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Down in the Depths
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Closing the Circle J
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The War on Cedar
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The Texanist: Should I Let My Kids Splash Around in a Snake-Infested Swimming...
Q: I acquired a small ranchette on the Blanco River outside of Wimberley at the beginning of the year, and my family and I have been going out there almost every weekend since. It has a great swimming...
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The Best Thing in Texas: An Escaped Kangaroo Takes a Wimberley Walkabout
WHO: A kangaroo who lives in WimberleyWHAT: This escaped fugitive remains at large in the Hill CountryWHY IT’S SO GREAT: On Wednesday afternoon, consternation spread through Wimberley after a kangaroo...
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‘Boyhood’ Star Ellar Coltrane Is Leaving Texas—But Staying Far From Hollywood
Ellar Coltrane has been saying goodbye. The blue-eyed actor, model, and Austin native, whom moviegoers watched grow up over a twelve-year span in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, is moving to New Mexico...
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Philip Morley’s Work Truly Rocks
In a workshop next to his Wimberley home, Philip Morley creates custom wood pieces such as record-player consoles and the Morley Rocker, a sculptural chair he originally designed for his wife when she...
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7 Nostalgic Texas Hotels With Vinyl Record Collections
New hotels are often rigged with the latest brag-worthy technology: touch-screen panels for temperature regulation and custom shower lighting, in-room voice-activated concierge information, and even...
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Texas Monthly Recommends: A Rustic Retreat in Wimberley
If you’re looking for an easy way to recharge, check out Getaway, a glamping retreat that combines tiny cabins with the detoxifying wonder of rustic isolation. Known for their black cabins with large...
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Matthew Dowd Says He Won’t Run Against “Craven” Greg Abbott, but “Cruel” Dan...
A little more than a week after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, Matthew Dowd announced he was leaving his job as chief political analyst with ABC News after thirteen years with the network. Freed...
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Go Into the Shop with Wimberley Woodworker Philip Morley
“Woodworking is really what kind of saved my life,” says Wimberley’s Philip Morley. After a few rough years as a teenager in London, Morley, who is dyslexic, found his true calling in woodworking. Now...
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Dining Guide: Highlights From Our January 2022 Issue
Texas Monthly adds and updates approximately sixty restaurant listings to our Dining Guide each month. There’s limited space in the print issue, but the entire searchable guide to the best of Texas...
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The Texas Artist Who Turns Dirty Cars Into Intricate Art
In the course of filming Texas Country Reporter, we meet a lot of artists. I think that’s because artists tend to have different ways of looking at the world, and they seem to have thought a lot about...
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Inside the Secret Plan to Bring Private School Vouchers to Texas
The proposal landed on Greg Bonewald’s desk like a pipe bomb. Bonewald, a soft-spoken career educator, had served as a teacher, coach, and principal in the fast-growing Hill Country town of Wimberley...
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How a Brazen School-Voucher Scheme in Texas Got Derailed
In October, I wrote about a wild, under-the-radar scheme in the Hill Country town of Wimberley to route taxpayer money to private schools around the state. Unbeknownst to almost anyone in the...
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The Bad Boy Tattoo Guru of Wimberley
Some four thousand years ago, and by the hands of some tens of thousands of workers, the Giza pyramids were constructed as a monument to great Egyptian pharaohs. A world away, yet on the same...
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Who’s Killing Jacob’s Well?
It was a scorching day in July 2022 when I last peered into Jacob’s Well. In a sense, I had come to pay my respects. The artesian spring had stopped flowing again—the consequence of drought and...
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Texas Is Bursting With Independent Books
If you were intrigued by Texas Monthly‘s recent story about Conroe’s Defiance Press & Publishing, you might want to check out the works of some of Texas’s other independent publishers. Houston’s...
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Jacob’s Well Was Dry for Seven Months—One Company Just Kept Pumping
After sitting dry for 222 days, Jacob’s Well, the iconic artesian spring near Wimberley, has started to flow again. From mid-June through mid-January, the popular swimming hole was a miserable sight:...
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A Change of Name and Location Revived This Wimberley Pitmaster’s BBQ Passion
Kelly Evers has experienced the highs and lows of barbecue in nine years as a business owner. In 2015, he and his wife, Melody, opened Creekside Cookers, a Saturday-only barbecue truck in Wimberley...
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