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True Texas Project Stand Your Ground TrainingThe middle-aged man, seated near the front of the room for a training on when he could use deadly force, expressed displeasure upon being told that doing so often was not legally advisable. He had driven to a suburban Fort Worth church to attend a seminar hosted by the True Texas Project, a prominent right-wing group. He asked what he could do if he returned to his home to find a squatter there—a “common problem” around the state, as he put it. Former police officer John Arenz, who volunteered to help lead the seminar, advised him there could very well be legal consequences for shooting someone who did not pose an immediate threat. “It doesn’t matter how indigent the person is, and it doesn’t matter…

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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. JULY 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 La Barbecue | Our Austin Monthly Burger Bash winning Brisket Sliders are available every Wednesday and Thursday for our happy hour from 3:00-6:00 pm with drink and sandwich specials. We are doing Sounds Of Summer with local DJ William every 3rd Saturday of the Summer Months starting at 12:00 pm and going to 4:00 pm. KG BBQ | 4th of July Honky Tonk & BBQ Pool Party at Rancho…

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The Hidden Texas Roots of the Colorado Chautauqua ResortIt’s quiet hour at the Colorado Chautauqua, that almost eerie, old-fashioned, two-hour step back through the decades between 1 and 3 p.m. when every summer resident at the vacation community returns to their cabin for a siesta. Some sleep; others play cards or read. The sounds of the mountain meld into a sonorous silence: a combination of faraway chatter, the purr of cars on the curves up Flagstaff Mountain, and the symphony’s tuneful cacophony as it warms up in the historic auditorium for the night’s performance. A tradition at this mountain playground in Boulder for most of Chautauqua’s 126 years—or at least as long as anyone can remember—quiet hour is honored as a sacred practice. “Don’t you dare scream during quiet hour,” says 78-year-old Mary…

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Painted BuntingIt’s pitch black when I arrive at 5:30 a.m. at the Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area, a sprawling, 2,600-acre nature preserve about twenty miles north of Dallas. After I make contact with my party, the seven of us caravan in our vehicles, bumping a mile or so down a gated gravel road that twists deep into the woods, where we park by a meadow. Doused head to toe with bug spray, I put on a borrowed headlamp and fall in line behind my companions, stalking silently through fields of waist-high grass and wildflowers and trying to avoid low-hanging branches, fallen logs, and armadillo holes in the predawn darkness.The secret mission I’ve joined on this May morning has one goal: to capture and study painted buntings—the brilliantly…

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Netflix Barbecue Showdown stillWHO: Kareem El-Ghayesh of Austin’s KG BBQ and Sloan Rinaldi of Houston’s Texas Q.WHAT: The third season of Netflix’s reality competition show Barbecue Showdown, in which nine pitmasters vie to win $50,000, premieres on July 4.WHY IT’S SO GREAT: Texas barbecue is no stranger to the limelight, nor to Netflix programming—you may have seen it featured on shows like Chef’s Table and Somebody Feed Phil. But this month, Lone Star State pitmasters take on a more ambitious edge by competing in the third season of Netflix’s reality show Barbecue Showdown.The show, hosted by actress and comedian Michelle Buteau and judged by Los Angeles pitmaster Kevin Bludso and Mississippi chef Melissa Cookston, pits eight to nine contestants from across the country—often professional chefs or familiar faces…

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Former Uvalde school police Chief Pete ArredondoA Uvalde County grand jury has indicted former school district police chief Pete Arredondo and another former district officer on charges of child endangerment, the first criminal charges brought against law enforcement for the botched response to the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, the San Antonio Express-News first reported.Arredondo and Adrian Gonzales face felony charges of abandoning or endangering a child, the newspaper reported.The charges come more than two years after the May 24, 2022 shooting, in which a lone gunman killed nineteen fourth graders and two teachers.Uvalde County district attorney Christina Mitchell convened a grand jury in January to investigate law enforcement’s delayed response and to determine whether to bring criminal charges against any of the nearly four hundred federal, state, and local…

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julian castro debate responseAfter what was generally judged to be a disastrous performance by President Joe Biden in his first televised debate with Donald Trump in the 2024 cycle, national Democrats went into panic mode on Thursday night as only Democrats can do. Democratic strategist after Democratic strategist told reporters that America’s last hope was a brokered Democratic National Convention or, as one put it, for Biden to die. Texas Democrats, meanwhile, were pretty quiet, at least in public, where they mostly stuck to tweeting preapproved memes. With one exception: former San Antonio mayor and secretary of housing and urban development Julián Castro. “Tonight was completely predictable,” Castro said. He argued that it was a man-made disaster, rather than an act of God. “Biden had a very low bar…

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A Field of Bluebonnets, San Antonio, 1921Jared Brinkley had never been more anxious on a plane. Not typically a nervous flier, the California video game production manager stowed his valuable cargo as he prepared for takeoff on a recent flight from Seattle to Dallas. Wrapped in a cocoon of foam, cardboard, and packing tape and tucked into the first-class cabin coat closet was a hundred-year-old painting that could be worth six figures.“I carried it around the airport terrified,” Brinkley, 49, said. “The whole trip was stressful.”The artwork, an original Julian Onderdonk oil painting from 1921 titled A Field of Bluebonnets, San Antonio, is representative of the work of the Texas impressionist, who is beloved for his pastoral scenes that showcase the iconic indigo flowers.“If you’ve ever seen a painting of bluebonnets in…

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A Field of Bluebonnets, San Antonio, 1921Jared Brinkley had never been more anxious on a plane. Not typically a nervous flier, the California video game production manager had stowed his valuable cargo in preparation for takeoff on a recent flight from Seattle to Dallas. Wrapped in a cocoon of foam, cardboard, and packing tape and tucked into the first-class cabin coat closet was a hundred-year-old painting that he’d been told could be worth six figures.“I carried it around the airport terrified,” Brinkley, 49, said. “The whole trip was stressful.”The artwork, an original Julian Onderdonk oil painting from 1921 titled A Field of Bluebonnets, San Antonio, is representative of the work of the Texas impressionist, who is beloved for his pastoral scenes that showcase the iconic indigo flowers.“If you’ve ever seen a painting…

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Kinky Friedman died on June 27, 2024, leaving behind an impression on everything from Texas music and politics to the very halls of Texas Monthly itself. Michael Hall recalls how Kinky, although controversial and not afraid to offend, held a genuine interest in having an impact on the world and starting important conversations.

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