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A fund has been established in memory of the nephew of senior editor Aaron Parsley, whose recent account describes the family’s harrowing experience during the July 4 flooding in Central Texas. texasmonthly.com/the-stand-up-d…

Host @jaybsauceda chats with legendary tejano music artists and fans in this ten-episode series to explore and celebrate how the música mexicana genre shaped their lives. The first episode is available now! texasmonthly.com/press-room/viv…

It’s Election Day, Texans. Our politics team will be providing live updates and analysis of the presidential election, Texas elections, voting in the state, and results (whether they come at 2 a.m. or days from now) throughout today. Follow along. ⬇️ texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

"What the man observed at Central Market was different, and it wasn’t a one-off." The grocery store is known for carrying fresh and hard-to-find ingredients. The same can be said of its music. 🎵🌽🥕 texasmonthly.com/arts-entertain…

For our November issue, we present the fifty best tacos in Texas (with thirteen honorable mentions) and the taquerias that make them. 🌮✨ We hope it inspires you to get out there and eat more tacos in the best taco scene in the country. Read more here: txmnth.ly/3YAoV0D?utm_so…

How did @WillieNelson create modern-day Austin? It all began with a little TV show 50 years ago. Willie got big and so did the show. Last night he played @ACLTV again. @TexasMonthly texasmonthly.com/arts-entertain…

I wrote about 3 of my favorite bookstores for @TexasMonthly! Thanks to the good people at Haunt Happy, Curio Mrvosa and @GhoulishBooks. Also, thanks to @AgathaAWrites. texasmonthly.com/arts-entertain…

Check out my writeup of the excellent new Reality Winner movie for @TexasMonthly, featuring an interview with Texas' forever #1 mom. texasmonthly.com/arts-entertain…

Miranda Lambert left Texas twenty years ago and became a Nashville star. Now she’s spending more time in the Lone Star State and claiming a spot among its outlaw legends. texasmonthly.com/arts-entertain…

Happy birthday, #Beyonce. 🐝 How lucky are we to be alive at the same time as you! Read our feature chronicling her rise to fame from the archive: txmnth.ly/4e9rD3g 📸: Wyatt McSpadden

Emerging from a long history of oppression, slanderous folklore, and rumors of their demise, the Karankawa—who inhabited the Texas coast and barrier islands long before Europeans first arrived—are finding a place for themselves in the twenty-first century. 1/ texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

We need an armadillo emoji.

Gotta love complicated love. 💙

We're less than a year out from Texas Monthly's next Top 50 BBQ list! 👀🍖🍗🤠 Feel like your top spot has been snubbed in the past? Nominate a barbecue joint that has yet to make the list in the comments of this post.

It all started with one podcast 🍋 Lemonada Media’s Co-Founder Stephanie Wittels Wachs spoke to Dina Gachman of @texasmonthly about Lemonada Media's start and bright future. Stephanie, host of our flagship show Last Day, reminisces about “…the unifying feeling of hope…” that she and Co-Founder and CEO @JJCordovaK bonded over. "Everything we've built is around that feeling." To read the full piece, “How Grief Fueled a Podcast. And Then Sixty More,” click here: texasmonthly.com/arts-entertain…

“In mismatched traditional suits and oversized silk bow ties, the mariachis traveled to Uvalde with an offering, a dirge for the town that was forced onto the unending road of grief.” —@alexazura, in a moving story about music after violence.

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"We don’t really get to hear the perspectives of real people, so it’s very important to make sure that we’re hearing straight from Palestinians themselves.” In "The Revolution’s Promise," actors lend their voices to artists from the Jenin refugee camp. texasmonthly.com/arts-entertain…

We’re going 𝓭𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓮𝓻. The expanded version of Deeper Well includes 7 new songs and is out August 2nd. Pre-order the album and hear “Irish Goodbye” tonight at midnight.

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