How can something so simple be so deep and beautiful? The pan dulce at Mi Tierra, San AntonioThe Ricardo from San Antonios Mi Tierra bakery represents all that was sweetest about the happiest years of my childhood. Slacker Costner sums up the struggle for straight-arrow Nelson while the latter showers off in a Marfa car wash: Theres nothing wrong with going nowhere, son. And no, they dont smell particularly good, and you arent supposed to pick them on the highway, under penalty of something like death. Short for gone to Texas, this usage dates at least to the Civil War, when deserters and other former soldiers from both armies suddenly unemployed and inured to violence migrated to still-wild, wide-open Texas, lost their names, and took up outlawry. It hardly seems like much at first. She looks like she fell face-down in the sticker patch and cows ran over her. WebHere are some adjectives for texas western and probably southern, --central and southern, central and interior, ole honest, lazy shirt-sleeved, thrifty, western, old-style western, old Texas is a great state to be in. Every Sunday those bells call parishioners, many of whom are the descendants of the natives who built the missions, to worship in the white stucco chapel. The three bells at Mission San Francisco de la Espada, San AntonioThe simple facade of the oldest, smallest, and most remote of San Antonios five missions centers on a Moorish door frame, and above the door stands a tower with three bells. Hes so ugly his cooties have to close their eyes. Its easy to get hot talk down cold. My favorite is Alfred Giles Second Empire courthouse in Marfa. An ice cold beer and some George Strait in our ears is all we really need to have a good time. I recommend making your way from Dog Canyon along the McKittrick Canyon Trail for a view over this famous glen, whose hardwood trees explode into color every fall. No problem. Some words that start with the letter U that may be used to describe the state of Texas are: Unique, Universal, Useful, Urban, Ultimate, and Underestimated. Jos R. Ralat is Texas Monthlys taco editor, writing about tacos and Mexican food. 2. Norwegians using 'Texas' to mean 'crazy' actually Brian D. Sweany, 32. Or the Don Mamn salmon ceviche at Red Onion Seafood y Ms, in Houston. Festival Concert Hall at the International Festival Institute, Round TopA tall, steep roof and silvery cupola rising above the farmsteads and oak mottesthats the Bismarckian profile of Festival Concert Hall, a magnet for musicians who appreciate fine acoustics. Texas Quail huntingIts the most exhilarating and most dangerous type of hunting this side of going after big game. On my third night, a group of new friends took me to see the Gourds, at Antones. Only recently did I realize that what he was checking on had very little to do with farming. What it means in Texas: Any carbonated beveragePepsi, Coke, heck even Sprite. Everything about it is perfectthe proportions, the pastel-peach exterior, the restored dome, the rotunda inside, the town surrounding it. In 2002 Tadao Ando made it a trifecta with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, his sophisticated global fusion winning raves and setting an exquisitely high bar for twenty-first-century greatness. Shes lucky. Dirtys, AustinBecause when Martins Kum-Bak Place started serving burgers to University of Texas students in 1926, it had a dirt floor, thus the nickname. On holiday weekends at North Island, hundreds of boats are tied together. To speak Tex-Mex or Spanglish is to choose to live in two worlds. Brian D. Sweany, 30. San JacintoOkay, lets admit it. From Texas trademarks to personal favorites to the just plain weird, youll find everything here. We're home to several major universities! A lipstick-stained note to Arthur Miller. One of the most notable is the Lost San Saba Silver Mine, which was last seen on maps in 1829. Texas has four seasons: drought, flood, blizzard, and twister. For example: Who else thinks we're just "Nice Suzy Banks, 60. John Spong, 68. 75 Things We Love About Texas Texas Monthly Do you have any better suggestions for some of the letters? Languages come together in the same creative style that cultures do. Sometime after World War I Houston Post columnist Hubert Mewhinney wrote, Houston is a whiskey and trombone town. Personage With Birds, Mirs brash, colorful monumental sculpture, on Milam Street, not far away from the Menil, captures this side of Houston, though this was certainly not his intent. We asked sources in KUHFs Public Insight Network on six-word phrases that capture the essence of the Bayou City. The hall is almost always empty, so you can scan them in silence, looking for a familiar name while musing on who might have been a hero or a rogue in his day. But the years pass and the skin shrivels into beef jerky and the hair flattens to the shape and consistency of a thatched roof and you do come to looove Austin precisely because it is not dryyyy.