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• You’re Due a Trip Back to Marfa

  By Amanda Albee| Houstonia Verified Marfa is constantly reinventing itself with new restaurants and art destinations. Image: Jeffrey M. Frank/Shutterstock.comThe foot-tapping lines about the bigness and brightness of our state’s stars should’ve been penned from Marfa, long known as an artists’ oasis next to one of the darkest places in the US, Big Bend National Park.

  By Amanda Albee · Houstonia

  Mar. 28, 2025

• There's Magic in the Water at Ishtia in Kemah

  By Amanda Albee, Tyson Bird| Texas Highways Verified The first physical cue of David Skinner’s playfulness are his silvered eyebrows that curl up in a central zenith. As he sidles up to our table, the Choctaw chef arches them jauntily while pouring dry ice over a circle of stones with a seashell balanced on top, all culinary accents cradling his version of Three Sisters. The Cherokee dish of corn, beans, and squash—crops Indigenous tribes grew together—is typically served as a soup or succotash.

  By Amanda Albee, Tyson Bird · Texas Highways

  Mar. 20, 2025

• You’re Due a Trip Back to Marfa

  By Amanda Albee| Houstonia Verified Marfa is constantly reinventing itself with new restaurants and art destinations. Image: Jeffrey M. Frank/Shutterstock.comThe foot-tapping lines about the bigness and brightness of our state’s stars should’ve been penned from Marfa, long known as an artists’ oasis next to one of the darkest places in the US, Big Bend National Park.

  By Amanda Albee · Houstonia

  Mar. 28, 2025

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