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The Call of Battle
The last time I shot my rifle in war, I killed an old man. I wasn’t the only one shooting, but I could see my rounds riddle into him through the scope of my M4 carbine as he barreled toward us in his...
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The Long Return
Staff sergeant Christopher Schwope was a good guy with a tough job when I met him in late 2005. Back then he was a young Army recruiter working the North Side of San Antonio, and I was writing a story...
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The Qui Ingredient
JAKE SILVERSTEIN: Some people know you and your food from watching Top Chef, some people from eating at Uchi or Uchiko. For people who don’t know you, how do you describe your food? PAUL QUI: I’m still...
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The Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle
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Act of Faith
Mario Mandujano had finally chosen his Jesus. “I was looking for the long hair, tall, with a beard,” the 46-year-old volunteer director of San Fernando Cathedral’s Passion Play said last March. But...
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AUSTIN Blues CluesThe memory of Port Arthur’s favorite flower child will be revived during the theater production of One Night With Janis Joplin, featuring spot-on covers of her songs and stories about...
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Auf Wiedersehen to a Dialect
Approximately two hundred people tune in every week to the hour-long online radio show German Music—Texas Style, which is recorded in a tiny studio in New Braunfels. Most of them, it is safe to say,...
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Every year on the Fourth of July, the Austin neighborhood where I live has a fairly extensive parade. It’s about as all-American a scene as you can imagine: flags, classic cars, little kids riding on...
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Cowboy Hats
Alpine’s Jim Spradley works only with beaver fur because of its fine texture and superior water repellency. There is a six-to-eight-month wait for one of his custom-made creations, like this Silver...
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Wrested Development
You can tell the old customers from the new ones the minute they walk in. The new ones seem a little hesitant as they wait to be shown to one of the four revamped rooms, gazing with open curiosity at...
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Industrial Strength
Al Jourgensen just deposited a few specks of red wine onto my cheek. I can’t be sure, but I suspect they flew off one of his two vampire fang–shaped dental implants. Jourgensen’s mouth is less than an...
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Five Things You’ll be Talking About in July
1. How Dry We Are When the heat has even the grackles lying low, the pleasure of a swimming hole cold enough to knock the breath out of you is limitless. Alas, water is not, a truism sorely evident to...
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The Re-Searchers
For reasons less obscure than you might think, we’re having a Comanche and Texas Rangers moment. One of this summer’s most highly regarded reads is The Son, the second novel by Austin writer Philipp...
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Juan Marquez, Baker
Marquez, who’s lived most of his life in El Paso, spent his childhood at a bakery his parents purchased in 1971, when he was five. Today Marquez owns and operates two of the family’s three bakeries...
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Take Me to the River
Day 1 We’ve slathered on our sunscreen, packed our cooler, and rented four large inflatable doughnuts from an outfitter called Texas Tubes (250 Meusebach, 830-626-9900). All that’s left is to launch...
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Cantaloupe Pie
It’s said that all you have to do is take one whiff of a Pecos cantaloupe to know it’s the real deal. That seductive smell equals summer in certain parts of Texas, inspiring folks to hop in their cars...
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The Texanist
Have rural Texans always been close-minded about clothing?Illustration by Jack Unruh Q: I was born and raised in Texas and have resided in New York City for the past couple of years. On a recent trip...
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Miss Conventionality
It might have been the most unexpectedly revealing acceptance speech in Oscar history: “Did I really earn this?” Sandra Bullock asked, claiming her Best Actress prize for The Blind Side in 2010. “Or...
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We are well accustomed to the stir caused by our quinquennial story on the state’s top fifty barbecue joints. Typically, this issue elicits more reader response than any other. Last month’s edition,...
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The Best and Worst Legislators 2013
Every legislative session has its own narrative. The narrative of the Eighty-third Legislature was about atoning for the sins of its predecessor. To be fair, the lawmakers of the Eighty-second drew the...
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A Homecoming at Fort Bliss
Of all the Army installations in the United States, none mobilizes or demobilizes more service members than Fort Bliss, in El Paso, which transitions some 26,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines...
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A Homecoming at Fort Bliss
Of all the Army installations in the United States, none mobilizes or demobilizes more service members than Fort Bliss, in El Paso, which transitions some 26,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines...
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