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Nicki Collen had pretty much zero interest in coaching the Baylor women’s basketball team when she agreed to sit down with the school’s search committee. It was the spring of 2021, and she was about to begin her fourth season as head coach of the Atlanta Dream. Her family loved living in Georgia, and she loved working in the WNBA.Collen says she’s still not certain why she agreed to the interview. The Dream ownership had changed, but her new bosses had already mentioned extending her contract.“I had a job I liked, I had a staff I liked, I had a team I liked,” she told me in a recent interview. “But I just felt like it was time to listen, see what they were looking…

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Jesse Griffiths was sitting in a field sprinkled with bluebonnets in the spring of 2022 when his phone rang. The Austin-based chef wondered why his girlfriend would be calling, since she knew he was hunting turkeys. It didn’t take long for it to become a welcome interruption. She told him his cookbook had been nominated for a James Beard Media Award, a prestigious honor given to top cookbook authors, food journalists, and more in the nation.His first cookbook, Afield, received a nod in 2013, but this recognition felt different. The Hog Book: A Chef’s Guide to Hunting, Preparing, and Cooking Wild Pigs was self-published and had photos of blood and guts—something most traditional cookbooks try to steer clear of. At the awards ceremony that summer,…

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National Geographic’s newest series, Photographer, follows the stories of some of the world’s most prolific photographers—including longtime Texas Monthly contributor Dan Winters. Winters is one of the most celebrated feature photographers in Texas Monthly‘s 51-year history. His iconic, moody style first graced our cover back in 1998, and most recently in December 2022. Winters’ Central Texas studio was also the subject of a 2018 Style & Design article.Michael Crommett (right) films Dan Winters as he prepares to take a photograph.Courtesy of National Geographic/Gene GalleranoDan Winters gets his shirt adjusted for an interview.Courtesy of National Geographic/Gene GalleranoFor each episode, a photographer is paired with one of today’s leading documentary filmmakers, resulting in a masterful visual storytelling experience. The Dan Winters episode, “Life is Once. Forever.,” will…

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Painter Rachel Hecker purchased her 1920 bungalow in the Heights, northwest of downtown Houston, in 1987. It was charming and cheap—just $60,000—but uninsulated and teeny, with 1,100 square feet of space. She made do for years. Then, in 2019, she started researching options to expand. Adding on would cost $450,000, an astronomical sum more than seven times what she originally paid for the house. But a garage apartment? At roughly $200,000, it sounded a lot more doable. She gave her contractor a paper maquette of precisely what she wanted: a modernist structure with a pitched roof, clerestory windows, and gray siding, which would sit beside and “shake hands with” her existing studio, like a miniature backyard campus. It doesn’t seem like something that would fit with the…

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I encountered Flores Meat Market and Restaurant East by chance. In the course of reporting the magazine’s 2015 taco feature, I visited a barbacoa joint along North Zaragoza Road in east El Paso. Two bites into the tacos, there was no denying the meat had turned and that eating more meant risking food poisoning. After paying, my travel companions and I walked back to our car. We were upset—until we saw the sign for Flores Meat Market and Restaurant next door. The business wasn’t on our itinerary, but it showed some promise. Unlike the previous restaurant, Flores Meat Market and Restaurant did not disappoint.I revisited the place a few weeks ago—nine years is too long between stops, considering I’m in El Paso two to three…

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