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The Ugly Texan
My wife’s dad is from Grenada, and we visited there last October. It was an incredible place, and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, but when...
The Cruelest Month
What a week it was. Last Wednesday at the University of Texas, city police and state troopers decked out in riot gear — at the...
KKKakistocracy
In 2022, a 15-year-old Virginia Beach girl named Simone Nied began a modest campaign to remove the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) from...
Basket Cases
Now that spring is here, it’s time to hit the links. No, not Colonial or Rivercrest. #fancy We’re talking the chain-links.
Disc golf around town...
Texas Forgetting
So, I’m sitting in a Port Lavaca hotel room on a weekday evening, thinking about winding down. It’s been a long drive from Fort...
Hope and Joy
My daddy always swore it was true, and, I guess, a 14-year-old boy would notice such things.
When Montgomery, Alabama, finally got word of Japan’s...
Let It Grow
I was 19 the first time I smoked weed. It was in 1997 at a party at “The Hole,” a rental house about a...
Walking Brews
From his spot in the picket line, John Thomas paused to take in his employer’s large space in his family’s history — and his psyche.
“When...
Carrying Away the Stones
Two nearly 90-year-old stories came together in a polychrome sandstone retaining wall. Wearing a small, forgotten commemorative plaque, it faced the athletic field on...
‘Soul on a Plate’
In 2022, Fort Worth became the 13th most populous city in America while maintaining the rank of the fifth most populated within the state....
