Marilyn Bailey

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A Cup o’ Joe in the Walmart Parking Lot With ‘Yellowstone’ Star Cole Hauser

Sep 20, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Marilyn Bailey

Yellowstone’s Rip Wheeler has branded human flesh with a cattle iron, thrown a rattlesnake into a man’s face, and beat the daylights out of a gang of bikers, to name just a few of his escapades. Inspiring a fine bunch of North Texans to line up outside a Walmart before 6 a.m. on a Tuesday is far from the most brutal thing he’s ever done, but it’s pretty rough. It’s okay, though, because there’s coffee! So much coffee.
‘Girls5eva’ Has Immortalized Fort Worth in Goofily Accurate Song

Mar 20, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Marilyn Bailey

WHO: The women of fictional girl group Girls5eva—Dawn (Sara Bareilles), Gloria (Paula Pell), Summer (Busy Philipps), and Wickie (Renée Elise Goldsberry), who definitely would not like being listed last—as well as songwriters Jeff Richmond and Meredith Scardino. WHAT: “Tap Into Your (Fort) Worth,” a song from the season-three premiere of the Netflix sitcom Girls5eva.
The Big Map of Texas Indie Bookstores

Oct 16, 2023 | texasmonthly.com | Marilyn Bailey

We scoured the state for every indie we could find. Texas readers, you’re going to want to bookmark.
We Thought Amazon Killed Local Bookstores. We Were So Wrong.

Oct 16, 2023 | texasmonthly.com | Marilyn Bailey

Welcome to Indie Bookstore Week, Texas Monthly’s salute to the bookshops that have shaped the lives of our readers and writers. Thompson’s Bookstore, one of the most distinctive small businesses in downtown Fort Worth, is not a bookstore. Its owners, who opened up shop eight years ago in an atmospheric old building, borrowed the name from the bookstore that occupied the space from 1972 to 1993. What the new Thompson’s is is a bar, with stuffed bookcases and literary-themed cocktails.