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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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If 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 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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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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“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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