Lauren Larson
@lonlozzin.bsky.social
Writer at Texas Monthly, menace elsewhere
There is no better score for These Times than a choir of dinosaur skulls moaning about the apocalypse. For @texasmonthly.bsky.social, I wrote about SMU's "dino choir" www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
SMU’s Dinosaur Choir Was 75 Million Years in the Making
The Dallas school’s reptilian-inspired band uses models of ancient skulls to play eerily abstract tunes.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
There is no better score for These Times than a choir of dinosaur skulls moaning about the apocalypse. For @texasmonthly.bsky.social, I wrote about SMU's "dino choir" www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Reposted by Lauren Larson
I now think of @lonlozzin.bsky.social when I go to a Buc-ee’s bathroom thanks to this piece www.texasmonthly.com/style/bucees...
October 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I now think of @lonlozzin.bsky.social when I go to a Buc-ee’s bathroom thanks to this piece www.texasmonthly.com/style/bucees...
Your outie loves astrology, speaks fluent Spanish, and can offer you insurance for a low low rate www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/b...
He Sold His Likeness. Now His Avatar Is Shilling Supplements on TikTok.
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August 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Your outie loves astrology, speaks fluent Spanish, and can offer you insurance for a low low rate www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/b...
I want to glow up like CHILI'S. Loved this piece from @paulaforbes.bsky.social for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/food/chilis-...
How Americans Fell Back in Love with Chili's
The chain based outside Dallas has mounted a stunning financial comeback in recent years by leaning into its Texan roots and mobilizing Gen Z fans on social media.
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August 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I want to glow up like CHILI'S. Loved this piece from @paulaforbes.bsky.social for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/food/chilis-...
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I profiled Hideo Kojima for SSENSE. He was funny and also very, very confident.
Hideo Kojima: The Creator
Inside the mind of one of our greatest living world-builders.
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July 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I profiled Hideo Kojima for SSENSE. He was funny and also very, very confident.
I love this @texasmonthly.bsky.social profile of Noah Hawley, especially how he talks about his wife here. Nothing performative and Wife Guy-ish about the admiration:
July 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I love this @texasmonthly.bsky.social profile of Noah Hawley, especially how he talks about his wife here. Nothing performative and Wife Guy-ish about the admiration:
Some pool reading from the pool canon @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/travel/best-...
A Highly Opinionated Deep Dive Into Five Texas-Shaped Pools
We traveled 1,400 miles across the state to sample our watery best.
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July 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some pool reading from the pool canon @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/travel/best-...
“There’s no couth, I guess. That’s probably an old Texan word, but I just wish people had a little more couth right now.” Wrote about the content creators posting from the flood zone for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
First Came the Flood. Then Came the Influencers.
After the July 4 disaster, independent content creators arrived in the Hill Country alongside news reporters, marking an uneasy merging of social media and journalism.
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July 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
“There’s no couth, I guess. That’s probably an old Texan word, but I just wish people had a little more couth right now.” Wrote about the content creators posting from the flood zone for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
As @texasmonthly.bsky.social has covered the floods this week we've all had our editor Aaron Parsley in our thoughts. His family's tragedy was horrific, and the fact that he was able to share it here, so clearly and movingly, is extraordinary. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
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July 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
As @texasmonthly.bsky.social has covered the floods this week we've all had our editor Aaron Parsley in our thoughts. His family's tragedy was horrific, and the fact that he was able to share it here, so clearly and movingly, is extraordinary. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Many Texans can't remember a Hill Country summer without Crider's. I'm so grateful to the Moores for taking the time to speak with @texasmonthly.bsky.social while they were grieving. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
On Its Hundredth Anniversary, Crider’s Reckons With a Hundred-Year Flood
The Hill Country rodeo and dance hall will open again, but not this summer.
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July 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Many Texans can't remember a Hill Country summer without Crider's. I'm so grateful to the Moores for taking the time to speak with @texasmonthly.bsky.social while they were grieving. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
I wrote about a Texan who discovered, at age 40, that she was a prodigy in a very unusual and very dangerous sport. For @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...
At 40, She Discovered She Was One of America’s Best Free Divers
Sara Burnett went from an introductory course to a world championship in just over a year.
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June 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I wrote about a Texan who discovered, at age 40, that she was a prodigy in a very unusual and very dangerous sport. For @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...
