New on Hulu, Miss Snake Charmer is this week’s example of micro-regional craziness. Directors Rachael Waxler and EmmaLee Arroyo took their cameras to Sweetwater, Texas to capture the essence of an ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas — The West Texas-based documentary, "Miss Snake Charmer," is beginning to gain a lot of traction on streaming platforms such as Amazon Prime and Hulu. The film is about Sweetwater, ...

SWEETWATER - The beauty queen gripped her machete. "I've never taken a head off before," said Kala Wofford, wearing her sash beneath a light red poncho. On a small stump in front of her, the head of a ...

Each spring for more than half a century, this small West Texas town has hosted what's billed as the world's largest gathering of rattlesnakes. The roundup began as pest control, but has grown to ...

SWEETWATER – If you can skin a rattlesnake, everything else is small potatoes. That seems to be the message each year when I meet the newest contestants for the Miss Snake Charmer Pageant at the World ...

SWEETWATER, TEXAS — Kyndra Vaught caught everybody’s attention when she arrived at the rattlesnake roundup here in West Texas last month wearing her crown and rhinestone cowboy boots. “Are you the ...