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Mout’s Barbeque ReviewEric and Jessica Mouton didn’t jump into the barbecue business hastily. The process to launch Mout’s Barbeque (pronounced like “moots”), in Winnie, started three years before its opening in August. The couple purchased an empty building just south of Interstate 10, between Houston and Beaumont, that had been a doctor’s office. Then Eric used the welding skills he developed in the marine salvage business to build a steel offset smoker. All the while they traveled the state with their four kids, researching the best barbecue joints in Houston, Austin, and Lockhart. Eric’s confidence in his own barbecue grew, but he had to be sure, and asked Jessica if she thought people would buy it. “I think it’s the best, but I might be biased,” she…

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Bird flu: Should we freak out?After a Panhandle man tested positive for a “highly pathogenic avian influenza”—a.k.a. bird flu—last week, it’s understandable for Texans to foster concerns about the potential onset of another pandemic. But federal and state health authorities, as well as infectious disease doctors, have emphasized that the risk remains low.Primarily, that’s because the virus, known as H5N1, which has been circulating worldwide since at least 1996, hasn’t yet demonstrated the ability to jump from one person to another. The Texan who contracted the latest strain of the pathogen worked with a population of dairy cattle that were known to have recently been infected. He is only the second person confirmed to have bird flu in the United States, following a case two years ago in Colorado.“There’s no immediate…

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Cruz Watch: What other laws could Ted Cruz pass to benefit himself?Air travel! It stinks. It’s expensive. The planes are cramped. Increasingly, parts of them just plumb fall off! And before you’re on board, you must navigate long security lines where Transportation Security Administration agents yell at you to take your shoes off, or leave your belt on, or take your laptop out of your carry-on bag, unless you’re at an airport where they don’t want you to take your laptop out of your carry-on, in which case they yell at you to leave it in. For what is one of the true technological marvels of the modern age—you are literally flying! In the sky! Through clouds!—we’ve sure done a spectacular job of making the whole experience downright miserable. Enter Ted Cruz with a solution—not for all…

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cured pimento cheeseIf you’ve been paying attention to the culinary world the past few years, you know that foods that have been cured, pickled, fermented, and otherwise deliciously enhanced are “having a moment,” as they say. Humans have been preserving food for eons, but there’s nothing like a global pandemic to get folks in a back-to-basics mindset, diligently nursing sourdough babies and cultivating a newfound appreciation for things that are fleeting.None of that is new to chef Steve McHugh, who opened his San Antonio restaurant Cured in 2013. His approach to cooking has long celebrated the ideas of plenitude and preservation and capturing the momentary vibrancy of life’s seasons, terrestrial and otherwise. It’s a hard-won philosophy for the six-time James Beard Award–nominated chef, who nearly saw his…

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The Eastern spotted skunk.As a former amateur gymnast, I know a good handstand when I see one. That’s why I can say with full confidence that no creature on God’s green earth can perform a handstand with quite as much gumption or grace as the spotted skunk. That’s right, a skunk. Ten out of ten, every time. The pint-size mammal, which weighs between one and two pounds—about half that of its more commonly known striped relative—gets its name for its characteristic white spots. Texas is home to two of these acrobatic species. The plains spotted skunk is found in East Texas and the Panhandle, and the Western (or desert) spotted skunk roams West Texas, South Texas, and the fringes of Central Texas. Both have evolved a dazzling defense mechanism:…

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The fifth episode of Shane and Sally focuses on the search for key suspect Jimmy Burnett. Rob and Karen review a polygraph interview where Burnett’s ex-girlfriend testifies that he admitted to Shane’s and Sally’s murders, sending them on a cross-continental journey to track down Burnett once and for all.

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Shane and Sally: Episode 5Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the transcript below.Learn more about the case with original videos, archival photos, and documents from our reporting in our episode guide. Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Spotify “If I could get enough to get a warrant on him, I could extradite him. That’s one of those things, you know? He might as well be on the moon.”—Terry LoweThe investigation continues with a look at a third suspect, Jimmy Burnett, who appears to have written his own notes as he tried to solve the murders of Shane Stewart and Sally McNelly. But his ex-girlfriend Laura says he knew more than he let on. In this episode, we take our investigation halfway around the world to track down Burnett,…

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Teddy the News Hound, a chow mix, is ready with his eclipse glasses. Owner Terry Tang traveled from Phoenix, Arizona.Despite a less-than-stellar weather forecast, Texans across the state still gathered in high spirits to witness the long-anticipated total solar eclipse on Monday afternoon. A NASA astronaut, a man holding a live snake, and an eclipse costume (you’ll have to see it to understand) were a few of the many quirky characters San Antonio photographer JoMando Cruz encountered at the Kerrville Eclipse Festival, in the Hill Country town about an hour northwest of San Antonio.For months, towns in the path of totality had been preparing for the celestial event, and despite the clouds, eclipsegoers certainly weren’t disappointed. The next total solar eclipse in the U.S. will occur in 2045, and the next one in Central Texas isn’t expected for more than 319 years. “I was…

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Texas, Being: A State of PoemsIn her brief introduction to Texas, Being, poet and Trinity University professor Jenny Browne writes, “Good poems are always about more than one thing.” This multiplicity also applies to Texas as a state. It’s a place often pigeonholed by outsiders as homogenous: they might believe it’s all dust and desert, that every citizen is a conservative Republican, that every Texan has been to a rodeo. And so it’s refreshing that these poems, published this month by Trinity University Press (and in conversation at an upcoming San Antonio Book Fest panel) are by poets from so many different backgrounds; they’re born-and-raised and Texpats and visitors and immigrants experiencing the complicated and “beautiful and brutal” Lone Star State.The 47 poems in the collection were written across centuries,…

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Mickey Guyton at the 2024 CMT Music Awards held at the Moody Center on April 7, 2024 in Austin, Texas.“It’s giving Cher,” celebrity stylist Savannah Mendoza told me from Austin, where she was prepping to dress the small town of Crawford’s second-biggest export, country singer Mickey Guyton, for Sunday night’s Country Music Television Awards. Mendoza was referring to the dress she and Guyton, a nominee for Collaborative Video of the Year for “Nothing Compares to You,” with Kane Brown, had chosen: a silver-fringed gown that would have looked just as at home in a banquette at Studio 54 as on the Moody Center red carpet. For the second year in a row, the CMT left its Nashville HQ behind in favor of a “more fun, more chill” Austin ceremony. “CMTs is a little more trendy, because it’s in Austin—different from the CMAs, which is more…

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