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The Story: Reporting on the Rise and Fall of Netflix’s ‘Cheer’
Writer Sarah Hepola spent eighteen months on this story and discusses how Navarro cheer coach Monica Aldama has been “pushed beyond reason.”
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What the Bleep Is Going On With Texas Home Insurance?
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What ‘Cheer’ Led To: How Viral Fame Upended Monica Aldama’s Life
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A Lonely Man, a Bizarre Billboard, and a Quest for Everlasting Love
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The Ghost Wolves of Galveston vs. Margaritaville
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The World’s Tiniest Buc-ee’s Has Appeared in West Texas
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It Doesn’t Get More Texas Than This New Food Hall and Market
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How Jesse Plemons Came to Star in, Well, Pretty Much Everything
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Enchilada Meat Loaf
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What Is Alex Jones Doing in This Tiny Far West Texas Town?
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News & Politics
What the Bleep Is Going On With Texas Home Insurance?
We’re already dealing with high prices, high mortgage rates, and high property taxes. Now the state faces a new crisis.
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A half century of chronicling Texas.
‘Tuna’ Salad Days
After fourteen years, 2,500 performances, and innumerable one-liners, the theatrical careers of Joe Sears and Jaston Williams are going swimmingly.
Love and Death on the Third Floor
She was the princess who wore Tiffany perfume. He was the middle-class guy who raced cars. But when they met on the cystic fibrosis wing of a Dallas hospital, romance bloomed.
Grasslands
In the early journals of pioneers who described the prairie surrounding their new homesteads, the ocean was the most common metaphor—swells of grass set rippling by the wind.
The Man Who Invented the Margarita
The inventor’s wife is named Margarita, but the drink was not named for a woman.
Arts & Entertainment
How TikTok Made Line Dancing Cool Again
After a few decades in the purgatory of corniness, fans of artists such as Beyoncé and Dasha are embracing the separate-but-together choreography.
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Being Texan
The Texanist: Texas Gets More Tornadoes Than Any Other State, but Don’t Freak Out
Here’s how to prepare for tornado season, which is still relatively low-risk.
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Podcasts
‘Shane and Sally,’ Episode 1: “A Long, Hot Summer”
In the first episode of this Texas Monthly true crime podcast, two teenagers go missing and a father goes searching for answers.
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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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Stephenville, Episode 1: Susan
In the first episode of the Texas Monthly true crime podcast, a father makes a tragic discovery, and an investigator gets to work.
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The Story: 30 Years Later, a Guilty Conscience Led to a Free Man
Executive editor Michael Hall has reported on many exonerations over the years, but nothing compares to the story of Estella Ybarra and Carlos Jaile.
Food & Drink
It Doesn’t Get More Texas Than This New Food Hall and Market
Pullman Market, at San Antonio’s Pearl, offers restaurants, a mezcal bar, and grocery items that celebrate the state’s culinary bounty.
BBQ
An Austin Pitmaster Takes a Deep Dive Into Sausage History
John Bates of InterStellar BBQ is offering Polish-style sausages on his menu this spring, kicking off a year-long project.
Travel & Outdoors
The Ghost Wolves of Galveston vs. Margaritaville
The unprecedented discovery of coyotes carrying the DNA of nearly extinct red wolves has excited the island. But booming development, including a Jimmy Buffett–themed resort, threatens the animals.
Longreads
The Juror Who Found Herself Guilty
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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