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Cathedral of Junk

Keeping it Weird in Austin, Texas

Aren't the residents of the proudly hip city of Austin, Texas, just traditionalists at heart?
January 2012 | By ZZ Packer

St George Spirits

In Texas, a Locavore’s Liquor

Microdistillers are making their mark around the Lone Star State
February 04, 2011 | By Jon Brand

Wild hogs running

A Plague of Pigs in Texas

Now numbering in the millions, these shockingly destructive and invasive wild hogs wreak havoc across the southern United States
January 2011 | By John Morthland

Brown Ranch

Breeding the Perfect Bull

A Texas cattleman used genetic science to breed his masterpiece – a near-perfect Red Angus bull. Then nature took its course
April 2010 | By Jeanne Marie Laskas

Houston skyline

Southern Comfort

Celebrated poet Mark Doty succumbs to Houston's humid charms
October 2008 | By Mark Doty

The city’s famous Paseo del Rio, or Riverwalk

San Antonio, Texas

April 01, 2008 | By Smithsonian.com

Austin is known as the “Live Music Capital of the World.” You can hear live music every night of the week at more than 100 venues.

Texas

Texas is big and bold, with seven regions to explore each is unique in its terrain, history and attractions. Experience the old Wild West and cowboy lifestyle followed by some time in one or more of Texas’s premier cities.
November 08, 2007 | By Smithsonian.com

At Alamosa vineyard in northern Hill Country, April brings buds that will yield grapes by fall.

Sip 'n' Swirl, Y'all

In the heart of the Lone Star state, wineries are giving Texans reason to toast
July 01, 2007 | By Beth Goulart

The Alamo

Remembering the Alamo

Move over, John Wayne. John Lee Hancock's epic re-creation of the 1836 battle between Mexican forces and Texas insurgents casts the mythic massacre in a more historically accurate light
April 01, 2004 | By Bruce Selcraig

Camping in Concert

At this outdoor folk-music festival in rural Texas, you're not a "Kerrvivor" unless you stay till the end
June 2000 | By Minna Morse


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