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Clayton Maxwell

Austin

Writer at Freelance

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  • This Houston Chef Is the City's Biggest Cheerleader

    1 month ago | texashighways.com | Clayton Maxwell |Tyson Bird

    Ask Houston-based chef Chris Shepherd what he loves most about the city’s dining scene, and he answers without hesitation: “Diversity. I love that everybody can grow here.” Shepherd has done plenty of his own growing in the Bayou City.

  • These Houston Hotels Are Works of Art

    1 month ago | texashighways.com | Clayton Maxwell |Tyson Bird

    A glowing red grid of shelves around the check-in desk at Hotel Saint Augustine evokes a Piet Mondrian painting more than a display for custom-made incense and other fancy wares. The lounge and listening room—which boasts an 8-track player and a collection of vinyl—engulfs guests in a gorgeous mashup of curvy midcentury furnishings and lush English manor accents like a brass and mirror cocktail bar and velvet lounge chairs.

  • A Cafe for Migrants in El Paso Still Offers Meals and English Classes. But Things Have Changed.

    1 month ago | texasmonthly.com | Clayton Maxwell

    It’s Saturday afternoon at Doug Winter’s cafe, in El Paso, and Eduardo Bouché, a linguist in a black baseball cap, wants the students in his English as a Second Language class to hear the different pronunciations of vowels. His hands flow like a choir director’s as he teaches. He writes the words “eat” and “it” on a small chalkboard propped on a table and asks each of the students, from 6-year-old Teo to 72-year-old Annamarie, to say the words.

  • Inside Austin’s New “Elevated” Barbecue Restaurant, Where You Can See the Pits From Every Table

    Nov 4, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Clayton Maxwell

    Standing in Black Gold’s pit room about a week before the Austin restaurant’s opening day on November 9, Mems Davila rests his hand on the handle of Stevie Ray, one of two 22-foot-long smokers custom-made by Cen-Tex Smokers in Luling.

  • Austin’s Community First! Village Offers a Fresh Start

    Oct 22, 2024 | texashighways.com | Clayton Maxwell |Tyson Bird

    Texas’ friendliest places and faces It’s volunteer gardening day at Community First! Village in East Austin, and Shaeneeka and I are kneeling in flower beds by the chicken coop, planting tomatoes. She makes a hole with her spade, and I plop in a tomato plant. We find a snail and feed it to chickens on the other side of the fence, telling them it’s escargot. Shaeneeka’s good conversation distracts me from the stench of bird poop.

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Clayton Maxwell
Clayton Maxwell @ClaytonMaxwell8
1 Mar 25

New piece of mine in Texas Monthly about the good work of one El Paso cafe: https://t.co/BtfseSsiIn

Clayton Maxwell
Clayton Maxwell @ClaytonMaxwell8
5 Mar 20

Moonbeam refuge, alone and happy. #landsharing #hipcamp #texashighways https://t.co/iFrh9166vJ

Clayton Maxwell
Clayton Maxwell @ClaytonMaxwell8
4 Mar 20

Go stay in a historic hotel in Texas-- be a part of the effort to preserve gorgeous old buildings, give the local economy a boost, and make some magic. https://t.co/aNU9QclJxs