The State of Texas: Meet the Texas Kardashians

What Texas is talking about today No Images? [Click here]( [Your New Gameday Tradition]( [Texas Monthly]( October 25, 2018 QUOTE OF THE DAY "Goodbye, #BigTex. We'll see you again next year. Hopefully we'll have better weather!!" —Dallas–Fort Worth's Fox 4 News on a Facebook [video of state fair mascot Big Tex bein' knocked off of his pedestal](. OK, maybe not knocked off more than painstakingly removed via a crane and then disassembled until next year. THE LATEST [Meet the Flamboyant, Fame-Seeking Heavyweight Champ of Texas Personal-Injury Law]( ERIC BENSON Is Thomas J. Henry an unrepentant huckster, or is he a righteous warrior for the little guy? Can he be both? [Read more.]( QUIZ For the month of October, we’re awarding one lucky quiz participant per week a $25 gift card to the [TM General Store](! Look here every Thursday for our weekly news quiz, and reply to this email with your answers to enter. Check back on Friday for answers to the quiz. 1. In his [Far West Texas episode]( of Parts Unknown, Anthony Bourdain visited Marfa, Alpine, Van Horn, Marathon, and then went south of the border to a restaurant in ___________. 2. Austin is currently [under a boil water advisory]( due to flooding, which has put silt and sludge into the water supply. In order to drink or cook with the water, the city advises that you bring it to a boil for ___________ minutes. 3. Senator Ted Cruz [fully endorsed the idea]( of building ___________ during a rally held for him in Houston by President Trump. 4. ___________, a former Longhorn, [missed his first-ever extra point kick]( this week. 5. Early voting started this week, and [it's off to a roaring start](. During the 2016 presidential contest, __________ percent of all the Texas votes were cast during the early voting period. Look here every Thursday for our weekly news quiz—and check back on Friday for the answers! [Your New Gameday Tradition]( OUR TOP STORIES [What You Need to Know About Austin’s Water Shortage]( Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink. [Read more.]( [Beto O’Rourke May Not Win the Election, But His Supporters Are Winning the Internet]( A slew of inventive—and humorous—political videos are emerging in the closing days of this year’s election. [Read more.]( [Austin BBQ Guide]( Where to get the best smoked meats in the new barbecue capital of the world. [Read more.]( Only ten days until the Texas Monthly BBQ Fest! Dig into ‘cue from thirty restaurants featured on our Top 50 BBQ Joints in Texas list, including Austin’s La Barbecue, Micklethwait Craft Meats, Stiles Switch BBQ & Brew, Terry Black’s Barbecue, and Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ. [Get your tickets and come hungry!]( THE STATE OF TEXAS The Report San Antonio police [released a report]( that they say details how an unarmed teen was shot and killed by an officer earlier this month. According to the report, Officer Steve Casanova, a five-year veteran of the force, and another officer were responding to a report of assault. Casanova noticed that the door to the home was open and that two men were inside. One of the men opened the door and was, according to the report, "immediately aggressive" towards the officer, who said he spotted a handgun in the man's waistband. Casanova said that he feared for his life and shot the man, piercing him in the buttocks and striking another man, Charles Roundtree, in the chest and killing him. "They killed my son, cold blood," said Patricia Slack, Roundtree's mother. Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Check your tickets, San Antonio. A [$3 million lottery ticket]( for Tuesday night’s Mega Millions was sold in the city. The ticket was one of 36 second prize tickets across the country in the massive $1.537 billion jackpot—the biggest in the history of Mega Millions—which was finally won by some lucky sonufagun in South Carolina. But we've got $3 million floating around here in our fine state, so if you see the white balls 5, 28, 62, 65, and 70 on your ticket, get to a corner store now! Perhaps you'd like to share a bit of it with your favorite National Magazine of Texas? Robot Brothel Ban Three weeks after the Houston City Council promptly halted plans for a sex robot brothel, [Harris County is following suit](. Harris County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to ban "robot brothels" from opening within the county lines. Earlier this month, a Canadian company wanted to open a "love dolls brothel" in Houston, but instead the city changed its ordinances on sexually-oriented businesses. Aside from the original offender, no one has expressed interest in building any such establishment in Harris County. They're just preemptively saying "no thanks." THE CULTURE [On Parts Unknown, Anthony Bourdain Asks If West Texans Are the Platonic Ideal of Texans]( CHRISTIAN WALLACE Spoiler alert: the answer is yes. [Read more.]( [Tailgate Like A Texan]( [Tailgate Like A Texan]( Join Texas Monthly for a tailgate as the Texas Longhorns take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday, October 27th! We'll enjoy drinks from Deep Eddy Vodka, tailgate games, BBQ from The Switch, and much more. [Read more]( [Your New Gameday Tradition]( MORE FROM TEXAS MONTHLY [Partisan Primary Voters Cast 70 Percent of the Ballots on the First Day of Early Voting]( R.G. RATCLIFFE [Is There Any Way the Cowboys Won the Amari Cooper Trade?]( DAN SOLOMON [El Paso Nonprofit Scrambles To House Migrants As Number Of Family Border Crossings Soars]( ROBERT MOORE [Subscribe to Texas Monthly today and save!]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Website]( Texas Monthly PO Box 1569 Austin, TX 78767 Texas Monthly has sent you this alert because you signed up to receive it either online at texasmonthly.com, at the website of one of our business partners, or when you filled out a reader response card. 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