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- Last Pig Standing
- It feels like time stopped in 1963 at the faded old Pig Stand restaurant on lower Broadway in San Antonio. The restaurant is a uniquely Texan gastronomical shrine, the last of the fabled Pig Stand restaurants, where the celebration of old cars, vintage rock and roll, and throwback fare like pork sandwiches never dies.
- by John MacCormack
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- Logical Conclusions | C.B. Evans
- In World Made By Hand, James Howard Kunstler moves beyond the realm of hypothesis and abstraction, conveying his vision of a post-oil society through a richly descriptive narrative.
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- A Novelist in Full | Azita Osanloo
- Within the first three pages of Susan Choi’s hypnotically absorbing new novel, A Person of Interest, a mail bomb blows up in the office of a brilliant young computer science professor. Review by Azita Osanloo.
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- The Right Way, Reclaimed | Emily DePrang
- The Great Awakening is important not only because it seeks to incite changes the nation sorely needs, but because it shows that the Bible is a sort of Rorschach test, as effective a tool for liberation as for oppression.
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- The Serendipity Wrangler | Stayton Bonner
- Almost 22 years ago, Bill Wittliff parlayed a windfall purchase of J. Frank Dobie’s archives into the beginning of The Southwestern Writers Collection, which holds papers and artifacts of regional writers, filmmakers, musicians, and photographers.
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- Sino Eyes | David Theis
- Under the guidance of co-founders and curators Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss, FotoFest, the biennial Houston photography extravaganza has always been something of a cultural agenda-setter.
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- Tear Down the Wall | Michael Hoinski
- Consisting mostly of native Mexicans, Las Palmas updates the banda genre by using it as a platform to rail against increasing border security.
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- King for a Day | Steve McVicker
- Investigative journalist Steve McVicker remembers his longtime friend, acclaimed and troubled independent filmmaker Eagle Pennell, who lived on and off the streets for the last years of his life. McVicker blends his memories with musings on The King of Texas, a recent documentary that records the poignant story of Pennell’s brilliant but largely wasted life.
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- Politics & Prose with Elizabeth Hailey | Robert Leleux
- Robert Leleux discusses his recent conversation with Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author of the trailblazing A Woman of Independent Means. Hailey reveals that she’s recently devoted herself to anti-war work, declaring, “Like a lot of women my age, I missed the ’60s because I was at home raising my daughters. But now that I’m in my 60s, I’m ready for the front lines.”
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- Remembering Joe | Michael Erard
- Michael Erard remembers a remarkable rambler and autodidact who made his way in his old age to the Cozy Courts cottages in Alpine, TX.
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