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Dan Solomon writes about politics, music, food, sports, criminal justice, health care, film, and business. Dan started working with Texas Monthly as a freelancer in 2013 before becoming a staff writer, covering topics from the Baylor sexual assault scandal to the gentrification of Austin barbecue to the legacy of Texas outsider artist Daniel Johnston. His reporting has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Fast Company, Billboard, and Deadspin.
Not having to deal with Quentin Tarantino's on-screen presence is a more-than-fair trade off for seeing someone other than George Clooney as Seth Gecko.
By Dan Solomon
The story of Buddy the dog, a six-year-old golden retriever in San Antonio, could have big implications for Texas' controversial "severe bodily injury" laws that allow local animal control departments to euthanize people's pets.
By Dan Solomon
At SXSW, because ninety percent of the entertainment news you read over the next two months will involve the letters "SXSW."
By Dan Solomon
That is, if the mixed-use development plans for the Texas Stadium site currently before the Irving City Council come to pass.
By Dan Solomon
Novelist Leila Meacham hopes for another best-seller with the forthcoming Somerset, a prequel to her megahit debut novel, Roses.
By Dan Solomon
Don't worry, though, the ratings were so bad that it's basically DOA.
By Dan Solomon
The Florida State quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner, and MVP of last night's BCS Championship Game has a standing offer from a team in Texas. But it's not what you think.
By Dan Solomon
The sneakerhead subculture descended on Houston in November for a major convention, and streetwear company Karmaloop offers an inside look.
By Dan Solomon
A few days after the holidays, Derek Poe—a Beaumont gun store owner—was arrested for walking around a shopping mall with an AR-15 strapped to his back. While Texas allows for long guns to be openly carried in public, the question about whether or not Poe was committing a crime is
By Dan Solomon
According to various pundits, he's "not a hip hop coach," but that won't stop them from comparing him to Arsenio Hall.
By Dan Solomon
A federal lawsuit filed by Dr. Glen Hurlston claims that the former chief of police in Princeton, Texas—who currently holds that role in the Austin suburb of Kyle—and several of his fellow officers harassed him while the chief had an affair with his wife.
By Dan Solomon
One doesn't need to be a master thief to figure out why there might be a flaw in this plan.
By Dan Solomon
After eight years of lobbying, the Texas Federation of Animal Care Societies finally got the law in effect.
By Dan Solomon
And every single one of them waited in line for an In-N-Out Burger in Dallas or Austin.
By Dan Solomon
At the risk of getting yelled at by Jenny McCarthy supporters, now might be a good time to get a flu shot, y'all.
By Dan Solomon
The Austin-based musician has spent time playing with Shearwater and the Low Lows, and he's paired one of the prettier tracks on his forthcoming solo debut with this creepy, fascinating video.
By Dan Solomon
Well, you can if you live in Nevada, because Internet gambling is illegal. (Wink, wink.) But the betting odds can tell us that holding out hope for Jim Harbaugh is probably a sucker's game.
By Dan Solomon
An emergency response drill that simulated a lockdown situation at an Austin middle school has parents trying to understand what happened.
By Dan Solomon
Alfred Wright of Jasper went missing last month and the Sabine County police called off the search shortly thereafter. His body was found by friends and family a few weeks later, but a lot of questions remain.
By Dan Solomon
After blowing a 23-point halftime lead to lose at home to a Green Bay Packers team led by a quarterback who wasn't even on the roster a month ago, the question is very much in the air.
By Dan Solomon
The "Greatest Living Texan" candidate surprised fans by releasing a fourteen-track self-titled album on iTunes at midnight. Even more impressive: The album purchase also includes an eighteen-part collection of new music videos.
By Dan Solomon
A Houston judge threw out the lawsuit against the state by three death row inmates who claimed that Texas was planning to kill them using unknown and untested drugs, so they're taking it to a higher court.
By Dan Solomon
One can not live on Auntie Anne's pretzels alone.
By Dan Solomon
Miriam Martinez, Linda Vega, and Leticia Van de Putte take to the ticket.
By Texas Monthly Staff and Dan Solomon
Held in custody for 42 hours, 37-year-old Sarah Tibbetts died after being arrested while in possession of someone else's credit card and trace amounts of marijuanta in baggies in her purse.
By Dan Solomon
He wanted six tacos, and if his sword had anything to say about it, those tacos were going to be free.
By Dan Solomon
Yesterday, Peter Berg—the guy responsible for the screen adaptations of Friday Night Lights—revealed that the beloved TV series would not add a big-screen coda, as the long-discussed project had been officially benched. Here's why that's great news.
