Song Premiere: Mayeux & Broussard Take On Refinery Life in “Back at Home”
The Port Arthur natives take their outlaw country stomp back to their roots.
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.
The Port Arthur natives take their outlaw country stomp back to their roots.
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Quality use of resources there, San Antonio PD.
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Somebody give that pilot a raise.
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The hot-button public health issue has some support from unexpected corners in Texas.
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Gross.
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When it came time to determine the winner of the “Album of the Year” award, Queen Bey found herself a runner-up to the latest album from alt-rocker Beck. How is that even possible?
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A byproduct of the movie’s unprecedented success.
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Who could have seen this coming?
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The troubled quarterback checked himself into rehab last week, and the pundits are punditting.
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A mutual desire to secede from the republic makes for strange bedfellows.
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Pet owners in the northwest side of the DFW metroplex, be careful.
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Austin’s Hello Caller brings a jangly, shuffling beat to the singles series from startup label Violent Films.
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Now that’s service.
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The influential data journalism site 538.com takes issue with the reports that Austin’s black population is shrinking. Are they missing some context?
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Did you know they still made graphing calculators?
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It appears that Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam may regret listening to that homeless guy.
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Anybody need to smoke 8,000 pounds of brisket?
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9-year-old Alexis Bortell’s doctors prescribed her medical marijuana to treat her life-threatening epileptic seizures. But she can’t get it filled in her home state of Texas—at least, not yet.
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A Galveston police officer had his buddy pull over his girlfriend before proposing—is it as cute a story as people are making it out to be?
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Save every penny you find over the course of the next sixty some years, and you too could have enough for a nice iPad or something.
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Clint Eastwood’s Chris Kyle biopic took in an astonishing $89.5 million in its wide release this weekend.
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Lists that define which Texas cities are the best for job seekers, for the fiscally irresponsible perform the best? Find out in our list round-up!
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It may be his most ambitious invention yet.
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Her famously colorful home is now somebody else’s.
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How would the French cartoonists have done if they’d been armed with rifles instead of pens?
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The fun-to-say MAPfrappe app lets you cut out Texas and paste it elsewhere.
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Cross Canadian Ragweed, Reckless Kelly, and Micky and the Motorcars members join forces for a song that pays tribute to a “member of [their] musical family.”
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Richard Linklater’s Boyhood and Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel took home both of the “best picture” awards—and Linklater also took home his first major directing award.
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So much for that, then.
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2014 was a terrible year for the allegedly very racist bar chain.
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The controversial abortion law is still not fully in effect—but with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals hearing arguments this week, it’s final fate gets closer.
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The Golden Globe-nominated film about the Civil Rights Movement is the subject of some unexpected controversy regarding its depiction of the relationship between Martin Luther King and President Lyndon Johnson.
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The Lubbock natives made their major label debut with last year’s Tuesday Night EP—and they’re ringing in the new year with a playlist of some of their favorite Texas acts.
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A Dallas County ADA was arrested for DWI over the weekend. Will Susan Hawk, Dallas’s new District Attorney, use this as an opportunity to differentiate her office from that of her scandal-plagued predecessor?
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Who knew part of the curriculum in South Texas schools would involve teaching parents the difference between fact and fiction?
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A surprising number of Texas towns and cities have laws regarding plastic bags, and the one in Dallas might be the least effective of them all.
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The best player in football plays defense for the 8-7 Houston Texans. That’s the only reason he won’t be the 2014 NFL MVP.
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‘Tis the season for giving random gifts to random people, apparently.
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The ten-win Cowboys could take the top seed in the NFC and homefield advantage in the playoffs, or they could miss the post-season all together.
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A surprisingly uncontroversial bill to convert the penalty for possessing less than an ounce of marijuana to a civil offense with a $100 fine may find some success in the legislature.
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After Sony pulled the North Korea farce The Interview in the face of threats, one Texas theater is showing a different North Korea farce in its place.
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Some unknown bidder in Dubai must have really loved Desperate Housewives.
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Post-Ferguson, post–Eric Garner, post–Tamir Rice, relations between police and the people they’re tasked to protect and serve are especially strained—even as far from where those events happened as Texas.
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