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Dry Heat, Dry Pools: Lubbock Perfects the ‘Concrete Hole’ Aesthetic for Summer 2026
Congratulations, Lubbock! We’ve officially achieved our goal of becoming a literal desert with zero oases. The city recently announced that for the 2026 season, public…
Texas Graciously Grants You a Three-Day Discount on Not Dying During the Next Dust-Induced Apocalypse
Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock—filling in for whoever usually handles our impending doom—wants you to know…
Lubbock Opts for the ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Approach to Fire Prevention
In a move that surprises absolutely no one who has ever seen a Lubbock driver…
Mother Nature Clearly Hates Idalou, Local Peaches Scheduled for Early Execution
In today’s edition of “Why Do We Even Try to Grow Things Here?”, our friends…
Lubbock: Where Your Paycheck is Fat, but Your Soul is Flat
Oh, joy. Another “study” has come out to tell us what we already feel every…
Congrats, West Texas: We Finally Realized Infrastructure Actually Matters
Two years after the Smokehouse Creek Fire turned a million acres into a charcoal briquette,…
Dust, Fire, and Zero Water: Lubbock Completes the ‘Old Testament’ Bingo Card
In case you haven’t stepped outside and immediately had your retinas sandblasted, the U.S. Drought…
The Brick Trailer Park: An Autopsy of the Hub City’s Soul
If you have ever driven down Slide Road at 5:15 PM, dodging a lifted Ford…
Landlord Forgets to Pay the Bill, City Tries to Freeze Residents for ‘Legal Reasons’
In a shocking twist that surprised absolutely no one familiar with North Lubbock real estate,…
ERCOT Says “Relax,” Lubbock Remembers 2021 and Side-Eyes the Thermostat
A big cold snap is rolling into West Texas this weekend, and state officials are…