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Texas’ weirdest superstar director has an appropriately weird trailer for his latest film.
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Texas’ weirdest superstar director has an appropriately weird trailer for his latest film.
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A 35-year-old Arlington woman was arrested last week for the murder of her husband and stepdaughter, and her political affiliations make this an especially heated case.
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Boyhood is less than a year old, and it’s already one of the great Texas movies. Take a look at how the uniquely made top dog for this year’s award season came to be in this featurette.
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“Cost of living” and “affordability” are popular buzzwords, but they mean different things to different people.
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The legendary Texas comedian may have died in obscurity 20 years ago, but he’ll be remembered in bronze.
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Johnny Football officially becomes Johnny Cleveland on Sunday. What sort of situation is he walking into?
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At a time when so many questions are being raised about people in the criminal justice system holding their own accountable, this isn’t a great look.
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No idea what could possibly go wrong here.
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Texas teams—and the Big 12—aren’t going to be competing for a National Championship.
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The firm, which represents hip eateries in Austin and San Antonio, was at the center of a Twitter flap surrounding the racially-charged reference in its name on Saturday night—and disappeared from the Internet on Sunday.
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That is a pretty stark way to get the point across.
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Amy Poehler's favorite Austin teen band has an EP on the way—here's a taste.
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It's better to have video evidence than not, but those who present police body cameras as a solution to our national predicament involving police relations need to look at cases from Jasper, Texas, to New York City to see that the problem is more complicated than that.
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The San Antonio Express-News used Census data to track the physical movement of wealth in a variety of Texas cities. What do those maps teach us?
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A mailer sent out during an Austin City Council runoff makes this weird question relevant once more.
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Denton's fracking ban is facing constitutional challenges, but other parts of the state are keen to enforce laws of their own against fracking.
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That could have implications for "no refusal weekend" policies across the state.
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A few days later, we're still sorting out what happened and why.
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The case has sparked predictable outrage.
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In North Texas, Walmart employees are threatening to strike. In South Texas, people are almost two weeks in to camping out in front of Best Buy. It's just another celebration of holiday season bargain-hunting.
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Hicks, who died twenty years ago, is not Alex Jones. Or is that just what the sheeple want you to think?
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The two iconic quarterbacks who played their college ball in Texas have a few things in common—not the least of which is the way that they've been treated by their coaches.
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Valley residents will still have to drive to Houston or Austin for their affordably-priced Swedish furniture, but the home decor company is investing big in energy in the windy part of the state.
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That's a lot of Astro-dough.
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There's a dark side to feel-good crowdfunding.
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Talk of reprising the ol' A&M-Texas rivalry in a bowl game has led to reports that the Aggies might be avoiding the Longhorns in such a scenario.
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Guess how well that worked out.
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Who inject $11 billion into the Texas economy.
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The Austin indie rockers bring some low-end—and a nod to Westeros—in the first single from their new album, Transgressor.
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Should be a meaty ad campaign as they beef up their marketing presence for tender audiences.
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Not long after a Duncanville teacher was fired for tweeting "kill yourselves" to "crackers" who wanted to argue with her opinions about Ferguson, another teacher, this time in Houston, is under fire for using racially-charged language.
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People who paid as much as $3,500 for purebred puppies allegedly found themselves receiving dying animals instead.
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Here's the shiniest new thing in Jones' collection of shiny new things.
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The 101-year-old Aggie tradition found a new purpose on Monday morning.
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Senator Ted Cruz jumped into the Net Neutrality debate with a tweet heard 'round the world yesterday. What does it really mean?
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The occasional Austinite allegedly tore up a ridiculously large check rather than do a 35-date Led Zeppelin tour.
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Most likely a meteor, but if, 30 years from now, a mysterious alien superhero in red and blue tights and a cape starts flying around, you can say "I remember when..."
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The six-foot-four junior has already made a fan of LeBron James.
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Our new get-rich-quick scheme involves acquiring a bunch of baby giraffes.
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With a new QB under center, the number-one overall pick in this year's draft on the mend, and the bye week coming, now is the time to examine why the Texans have been so underwhelming this season.
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After an absurdly divisive process, the UT-RGV mascot debate has ended with an absurdly divisive name.
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A military pilot who agrees to lead an expedition into space in an attempt to save mankind is the sort of role McConaughey probably would have been offered before he became an Oscar-winning prestige actor. How does the new McConaughey translate in a blockbuster role?
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Basically, Willie's talents as a songwriter are inversely proportionate to his skill at managing his finances.
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After a year of campaigning, the first gubernatorial race in a generation not to feature an incumbent governor comes to a conclusion. Wendy Davis has been a clear underdog since the race started—so how would you set the spread?
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The existential threat to football comes from parents who are terrified of their children suffering from CTE in their thirties and forties. In the East Texas small city of Marshall, a coach is trying to mitigate that concern.
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Either somebody photoshopped a fancy fake internal document, or somebody spilled the beans early.
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The legendary chicken joint that operated over thirty locations throughout Texas in the 60's is making a comeback.
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A 23-year-old UT-D graduate at Google allegedly attempted to extort nude photos from his former classmates by posing as a breast researcher.
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The outlaw country all-star is finally embracing the genre of his dreams—and bluegrass seems to be embracing him back.
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But, really, how many dudes are there who look like Paul Rudd?
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