Texas Monthly writers drive a lot, so we know a good rest area when we see it. Here's an ode to the potty architects who made some of our faves @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/travel/prett...
How a Small Texas Architecture Firm Designs the State's Prettiest Rest Areas
An award-winning highway stop outside of Falfurrias is just one of Corpus Christi-based Richter Architects’ notable “transitory spaces” across the state.
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June 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Texas Monthly writers drive a lot, so we know a good rest area when we see it. Here's an ode to the potty architects who made some of our faves @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/travel/prett...
An ultra-rare Excellent Media Job, senior writer at @texasmonthly.bsky.social 🤠https://www.texasmonthly.com/about/jobs-and-internships/
Jobs and Internships
Since 1973, Texas Monthly has chronicled life in contemporary Texas, reporting on vital issues such as politics, criminal justice, the environment,
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June 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
An ultra-rare Excellent Media Job, senior writer at @texasmonthly.bsky.social 🤠https://www.texasmonthly.com/about/jobs-and-internships/
An excellent dive into a thing I rarely think about in spite of eating fish approx. 100 times a week, from brettmartin.bsky.social www.gq.com/story/the-et...
The Ethical Assassin: One Man's Quest for the Perfect Way to Kill a Fish
What if there were a perfect way to kill a fish? To make it suffer less, taste better, and extend its shelf life so significantly that more people might enjoy more kinds of fish all over the world? An...
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June 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
An excellent dive into a thing I rarely think about in spite of eating fish approx. 100 times a week, from brettmartin.bsky.social www.gq.com/story/the-et...
Congrats to J.K. Nickell and @texasmonthly.bsky.social, who won an ABA Silver Gavel Award today for this fantastic feature about a Dallas eviction lawyer's heroics www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
The Eviction Cure
What happens when a hotshot Dallas attorney gets ticked off about thousands of his fellow citizens being thrown out of their homes in violation of the law? Courtroom fireworks, for starters.
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May 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Congrats to J.K. Nickell and @texasmonthly.bsky.social, who won an ABA Silver Gavel Award today for this fantastic feature about a Dallas eviction lawyer's heroics www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Preparing to make my first Buc-ee's acquisition. I wrote about the (actually super involved) process of curating art for the Buc-ee's bathroom galleries for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/style/bucees...
Texas's Hottest Art Gallery Is the Buc-ee's Bathroom
The convenience chain's expertly curated collections for every location serve as a springboard for photographers and painters.
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May 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Preparing to make my first Buc-ee's acquisition. I wrote about the (actually super involved) process of curating art for the Buc-ee's bathroom galleries for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/style/bucees...
I wrote about the mammouse, an early breakthrough in the effort to resurrect mammoths, for @texasmonthly.bsky.social and for myself because I love furry little freaks www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
The Guy Who Wants to Engineer Woolly Mammoths Has Engineered . . . Something
Meet the woolly mammouse, a triumph of genetic editing—and optics.
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March 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I wrote about the mammouse, an early breakthrough in the effort to resurrect mammoths, for @texasmonthly.bsky.social and for myself because I love furry little freaks www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
🎵bass boys bass boys, what you gonna do🎵 www.texasmonthly.com/travel/big-b...
The Men Spending $1,000 a Day in Pursuit of Big Bass
Meet the weekend warriors stalking double-digit lunkers on the state’s many private lakes—which themselves cost landowners small fortunes.
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February 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🎵bass boys bass boys, what you gonna do🎵 www.texasmonthly.com/travel/big-b...
Reposted by Lauren Larson
bad news for texan fans of fx show the bear: i can confirm that the "crew ➡️" and "the bear ➡️" production signs spotted in east austin yesterday were for the austin-based production company that is also called the bear thebear.us
February 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
bad news for texan fans of fx show the bear: i can confirm that the "crew ➡️" and "the bear ➡️" production signs spotted in east austin yesterday were for the austin-based production company that is also called the bear thebear.us
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Come for the nuns, stay for the accidental undertaker.
A Lauren Larson special—
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A Lauren Larson special—
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When the Catholic Church Ran a Public School in Small-Town Texas
In a bizarre precedent to today’s debates over faith in the classroom, a local ISD let nuns run its school for twelve years. It went about as you’d expect.
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January 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Come for the nuns, stay for the accidental undertaker.
A Lauren Larson special—
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A Lauren Larson special—
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