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Every year, Detour Film Production awards a college scholarship that is exclusively available to the students of Huntsville High School. To be considered, you must pen an essay about a work of art and how it affected you. In 2008, I—an applicant still solidly in the throes of teenage angst—won the contest with an overwrought ode to Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel The Bell Jar. I thought it was brilliant and startlingly… Read Story
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The Top 50 BBQ Joints in Texas have all been invited. Come see who will be smoking at this weekend of ‘cue!
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Jack Martin Hopes for a Return to Civility in Texan Politics
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Out of the 180 new vintages we tasted from across the state, these are the bottles we highly recommend this season.
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