Holy Cow, We’re Getting More ‘Party Down’
The cult comedy series is being revived with a six-episode order, more than a decade later.
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 cult comedy series is being revived with a six-episode order, more than a decade later.
Dan Solomon writes about politics, music, food, sports, criminal justice, health care, film, and business.
The vast majority of Texans have yet to receive a single dose of vaccine, but the state is done imposing public health measures.
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Infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Hotez describes last week’s statewide disaster as a harmful delay “in the face of an advancing enemy.”
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Celebrities and regular folk alike came together to offer hot food, clean water, and warm beds.
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Austin’s mayor, Steve Adler, and the state’s junior senator, Ted Cruz, are the latest Texas politicians to take ill-considered vacations.
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Texans on social media have kept warm by burning the fuel of white-hot rage.
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Widespread “assurance testing” could effectively end the pandemic before the vaccine does, but a lack of federal coordination has left some citizens to fill screening gaps.
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Turns out not everyone loves Texas-size gas stations (or 13 varieties of jerky).
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The mayor set his sights a little lower in his latest ill-advised social media post.
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It's a simple victory in an extremely complex story.
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The official case count doesn’t reflect the pandemic’s reality. I found the satisfaction of ferreting out the actual number to be cold comfort.
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Thank goodness.
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The curse of Houston is a curse of management, which makes it the saddest of all.
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Pedro Pascal, star of the Disney Plus series ‘The Mandalorian,’ shared the junior senator’s office number on Twitter.
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The superstar defensive end has probably played his last game for the Houston Texans. They should remember him properly.
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It’s beautiful! Enjoy shoveling all of that.
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For the music industry, the bad times are getting worse.
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Austin’s mayor, already a punching bag for his state’s powerful right wing, lectured his city’s residents to stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19—while on a beach vacation.
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Researchers Daniel Wrapp and Jason McLellan owe a scientific honor they won this week to a Belgian camelid named Winter.
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Three questions with the Houston chef, whose “gambling man” pal David Chang took a big risk to raise money for the Southern Smoke Foundation.
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The Lions have been mired in mediocrity—but Deshaun and the Texans may have helped break the fever.
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Every other retailer has made this holiday season’s hottest item an online exclusive during the pandemic—except the Grapevine-based chain.
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Let people have some joy for once in their lives.
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Are possums ugly? Not when they’re wearing tiny purple sweaters, they’re not!
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Expect marijuana, college football, and compromise to play central roles.
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Emily McCullar is a senior editor covering pop culture, news, and Texas history. One time she wrote about sports.
The team’s uniforms are the latest milestone in the club’s journey to the state’s capital.
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The Beaver nominally approves.
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The NBA’s first female assistant coach is the star of a new 60-second documentary.
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Democrats like when lots of voters cast ballots. Republicans generally don’t. But we won’t know until tomorrow whether high participation rates favored one party over the other.
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In North Dallas, Genevieve Collins challenges Colin Allred, whose win two years ago proved that Democrats could compete in the Texas suburbs.
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The legendary collaboration between Queen and David Bowie gets a remake by an intergenerational pair of icons.
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The Houston psychedelic rockers are a fixture on listeners’ turntables.
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In Texas's Second Congressional District, challenger Sima Ladjevardian sees an opportunity in the representative’s COVID-19 response.
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The conservative incumbent has alienated members of his own party, leaving room for challenger Wendy Davis to pick off centrist voters in Texas’s Twenty-first Congressional District.
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Ghosts? Aliens? Cheese? A 4G cell tower? We list the possibilities.
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When longtime GOP congressman Kenny Marchant announced his retirement, his seat representing the district surrounding DFW Airport became a prime pickup target for his party’s opponents.
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We’re number one! We’re number one! For now, anyway!
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“Bonkers” is, of course, a technical term.
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In the district just west of Houston, Republican challenger Wesley Hunt's campaign has focused on his opposition to the Green New Deal.
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After the football team’s latest loss, the coach and most of his players are at odds with the athletics director and many fans and supporters over the university’s controversial spirit song.
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The incumbent rarely faced competitive races before labor lawyer Mike Siegel’s challenge in 2018. Now, winning a rematch is no sure thing for McCaul.
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Gina Ortiz Jones lost by fewer than 1,000 votes to popular retiring Republican Will Hurd in 2018 in the sprawling southwest Texas district. Now, she faces a less well-known rival in Tony Gonzales.
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The Republican touts his bipartisanship in an appeal to this increasingly blue congressional district northeast of Dallas, but he’s been a reliable vote for Donald Trump’s policies during his first term.
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This election will be highly unusual. Here’s what you need to know before voting.
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Sheriff Troy Nehls won his primary as a Trump ally, but has distanced from the president in his race against Democratic challenger Sri Preston Kulkarni.
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Once a Democratic stronghold, then gerrymandered to be a Republican one, the district includes a large swath of Austin and part of southern Tarrant County near Fort Worth.
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It looks like they had fun making it!
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The best day on the internet comes at a relatively low price tag, in crowdfunding terms.
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It’s the largest penalty for a criminal food safety case in U.S. history.
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There's still a lot we don't know about the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses.
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