A Brief History of Tigers on the Loose in Texas, 2021 Edition
Joe Exotic has a lot of competition. The big cat seen roaming a Houston neighborhood this week is just the latest.
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.
Joe Exotic has a lot of competition. The big cat seen roaming a Houston neighborhood this week is just the latest.
Dan Solomon writes about politics, music, food, sports, criminal justice, health care, film, and business.
Imagine all the westerns filmmaker Taylor Sheridan could shoot on 266,000 acres of property.
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He challenged a reporter to perform the calisthenics, then decided to do them himself.
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A House bill doesn’t identify the capital city by name, but would make it the lone municipality in Texas whose noise ordinances are set by the Lege.
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A recent analysis found Texas’s senior senator is the most prolific tweeter in Congress.
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Meet Mavrello, the NBA franchise's latest attempt to engage Gen Z fans and inspire a million memes along the way.
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The unrelated incidents both ended safely for the animals.
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An interview with the outgoing Longhorns quarterback touches on playing through the pandemic and learning to be vulnerable with teammates.
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He confessed after someone spotted him in surveillance footage.
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The athletic wear giant threatened legal action over the bar’s parody of its famous blue hat.
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The cracker company’s new promotion determined that the 7’4” NBA player can hold 301 Goldfish in one handful.
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We salute the Sugar Land Lightning Sloths, the Amarillo Sod Poodles, and their compatriots.
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From local papers to national NFL media, reporting on the allegations against Watson reads like something from another generation.
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It’s hard to grasp just how massive the Ever Given is. Fortunately, scale is something our state does well.
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The beloved supermarket chain, which has carefully guarded its intentions in North Texas, dropped a bombshell on Friday.
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The first COVID films are poised to address a pandemic that isn't through with us yet. Here's why these early, imperfect takes on the past year are still worth watching.
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After decades of playing goofy sidekicks, the El Paso–born, Plano-bred actor finally has a leading role.
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They didn’t manage to steal any art, but they did vanish into a storm drain.
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The thrilling night was marred by the continuation of an ugly tradition.
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With no long lines, no traffic, and no parties, South by Southwest is going to look a lot this different this year. Here’s how organizers pulled it off.
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The team finished in last place in front of cardboard fans in 2020, but it’s the first in American pro sports to reopen to full capacity.
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The cult comedy series is being revived with a six-episode order, more than a decade later.
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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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