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Philip Archibald in front of store holding a gun

The 29-Year-Old Bodybuilder Behind the Armed Effort to Reopen Texas

By Peter Holley

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While shopping for dresses at the Boys & Girls Club Prom Dress Extravaganza, Jummy Loaye, 17, saw her dress and fell in love. “I just knew that’s what I wanted to wear,” the Advantage Academy senior says. Though she didn’t have too many plans, she just wanted to enjoy a special night with her friends. “We’re all leaving high school and won’t see each other as much,” she says. She’d been envisioning her own American prom since before moving to Dallas from Nigeria. “I always knew what prom was, especially because of the movies,” she says. “I wanted to experience it. I’ve shed tears a couple of times over this.” In high school, she was chosen to participate in the Leader in Me Program. “They take students that they believe can lead others and train them,” she explains. “Being chosen for that gave me a reason to be great. It became clearer that the younger ones are watching me; even my little siblings are watching.” This fall, Loaye plans to attend the University of North Texas and study business. She wants to run her own business one day, like her father, who sells Nigerian clothes. Though all the cancellations of senior events have made her sad, she’s trying to draw positive lessons from the experience. “I have learned that most times our plans don’t go through and that even when the plan doesn’t go through, it’s just a setback,” she says. “We get up and raise our heads to achieve higher than planned.”

Dallas-Area High School Seniors Cope With a Semester—and Rites of Passage—Cut Short

By Laura Lee Huttenbach and Mary Beth Koeth

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Dallas music teacher Chad Stockslager broadcasting The Happy Good-Time Variety Show on Facebook Live.

Under Quarantine, a Dallas Music Teacher Is Broadcasting Surrealist Livestreamed Variety Shows

By Jeremy Hallock

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A Bookstore That Closed During the Pandemic Started a Literature Hotline. Now People Are Calling in for Life Advice.

By Lyndsay Knecht

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Summer Books Package What to Read Now

What to Read Now

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permian basin novel Elizabeth Wetmore Valentine

‘Valentine’ Writer Elizabeth Wetmore’s Texas Roots

By Kathy Blackwell

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Cult of Glory History of the Texas Rangers

The Secret History of the Texas Rangers

By John Phillip Santos

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Justin Cronin Catastrophist novelist the passage

How ‘Passage’ Author Justin Cronin Became a Lifelong Catastrophist

By Justin Cronin

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Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's memoir

Go-Go’s Bassist Kathy Valentine Remembers the Sounds of 1970s Austin

By Paula Mejía

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Lawrence Wright, in Austin on February 24, 2018.

Lawrence Wright on the Politics of the Pandemic

By Rose Cahalan

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I Love Paulette Jiles’s Novels. So Why Won’t She Talk to Me?

By Emily McCullar

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Texas Monthly Recommends: E-books From Your Public Library

By Texas Monthly