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Janis Joplin’s life was about music, rebellion, and excess—but she was influenced most by her tormented relationship with the people and spirit of Port Arthur.
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The slashing of a cadet’s throat at the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen is only the latest incident of violence at a venerable institution under not-so-friendly fire.
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Supplicants in the Valley worship at the shrine of faith healer Don Pedrito Jaramillo, more powerful in death than he was in life.
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Horny Moms and Lost Souls: How Kimberly King Parsons Crafted a Modern, Hallucinatory Texas Novel
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Booker T. Jones on Why He Recorded Willie Nelson’s ‘Stardust’ in Emmylou Harris’s Living Room
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer discusses “Georgia on My Mind”—and the highly improbable pairing and production that gave birth to Willie’s quintuple-platinum masterpiece.
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The Story: 30 Years Later, a Guilty Conscience Led to a Free Man
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LA23 BBQ Is Doing Texas Right in Plaquemines Parish
Bobby Monsted III serves true-to-form Texas barbecue sixty miles southeast of New Orleans.
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Crape myrtles are nonnative and often hideously pruned. How about the azalea?
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She was pressured into convicting a man she believed was innocent—and was haunted by remorse. Three decades later, she did something about it.
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