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I'm really a very complicated kind'a guy. senior editor @TexasMonthly. debut YA novel THE FIGHT FOR MIDNIGHT out June 20. @dansolomon.bsky.social (he/him)
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Deadline-oriented, reliable writer & editor with both the patience to manage a team of freelancers and the dedication to be the most dependable writer in an editor’s stable. Extensive experience with arts and culture writing, both locally and nationally. Contacts in various entertainment industries – publicists at Giant Noise and Big Hassle know my dog’s name. A passion for stories that look at cultural trends through a progressive, politically-minded lens. Keeps a well-read blog that combines …

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By Dan Solomon Verified
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The 2026 race for Senate has settled on an auspicious theme: masculinity, and whether Democratic nominee James Talarico meets a definition of it that will resonate with Texas voters. Talarico did not specifically invite speculation on his testosterone levels or his dietary habits, but such speculation has nevertheless dominated Republican critiques of his candidacy, and the discourse is now on a runaway course.
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A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Through a Harris County Home. Why Is Its “Full Self-Driving” Mode Legal?

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By Dan Solomon Verified
| Texas Monthly Verified
At eight on Friday night, 76-year-old Martha Avila was at her daughter’s house. The World Cup game between Brazil and Haiti had started thirty minutes earlier, and the grandmother was in the front room of the two-story brick house on a quiet residential street in Katy’s Westgreen Park neighborhood, a community of 463 homes two miles south of Interstate 10. That was when a Tesla Model 3 sped through the front of the house, crashing through brick and glass, striking Avila.
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The Secret to a Hit Song? A Haunted Guitar.

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By Dan Solomon Verified
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Shakey Graves’s prized 1931 Gibson L-7 was bestowed upon him during—what else?—a mushroom trip. As the artist (real name Alejandro Rose-Garcia) tells it, amid a psychedelic experience in 2009 he met a friend of a friend who decided that he had to give this instrument to the up-and-comer. The catch: It was supposedly haunted by its original owner, a World War II veteran named Jay Manley. Rose-Garcia later tried playing it, but it wouldn’t tune.
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