
Arman Badrei
Assistant Editor and Fact-checker at Texas Monthly
Fulbrighter in Argentina | Words in @TexasMonthly @TexasObserver @HoustoniaMag | [email protected]
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Mar 15, 2024 |
texasmonthly.com | Arman Badrei
Law enforcement officials in Clifton who arrested a handful of Dairy Queen employees for allegedly selling methamphetamines at their workplace dubbed the investigation Operation Blizzard. A military medical facility in Bexar County refused service to a patient who arrived with two spider monkeys that she said were her emotional support animals.
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Feb 27, 2024 |
texasmonthly.com | Arman Badrei |Rose Cahalan
In Crystal City lie the remains of an enormous swimming pool. The circular structure, which stretched for 250 feet across and was originally an irrigation tank, was filled in long ago. Now all that remains is a field of cracked concrete, overgrown with grass and weeds parched by the South Texas sun, in this small town about two hours southwest of San Antonio.
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Feb 16, 2024 |
texasmonthly.com | Arman Badrei
A Wise County sheriff’s deputy, responding to a complaint that someone had dumped spaghetti on a man’s yard, determined that the culprit was the caller’s neighbor, who had thrown a dish his mother made for him onto the man’s property.
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Jan 25, 2024 |
texasmonthly.com | Arman Badrei
Over a prison phone in Huntsville, Ivery Dorsey is rapping. At 6 cents a minute, time is money, but Dorsey doesn’t think he’s wasting his breath. Serving his seventeenth year of a twenty-year sentence for a murder he insists he didn’t commit, the 49-year-old Houstonian—who goes by the moniker Hallow (as in “hallowed be thy name”)—hopes to become a hip-hop artist upon release. “I’ve always been a dreamer,” Dorsey explains.
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Jan 19, 2024 |
texasmonthly.com | Arman Badrei
A 106-year-old World War II veteran beat his own record as the oldest person to tandem skydive when he jumped out of a plane over Fentress—and was joined in the endeavor by Governor Greg Abbott. Someone allegedly stole a city-owned wildlife camera in Live Oak without realizing it was still sending photos to the police, who identified the man from images of him sitting half-naked in bed and promptly arrested him.
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Heath Bars are pretty good, but have you tried meth in your Blizzard? This month's Meanwhile, in Texas (my final one!) has the best illustration of all time. https://t.co/gq11kIWb9x

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RT @rosecahalan: “We’ve moved here to Texas, where we see stars of such mysterious beauty.” At Crystal City's WWII internment camp, which…