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Shane Stewart loved his car. There’s no way he would have left it abandoned on the side of the road with the keys on the dash. That’s a detail Shane’s father, Marshall Stewart, couldn’t square, and it led him into his own investigation. Join hosts Rob D’Amico and Karen Jacobs in the podcast studio to explore some of the questions raised in the first episode of Shane & Sally, examining behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with subjects involved in the case.

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Shane Stewart loved his car. There’s no way he would have left it abandoned on the side of the road with the keys on the dash. That’s a detail Shane’s father, Marshall Stewart, couldn’t square, and it led him into his own investigation. Join hosts Rob D’Amico and Karen Jacobs in the podcast studio to explore some of the questions raised in the first episode of Shane and Sally, examining behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with subjects involved in the case.

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texanist baseballQ:  Perusing an ad for vintage baseball T-shirts, I came across one for the long-gone Ballinger Cats, which reminded me that my birthplace, Robert Lee, also once had a team, the Rabbit Twisters. Is baseball in rural Texas still a “thing”?Dr. Ken Davis ConroeA: Many folks will be surprised to learn that Texas, a place crazy about football, was once crazy about baseball. Seemingly every town, no matter how small, fielded a team in one league or another, from amateur to semipro to professional ball—especially during the golden age of the early to mid-twentieth century. The Rabbit Twisters—one of the great team names in a sport full of great team names—played in the amateur Concho Basin league alongside such rivals as the Big Lake-Texon Snipers, the Goodfellow…

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Mark Duplass visits the IMDb Portrait Studio at SXSW 2024.It’s been two decades since brothers and mumblecore mavens Mark and Jay Duplass called Texas home. But shortly after taking the stage at Austin’s Stateside theater during this year’s South by Southwest festival, Mark Duplass told an easy-to-laugh crowd what he’s been saying publicly in interviews for years: the brothers cut their teeth in Texas (Austin, specifically), and have relied on the sort of casual creativity SXSW aims to foster since they were twentysomethings with filmmaking aspirations that didn’t quite fit the Hollywood mold.  This time, though, Duplass wasn’t pledging his allegiance to Texas (or reminiscing on when he used to volunteer at SXSW to earn his attendance) before premiering one of his signature small-budget films. Instead, he was presenting a tasting platter of television pilots…

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Great White Sharks Would Like the Gulf of Mexico Back, PleaseLike plenty of Texas spring breakers, LeeBeth opted for a trip to the beaches of South Padre Island in recent weeks. But while the sun, the sand, and the promise of a fat margarita might have drawn others, LeeBeth was driven by something else entirely: an ancient animal instinct still scarcely understood by scientists. LeeBeth is a shark—of the great and white variety—whose more than two-thousand-mile trip to the Gulf of Mexico earned her the spotlight this month, in part because of the sheer length of her journey, but also because a great white shark had never been tracked that far west. Megan Winton, a research scientist with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, says that when it comes to tracking sharks, LeeBeth, who clocks in at…

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Marshall Stewart at his home in San Angelo, on February 23, 2024.The video begins with a wide shot of family and friends eating and laughing, all of them gathered around a group of musicians with fiddles and guitars playing folk tunes. The camera gradually zooms in on a teenage boy standing in the back of the room. He’s smiling and swaying beside his mom, a middle-aged woman with short brown hair. He waves to his aunt, who’s filming the scene on a camcorder, and a minute later, she tells him, “Twenty years from now, you can come back and look at this.” This was 1988, and Shane Stewart was sixteen years old. He wears a tight white button-down shirt with short sleeves that reveal his lean, muscular arms. His hair is bleached blond, shorter on top and…

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anti-sxsw gaza related protest“F— South by Southwest! We don’t need ’em!” shouts Fionn Reilly, lead singer of the buzzy punk band Enola Gay, named after the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. As the small but energetic crowd roars approval, his band tears into another riotous, Rage Against the Machine–influenced number on the outdoor plaza in front of Austin City Hall. Behind the stage, Palestinian flags wave in the humid breeze.This wasn’t Enola Gay’s original booking at SXSW. The band was scheduled to play official festival venue the 13th Floor in the early hours of March 14—the kind of showcase that has, in the past, helped rocket international bands such as Enola Gay to stateside notoriety or even stardom. A few days before the…

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(L-R) Kirsten DunstNo less an authority on filmmaking than the French New Wave master Francois Truffaut once declared that there’s no such thing as an anti-war movie. His argument was that cinema, by its very nature, inherently glamorizes war. The rush of combat, the adventure, the drama and high stakes of battle—all of these things have been depicted so many times, in so many ways, with the intention of thrilling audiences. Movies connect viewers to the figures fighting the war and emotionally engage the audience in their fears, their hopes, and their camaraderie with the power of heroic camera angles, resonant music, and narrative tension. Simply by doing those things, Truffaut was among many to argue, film can make war seem appealing. It could be us up…

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meanwhile dairy queen blizzard drug operationLaw enforcement officials in Clifton who arrested a handful of Dairy Queen employees for allegedly selling methamphetamines at their workplace dubbed the investigation Operation Blizzard. A military medical facility in Bexar County refused service to a patient who arrived with two spider monkeys that she said were her emotional support animals. Houston furniture merchant Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale was criticized for a social media ad in which he wore a Tupac-style bandanna, called himself “your triple OG pahtna from the nawf side,” and offered a discount to customers who texted “Gangsta Mack” to one of his phone numbers.Belinda Román, a professor at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, beat out seventy other economists when she was named themost accurate forecaster of the 2023 economy by the…

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This story was originally published in December 2021 and has been updated.For years, Texas Monthly published a single guide to cover all the barbecue in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. Then Fort Worth (and the Mid-Cities) went off and became the most exciting place in Texas for new barbecue joints, so the Panther City gets its own directory. Last year Texas Monthly released a list of the best new barbecue joints in Texas. In 2021 we published our top fifty barbecue joints list, along with fifty more worthy of honorable mentions, but our barbecue recommendations don’t stop there. You can get a great meal of smoked meats at any one of these Fort Worth–area joints.In the city of Fort WorthAngelo’s BBQThis Fort Worth staple goes back to 1958. The brisket and ribs are plenty…

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