The Best Thing in Texas: A Homeless A&M Grad Handed Out Resumes in Silicon Valley and Got Hundreds of Job Offers
Technically, a Texan does the best thing in California.
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.
Technically, a Texan does the best thing in California.
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The culinary innovation first attracted attention in the Rio Grande Valley in 2016.
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America’s foremost chronicler of pop minutiae sets his sights on Scranton, Pennsylvania’s most beloved regional branch of a mid-sized paper company.
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The Oak Cliff home of the guitar great was listed last week at $169,000.
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Johnny Canada gets his last, best shot.
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Truly refreshing news.
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That’s one way to approach the issue.
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She’s one of just a few hundred white lions in the world.
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The upcoming Hall of Fame inductee thinks he still has something to offer on the field.
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The Nextdoor for Houston's Candlelight Oaks neighborhood isn't just for finding lost dogs anymore.
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”Here, everything’s birthday,” indeed.
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And it’d be really good.
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Austin immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch says the system is seemingly designed to use speedy family reunification to pressure parents into deportation.
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The new queen channels the old queen.
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The Longhorn great is one of the best safeties the NFL has ever seen—and he’s never played for the team he loves most.
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How a chance encounter on a flight to Dallas turned into an internet sensation, and why it shouldn’t happen again.
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As with Tupac and Michael Jackson before him, death won’t stop the Vernon native from performing live.
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We’re not crying, you’re crying.
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At age 47, Ethan Hawke is finding himself with the career everyone anticipated he might have had fifteen years ago.
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The recently acquired delivery startup will bring its parent company’s beer and wine to customers in under an hour.
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According to police, the Caldwell County man bit the snake’s rattle off before he released it.
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For these couples, it's not a proper reception without a Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit.
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Longtime Austin pizza place Conans is closing its UT location after more than forty years.
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After a billboard in Vega urged liberals to 'leave our great state of Texas,' another in the city reminds travelers that 'Texas is for everyone.'
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The Carters’ new album is a treasure. We wish we could have looked forward to it.
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“No I didn’t have to,” he told reporters, ”But they’re my people.”
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Coming off of a major Supreme Court victory in 2016, Whole Woman’s Health and a number of Texas-based orgs look to repeal other Texas laws.
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Stanford Ph.D student Jonathan Leal and producer/filmmaker Charlie Vela teamed for a project exploring this moment in Valley music.
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The late-night host and Texas senator will go one-on-one on Saturday. Here's our scouting report.
By Dan Solomon and Leif Reigstad
The event will be played in sixteen cities across the United States, Mexico, and Canada—and Houston and Dallas are both on the short list.
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From a breastaurant to a thriller featuring puppets, here are eight movies from Texans to watch this summer.
By Dan Solomon, Eric Benson and Doyin Oyeniyi
As the NBA’s best player enters free agency for the third time, here's why the Rockets and the Spurs are viable potential destinations.
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At her Austin City Limits performance, Musgraves paid homage to female country icons.
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Spring football has never found long-term success, yet the NCAA exec from Houston is gambling his career on the XFL.
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A nightmarish tale. Er, head.
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The receiver is still unsigned after being released by the team in April, and the Cowboys front office is pretending it doesn’t know why.
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Neighboring Allen is in good company.
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She’s so brave!
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The Austin-based hip hop and EDM promoter announced a deal with LiveNation on Wednesday.
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If they keep this up, it’ll be an historic season.
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The Grapevine artist broke a record set by The Beatles in 1964—but that’s largely due to the changes in how we measure music sales.
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The man behind the satirical media personality, who previously wrote for the Austin Chronicle, says he was ”doxxed” by Deadspin following a glowing Washington Post profile.
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With an expanding pool of talent and steady work, animation is a promising path forward for the Texas film industry.
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Spoiler: We have no idea, but 2018 is wild.
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The 22nd school shooting of 2018 happened on Friday morning near Galveston.
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It’s hard not to like these guys.
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Call it a comeback—for now.
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Science is amazing.
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In 1996, Matt Patricia, now the NFL team’s newly hired coach, was arrested and indicted by a grand jury in a sexual assault case that was ultimately dismissed.
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If Gordon makes landfall, run.
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