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Dan Solomon writes about politics, music, food, sports, criminal justice, health care, film, and business. Dan started working with Texas Monthly as a freelancer in 2013 before becoming a staff writer, covering topics from the Baylor sexual assault scandal to the gentrification of Austin barbecue to the legacy of Texas outsider artist Daniel Johnston. His reporting has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Fast Company, Billboard, and Deadspin.
If you ever needed confirmation for how large and geographically diverse Texas is, check out this crazy weather.
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His final quarterly fundraising report of the election season is a new high for all U.S. Senate races in the country.
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And it's strangely bipartisan! Really!
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Performance artist Lynzy Lab challenges on the "scary" climate for young men with a ukulele.
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The houses, barns, restaurants, cars, and businesses that have been left behind are celebrated by 33,000 people on Facebook.
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Yes, that’s a real thing.
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The namesake for two of Buddy Holly’s hits passed away at 78 in Lubbock on Monday.
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Spoiler: Even in the expensive parts of Texas, it’s a lot.
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...and they've loved him long before Willie Nelson stepped up.
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The attorney general’s office says that Texas law supports the school.
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After Mercedes City Commissioners walked out of a meeting while a friend of a recently-killed cyclist spoke, more steps are needed.
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After the second annual Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting, a conversation about the past and future of the industry.
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Looks like millennials are choosing their homes based on factors beyond avocado toast.
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The comedian's tradition of celebrating Earth, Wind & Fire’s hit is back and better than ever.
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This fall, Roy Orbison is back on tour. Sort of. Here's how the Vernon native returned to the stage nearly three decades after his death.
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And here's how we'll make it. Get the agents for Sissy Spacek, Debra Winger, and Margo Martindale on the horn!
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The two wounded warriors—both Purple Heart recipients—had an emotional reunion.
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The Red-Headed Stranger announced he’d be playing a rally for Beto O’Rourke. What happened next was predictable.
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The oddsmakers seem to think so.
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That feels a little on the nose.
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It may be September, but the summer heat is far from over. Find some respite at the movies, from 'White Boy Rick' to 'A Star Is Born.'
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Dallas police waited to release the suspect’s name even as it appeared across the internet, eroding the local community’s already fragile trust.
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If you’ve got $6 million and a hankering to live in luxury, YOLO.
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The team won’t be calling San Antonio its permanent home, but they’re going to have to play somewhere next season—and it probably won’t be Oakland or Las Vegas.
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What you should know about scooter rentals.
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The cowboy hat-wearing trio warmed hearts at the Texas Rural Health Services center in La Grange.
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Their fraught primary relationship comes back to haunt Texas’s junior senator.
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With the government questioning the authenticity of their birth certificates, some Texans worry that even providing additional documentation won't be enough.
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Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves, and Miranda Lambert are the new faces of country music.
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A new study suggests that there’s a new city topping the charts for getting stuck in traffic, and it’s in North Texas.
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Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker, and Kawhi Leonard have all left the franchise. Tim Duncan retired the year before. How does the team move on without its iconic players?
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The salaries of Texas college football coaches don’t always seem to make a lot of sense.
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The Infowars boss had his pages banned from YouTube and Facebook. Something else happened on Tumblr.
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Dr. Michael Stuart died in 2015. On Twitter, he’s an active commenter on politics. What’s going on?
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The rapper’s generosity allowed a fan to bury his mom. That says more about the state of affairs in our country than it does about Travis Scott.
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San Antonio’s team found a local partner for its first jersey sponsor.
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The company’s new service animal policy has been making headlines.
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The Inc. 5000 list analyzes the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.—and more of them are in Texas than in any state besides California.
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Austin’s city council voted on Wednesday to approve plans for a soccer stadium to host the soon-to-be-relocated Crew.
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In June, Twitter beef between late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and Senator Ted Cruz ended in an one-on-one game of basketball. It was neither the first nor the last time that basketball played into Cruz’s political life. He started a weekly pickup game at the
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The Texas Film Commission wants you to hit the road this summer.
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Thank you, Ted Cruz campaign, for introducing the Whataburger-themed insult to Texas politics.
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Tuesday morning, Greg Abbott retweeted a fake Churchill quote. It’s not the first time one of our elected officials has been duped.
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The beleaguered Infowars boss has been pulled from the two largest media platforms in the world. Now what?
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Both of the Texas college greats suited up to play football again. Only one of them looked rusty.
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A city report on Confederate and slavery-related names in the capital noted a big one—the city itself.
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”Cotton candy tacos,” we can’t wait to meet you.
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The Infowars honcho’s legal troubles mount.
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The outspoken Cowboys owner may have finally said too much.
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