Working the Rigs

Show us the hardest working man in Texas and we’ll show you a roughneck.

by Nicolas Russell

GGGhost Stories

The smell of sulfur in a dance hall, the strains of violin music at midnight, a puddle of water in a taxicab—these are the signs Texas ghosts leave behind. Now don’t say we didn’t warn you.

by Joe Nick Patoski

The Cap That Won The West

The newest style of manly hatwear.

by Richard West

The Last of the Great Ladies

Oveta Culp Hobby has gone from a country town to a position of power and wealth. What she hasn’t done will also be her legacy.

by Harry Hurt III

A Season in Hell

A few years ago guards ran the Rusk State Hospital for the criminally insane. Now sociopathic criminals rule the wards.

by Dick J. Reavis

I Can’t Do It!

Some kids may fail at school and it’s not their fault.

by Stephen Harrigan

Behind the Lines

The war isn’t over.

by William Broyles

Dining In

Lettuce Entertain You

With feasts from the garden.

by Martha Shulman

Lifestyle

Gifts from My Father

All his life, the son learned from the father, but the most important lesson came at the end.

by William Martin

Citywise

There’s No Fuel like an Old Fuel

All you need to heat your home is a stove, firewood, and a match.

by Linda West Eckhardt

Politics

Ticket to Ride?

For the Republicans this fall, it may be a trip to oblivion.

by Paul Burka

Country Notes

The Snuff of Dreams

Common uses of the most uncommon form of tobacco.

by John Graves

Film

Ms. Loves Company

“Make new friends, keep the old.” It’s not as easy as it sounds.

by George Morris

Theater

The Taming of the Bard

A little touch of Shakespeare in the heat.

by W. L. Taitte

Classical Music

A Knight at the Opera

A look at Dallas Civic Opera’s Plato Karayanis, a man with a noble cause who’s selling tickets to a dream.

by W. L. Taitte

Art

Rainbow County

From China, with kid gloves.

by Michael Ennis

Books

Dixie Drag

Sexual secrets in the Piney Woods.

by Gene Lyons

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

Bucking the U.S. Air Force, breeding horses for royalty, and hightailing it out of town before the Corps of Engineers gets you.

by John Bloom

The Inside Story

No contest.

by Gregory Curtis

Roar of the Crowd

Sex and violence.

Touts

Sweets to the Suite.

by Patricia Sharpe

Contest

R.I.P.

by Paul Burka

State Secrets

Some tidbits and outrages under our very noses.

Edited by Paul Burka