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Elon Musk is about to become a Texas power broker - literally.The idiosyncratic serial entrepreneur who reinvented rocket science and bolstered the electric car business has founded a new Tesla subsidiary called Tesla Energy Ventures,…

Jamie Wheal was feeling out of place. In Colorado, where he and his wife, Julie, lived for a decade, the towering peaks of the Rocky Mountains had been a reliable source of grandeur, an easy way to help maintain an internal compass.…

As restaurants around Indianapolis slowly reopened after all those dark months when an entire industry laid fallow, we couldn’t stay away. We returned to their tables with a new appreciation—for their sacrifices and pain and delicate…

The Texas State Flower is the bluebonnet, the State Tree is the pecan, and the State Small mammal is the nine-band armadillo. I say we should have a state cocktail too, and it should be ranch water: a three-ingredient, low-calorie…

Melancholy is seldom the expected outcome when one receives a free cup of decent coffee first thing in the morning. But as Liz Lambert accepted hers, from the young female barista behind the counter at Jo’s, which Lambert founded…

Autumn Stanford takes over Kolache after Kolache in New York City. Born in Austria, she and her husband Dennis Mendoza opened Brooklyn Kolache in 2012 to introduce Bed Stuy residents to the “Czech-Tex” experience and at the same time…

Early in the spring, Patsy Vivares, co-owner of Sticky's Chicken restaurant in Houston, drove to her local supplier to purchase her usual order: a 40-pound box of chicken wings. When she stopped in front of the Depot restaurant,…

Cristina Mendez and John Pham were 21 years old and newly married in 2017. When cooking, they instinctively used ingredients and techniques from their cultural background. Mendez, a native Dallasite whose parents emigrated from…

Jeder, der den neuen Lieferfahrer für Southside Flying Pizza in Austin sieht, will sie treffen. Sie ist klein, ein bisschen tollpatschig und braucht im Moment bei ihrer Rundfahrt die Hilfe eines Kumpels, um nicht aus Versehen ein…

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the lives of students in 2020, forcing new approaches to problems and…