– You have three days to get your tickets to Sunday’s Texas Monthly BBQ Festival.

– You have four days to get us your nomination for the next Texas Monthly Top 50 BBQ List.

– The fourth installment of Burnt Legend:

 

– Tuffy Stone and his Cool Smoke team won an unprecedented third title at the Jack Daniel’s Championship Invitational Barbecue.

– Southern Smoke is coming up soon in Houston, and here’s some backstory on why the event was created and the charity it benefits.

– J C Reid examines the many variations of the beef rib in and around Houston.

– MmmmmmoonPies:

 

– In describing the vegan brisket at V-Eats, the Dallas Observer gets in a solid barbecue burn: “No, it doesn’t taste quite like a brisket, but yes, it is pretty fun and tasty. Go on — live a little. It’s not like we’re suggesting you go eat at Dickey’s.” 

– Food & Wine also weighed in on the vegan brisket in Dallas. 

– Bridge construction in Fort Worth is putting a major strain on business at Angelo’s. 

– The Men In Blazers show took in some BBQ at Hard 8 in Roanoke:

 

– Eating Las Vegas takes a tour through Lockhart, and then heads north to Snow’s BBQ and Louie Mueller Barbecue before settling in for some of Austin’s best.

– Someone broke into La Barbecue in Austin and stole their tip jar.

– The battle of Stubb’s vs. Stubb’s rages on in Austin.

– A hot take from former NYT food critic:

 

– Andy Staples praises the brisket at Smoque in Chicago in his weekly Punt, Pass & Pork report. 

– As the barbecue boom expands to Wisconsin, they’re not quite used to the smell of smoking meat. 

– The only whole hog barbecue joint in Mississippi is rebranding after the burger was outselling the barbecue 4:1. 

– A New York Times reporter flew to North Carolina just for a pork sandwich at Skylight Inn, and I don’t blame him. 

– “[T]he selection of the house sauces, we would find, was the best sign of good barbecue.”: