The tradition of using direct heat to cook barbecue might be disappearing across the state, but it’s alive and well at Ronnie’s BBQ in Johnson City. For more than thirty years, Ronnie Weiershausen has manned the flames over coals in the pits outside while his wife, Cindy, rules the inside of their joint, where the regulars line up every day for lunch. “It’s simple, but there’s a lot of hard work to it,” says Ronnie, who adds: “I’m hard-headed, and I think that’s the way to cook.”
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Sixteen years ago, a small town’s only public school closed its doors. But not before the final graduating class invited a former POW to walk the stage, finishing what he started nearly six decades before.
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Texas filmmaker Ben Steinbauer directs this showcase of resilience, profiling different Texans who came together to help others in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
Nina Diaz has a message for all of the people who, as she says, “try to push you down”: stop. The former Girl in a Coma frontwoman dropped by Texas Monthly for a rendition of “Down” from her 2016 solo album The Beat is Dead.
