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Music Monday: Shea Serrano On ‘The Rap Yearbook’ And His Houston Hip Hop...
Shea Serrano is a treasure trove of rap knowledge, so it makes sense that the Houston-based writer would be tapped to assemble one of the more ambitiously whimsical projects on the subject of hip hop:...
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Bestselling Author Shea Serrano Is Live Tweeting Giving Out $100 Bills To...
It’s been a good year for Houston writer Shea Serrano, even if you take into account the end of Grantland—the web outlet he was a staff writer for until it folded in October. His Rap Yearbook became a...
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AMC’s Love Affair With Texas Continues With ‘The Rap Yearbook’
Shea Serrano’s had a very good past couple years. The insightful Houston writer’s thoughts on music and sports elevated him to one of the premier voices on ESPN’s much-missed Grantland, and when that...
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The Best Thing in Texas: Shea Serrano Fans Are Sending a Whole Bunch of...
Texas, like all places, is the site of both triumphs and tragedies. Every week in the Best Thing in Texas, we look for something that reminds us why we love our state so much. WHO: Houston–based, San...
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Amanda Shires and Shea Serrano Are Paving Their Own Lanes
Across ten- to twelve-hour days, Amanda Shires wrote her new album holed up in a clothes closet and emerged with some of the most disparate and expansive-sounding songs of her career. Meanwhile, on...
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Shea Serrano’s New Podcast, ‘Villains,’ Is Like Listening in on His Movie Club
Pop culture writer Shea Serrano’s first (and long-awaited) podcast, Villains, debuted at 5 a.m. on November 15. Within hours, it had reached number twelve on the Apple Podcasts charts, earning over...
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The Power Issue: Shea Serrano Is Conquering Social Media
This profile is part of our 2018 Power Issue. For more of 2018’s most powerful Texans, click here. Shea Serrano is a New York Times best-selling author, a staff writer and podcast host at The Ringer,...
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On Texas Time: Shea Serrano, Best-selling Author and the Pied Piper of Social...
Welcome to On Texas Time, a series dedicated to finding out how some of Texas’s most accomplished citizens get through their days. In 2009, Shea Serrano was a middle school science teacher in Houston...
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Shea Serrano Talks Selena, The Rock, and the Movies That Opened Up His World
San Antonio’s Shea Serrano is one of the best-known and beloved pop culture writers on the Internet (and has a huge online following to match). He’s written two New York Times best-selling books:...
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Illustrator Arturo Torres Brings Basketball, Movies, and Other Things to Life...
As a child growing up in Garland, the artist Arturo Torres often holed up with his two brothers in the bedroom they all shared, watching superhero movies and reading comic books to escape the terror...
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Texas Authors on Their Favorite Books of 2019
The last year of this decade has been a particularly strong one for Texas literature, from Stephen Harrigan’s history-redefining look at the state to the debut works of Houston-bred authors Bryan...
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Shea Serrano’s New Sitcom, ‘Primo,’ is Peak Pocho TV
Historically, American TV shows that feature Latino families have gone out of their way to communicate how different their subjects are from the Conners and the Cleavers. Whether it’s George Lopez...
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