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Remembering Liz
A slide show featuring archival images of Elizabeth Taylor from the summer of 1955 when she filmed Giant, in Marfa. Courtesy of Warner Bros. and Kirby F. Warnock.
April 2011
Elizabeth Taylor’s Summer in Marfa »
One Texan’s tribute to Liz Taylor.
April 2011 by Kirby F. Warnock
The Drop Everything List »
The Ennis Bluebonnet Trails, the Llano Fiddle Fest, the Poteet Strawberry Festival, and the Kilgore Rangerettes . . .
April 2011 by Michael Hoinski
The Drop Everything List »
Ted Nugent, Fiesta San Antonio, the Texas Open, and the Prairie Chicken Festival . . .
April 2011 by Michael Hoinski
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Buffalo Gap Wine & Food Summit, George Saunders, the Old Settler’s Music Festival, and the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival . . .
April 2011 by Michael Hoinski
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The Rothko Chapel, the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Mardi Gras! Galveston, and the North Texas Farm Toy Show . . .
March 2011 by Michael Hoinski
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The San Antonio Living History Association, the Texas Ballet Theater, Dai Due, and SXSW . . .
March 2011
The Drop Everything List »
Honk! TX, Luminaria, the Texas Steel Guitar Jamboree, and the Buffalo Bayou Regatta . . .
March 2011 by Michael Hoinski
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SXSW Style X, the Tolbert Texas State Chili Championship, Bayou City Noir, and the Texas Ghost Show . . .
March 2011 by Michael Hoinski
The Border Fence, Brownsville
Plans to erect a physical barrier between Texas and Mexico met with resistance up and down the border in 2008, but nowhere did the federal government and local authorities butt heads more than at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College.
March 2011
Becoming a Songwriter »
Hayes Carll on songwriting.
March 2011 Interview by Jeff Salamon
Jody Blackburn, 45 »
Jody Blackburn, folk healer.
March 2011 As told to Jazmine Ulloa
Dean Fearing’s Closet »
Dean Fearing’s boot collection.
March 2011 by Kristie Ramirez
Schoolhouse Rocked »
How an angry parent’s e-mail turned an elite Houston private school into a political battleground.
March 2011 by John Spong
The Last Pageant Show »
Faced with stiff competition from reality shows, is the decades-long tradition of Miss Texas in decline? Not if a few determined queens can help it.
March 2011 by Christopher Kelly
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Robert Duvall, the Steve Miller Band, the Whooping Crane Festival, and “The Thrill of the Chase” . . .
March 2011 by Michael Hoinski
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Pinetop Perkins, Red Hot Patriot, Fredericksburg Wine Road 290, and the Dallas Burlesque Festival . . .
February 2011 by Michael Hoinski
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Rodney Crowell, Zestfest, the NFL Experience, and the United Nations Film Festival . . .
February 2011 by Michael Hoinski
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Texas vs. the Nation, the South Padre Island Kite Fest, Barbara Smith Conrad, and Eagle Fest . . .
February 2011 by Michael Hoinski
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Blaze Foley, the Black Architecture Project, the Ennis Czech Music Festival, and Willie Nelson . . .
February 2011 by Michael Hoinski
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The Mesquite Championship Rodeo, Hayes Carll, Belle Starre Carriages, and Christmas in the Vineyard at Flat Creek Estate.
January 2011 by Michael Hoinski
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Flaco Jimenez, Gloworama, Jimmie Vaughan, and the South Padre Island Polar Bear Dip.
January 2011 by Michael Hoinski
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The Intergalactic Nemesis, the Cotton Bowl, the Magnificent Seven Ice Sculpting Competition, and the Ted Roddy Elvis Show . . .
January 2011 by Michael Hoinski
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Shearwater, the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, the Texas Citrus Fiesta, and the Monster Truck Thunder Slam . . .
January 2011 by Michael Hoinski
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