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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 Austin band preps its debut album with a bluesy, groove-heavy bit of heartache.
Dan Solomon writes about politics, music, food, sports, criminal justice, health care, film, and business.
Lance, son, we need to talk about what you're doing with your life.
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I mean, yeah, we've all wanted to magically zip through stalled traffic at 100mph, but that doesn't mean we'd actually do it.
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The two multi-billion dollar corporations have both spent a fortune in the quest to declare themselves the Marco Polo of ultra-fast Internet in Austin, but the company that planted the flag is San Marcos-based Grande Communications.
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Texas at the Oscars.
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Just a quick word of advice: Don't get into a three-card-monty game with Richard Turner, the world's greatest card cheat.
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Note to open carry advocates: Hitching your wagon to people in banana costumes might not be the look you're going for.
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In the wake of the incident between Oklahoma State basketball star Marcus Smart and Texas Tech "superfan" Jeff Orr, the question of why fans spend half of their time idolizing athletes and the other half treating them like dirt is one worth asking.
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Michael Sam, the SEC's reigning defensive player of the year and sack leader went from promising prospect to Jackie Robinson overnight—a transition that says a few things worth saying about the places he came from.
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Look at these lil' guys.
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It's got a veranda with seating for 450 people, a two-story closet, and a bowling alley. It's on 25 acres and the mansion itself is 48,000 square feet. And nobody really knows what it's worth.
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After winning the legal fight to have his brain-dead wife removed from life support, Erick Munoz may find himself gearing up for yet another battle in the courts—this time over who has to foot the bill for the hospital's actions.
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An El Paso man pled guilty to the most heinous offense against Texas history imaginable: Peeing on the Alamo. Does this make him the next Ozzy Osbourne?
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From the beginning, Alfred Wright's disappearance in Sabine County, and the subsequent police response, raised many questions. Now, the DoJ is looking for answers.
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It doesn't mean that they're not going to tear it down.
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The struggling Plano-based department store chain was trying to advertise mittens.
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Sports Illustrated thinks that Austin should be in the mix to host the game.
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This is how you know it's a slow news week.
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Sex offender registries are popular in the abstract, but maybe ordinances isolating sex offenders shouldn't be a one-size-fits-all policy.
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The controversy-courting Motor City Madman has donated his speaking/rocking services to the "Salute to Heroes Patriot Dinner and Concert" in April, which will raise funds for a New Braunfels non-profit that builds homes for disabled veterans, and he's got—you guessed it—some strong words for those who would criticize that appearance.
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The much-publicized—but thus far underwhelming—return of Bennigan's has nonetheless heralded the return of the casual dining chain's sister restaurant.
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A new start-up in the impoverished city only needs $20 million to complete a study to find out.
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Get the guy a pair of new glasses and apparently he loosens right up.
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It doesn't get any more Kinky Friedman.
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We have no idea what that actually means, either.
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Time for a letter-writing campaign.
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Johnny Football, Future Role Model?
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Fort Worth's rising country star serves up a tasty slice of twangy Texana with a side of Abilene.
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An employee at the store, which famously celebrates breasts, told her to go to the alley out back instead.
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The Stephen F. Austin grad and Austin native landed Heisenberg himself for the lead role in his 13-minute amateur short.
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It would be frightening if it weren't so weird, dumb, and ineffective: A new scam that attempts to prey on the elderly involves calling people up, telling them they've won the lottery, and then sending a cab to their house. The big flaw? No one has of yet gotten into
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Brittany Norwood, a twenty-year-old undergrad at the University of Houston who claims she is pregnant with the Texans' running back's baby, is taking him to court in pursuit of a restraining order and accusing him of pressuring her to have an abortion.
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Sheriff Adrian Garcia spent part of his week last week testifying before the Department of Justice about the rate of abuse that occurs under his watch.
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Not having to deal with Quentin Tarantino's on-screen presence is a more-than-fair trade off for seeing someone other than George Clooney as Seth Gecko.
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The story of Buddy the dog, a six-year-old golden retriever in San Antonio, could have big implications for Texas' controversial "severe bodily injury" laws that allow local animal control departments to euthanize people's pets.
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At SXSW, because ninety percent of the entertainment news you read over the next two months will involve the letters "SXSW."
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That is, if the mixed-use development plans for the Texas Stadium site currently before the Irving City Council come to pass.
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Novelist Leila Meacham hopes for another best-seller with the forthcoming Somerset, a prequel to her megahit debut novel, Roses.
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Don't worry, though, the ratings were so bad that it's basically DOA.
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The Florida State quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner, and MVP of last night's BCS Championship Game has a standing offer from a team in Texas. But it's not what you think.
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The sneakerhead subculture descended on Houston in November for a major convention, and streetwear company Karmaloop offers an inside look.
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A few days after the holidays, Derek Poe—a Beaumont gun store owner—was arrested for walking around a shopping mall with an AR-15 strapped to his back. While Texas allows for long guns to be openly carried in public, the question about whether or not Poe was committing a crime is
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According to various pundits, he's "not a hip hop coach," but that won't stop them from comparing him to Arsenio Hall.
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A federal lawsuit filed by Dr. Glen Hurlston claims that the former chief of police in Princeton, Texas—who currently holds that role in the Austin suburb of Kyle—and several of his fellow officers harassed him while the chief had an affair with his wife.
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One doesn't need to be a master thief to figure out why there might be a flaw in this plan.
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After eight years of lobbying, the Texas Federation of Animal Care Societies finally got the law in effect.
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And every single one of them waited in line for an In-N-Out Burger in Dallas or Austin.
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At the risk of getting yelled at by Jenny McCarthy supporters, now might be a good time to get a flu shot, y'all.
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The Austin-based musician has spent time playing with Shearwater and the Low Lows, and he's paired one of the prettier tracks on his forthcoming solo debut with this creepy, fascinating video.
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Well, you can if you live in Nevada, because Internet gambling is illegal. (Wink, wink.) But the betting odds can tell us that holding out hope for Jim Harbaugh is probably a sucker's game.
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