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The Red Imported Fire Ant

In the thirties, fire ants from Argentina entered our country with one goal: world domination. It's going well. I stumbled on a colony of them in a patch of grass behind a T.J. Maxx in Bastrop. Click here to read more about the red imported fire ant. I'm not sure what I did, but for some reason Tiffany and her sixty thousand sisters were ticked off.

6 Things You’ll Be Talking About in September

Lights, Camera, Carthage!

Nearly fifteen years after Richard Linklater and I started talking about turning a TEXAS MONTHLY story into a major motion picture, it’s finally hitting the big screen, with a little help from Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Shirley MacLaine—and a seventy-year-old retired hairdresser from Rusk named Kay Baby Epperson.

A Charred Life

Scenes from the Bastrop County Complex Fire. Images and text by Sarah Wilson

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