All posts by Christopher Hooks
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Turn That Noise Down!
The sounds and the fury of Frederickburg's noise ordinance.
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Hello, Governor
The state capitol's adventures in portraiture.
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Will the Real Smithville Bank Robber Please Stand Up?
An Austin artist's youthful experience as a bank robber was—kind of, sort of—the inspiration for a recent movie. But the real story of her life is even stranger than what made it onto the screen.
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Lights! Camera! Ambiguity!
A Texas documentarian tries to see how far he can bend the truth.
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Why the Mock Mass Shooting Matters
And what it tells us about the next generation of gun rights activists.
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The Road Work Goes on Forever
The expansion of I-35 may be the worst thing that’s happened to Salado since the railroad left town.
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Silica Alley
A funny thing happened on the way to the San Angelo fracking sand transloading facility.
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Texarkana, on the Rocks
To drink or not to drink—that is the question in Bowie County.
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Canning the Ban
How New Braunfels’s prohibition on disposable containers changed tubing—and then didn’t.
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¿Viva Terlingua?
A frontier town copes with a murder’s aftermath.