Here’s a roundup of some culture and civic events in the borderland in the coming week. Headline Happy Hour at Butter Smith Join El Paso Matters for an evening of conversation and…
Texas Monthly – Miranda Lambert on Willie Nelson and the Enduring Primacy of the Pickin’ Party
Miranda Lambert can’t remember a time when she didn’t know the song “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys.” The Willie and Waylon duet, a Grammy-winning, number one country…
Texas Monthly – Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid “evolving standards of decency”
Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a record low. Read: Read More
Texas Monthly – Austin rents have fallen for nearly two years. Here’s why.
A massive apartment building boom in the Austin-Round Rock region has driven rents downward, real estate experts and housing advocates have said. Read: Read More
Yard Barker – The ‘College football national championship coaches’ quiz
How many coaches who won a college football championship since 2000 can you name in five minutes? Read: Read More
Yard Barker – Ohio State’s Jeremiah Smith has big hopes for Will Howard’s NFL future
The Ohio State phenom may not be an NFL Draft evaluator, but he does feel very strongly about his quarterback, Will Howard, after the two helped Ohio State with the national championship. Read:…
KTSM News – 76 nursing students go through rite of passage, get ‘white coat’
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Seventy-six nursing students went through a major rite of passage on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at Texas Tech Health El Paso. These nursing students, including 67 from the…
KTSM News – EPPD: 3 teens arrested after aiming rifle at police, trying to flee
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Three teenagers have been arrested after one of them allegedly pointed a rifle at police officers before they crashed their car and then tried to flee on…
Yard Barker – Big Ten makes history in final AP college football poll
The Big Ten Conference has to be feeling pretty good about itself right now. Read: Read More
Border Report – Mexico setting up tents for migrants deported by Trump
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Mexico on Tuesday continued to prepare for President Donald Trump’s promised mass deportations by setting up the first of nine migrant attention centers on the border….