Texas Primer: The Drill Team
Thanksgiving Day. The parade drifts down the avenue. As the band strikes up “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” 53 rosy-cheeked, nubile women converge suddenly into a double circle, snap their flags to the...
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BEN KWELLER WON’T BE SEEING THE INSIDE of a high school classroom this year, though he could have penned a pretty nifty “What I Did on My Summer Vacation” essay. The fifteen-year-old is the singer,...
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Hot CDs Abra Moore’s wispy, quivering voice works hard to be heard among the loud, rude guitars of Strangest Places (Arista/Austin). It’s a far cry from her earlier, softer work with Poi Dog Pondering...
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Up for Grabs Beloved football coach Gordon Wood is the Texas high school football coach with the most wins. Wood’s career, which spanned six decades, included more than 390 wins, nine state...
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LIKE MANY CONTENDERS FOR ELECTED office these days, Sue Ann Harting says she ran for the Texas Legislature last March because her supporters urged her to do it. Unlike many other candidates, though,...
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Their legs, kicked high enough in the air that their boots brush the brims of their hats (a strict requirement), almost completely obscure their faces so that all we see of each Kilgore College...
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The Best and Worst Legislators 2009
The Eighty-First Legislature was like Seinfeld: a show about nothing. It was dominated by an event that was a year away, the looming 2010 Republican gubernatorial primary battle between Rick Perry and...
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Ben Kweller
In the wake of Nirvana’s runaway success, Greenville-based grunge band Radish were the subject of a major-label bidding war; they signed to Mercury Records when their front man was only fifteen. A...
View ArticleTexas Primer: The Drill Team
Thanksgiving Day. The parade drifts down the avenue. As the band strikes up “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” 53 rosy-cheeked, nubile women converge suddenly into a double circle, snap their flags to the...
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It’s 71 Years Old, But Ernie’s Pit Barbeque Feels Like a Great New Joint
Walk through the doors of Ernie’s Pit Barbeque, in Greenville, and you’ll notice a row of school desks. Dallasites might recognize them as a nod to the famous seats at the original Sonny Bryan’s, but...
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