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Earlier this year, Texas Monthly finalized their list of the 25 greatest Texas films. Among them is 'Hud,' a contemporary Western from 1963 starring Paul Newman as the main anti-hero. The Criterion Collection just released a deluxe new 4K Blu-ray disc of the movie and TPR's Nathan Cone has a review. -
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U.S. Judge David Hittner sided with a white couple who sued the city in 2023, claiming their landscaping businesses faced racial discrimination. -
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Summertime means peach season in Texas. But some fruit stands have had to import the fruit from other states after the combination of a warm winter and a late spring freeze wiped out much of the local crop.
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