Some holes will feature odes to the historic Stockyards, Sundance Square, Panther City and the Fort Worth Courthouse.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Feb. 2026
While some astrology enthusiasts emblazon their sun signs on Instagram bios, others go the permanent route, tattooing eternal odes to the celestial bodies on their actual bodies.
Words build narratives, and narratives sow the seeds of revolution.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
With tears and fragments of personal narratives, this footage often digs deeper than some might expect for a sport derided as the domain of adrenaline junkies indifferent to the law.
These things are always cautionary tales, and people don’t realize them.
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Diego Lasarte,
New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2026
There have been a few studies suggesting that Maurten’s version does indeed minimize GI problems and enhance endurance performance—not a huge body of evidence, but enough to buttress the widespread anecdotal tales of elite athletes relying on it.
But while Provo has become developed, its neighbors, Parrish assured me, remain timeless idylls, their empty interiors encircled by endless beaches fringed with casuarina trees.
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Henry Wismayer,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
But that sequence of prose idylls was the core of the collection.
The performance felt both virtuosic and repulsive, a goulash of hype, sloganeering, and calls to violence spiked with in-jokes, shaggy-dog anecdotes, and populist fables, all of it seductive and—in our dangerous era—familiar.
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Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2026
In the indie film, Hawke transforms himself into the diminutive composer, who regales attendees at Sardi’s bar with anecdotes about his career highs in the theater and bemoans the loss of his former partnership with Richard Rodgers.
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