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News Waltz Across Texas [Extra Extra]
- The Washington Post explains the marine climate down at the business end of that huge oil spill in the Gulf.
- When he went off to college, Rick Perry's momma was still sewing him homemade underpants!
- Cheddar's apologized to the family of a boy who uses a wheelchair for refusing to seat them at a Waco outlet on Mother's Day. (Allegedly, once the family complained about not being seated, the restaurant's general manager threatened to call the police if they didn't leave!)
- The first color photographs documenting that tragic 1953 Waco tornado have emerged from a private collection.
- The Houston Chronicle shows us that not all watercolors are innocent. (Possibly NSFW…)
- Houston can be fun...at least according to The New York Times!
- Slackerwood is giving away tickets to Simmons on Vinyl, which played last year's Austin Film Festival.
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