Texas Movies

When it comes to moviemaking, there’s no place like home.

Texas Movies: Texas Videos

Giant is just one of the best movies about Texas.

by Don Graham

Texas Movies: Hollywood, TX

How Hollywood sees us—and how Hollywood got us wrong.

by Larry L. King

Texas Movies: In Character

From wheezy-voiced geezers to yuk-it-up yokels, these actors excel at portraying the stereotypical Texan.

by Anne Dingus

Texas Movies: Coming Soon!

The Lone Star State plays a lead role in fourteen new releases.

by Betsy Williams

Texas Movies: The Alamovie

It’s got everything: romance, action, tragedy, coonskin cap.

by Frank Thompson

Texas Movies: Tender Foote

Oscar-winning screenwriter Horton Foote continues to capture ordinary people coping with life’s difficulties.

by Al Reinert

The Ghosts of the Freedmen

Dallas is a city that has prided itself on having escaped the hostility of the civil rights years—until now.

by Dana Rubin

Boots and Me

In Texas, the cowboy boot still makes the man.

by Skip Hollandsworth

Perils of Politics

Ann Richards, Bob Bullock, and Gib Lewis are headed for a crash over the stated budget.

by Paul Burka

Behind the Lines

The Queen and I

by Gregory Curtis

Lifestyle

Pomp and Circumstance

Kicked out of the Miss USA contest, two Texas beauty moguls landed on their feet and started their own pagent.

by Skip Hollandsworth

Texana

Lights! Camera!

Action abounds in the new slide show at the San Jacinto Monument, but the view of history falls a bit short.

by Stephen Harrigan

Politics

Going by the Book

Under Jim Hightower, the agriculture department was liberal and loose. Under Rick Perry, it will be corporate and crisp.

by Dana Rubin

Reporter

Paint It Van Black

Three galas are all in a night’s work for Houston’s TV party animal.

by Helen Thompson

Reporter

Barroom Brawl

A new contender for the margarita-inventor title turns up in S.A.

by Helen Thompson

Reporter

Parr for the Course

San Diego’s museum is just on box short of telling the whole truth.

by Helen Thompson

Roar of the Crowd

IRS Blues

Recipe

Cheese Strudel With Smoked Salmon

State Wide Business

Uniform Success

Williamson-Dickie of Fort Worth has a blue-collar gold mine in Dickies work clothes.

by John Anderson

Recipe

Shallot Vinaigrette

State Wide Business

Fraud Buster

An Austin investigator clues accountants in on how to sniff out financial shenanigans.

by John Anderson

Recipe

Tomato Flowerpots

State of the Art

When I Was A Cowboy

Photograph by David Levinthal

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State Fare

State Fare: Cheese Strudel With Smoked Salmon

Four Seasons Hotel, Riverside Cafe, Austin

by Patricia Sharpe

State Secrets

Ill Suited

Edited by Paul Burka