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### [What Time Can You Buy Beer on Sunday in Texas? A Century of Booze Laws Explained](https://everybittexas.com/posts/what-time-can-you-buy-beer-on-sunday-in-texas.md)
_July 1, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Texas finally let you buy beer before noon on Sunday in 2021 — but the state's complicated relationship with alcohol goes all the way back to the Republic. Here's the full timeline, from saloon bans to House Bill 1518.

### [Texas Roadhouse Isn't From Texas — But These 8 Chains Actually Are](https://everybittexas.com/posts/texas-roadhouse-not-from-texas.md)
_July 1, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
The name says Texas. The logo has a cowboy hat over a state outline. The whole vibe screams Lone Star. Texas Roadhouse was born in Indiana, incorporated in Kentucky, and didn't open a single location in Texas until five years after it launched.

### [Texas and the Water: A History of Flooding, Past and Present](https://everybittexas.com/posts/texas-and-the-water-a-history-of-flooding-past-and-present.md)
_June 20, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
From the 1900 Galveston hurricane to the 2025 Guadalupe River flood, Texas keeps having the same argument with water — the rain arrives faster than the warning does. A look at how Galveston, Houston, and the Hill Country each answered the same problem differently.

### [Inside Starfront Observatories: The Texas Telescope Farm Run by Astrophotographers, for Astrophotographers](https://everybittexas.com/posts/inside-starfront-observatories-the-texas-telescope-farm-run-by-astrophotographer.md)
_June 18, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Starfront Observatories in Rockwood, Texas hosts more than 550 remote telescopes under Bortle 1 dark skies. We talked to the founders about how a cattle field became one of the largest astrophotography operations in the world.

### [Houston's Skyline Has Always Been a Work in Progress](https://everybittexas.com/posts/houstons-skyline-has-always-been-a-work-in-progress.md)
_June 17, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Carol Highsmith's Library of Congress photograph of Houston captures a city that's always outrunning itself. Here's what that image really documents.

### [The 2026 FIFA World Cup Is in Texas Right Now](https://everybittexas.com/posts/fifa-world-cup-2026-texas-arlington-houston.md)
_June 15, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Two Texas cities, nine weeks of World Cup football. Arlington hosts a semifinal at AT&T Stadium. Houston brings Germany and Portugal to NRG. Here's the full breakdown.

### [Wahoo McDaniel: Midland, Texas Made a Legend](https://everybittexas.com/posts/wahoo-mcdaniel-midland-texas-made-a-legend.md)
_June 14, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Before he ever stepped into a wrestling ring, Ed "Wahoo" McDaniel was a West Texas multi-sport phenomenon and an AFL champion. From a childhood baseball team coached by George H.W. Bush to legendary feuds with Ric Flair, explore the larger-than-life true story of a Texas icon.

### [Meet Uncle Farmer Ben: The Guy Who Turned a Waco Crack House into Texas's Wildest Animal Sanctuary](https://everybittexas.com/posts/uncle-ben-urban-rescue-ranch-waco-texas.md)
_June 14, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Ben Christie left a tech job, bought a condemned crack house in Waco, and built one of Central Texas's only wildlife rehab facilities — all while being attacked daily by a homicidal bird named Kevin.

### [Languages of Texas: From the Oldest to the Newest](https://everybittexas.com/posts/languages-of-texas-from-the-oldest-to-the-newest.md)
_June 13, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Before Texas was Texas, it was the loudest room on the continent. Dozens of languages — indigenous isolates with no known relatives on earth, colonial tongues, immigrant dialects built in the Hill Country and Karnes County, and post-1975 arrivals that now claim millions of speakers statewide — have all crossed this ground. Some are gone. Some are barely breathing. A few just arrived.

### [Six Texas Women Carrying Country Music on Their Backs](https://everybittexas.com/posts/six-texas-women-carrying-country-music-on-their-backs.md)
_June 7, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Texas women in country music don't wait for Nashville's permission — they earn it on the Texas circuit first. From a Galveston County nurse who picked up a guitar at 50 and scored back-to-back No. 1s, to a kid from Golden who swept the Grammys, six artists show exactly how deep the pipeline runs.

### [One Palm Tree, One Field, One River — What a Cameron County Photograph Tells Us](https://everybittexas.com/posts/one-palm-tree-one-field-one-river-what-a-cameron-county-photograph-tells-us.md)
_June 7, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
A 2014 Library of Congress photo captures one palm tree at the edge of a Cameron County produce field — and the deep agricultural history behind it.

### [When Texas Was Its Own Country: The 1838 Niles Map That Captured a Nation in Flux](https://everybittexas.com/posts/when-texas-was-its-own-country-the-1838-niles-map-that-captured-a-nation-in-flux.md)
_June 7, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
A look at John Milton Niles' 1838 map of Mexico and the Republic of Texas — what it shows, what it gets wrong, and why it matters for Texas history.

### [The Line That Made Texas: A Surveyor's Map of the Sabine River Boundary, 1842](https://everybittexas.com/posts/the-line-that-made-texas-a-surveyors-map-of-the-sabine-river-boundary-1842.md)
_June 7, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
A surveyor named A.B. Gray mapped the Sabine River boundary between the US and Republic of Texas in 1842. Here's the story behind the map that took years to reach Congress.

