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Remember the World Heritage Site!
Photo Credit: Flickr | rezagilani Author: Jason Cohen San Antonio’s five missions, including the Alamo, could become the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in Texas. Publish Date: Wed, 2012-06-06...
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Could Texas Survive As a Sovereign Nation?
Photo Credit: bigthink.com Author: Susan Shepard Or would it be too big to succeed? Publish Date: Fri, 2012-06-08 12:20Every seventh-grader raised in Texas knows that the state was once its own...
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Galveston Moves One Step Closer to Embracing Jack Johnson
Photo Credit: Michael Hoinski Author: Michael Hoinski A group of Galvestonians work to open Jack Johnson Park, the city’s latest effort to reclaim its most famous son since turning its back on him a...
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Should Booze Be Served at the Alamo Complex?
Photo Credit: Istockphoto Author: Sonia Smith A new rule from the General Land Office is set to allow caterers to serve alcohol at events held in Alamo Hall, a building that is not within the 1836...
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How to Raise a Texan
Photo Credit: Randal Ford Author: Jake Silverstein Our forthcoming issue, on newsstands next week, tackles this subject, but we couldn’t wait any longer to share the cover of this special issue....
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Will Archer City Survive Without Larry McMurtry’s Bookstores?
Photo Credit: Associated Press | Donna McWilliam Author: Paul Knight The prize-winning author, who recently sold off nearly 300,000 books, plans to close three of his four stores. What happens to tiny...
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What the Obscenely Rich Might Get for Christmas This Year
Photo Credit: Screenshot | Neiman-Marcus Author: Jason Cohen All I want for Christmas is … a jet pack? Yes, the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book is here. Publish Date: Thu, 2012-10-11 13:50All I want for...
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R.I.P. Big Tex
Photo Credit: AP Images Author: Sonia Smith Big Tex went up in flames Friday. Publish Date: Fri, 2012-10-19 16:14Big Tex passed away Friday after being burned alive. He was 60. He was preceded in...
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Big Tex‘s Original Head Lives On
Author: Chuck Matula Despite the Texas icon’s untimely demise, one Dallas man has the structure’s original head stored in a barn. Publish Date: Fri, 2012-11-02 10:44No doubt you’re still grieving the...
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Six World Records Set in Texas...and Four More That Need to Be
Photo Credit: Twitter | @fritolay Author: Jason Cohen World’s biggest Frito pie? Check. Most consecutive back handsprings? Got it. Largest pecan pie? Indeed. But when it comes to some truly important...
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New Braunfels Buc-ee’s Scores “America’s Best Restroom” Title
Photo Credit: Buc-ee’s Author: Jason Cohen The 68,000-square-foot, infamously clean convenience store and highway stop with 83 toilets enters the restroom “Hall of Fame,” winning Cintas’s 11th annual...
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How the White House Might Respond to Texas Secession Petition
Photo Credit: AP Photo | LM Otero Author: Jason Cohen When citizens petitioned the White House to release their beer recipe, the WH responded in less than a month. Texas secession will take longer....
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Doonesbury on the “Breakaway Republic” of Texas
Photo Credit: Doonesbury | Universal UClick Author: Jason Cohen G.B. Trudeau worked the Alamo, SXSW, Bush, Perry, and an Aggie joke into six Doonesbury strips about Texas secession, but unlike his...
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Phil Collins’s Alamo Obsession to Become a Documentary Film
Photo Credit: Ben Powell Author: Jason Cohen Check out the trailer for a work-in-progress by Ben Powell, the photographer who shot Collins’s artifact collection for his book The Alamo and Beyond....
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It’s Spelled Y’all, Y’all.
Photo Credit: www.texasgiftsonline.com Author: Jason Cohen If there’s one thing Texans love more than saying y’all, it’s a good argument. Texas Monthly readers react to the Department of Criminal...
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RIP, Larry L. King
Photo Credit: Bill Wittliff/The Wittliff Collections Author: John Spong The writer who was known for writing the book for the Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas died Thursday at 83....
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