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Street Smart in Corsicana
This little spot offers simple charms, from the English antiques at Canterbury Court (half the shop is dedicated to large oak tables, hefty cabinets, and chairs) to the baked goods at Collin Street Bakery, which ships it famous fruit-and-nut-filled dessert to 196 countries worldwide, to the classic European arrangements at Victorian Sample Florist, a design studio that once was a bordello.
Into the Wild
Our streams, woods, grasslands, and lakes are at greater risk than at any time in our history, but ordinary people can help protect our resources. A slide show of images featuring some of our state’s most precious landscapes, from the Dahlstrom Ranch, in the Hill Country, to a surviving patch of the Great Plains just west of Fort Worth. Photographs by Sarah Wilson
Guad Is Great
When the weather turns cold, the drunken hordes leave the Lower Guadalupe, and the river is an answer to a paddler’s prayer.
Cold Comfort
Call me loony, but the time to visit Bolivar Peninsula is in the winter.
What a Hall!
Need proof that Texas has played an influential role in American musical history? Just look at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, where one of the first things you encounter is a mini-exhibit called “Don’t Knock the Rock.”
Rio de Enero
If you visit San Antonio in January, when the river’s touristy stretches are drained, you can still commune with the waterway’s serene soul.
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Pirate Under Attack. Avast, Ye Swabs!
If Texas Tech fires Leach, there will be a mushroom cloud over Lubbock for thousands of miles and a likely revolt of Tech fans, alums, and former players.
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Benjamin McKenzie
The Austin-born star of the hit FOX drama The O.C. on getting his start, losing his privacy— and kissing in front of his mother.
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The Convert
Former Bryan Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson’s abrupt change from pro-choice activist to pro-life spokesperson turned her into a talk show sensation. But is her story true?
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Right Place, Right Time
An exquisite sense of timing—and a good deal of luck—has helped transform Rick Perry from an unknown Democratic state legislator into a swaggering Republican who’s spent more years in the Governor’s Mansion than anyone in Texas history. Is it enough to carry him past Kay Bailey Hutchison and all the way to the White House?
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