Just a few months after opening in early 2015, Dallas’s Back Home BBQ pulled a barbecue mulligan: They shut it down. The already renovated Chinese restaurant got re-renovated. A new patio and sign were installed, and the menu was overhauled. When it reopened last November, pitmaster Carl Anderson began cooking with
Two Texas trial attorneys have been sued in connection to identity theft.
– Get your burnt ends right here: Burnt ends have become a modern-day barbecue delicacy. When you want some, here’s where to go in DFW.https://t.co/25SkdB2YAW — Dallas Observer (@Dallas_Observer) March 21, 2016 – A Barbecue Showdown is coming to the Fort Worth Food &
Dallas turns down a chance to change the way it handles marijuana arrests, two Texas congressmen try to change immigration policy for Cubans, and another wave of indictments in the Waco Twin Peaks biker shootout.
Illustration by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Click to enlarge.When Governor Greg Abbott announced, in the wake of the November terrorist attacks on Paris, that Texas would not accept any new Syrian refugees, he was flouting the law of the land: the placement of refugees within the United States
Plus the answers to a few things you've probably never thought about.
Marfa fights to save its mystery lights, Ted Cruz calls for a law enforcement crackdown on American Muslim communities, and the Hill Country’s new hipness could spell disaster for endangered species.
A barbecue joint in Paris, France? The notion sounded odd a couple of years ago when I first met Thomas Abramowicz, owner of the Beast. But the shock has worn off, and it seems I’m the last barbecue hound to visit. After so many words and photos from the likes of
One of Texas’s top chefs is in trouble, Cruz thinks you shouldn’t go to Cuba unless you’re his best friend, and the woes of SMU's frat bros.
It might be too late to stop Trump, but the GOP might as well try.
The NCAA tournament broke our big ol’ Texas hearts, Republicans turn to Rick Perry to run for president, and Texans affected by floods start the long road to recovery.
Jon Flaming is an artist based in Dallas with a love for Texas barbecue. His past work has focused on small-town Texas as well as the oil and gas boom in the state, but he has now shifted his focus to the
A new study shows what it’s like for Texans seeking abortion services, the state’s animal kingdom takes tragic a hit, and farmworkers are really getting screwed.
Ryan Adams, POP ETC, Delicate Boys, The Tontons, and the Avett Brothers rounded out our music-packed Wednesday.
– A new film from the SFA about Patillo’s Bar-B-Que in Beaumont:Blood Is Blood from Southern Foodways on Vimeo. – Thrillist ate their way through Austin and compiled this list of the best barbecue in the city.– Food & Wine examines the fantastic barbecue
Texas teams take on the NCAA tournament, Obama’s Supreme Court Justice nomination receives a thumbs down from important Texans, and a police officer is arrested for allegedly murdering a young teen.
Michelle Obama won't be running for president, but she'll be working on her causes outside the White House.
Southeastern Texas is submerged in water, Ted Cruz is one step closer to a head-to-head battle with Trump, and a high school football coach in Frisco was allegedly a huge racist.
Greg Abbott swings back at Obama, police shootings all over Texas, and a strip club and a school bus stop are uneasy neighbors.
Obama goes to Torchy’s, Houston gets to know Brock Osweiler while Cleveland cuts Manziel loose, and the stakes are high for South Texas’s only abortion clinic.
Randy Witt bet on a cursed location in the small town of Rosenberg for his first restaurant. He had run a successful catering business with his wife, Shauna for sixteen years before jumping into the restaurant business. “This building has been a barbecue joint for thirty years,” Witt told me, but the
SXSW puts a halt to normal existence today, Chuck Norris walks back (or roundhouse kicks back?) on Ted Cruz endorsement, and Abbott wants Internet for all the school children.
He was a pioneering music journalist at 'Texas Monthly,' but he was also so much more.
Voter ID law getting new appeal hearing; Texans pick up Brock Osweiler; and a big, crappy lawsuit out of Dallas.
Cruz gets the coveted Chuck Norris endorsement, and Baylor insists it's working hard to prevent sexual assaults.
What that means for the NFL, the NCAA, and Texas football fans.
El Paso struggles to teach English, and the state wants absolutely nothing to do with a controversial health study on women's health.
Cooking barbecue like the masters is something plenty of us aspire to do. Thousands of videos and cookbooks have been published on the matter, but the best way to know the quality you’re aiming for is to experience it firsthand. Take a bite of a beef rib in Taylor or snap into
The good news: they’re not crazy. The bad news: they’re not crazy.
The Austin-based singer lays down her soulful vocals over a slinky piano.
SXSW is almost upon us, Houston is screwed, and Ted keeps truckin’.
It’s become a fairly common sight in Texas: smoke rising from a little trailer parked in a gravel lot alongside the highway. But the Plantation BBQ trailer in Richmond was running a trailer long before it food trucks were de rigueur.Richmond is southwest of Houston, about forty minutes from downtown, but
The Aggie trademark battles, the legend of the 12th Man, and one man's fight to take it down.
Let’s at least consider the possibility before it’s too late.
The crack of the bat could be in the capital’s future.
The unregulated rodeos, the Cruz machine keeps on churning, and the great warrant roundup
Gary Vincek seems to do it all. He doesn’t run a just a barbecue joint, a sausage factory, a meat market, a processing facility, or a bakery. As owner and pitmaster at Vincek’s Smokehouse, he and his crew provide the Southeast Texas town of East Bernard with all of those things.
The Supreme Court considers the Texas abortion case, and Travis County's GOP has a sideshow on its hands.
– Brian Williams doesn’t know much about Texas barbecue, but Rachel Maddow was there to correct him.– The Texas candidate dives into KC BBQ: “Is it better than TX BBQ?” a KC reporter asks as @tedcruz tries the Z Man. “You can be honest,
Ted Cruz gets a Texas win, and the trouble with Fair Park.
Owner: Mikeska Brands Texas Bar-B-Q; Founded 2008Age: 56Smoker: Brick SmokehouseWood: Oak wood with oak and hickory sawdustTim Mikeska has had enough with running restaurants. He’s traded it in for the wholesale sausage business, and now his family’s Czech sausage recipe can be enjoyed in Texas, New York, Connecticut, and all over
Judgment Day for Republican hopefuls, an ”abortion travel agent,” and another Texas-EPA lawsuit.
After more than thirty years of doing laundry for the local school district, Clemente Galvan Jr. chose a second career: barbecue. It hasn’t been easy. The pit room at Galvan’s Sausage House has burned down twice, most recently in 2014. He works long hours at the small restaurant along Highway 90 in
Out-Texan your Texas friends with these trivia tidbits.
Texas prepares for Super Tuesday, student life just got rougher, and the Taco War continues.
Smoked sausage is a pillar of Texas barbecue. We talk a lot about the staggering sausage varieties—pork, beef, fine-grind, coarse-grind, hot guts, jalapeno-cheese, macaroni and cheese—but what’s discussed less frequently is what we stuff those fillings into: the casings.Last week I went on a barbecue tour with Greg Mueller of
A look inside of Presidio County's time in the national spotlight after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death.
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The Houston presidential candidate shootout, more conspiratorial Scalia details, and the great breakfast taco war of 2016.
If so, there are over fifty schools that need new names.
