Meanwhile, in Texas: Maybe This Alligator Just Wanted Some Girl Scout Cookies?
Plus, a cocktail that carnivores can get behind and a pig you’ll get way behind, if you know what’s good for you.
Arman Badrei is an assistant editor at Texas Monthly, where he primarily works as a fact-checker. A born and raised Houstonian, he has written about the city's Westheimer Road, critical race theory, a death row exoneree, Gen Z conservatives, and the Rothko Chapel. Arman is a former intern and joined the magazine after completing a fellowship with the Texas Observer. He graduated from Princeton University, where he wrote his senior thesis on how to build trust in the media. He lives in Austin.
Plus, a cocktail that carnivores can get behind and a pig you’ll get way behind, if you know what’s good for you.
Plus, a harrowing vehicular encounter with a spear and a harrowing vehicular encounter with a cornfield.
Plus, expired paperwork brought a great westward journey to an end, and an interdimensional portal did not open.
Plus, an aggressive hawk kept postal employees from their appointed rounds and a cross-dressing bank robber brought new meaning to word “stickup.”
Plus, a woman sank her teeth into a Lufkin security guard, and a family of ducks sank without a trace.
Archaeology and architecture groups banded together to bring a mudhif, a town hall for the Marsh Arab tribe of Iraq, to Rice University.
Plus, a Houston bakery added a family-size croissant to its menu and a man fleeing from the police decided he was really, really hungry.
Plus, a man and his parrot made the scene at Whataburger, and someone really, really wanted to catch a Megan Thee Stallion show.
Texas Southern University's cheer team went to the competition confident they'd come home champions. Mission accomplished.
The 19-mile Houston road isn't the kind of place tourists appreciate. But it's everything I love about my city.
Long before it became a meme stock, the Grapevine-based video game retailer lodged itself in the hearts of a generation entranced by the storytelling it found inside those plastic boxes.
Amid a crowded field of conservative youth organizers, Run GenZ is supporting young candidates for local office across the state.
School board meetings in Texas's most Republican large county have devolved into shouting matches about curriculum, leaving many teachers worried about the academic year ahead.
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