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ITS DOORS WERE shut to the public for more than a year due to Covid, but the Alley Theatre has announced its return to in-person programming in the fall — just in time for its 75th anniversary. The milestone season will feature a Pulitzer Prize-winning play and four world premieres, including a musical.

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"WE'LL NEVER APOLOGIZE about where we come from. You shouldn't either," reads the website for young chef Benchawan Jabthong Painter's popular street-food-focused Thai restaurant Street to Kitchen (6501 Harrisburg Blvd), which has a cult following among local in-the-know Thai food aficionados and calls an unassuming strip center in the city's East End home. "We are unapologetically, authentically Thai."

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EVERY TEXAN HAS taken a hit this past year, but it's been a particularly tough for the state's agricultural community, which the USDA estimates has lost $6 to $8 billion due to the ongoing pandemic. Those losses were further compounded by the Texas electric-grid-damaging winter storm Uri, which the Texas Farm Bureau estimates caused an additional $600 million in losses.

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Food