Dear garden and gun, hire me so I can move to Charleston and fade.
Mike Hoinski
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magazine editor | Texas Highways @texashighways.bsky.social I commission and edit the Open Road essay series: https://texashighways.com/topic/open-road/
I was buying this book at the Preservation Society of Charleston when one of the salespeople told me Bill Murray lives in Charleston. Told me he frequents the Queen Street Grocery a couple blocks away. Best crepes in town, he says. Eyes focused. Mission set. Tao.
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Quite possibly the best fried chicken I’ve ever had. Leon’s in Charleston.
Rip benjamin Alire Saenz. He has an essay coming in our October El Paso issue. His last piece of writing. elpasomatters.org/2026/07/28/b...
Renowned El Paso author, artist Benjamin Alire Sáenz dies at 71
“Ben was irrepressibly hopeful of the human spirit,” longtime friend Ruben Garcia said about Sáenz, an award-winning author whose “Aristotle and Dante” young adult novel was adapted into a movie in 20...
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Man , I wish Michael Corcoran was still around to review this new Strokes album.
10:04 on a Sunday night and you’re sending instagram videos of the Cure to your 16 yr old kid.
Busting out a Talk Talk —> Joe Jackson double bill. Might eff around and add Squeeze to the mix.
Shout out to Ben Markovits, whose essay on the parallels of life in England and Texas was included in this week's @thesundaylongread.bsky.social. texashighways.com/culture/a-lo...
A Londoner Pedals Back to His Hill Country Home
After decades abroad, an Austinite sizes up his native land while on an epic bike ride
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The Sunday Long Read@thesundaylongread.bsky.social · last wk.Happy Sunday! We've got Miami, fossils, little monsters & more in this week's SLR - give it a read and spread the word! mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...
This book challenged me in so many ways. Extraordinary sentence to sentence writing. I now follow Ocean on insta and am mesmerized by his musings on art and life. A genius?
Finally cleaning out the office closet. Downsizing. Trash trash trash. But my wife has two boxes of CDs she can’t part with.
The best thing about being 50: leftovers, preferably served cold.
New: "I’ve been fascinated by this event since I first heard about it as a 16-year-old staying on a farm one summer with my cousin and her grandparents in Quitaque. Listening to Reba McEntire CDs. Walking to Allsup’s and then back to the farm." —Lauren Hough texashighways.com/culture/bob-...
Bob Wills Day Keeps the Famous Texas Bandleader’s Legacy Alive
Thousands flock to Turkey to celebrate the King of Western Swing with dancing and music at the Bob Wills Day festival
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Panhandle native Lauren Hough trekked to Turkey, Texas, to see why Bob Wills—50 years after his death— is still the king. 𝘈𝘩-𝘩𝘢𝘢𝘢. texashighways.com/culture/bob-...
Bob Wills Day Keeps the Famous Texas Bandleader’s Legacy Alive
Thousands flock to Turkey to celebrate the King of Western Swing with dancing and music at the Bob Wills Day festival
texashighways.com
Hard to bet against Argentina and Messi, especially after the way they sang their national anthem.
💥 The Sunday Morning Texas Highways Long Read 💥 The Wildest Show Ever Staged For more than 50 years, the Texas Prison Rodeo offered a spectacle like no other By @catcardenas.bsky.social (From the archives: September 2023) texashighways.com/culture/hist...
The Rise and Fall of the Texas Prison Rodeo
For 50 years, the state prison system staged a spectacle unlike anything else
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Have you had a chance to tell Michael how much you hate what he’s done to Alamo Drafthouse by eliminating servers in favor of the terrible online ordering system? The internet says his email is michael.kustermann@drafthouse.com. www.boxofficepro.com/alamo-drafth...
Alamo Drafthouse President Michael Kustermann Promoted to CEO
Dine-in theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has announced the promotion of President Michael Kustermann to the role of CEO following the retirement of current CEO Shelli Taylor. Taylor, who replaced...
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New: Novelist Ben Markovits, a native Texan living abroad, returns home to ride around on his Brompton, a classic English folding bike whose silhouette—small wheels, a single crossbar with a distinctive curve—is one of the recognizable features of London life. texashighways.com/culture/a-lo...
A Londoner Pedals Back to His Hill Country Home
After decades abroad, an Austinite sizes up his native land while on an epic bike ride
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When the novelist Ben Markovits told me he wanted to ride a Brompton bike in the Hill Country near Salt Lick, I thought he was crazy. But he did it. With his son. And was treated to some fine BBQ. A return to Texas for the Englishman—in @texashighways.bsky.social. texashighways.com/culture/a-lo...
A Londoner Pedals Back to His Hill Country Home
After decades abroad, an Austinite sizes up his native land while on an epic bike ride
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$4,000 for one ticket with a side view upper deck to gorillaz. Classy
💥 The Sunday Morning Texas Highways Long Read 💥 Cresting the Wave A surfer comes to grips with a dark family secret born from the swells near Bob Hall Pier By @joehagantv.bsky.social (From the archives: November 2021) texashighways.com/culture/peop...
Riding the Waves and Coming of Age in Corpus Christi
A surfer encounters a family secret born from the Gulf Coast waters near Bob Hall Pier
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If my accounting is correct, there were zero songs by Bill Callahan (or Smog) on KUTX’s 4th of July playlist of 250 classic Texas songs. That’s unfortunate.