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A clash over remembering the Alamo Updated: May 9 Published May 9 Share on Facebook Print article SAN ANTONIO - The Alamo needs a makeover; on that, at least, everyone agrees. Plaster is flaking off the walls of the nearly 300-year-old former Spanish mission, the most revered battle site in Texas history. Its one-room exhibit space can hold only a fraction of key artifacts. And the surrounding plaza is a tourist circus, packed with novelty shops and a Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum....

Can You Live in Mexico For Under $1,500 Per Month? Mexico has long been a favorite destination for retirees and other expats from around the world, although fellow North Americans from Canada and the U.S. make up the bulk of the foreign population. Why? Proximity, for one. You can easily drive into Mexico and get to many popular expat destinations. There are also cheap and plentiful flights—there are international airports all over the country. So whether you’re going to Cabo San Lucas or C...

7:08 A new exhibit at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West focuses on Black cowboys and rodeos: Eight Seconds: Black Cowboys In America. Wyoming Public Radios Kamila Kudelska spoke with photographer Ivan McClellan about his work, and the first Black rodeo he went to in Oklahoma. Ivan McClellan: I got out of my car and saw 2,000 Black cowboys there and I was just enamored of the culture immediately. The way the people dressed. The way that people wore braids, people had long acrylic nails, there...

In a new interview with PEOPLE, the 49-year-old rapper who describes himself as “old school,” discusses aging, growing "wiser" and his plans for a big 5-0 celebration. "Im probably going to do a players ball party where everybody can be dressed up, give away some awards, have some good musical performances, you know what Im saying?" Snoop told PEOPLE magazine. "Im old school. So I just need my event to be wholesome and nice, where people can leave there saying, I had the time of my life.�...

Some heroes of the Texas Revolution were enslavers, a neglected piece of history that has helped stall a badly needed overhaul of the revered battle site.

Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg Light It up for New Ad Campaign ✖ The friendship between Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg is the gift that keeps on giving, and the two stars have teamed up once again to help BIC launch its EZ Reach lighter. The lighter is extra-long and designed to light difficult-to-reach spaces while keeping your fingers away from the flame, and Snoop Dogg told PEOPLE that he and Stewart were both fans of the design. "Its just an easy access lighter when shes cooking and making...

Top 10 Biopics That Got It Completely Wrong The biopic has always been a popular genre in Hollywood, and in recent years have been frontrunners at award ceremonies. Always popular with the Academy Awards, the Oscar-bait pictures could be seen as the easy way of getting nominated. When executed well, a biopic can succeed across the board or at the very least there’s the assumption that they’ll bag themselves a few nominations. But for every successful biopic there is several poorly executed...

My father died 35 years ago this month. I was 41 at the time. He’s been dead for 45% of my life. It’s weird for me to realize that I am almost seven years older than he was when he died. I understand now what he might have been thinking and feeling as he passed through the various stages of his life because I have passed through them myself. Wordsworth wrote that “the child is father to to the man” meaning that the character we form as children stays with us into our adult life. The cha...

True West Magazine The life and times of the legendary Western writer and the legacy of Lonesome Dove. “Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in town.” Those were the first words I ever read written by Larry McMurtry, who died March 25 at age 84. They certainly weren’t the last. Texas author Larry McMurtry had a remarkable writing career that spanned six decades. He wrote fiction, nonfiction, memoir, television and film and was the rare writer to earn both a Pulitzer (...

True West Magazine Few individuals have enjoyed such a successful, varied and influential career in Hollywood as 84-year-old actor, story editor, writer, director, producer and studio executive John Wilder. Courtesy John Wilder “My parents loved Westerns. My mother’s family were pioneers; they were the first four wagons into Seattle, Washington. When I was five, in a little house on American Lake in Washington, we’d listen to the radio, to the Adventures of Red Ryder. Two years later I�...