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Vouchers in the runoffsDeWayne Burns remembers the time Governor Greg Abbott came to visit in 2015. Burns, the Republican representative of a district encompassing several small towns south of Fort Worth, had gathered dozens of clergymen at the Heights Church, in Cleburne, for a summit on the Pastor Protection Act, which allowed faith leaders to refuse to perform same-sex marriages, to hear from Abbott and pray for him. That was the only time Burns can remember Abbott visiting his district before this year. But this year, Abbott has dropped in twice (with another visit planned this week), to campaign for Burns’s primary challenger, Helen Kerwin.Kerwin, a self-proclaimed “Proud Mom,” “Prouder Gramma,” and “Freedom Lover,” has also gained the support of former president Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz, Lieutenant…

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WHO: Dallas Mavericks forward P.J. WashingtonWHAT: A clutch performance in the NBA’s Western Conference SemifinalsWHY IT’S SO GREAT: In February, the Mavs made what fans worried was a desperation move: trading a top-two protected first-round draft pick and two players to the Charlotte Hornets for Washington and a pair of second-round picks. ESPN, grading the trade, gave the Mavs a D on their decision-making, with NBA analyst Kevin Pelton offering a brutal assessment: “The question here is what problem Washington is solving. Five years into his career, I’m still not sure what Washington is as an NBA player.” (The Hornets, meanwhile, got an A for getting a valuable return for Washington, who wasn’t even a full-time starter in Charlotte.) Dallas fans were even more upset. A…

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hit man premiereNetflix hosted the premiere of Glen Powell and Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, a new action-comedy film based on a Texas Monthly story by Skip Hollandsworth. The May 15 premiere was held at the Paramount Theatre in Austin. Powell, an Austin native, was the star of the night. The Austin Film Society (AFS) formally inducted him into the Texas Film Hall of Fame, where he joins other Texans including Matthew McConaughey and Carol Burnett. Linklater, a fellow Texan and award-winning filmmaker, founded AFS in 1985. He and Powell wrote and produced Hit Man together, with Powell starring in the leading role as a fake hit man named Gary. After accepting the honor, Powell told the audience he was standing on the stage where he once performed in The Sound…

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All the Texans Featured on Slash's New AlbumQuick: ask someone who they think of when they hear the term “Texas music.” We bet you get “George Strait” or “Willie.”Country music may be the first genre that comes to mind for many, but historically, Texas is as much a blues state as it is anything else. The genre’s early greats Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and T-Bone Walker were all born here. Lead Belly and Robert Johnson may not have been native Texans, but they got here as fast as they could; Johnson’s only two recording sessions took place in San Antonio (1936) and Dallas (1937), before his death in 1938. Blues music has helped define Texas music ever since—from Albert Collins to Edgar Winter to Stevie Ray Vaughan.The appearance of ZZ Top’s Billy…

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The fishing pier at Reel 'em Inn in Rockport.

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Cowboy Cookies.According to legend, the cowboy cookie originated as a kind of midcentury breakfast bar: a mash-up so packed with high-calorie, energy-generating goodies like pecans and coconut flakes that it could sustain even the most grizzled of cattle ropers on a long day’s ride. And while the origins of this cookie are difficult to pinpoint, it is perhaps most closely associated with Texas, in large part thanks to Laura Bush.Bush submitted her recipe to the election-year First Lady Bake-Off contest put on by Family Circle magazine when her husband, George W. Bush, was running for president in 2000. Her competition was a recipe for ginger snaps submitted by Al Gore’s wife, Tipper. Magazine readers baked the recipes and voted; Bush won in a landslide, with Marian…

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The Rockport Harbor Marina.Are there hammerheads? Blacktips? How big do they get? Do you ever catch them? My son, George, is ten years old. Neither of us has ever fished off the Texas coast, so he can’t stop asking questions as our boat makes its way out via the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway from Goose Island State Park, in Rockport, into Aransas Bay and its various extensions for a daylong angling adventure. Our guide, Johan Coombs, navigates his 24-foot Haynie bay boat toward our first stop, off the tip of Rattlesnake Island, a marshy strip of land between the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and Matagorda Island. Brown pelicans doing some fishing of their own tip Coombs off that this will be a good place to start. George and I have…

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The Bolivar Boiler at Stingaree, in Crystal Beach.Dirty Al’sSouth Padre IslandIt’s hard to decide what’s most charming about this restaurant near the southernmost tip of South Padre Island—the friendly service, the marina setting, or the delightfully crude murals of mahi-mahi and mermaids and, above the entrance, Alfonso “Dirty Al” Salazar himself, astride a bucking marlin, schooner of beer in hand. Far from the touristy spots that seduce the sun-addled hordes with neon-colored cocktails and fresh-from-the-freezer fare, Dirty Al’s, which opened as a bait shop in 1986, serves locally caught seafood, grilled, blackened, or fried. Families, in-the-know tourists, and local teenagers gather around plastic tables on the porch or inside a dining room festooned with nautical oil paintings, rods and reels, taxidermied fish, and all the other flotsam and jetsam a joint like…

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The ArtWalk crowd, on May 3, 2024.One of the biggest street parties in South Texas started winding down an hour ago, at 10 p.m., but the crowd gathered on this balmy March night in Corpus Christi, at the intersection of North Chaparral and Peoples streets, is still singing along with the metal cover band. Lights bounce from the stage off the old brick buildings and oak trees that line this swath of downtown, just blocks from where a statue of hometown hero Selena stands sentinel by Corpus Christi Bay. The lion-maned lead singer of the band, Metal Shop, gyrates in his tight leather pants while belting out Mötley Crüe’s 1987 anthem, “Girls, Girls, Girls.” No one appears ready to leave. Not the white-bearded old-timer pumping his arms while his grandkids eat kettle…

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Heading to the Lydia Ann Light-house on a Coastal Bend Kayak tour along the Lighthouse Lakes Paddling Trail, near Port Aransas, on April 19, 2024.As I peer through binoculars from my kayak, watching a great blue heron promenade through a tangle of mangroves along the Aransas Channel, I hear a ripple of water and a puff of air. A bottlenose dolphin has surfaced no more than six feet from my boat, its shiny dorsal fin catching the morning light. The creature dives, then reappears even closer, again exhaling with a loud, declarative huff, before taking another breath and returning to the depths. Then it swims toward its pod of maybe eight or ten others in the distance. I turn back to the heron in time to see it snag a silver minnow in its beak, toss back its head, and swallow the fish in a single bite.So plentiful are…

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