From Luling’s Watermelon Thump Queen to Gilmer’s Queen Yam, small-town Texas is full of festival royalty, and pretty is the head that wears the crown.
The State Fair has seen it all, from a model of the Washington Monument made entirely out of human teeth to a visit by King Olaf V of Norway on Norweigian Day.
The roar of the grease, the smell of the corny dog.
For 117 years, the State Fair of Texas has been part parade, part carnival, part livestock show, part museumand all fun.
Cops who threaten torture. Prosecutors who go too far. Defense lawyers who sleep on the job. And an appellate court that rubber-stamps it all. Let’s be tough on crime, but let’s also see that justice is done.
Bacon and five-time Big Tex Choice Award winner Abel Gonzalez Jr. are winning ingredients.
September 4, 2012 | by Jason Cohen
The cookies, known to most Texans as Caramel deLites, will be fried to mark the Girl Scout's 100th Anniversary.
May 23, 2012 | by Sonia Smith