npr:
The incredible back-story to this desolate Prada shop in the Texas desert.
I have always wondered about this Prada “store”! And not just because of Gossip Girl.
—Sarah
npr:
The incredible back-story to this desolate Prada shop in the Texas desert.
I have always wondered about this Prada “store”! And not just because of Gossip Girl.
—Sarah
Johnny Winter: A Blues Legend’s Texas ‘Roots’
“Not many white people in Beaumont cared about the blues. I just liked the emotion and the feeling in the music. It was the most emotional music I’d ever heard.” (NPR)
Photo: Paul Natkin/Getty Images
Perspective
“The Space Shuttle Columbia Lands at Kelly Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas” (March 1979)
Mean, indeed
Photos by Rodolfo Gonzalez, Jay Janner, Ricardo B. Brazziell AMERICAN-STATESMAN and Terry Hagerty BASTROP ADVERTISER
Fire crews continue to battle several fires across Central Texas Tuesday. Winds are expected to be lighter today, but low humidity could help flames spread quickly, forecasters say. There is no chance of rain.
A Bicycle Built for Whoooooooo
Flickr user Adam Norwood found this owlet had taken over his bicycle! “Definitely the best excuse I’ve ever had for being late to work,” he writes.
After snapping a few pictures, Norwood left the scared little bird alone. “Sure enough,” he writes, “as soon as it started getting dark out he called (screeched, really) for his momma owl to come take care of him.” (via Cute Overload)
Decoration Day parade, Brownsville, Texas, 1916
(Photo: Robert Runyon / via Library of Congress)
I’ll have what she’s having
Hamburger stand in Harlingen, Texas (1939)
Eat or pray
Stubb’s in Austin, Texas. Saw Gogol Bordello here in 2008. Photographed the day after the show.
Jackie O wants her glasses back
Cooling her feet in the Rio Frio, 1972 (Marc St. Gil, National Archives)