Strad Men
Michael Shih and Swang Lin went to the same elementary school in Taiwan but didn’t form a friendship until decades later, when they arrived in Texas, where they both play multi-million-dollar Stradivarius violins for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.
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I am NOT contrarian
Do not get in a beer-soaked conversation about music with Chuck Eddy. You will feel stupid.
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Prince of darkness
The $36 million Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment at the McDonald Observatory, in Fort Davis, could reinterpret the time-honored laws of gravity.
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Fire on the mountain
Marfa Public Radio saved lives with its coverage of the Rock House Fire, the largest wildfire in Texas history, yet the West Texas town’s Congressman wants to strip its funding.
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Billy prefers duking it out
Here is the only interview Billy Joe Shaver has done since going on trial for shooting a man in the face outside a bar in Waco. Did Billy really tell the guy on the other end of the bullet, “Where do you want it?”
The couple, through the lens of Todd V. Wolfson
I got my “relationship” reporting career off to a promising start with the tale of the psychedelic union of a guitar-slinging songstress of the blues persuasion and a Saturday Night Live alum, whose marriage was officiated by a Monkee.
Hair as headstone as dipped cone
If Dairy Queen was smart, they’d strike a deal with Ann Richards’s family to use their mom’s name for a limited edition dipped cone.
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