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Lee Pace as Joe MacMillan in AMC's Halt and Catch Fire, season 1, episode 1.The phrase “Texas tech” either brings to mind the Lubbock university, clunky Cybertrucks, or those cute yet worrying little delivery robots. As of 2022, Texas’s tech scene was the second biggest in the country and accounted for 6.2 percent of the state’s workforce. But the state’s technology industry isn’t new. As longtime residents—and fans of the television show Halt & Catch Fire—know, the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex was dubbed Silicon Prairie in the 1980s, when the region was home to major technology companies such as Texas Instruments and Tandy Corporation, which owned Radio Shack and Computer City. Halt, set in that world, premiered ten years ago at South by Southwest. In a full Texas circle, the show’s creators, producers, and crew gathered to celebrate that anniversary…

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Head coach Wade Phillips of the San Antonio Brahmas watches during game against the Arlington Renegades at Alamodome on May 19, 2024 in San Antonio, Texas.Someone once called Wade Phillips a lousy head coach. That someone was Wade Phillips. He said this back in 2015, during a press conference at which he was introduced as the Denver Broncos’ new defensive coordinator. The now 76-year-old son of legendary Stetson-clad Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips had worked for the Broncos before, both as a coordinator and then, for two inglorious seasons in 1993 and 1994, as head coach. Phillips went 16–16 and was fired. More head-coaching opportunities would come in the following decades, and Phillips was fired from those too. The Buffalo Bills canned Phillips in 2000 after three seasons. Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys axed him midway through the 2010 season—his fourth in Dallas. Phillips figured a less-than-stellar reputation had preceded…

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Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Shelby Miller strikes out Chicago White Sox's Dominic Fletcher to end the team's winning game on March 30, 2024, in Chicago.Shelby Miller has been playing professional baseball for fifteen years, since he was a first-round MLB draft pick out of central Texas’s Brownwood High School in 2009.The 6-foot-3 right-hander was pitching in the major league playoffs at age 21, even before he nearly won Rookie of the Year. At 24, he was an All-Star. He was also a key figure in two high-profile trades early in his career, sending him from the St. Louis Cardinals to the Atlanta Braves to the Arizona Diamondbacks. It was in Arizona, when he injured his throwing arm in 2017 and needed Tommy John surgery to reconstruct his elbow, that Miller’s career took a drastic turn for the worse.Miller went 15–9 as a rookie and collected 37 total wins before…

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Good-Looks-band-Austin-SXSW-featGood Looks frontman Tyler Jordan stood beneath exposed pipes on a creaking plywood stage in a basement of student housing co-op on the University of Texas campus in Austin. Across a room decorated with decades of graffiti an undergrad sold Lone Star, Modelo Especial, hard seltzer, and earplugs from behind a worn wooden bar. “I thought we were past playing co-ops,” Jordan told the small crowd, before realizing how that might sound. “But we’re really happy to be here!” His band then ripped into the jangling guitar intro of a new single from their then unreleased sophomore album.That Sunday evening in March, Good Looks played a tight set of mostly new songs from Lived Here for a While, the album that’s out Friday, but sprinkled in tracks…

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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. JUNE 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 Bar-A-BBQ | Looking for the Perfect Father’s Day gift? We’ve got you covered! Book a private BBQ class! Email: info@barabbq.com and pick any day between Tuesday-Sunday between 12:30 and 4 pm. Smoke’N Ash BBQ | See calendar for specials!; 10% off on a Tex-Ethiopian platter for 2 or a Tex-Ethiopian Platter for 4 (dine-in only).* Happy hour cocktail all day Tuesday – Thursday;…

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Glen Powell Costumes of Hit ManWhen she was a freshman in college, Juliana Hoffpauir caught a screening of Richard Linklater’s pivotal Slacker at a small arthouse theater in Kansas. While for many, the cult film shone a light on a deeply thoughtful but otherwise unmotivated subculture of young adults idling across Austin, Hoffpauir felt simply homesick. “There was the Drag, and I went to St. Austin [Catholic Church] on the Drag,” Hoffpauir said. “It was like my life flashing before my eyes.” When she looks back on the memory now, Hoffpauir considers the screening the start of a true full circle story. She recently led the costume and design work on Linklater’s newest film, Hit Man, which the director cowrote with starring actor and fellow Texan Glen Powell. The film, which…

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Lake Somerville Is the Disneyland of Texas State Parks“Whatever your outdoor passion, you can pursue it here.” So declares Texas Parks and Wildlife’s enticing web page for Lake Somerville State Park & Trailway. Encircling an almost 12,000-acre man-made lake, the park sits smack-dab between Austin and Houston. This vast hub of open-air amusement comprises two units (Birch Creek at 2,365 acres and Nails Creek at 3,155 acres), the 13-mile Lake Somerville Trailway, and the 350-acre Flag Pond, a habitat for migrating birds.Other parks are more showy, like Big Bend Ranch, with its desert vistas, and Colorado Bend, with its transporting waterfalls. I anticipated something more straightforward with Lake Somerville, but I should have known: it is often the unassuming parks that offer the biggest surprises.Lake Somerville is one of only 22 of Texas’s…

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Weslaco Lady Panthers softball team.WHO: The Weslaco High School Lady Panthers softball team.WHAT: A state championship win in a league of its own.WHY IT’S SO GREAT: For most of Saturday’s state championship softball contest in Austin, it looked like it just wasn’t Weslaco’s game. The Rio Grande Valley school’s opponents, from Waco’s Midway High School, jumped out to an early lead, which they extended to a daunting 9–3 advantage with a pair of home runs at the top of the seventh and final inning. Weslaco’s run to the state title game seemed destined to end in another second-place finish. But the Rio Grande Valley girls still had one more half inning to play—three outs to save their championship hopes. Surely and steadily, Weslaco cut the lead to two runs after…

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Tiffany Masterson runs Houston-based skin care company, Drunk Elephant.In our series Stuff Texans Love, our state’s most stylish celebrities share their shopping lists. Tiffany Masterson is a pro in the art of simplification. Her skin care company, Drunk Elephant, which she launched in 2013 while a stay-at-home mother of four, was built on a philosophy of knowing what to keep and what to leave out—in this case, unnecessary ingredients such as dyes, essential oils, and fragrances. Soon, her small Houston-based business rocketed to top of sales at Sephora, and, six years after founding it, she sold Drunk Elephant for $845 million to Shiseido, where she continues in her role as chief creative officer. “It still feels exciting every day,” she says. “I know what I don’t know and can’t do, and I know what…

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Dr. Pepper overtakes PepsiWHO: Dr PepperWHAT: A new report from the trade publication Beverage Digest about the Texas-born soft drink’s statureWHY IT’S SO GREAT: There are few brands more iconically Texan than Dr Pepper. Why, we here at Texas Monthly have been covering the beverage since our very inception: in the magazine’s first issue, published in February 1973, we ran a 2,500-word essay, “Understanding Dr Pepper,” by former LBJ speechwriter Leo Janos. In the five decades hence, the drink has rarely been far from our hearts. We love Dr Pepper. You love Dr Pepper. We are Texans, and this sweet, sticky, slightly spicy soda runs, if not in our veins, then readily down our throats on a hot day. But does the rest of the country understand? In a…

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