### [The SS Selma: One Hundred Dollars, a Concrete Wreck, and the Hermit of Galveston](https://everybittexas.com/posts/ss-selma-frenchy-leblanc-galveston.md)
_June 5, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
The SS Selma launched on the last day of WWI, cracked her hull on her first real job, and spent the next century in Galveston Bay — as a bootlegger's cache, a chicken farm, a national newsreel, and eventually a National Historic Place.

### [Where Texas First Drew Blood: The Lost Town of Velasco](https://everybittexas.com/posts/where-texas-first-drew-blood-the-lost-town-of-velasco.md)
_June 3, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Velasco, Texas was the site of the first armed clash between Texans and Mexico in 1832 and where Santa Anna signed the Treaties of Velasco in 1836. Here's its full story.

### [Snaking Logs in East Texas: The Hard Work Behind Sabine Farms, Marshall, 1939](https://everybittexas.com/posts/snaking-logs-in-east-texas-the-hard-work-behind-sabine-farms-marshall-1939.md)
_June 2, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
A 1939 Library of Congress photograph documents land clearing at Sabine Farms near Marshall, Texas — a New Deal FSA resettlement project in Harrison County.

### [The Doctor and the Deal: How Sabine Farms Homesteaders Built Their Own Healthcare System in 1941](https://everybittexas.com/posts/sabine-farms-dr-ao-lee-black-healthcare-1941-marshall-texas.md)
_June 1, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
In 1941, Black homesteaders at Sabine Farms near Marshall, Texas signed a group medical contract with Dr. A.O. Lee — a quiet act of community self-determination.

### [Bishop's Palace: The Most Extraordinary House in Galveston (And Maybe All of Texas)](https://everybittexas.com/posts/bishops-palace-the-most-extraordinary-house-in-galveston-and-maybe-all-of-texas.md)
_June 1, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Bishop's Palace on Broadway in Galveston is one of America's great Victorian landmarks. Here's the full story behind Gresham's Castle and why it still stands.

### [Corpus Christi, 1935: The Pamphlet That Sold a City](https://everybittexas.com/posts/corpus-christi-1935-pamphlet.md)
_June 1, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
A 1935 Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce pamphlet captures the city mid-transformation — still pitching palm trees and sea breezes while the port and oilfields were rewriting everything.

### [Texarkana's 1908 Fourth of July: One City, Two States, and a Brand-New Flag](https://everybittexas.com/posts/texarkana-1908-fourth-of-july.md)
_May 31, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
An 118-year-old pamphlet from Texarkana's Board of Trade captures a Fourth of July celebration on the first morning the 46-star American flag flew — in a city built on two states and one state line.

### [Houston Astros Sweep Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field: First Time Since 2011](https://everybittexas.com/posts/houston-astros-sweep-chicago-cubs-at-wrigley-field-first-time-since-2011.md)
_May 25, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_

### [Bolivar Peninsula Hurricane Ike Wreckage](https://everybittexas.com/posts/bolivar-peninsula-hurricane-ike-wreckage.md)
_May 20, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_

### [Grey's Anatomy Is Coming to West Texas](https://everybittexas.com/posts/greys-anatomy-is-coming-to-west-texas.md)
_May 19, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
ABC ordered a Grey's Anatomy spinoff at a rural West Texas medical center — the franchise's first foray from Seattle into a system defined by vast distances.

### [The Next Wave: Austin's Up-and-Coming Bands You Need to Hear in 2026](https://everybittexas.com/posts/austins-rising-music-scene-bands-to-watch-2026.md)
_May 18, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Austin put 135 local acts on the SXSW 2026 stage, and these six bands are the ones worth tracking before the rest of the world catches on.

### [Happy Birthday Bill Paxton 🎬 Fort Worth's Favorite Son Would Have Been 71 Today](https://everybittexas.com/posts/happy-birthday-bill-paxton-fort-worths-favorite-son.md)
_May 18, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Born on May 17, 1955, in Fort Worth, Texas, Bill Paxton rose from a star-struck kid watching JFK to becoming one of Hollywood's most versatile actors. Today we celebrate the life and legacy of a true Texan original.

### [Sunrise on Galveston Island, Texas! ](https://everybittexas.com/posts/sunrise-on-galveston-island-texas.md)
_May 17, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Experience the breathtaking beauty of Galveston Island's sunrise as golden light illuminates the historic Pleasure Pier in this stunning coastal photography.

### [Guy Clark: The Texas Troubadour Who Wrote America’s Songs](https://everybittexas.com/posts/guy-clark-texas-troubadour-biography.md)
_May 17, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Ten years ago today, Texas lost Guy Clark — the Monahans-born troubadour whose songs were recorded by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, and dozens more. He never had a number one hit under his own name. He didn’t need one.

### [Top 5 Reasons to Move to Waco, Texas](https://everybittexas.com/posts/top-5-reasons-move-waco-texas.md)
_May 17, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Affordable, centrally located, and quietly transformed — Waco, Texas has become one of the most compelling places to live in the state. Here are five reasons people keep showing up with moving trucks.

