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The Power Issue: Shea Serrano Is Conquering Social Media
This profile is part of our 2018 Power Issue. For more of 2018’s most powerful Texans, click here. Shea Serrano is a New York Times best-selling author, a staff writer and podcast host at The Ringer,...
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The Power Issue: Beyoncé, Solange, Travis Scott & Khalid Are Telling the...
This profile is part of our 2018 Power Issue. For more of 2018’s most powerful Texans, click here. Scarcely four minutes into Beyoncé’s self-titled 2013 “visual album,” decades-old archival footage...
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The Power Issue: Hector De Leon Is Fighting the Tea Party in the Name of...
This profile is part of our 2018 Power Issue. For more of 2018’s most powerful Texans, click here. When Senator John Tower started the Associated Republicans of Texas, in 1974, the group had a clear...
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The Power Issue: Jim Crane Is Assembling a World Championship Team That’s...
This profile is part of our 2018 Power Issue. For more of 2018’s most powerful Texans, click here. While the Houston Astros didn’t ascend all the way to baseball’s apex this year, 2018 still offered...
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The Power Issue: Simone Biles Is Putting Global Fame in Service to the #MeToo...
This profile is part of our 2018 Power Issue. For more of 2018’s most powerful Texans, click here. On October 12, USA Gymnastics named former California congresswoman Mary Bono as its interim president...
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The Power Issue: Robert Smith Is Showing Silicon Valley Another Way to Win in...
This profile is part of our 2018 Power Issue. For more of 2018’s most powerful Texans, click here. The richest black person in America, Robert Smith is a private-equity titan whose Austin-based buyout...
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The Power Issue: Sister Norma Pimentel Is Demonstrating the Power of Mercy...
This profile is part of our 2018 Power Issue. For more of 2018’s most powerful Texans, click here. While the measure of power may be impossible to quantify, having God on your side certainly brings...
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The Power Issue: Sylvester Turner Is Reaching Across the Aisle to Save...
This profile is part of our 2018 Power Issue. For more of 2018’s most powerful Texans, click here. At the end of a long day, Houston mayor Sylvester Turner has the look of a man who is gamely trying to...
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The Power Issue: Alonzo Cantu Is Getting Politicians to Pay Attention to the...
This profile is part of our 2018 Power Issue. For more of 2018’s most powerful Texans, click here. When Texas Monthly recently asked Tony Martinez, the mayor of Brownsville, who was the most powerful...
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A Look Inside ‘Rollergirls,’ a Photo Book About Flat-Track Roller Derby in...
A tangle of ten women careers down the wooden track at the Austin Sports Center in South Austin. The two teams, demarcated by their distinctly different uniforms of gingham tops and denim cutoffs...
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Ford Fry Doubles Down in Houston With La Lucha and Superica
No one ever went broke overestimating Texas’s love affair with itself. We all feel a surge of pride at the sight of somebody wearing pointy-toed boots—even if they’re walking down a city street—or...
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Meet Joanna Czech, the Dallas Aesthetician to the Stars
You know she’s done facials for Kim Kardashian, right?” “Have you heard she was Cate Blanchett’s go-to girl when she lived in New York?” All of the questions my friends asked me after finding out that...
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Where to Go, Eat, and Stay in Todos Santos
The billboard alerting us that we were getting close to Hotel San Cristóbal promised that “Some of the best things are found at the end of dirt roads.” With check-in still a few hours away, my husband...
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Mo Amer on Growing Up as a Muslim Refugee in Houston
In 1990, when he was just nine, Mohammed “Mo” Amer fled his birth country of Kuwait with his family to escape the violence of the Gulf War. They sought asylum in Houston, moving from, as Amer puts it,...
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In Dallas, Ida O’Keeffe Could Finally Escape Georgia’s Shadow
In 2013 Sue Canterbury was visiting the home of a Dallas art collector when she noticed a striking painting. The small canvas depicted a lighthouse composed of dozens of swooping, abstract blue, black,...
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Tex-Mex and Barbecue Make the Perfect Couple
When Esaul Ramos and Joe Melig opened 2M Smokehouse in San Antonio, in late 2016, they didn’t think it was necessary to label their style of barbecue as Tex-Mex. Ramos had spent a few years at Austin’s...
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Where to Find the State’s Top Wine Lists
A restaurant wine list can be intimidating. Considering that the choice you make will affect your dining experience as well as your wallet, the pressure is real, particularly if a lot of the offerings...
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Holiday Gift Guide: For Foodies and Fabulous Hosts
From Brenham barbecue to candlesticks designed by a Fixer Upper star in Waco, these gifts are guaranteed to secure you a repeat party invitation next year. For more gift ideas, see For Those Who Like...
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Holiday Gift Guide: For Those Who Like to Take It Outside
It’s hard to go wrong with a Texan-made item designed with the outdoors in mind, whether it’s a practical hunting shirt or shoes that make hiking fun. For more gift ideas, see For the Trendsetter, For...
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Holiday Gift Guide: For the Little Ones and Furry Friends
Can the holidays be even more magical? With these items—most of them made in Texas—the answer is a resounding yes. For more gift ideas, see For Those Who Like to Take It Outside, For the...
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