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The 12 Finest Trees In Texas: A Photo Tour Of The State's Pretty, Historic, Beloved Live Oaks & More

Texans love their trees, whether they're being used for climbing, or getting some desperately needed August shade, or as a easy-to-remember landmark for locals making plans to meet each other. To be sure there are some less peaceful uses of trees in Texas history: lynching, sniping, chaining people ... More >>

Patent Law: The New Cold War

On the frontlines of the costliest battle in the high-tech world.

SXSW Releases First Batch of 2013 Performers

Here go hell come, SXSW has just released the first batch of names for the 2013 festival. I know, only a week after Fun Fun Fun Fest and a month since ACL. Did you see the FPSF blog from earlier today? Yeah, time is moving too fast. The big names on the list so far include the Zombies, Alt-J, Akro ... More >>

Mikey Goes To Hollywood: Stinson Visits Country-Starved L.A.

Photos by Alan Downs​It's no secret that California has long since squandered away a stunning country-music heritage, but for those of us in Los Angeles who give a damn, Mike Stinson represented an almost mystic renewal of the Freddie Hart/Wynn Stewart transplanted-genius equation that damn n ... More >>

SXSW With LOM: French Rockers, Free Tequila And MXMW

Photos by Amy PrasadInspector Cluzo, aka The French Bastards​So we're checked in and we're on the way up to the room. Who's in the elevator with us? John Popper from Blues Traveler. In person, he looks like a cartoon character, something waxy and a bit spooky about his motel tan. He's all effu ... More >>

Don't Kill the Messengers

How bike couriers plan to survive the internet age.

Selling Counterfeit Cisco Parts To The Prison System? Get Ready To Meet Your Victim

Yo, "Tony" says it's all good​Robert Erdman ripped off the federal Bureau of Prisons and other agencies to the tune of almost $1.5 million, and now he will get a close-up view of just how good the computer systems in the BOP are.Erdman was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for selling ... More >>

Lawn Mower Man

Kenneth Page followed his peculiar dream from Texas to Florida.

This Week In TV: Miracle Cures From Alien Civilizations

The Yankees won, Doug Hoffman lost, and I'm thinking of joining a neighborhood dad garage band. This was the week in TV Land: • 30 Rock continues to be the quickest comedy on the air and the spiritual descendant of Arrested Development. This week's episode was stuffed with more meta-jokes than ev ... More >>

The Wheel World

Commenters get angry on both sides of the road over "Ghost Riders."

Ghost Riders

In Houston, bicycling is known as a killer sport.

Temples of Tex-Mex: Vintage Restaurants

3/13 Playbill: Vienna Teng

Owed to Billy Joe

Today all the best poets are singers. That's why a singer should be Texas's next poet laureate.

Vienna Teng

Thursday, April 1

Dog's Day Out

What's left for a dog to do in this high-tech world?

Grade A

At the University of Houston, Barron's makes college food like you've never seen

Swangin' and Bangin' ... and getting to that other level with the disciples of screw

Bad Licks for Dumb Hicks

A new theater gives Hank Williams a painful death