### [Greetings from Dallas: Six Skyscrapers That Defined 1944’s Big D](https://everybittexas.com/posts/greetings-from-dallas-1944-postcard-skyscrapers.md)
_May 17, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
A 1944 linen postcard spells out D-A-L-L-A-S with six of the city’s most iconic buildings — including the Pegasus-topped Magnolia and the wartime Mercantile Bank. Here’s what each letter is hiding.

### [The Little Chapel in the Woods: Denton's Hidden Masterpiece](https://everybittexas.com/posts/little-chapel-in-the-woods-denton-texas.md)
_May 17, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Tucked into a grove of trees on the TWU campus in Denton, the Little Chapel-in-the-Woods was hand-built by 300 students during the Great Depression and dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt. It's one of the most extraordinary buildings in Texas.

### [When Texas Democrats Stormed the Capitol to End Reconstruction](https://everybittexas.com/posts/texas-democrats-reconstruction-1874-capitol-crisis.md)
_May 17, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
In January 1874, Austin became a powder keg. Democrats flooded the Texas Capitol to oust Radical Republican Governor Edmund Davis in one of the most dramatic political standoffs in state history.

### [Cowboy Mardi Gras in Bandera, Texas](https://everybittexas.com/posts/cowboy-mardi-gras-bandera-texas.md)
_May 16, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
Deep in the Hill Country, the tiny town of Bandera throws one of the most unlikely Mardi Gras celebrations in America — where cowboy boots meet Cajun zydeco at the 11th Street Cowboy Bar.

### [Big Tex: The Iconic Giant Cowboy of the Texas State Fait](https://everybittexas.com/posts/big-tex-iconic-giant-cowboy-texas-state-fair.md)
_May 16, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_
🤠 Everything's bigger in Texas — and nothing proves it quite like Big Tex, the towering cowboy who's watched over the State Fair of Texas for over 70 years. From humble origins to a fiery end and triumphant return, his story is pure Texas grit. 🌟

### [Spencer Arrighetti Nearly Shut the Rangers Up Completely — And Houston Loved Every Pitch](https://everybittexas.com/posts/spencer-arrighetti-nearly-shut-the-rangers-up-completely-and-houston-loved-every-pitch.md)
_May 16, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_

### [The Jones Act Is the Backbone of the Texas Economy](https://everybittexas.com/posts/Save-The-Jones-Act.md)
_May 16, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_

### [Don't Miss a Single Texas Story!](https://everybittexas.com/posts/dont-miss-a-single-texas-story.md)
_May 14, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_

### [Could You Feel the Tension at the 1940 San Angelo Stock Auction? 🤠👀](https://everybittexas.com/posts/could-you-feel-the-tension-at-the-1940-san-angelo-stock-auction.md)
_May 14, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_

### [Can You Feel the Soul of West Texas in This 1939 San Angelo Stockyards Photo? 🤠🥩](https://everybittexas.com/posts/can-you-feel-the-soul-of-west-texas-in-this-1939-san-angelo-stockyards-photo.md)
_May 13, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_

### [Top 10 Reasons to Choose the University of Texas at Arlington](https://everybittexas.com/posts/top-10-reasons-to-choose-university-of-texas-at-arlington.md)
_May 13, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_

### [Top 10 Reasons to Move to Houston, Texas in 2026](https://everybittexas.com/posts/top-10-reasons-to-move-to-houston-texas.md)
_May 13, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_

### [Did You Know Texas Annexation Was So Controversial It Became a National Political Cartoon in 1844? 🤠⭐](https://everybittexas.com/posts/did-you-know-texas-annexation-was-so-controversial-it-became-a-national-political-cartoon-in-1844.md)
_May 12, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_

### [What Stories Do You Think This East Texas Farmer Could Tell About a Life Lived on the Land? 👴🌲](https://everybittexas.com/posts/what-stories-do-you-think-this-east-texas-farmer-could-tell-about-a-life-lived-on-the-land.md)
_May 12, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_

### [Can You Believe This Is What Point Isabel, Texas Looked Like During the Civil War? ⚔️🌊](https://everybittexas.com/posts/can-you-believe-this-is-what-point-isabel-texas-looked-like-during-the-civil-war.md)
_May 12, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_

### [Have You Ever Seen the Houston Skyline Light Up the Texas Sky Like This? 🌆🤠](https://everybittexas.com/posts/have-you-ever-seen-the-houston-skyline-light-up-the-texas-sky-like-this.md)
_May 12, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_

### [Did You Know This 1879 Map Holds the Key to McCulloch County’s Forgotten Land History? 🗺️✨](https://everybittexas.com/posts/did-you-know-this-1879-map-holds-the-key-to-mcculloch-countys-forgotten-land-history.md)
_May 12, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_

### [Did you know that every inch of Texas land once had a name attached to it — and that name was everything? 🤠🗺️](https://everybittexas.com/posts/did-you-know-that-every-inch-of-texas-land-once-had-a-name-attached-to-it-and-that-name-was-everything.md)
_May 12, 2026 · by Marcus Bellamy Shaw_