By Dan Solomon
The Texans fired Gary Kubiak on Friday, after the team's two-win season put them in the driver's seat for the first overall pick in next year's draft. And owner Bob McNair has very specific ideas about what he wants from the next head coach.
By Dan Solomon
If you like your country twang with a whole lot of rock and roll to it, give a listen to the new song from the this quintet's forthcoming album.
By Dan Solomon
Last time the First Presbyterian Church of Dallas held a gun buyback event, it caused a stir. Will this one cause the same outcry?
By Dan Solomon
Master Sgt. Brad Grimes of Fort Hood was found guilty of conspiring to patronize a prostitute and solicit adultery. But the allegations that came out during his trial are much worse.
By Dan Solomon
Colt Morgan, 29, is suspected of killing Wende Marshall. When police attempted to arrest him in Buffalo, Texas—two hours northwest of Houston—he attacked the officer and has been on the run ever since.
By Dan Solomon
The fictional ‘Pulp Fiction’ Hawaiian burger joint has taken over the Stallion Grill on Airport Boulevard and there's a whole bunch of film equipment outside.
By Dan Solomon
13-year-old Landry Thompson, from Tulsa, was on a trip to Houston with her dance instructor, 29-year-old Emmanuel Hurd, and her dance partner, 22-year-old Josiah Kelly, to tape a dance video at Houston's Planet Funk Studio. When police saw the three of them parked in a gas station lot, they had
By Dan Solomon
Two couples are suing in federal court to overturn the gay marriage ban in Texas, while two others are taking to the state's Supreme Court for the state to grant them a divorce. Between the four cases, the ban on gay marriage in Texas could meet its end.
By Dan Solomon
After a criminal noise complaint was filed—and quickly withdrawn—over the sound of the church bells at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, the city council voted to exempt churches from the noise ordinance. As the Rio Grande Valley shifts away from being monolithically Catholic, what does this
By Dan Solomon
A country that places so much value on high-end electronics should probably look in the mirror before it laughs at people for going to extremes in pursuit of owning them.
By Dan Solomon
This week, after announcing yet another new tactic to curb domestic violence in the city, it's clear that Dallas's efforts could become a blueprint for other communities wanting to focus on this issue.
By Dan Solomon
Yes, it's cold. And yes, people have lots of feelings about that.
By Dan Solomon
Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin have both bought up a lot of land along the border. Brownsville and Van Horn are not exactly where you'd expect to find the cutting-edge vanguard of private, high-tech space exploration.
By Dan Solomon
No matter how you feel about him, hearing the former President declare, "Well, uh, I've become a, uh, painter" over the faint strains of "Good King Wencelas" is pretty darn charming.
By Dan Solomon
Today in "can they do that": subcontractors working with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration hired off-duty Fort Worth police officers to set up a roadblock and asked for blood, breath, and saliva samples.
By Dan Solomon
Pro-choice activists haven't had much to celebrate during a particularly rough past several months, as legislatures in Texas and around the country have voted to restrict abortion access. But last night in Albuquerque, they scored a win.
By Dan Solomon
Which will simply never happen. But that didn't stop the proposal from inspiring outrage.
By Dan Solomon
New reports surfaced that "Preacher," a comic cult favorite, may be developed by the cable network. If it is succesfully brought to a television audience, it could spark a national dialogue about what it means to be from Texas.
By Dan Solomon
Visiting Tarrant County Judge Jerry Ray was not happy when a jury found David Duc Tran not guilty of DWI despite Intoxilyzer evidence. He likened the decision to the jury's verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial.
By Dan Solomon
It's about a race car driver in 1955 Italy, and—spoiler alert—it stars Jason Schwartzman.
By Dan Solomon
Last Thursday, 28-year-old Alfred Wright went missing after his car overheated. His shirts, pants, keys, and watch were found in a pasture—but the Sabine County Sheriff's Office called off the search on Monday, saying that there's "no evidence in this investigation that leads authorities to believe that there is foul
By Dan Solomon
When "professional speaker and best-selling author" Justin Lookadoo—whose faith-based dating books and websites includes advice like "dateable girls know when to shut up" and "men of God are wild, not domesticated"—spoke at Richardson High School yesterday, parents were concerned about the messages their children would be receiving. But the students
By Dan Solomon
Former Cowboys receiver Sam Hurd was arrested after attempting to set himself up as a Chicago drug lord—while he was drawing a veteran's salary from the Bears—and this week he revealed to Sports Illustrated how many of his former teammates in Dallas he sold "the loudest weed in California" to. How
By Dan Solomon