- 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.
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- The Serendipity Wrangler
- 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
- 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
- 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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- The Devil's Domicile
- No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood are arguably two of the best films of 2007, and each was shot in Texas. Both films depict a dark view of humanity, focusing on themes of violence and greed. This is how Hollywood takes its revenge on Texans. They make our state a stand-in for hell.
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