance—by focusing on concrete objects. It’s a genre that likes to show first and tell second.Thanks also to a persistent pressure to perform authenticity, country lyrics tend to be populated with the lifestyle’s—occasionally repetitive—objects and brands. Stetson hats, Ford trucks, and JBL speakers have been name-checked by the likes of Lyle Lovett, Tim McGraw, and John Morgan. Lil Nas X and Miranda Lambert are lyrically united in their love of Wrangler jeans. Recently, Texas boot companies have appeared in popular country songs by artists…

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