Pick Up Good Vibrations From These Summer Snapshots of the Texas Gulf Coast
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How Juneteenth Brought Emancipation to Enslaved People in Texas
For several of my adolescent years in the 1960s, my family motored 45 miles northwest on US 290 from southeast ... Read More »
Chef Jonny Rhodes Reinvents Soul Food at His Houston Restaurant
Editor's note: In June 2020, Rhodes announced that he would close Indigo after one more year of service. Read more ... Read More »
Discover a World of Entertainment Right Outside Your Door During COVID-19
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On Texas’ Upper Coast, San Leon Is Getting Along Just Fine as It Is, Thank You
“If you want to go to a tourist trap, Kemah and Galveston are right up the road,” he tells me, his long, curly ... Read More »
Artist Mark Dion Travels and Discovers Texas in a New Documentary on Amazon Prime
When the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily closed the doors of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, it also prematurely shuttered the museum’s new exhibit, The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion. Luckily, a documentary of the same name about the creation of the exhibit is now available to stream on Amazon Prime. Read More »
My Favorite Texas Trip: On a Fayette County Prairie, a Saint for These Times
In Dubina, the first Czech settlement in Texas, a simple white wooden church stands alone amid the Blackland ... Read More »
Writer Sarah Hepola Roams During Quarantine in A House Without an Address
In 1790, a young French army officer wrote a book about the trip of a lifetime. “I have just completed a ... Read More »
My Favorite Texas Trip: The Time I Got Pulled Over at Gunpoint on I-10 Outside of Sealy
“How had it come to this? What had I done?” These were the thoughts flashing through my mind as I found myself ... Read More »
The Wild Detectives Bookstore in Dallas Takes Readers on a Journey for the Pages
The Wild Detectives bookstore in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas has reinvented itself as a literary travel agency during COVID-19 for readers who want to take a journey for the pages. Read More »
COVID-19 Makes it Harder to Track Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles on Padre Island
Every day, from April through mid-July, the Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery at the Padre Island National Seashore combs 80 miles of Padre Island’s beaches in search of Kemp’s ridley sea turtles–the most critically endangered sea turtle in the world–coming ashore. It’s nesting season, but things are a bit unusual this year due to COVID-19. Read More »
How to Buy Beef Direct From Farms and Ranches Across Texas
Photo courtesy Texas Beefhouse If you’re worried about meat supplies looking lean at your local grocery store, ... Read More »
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