ON THE COVER: Illustration by Gary Locke
January 1993
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Features
The 1993 Bum Steer AwardsIt was a year of absent Alamos, buried Barbies, castrated calves, derriere drawings, errant escalators, filching frats, grid-iron graduates, hightailing hoopsters, income-tax immigrants, jailed joggers, Keating kudos, lascivious linksters, mercenary morticians, nonoffensive nachos, overdrawn officials, Perot pumpkins, querulous quackers, relaxed Rangers, safe-sex students, testosterone teeth, undersea upraisings, visionary vacuumers, wounded whinniers, X-iled X-pectorators, yielding York, and zealous zoners. ScarredNot long after she made her trek from Texas to New York, Marla Hanson saw her modeling career end at the hands of a razor-wielding thug. Six years later, the cuts on her face have healed, but the emotional wounds remain. Greetings From DogpatchBill Clinton’s Arkansas isn’t the backwater you might think. |
Shooting StarsWith wit and grit, Amarillo-born photographer Mark Seliger persuades reluctant celebrities to show their true selves. Clash of the CyberpunksWhen teens from Austin and New York started an electronic gang war, it seemed like another harmless computer game—until the FBI and the Secret Service stepped in. |
Columns
Behind the LinesA Mighty CityBusinessFrozen AssetsAmy Miller built an Austin ice cream empire based on equal parts business savvy and zaniness. But will her winning formula travel? MexicoBorder BonanzaLook for Texas to win big with North American free trade, as U.S. exports boom and Mexican companies migrate north. |
MusicThe Sound of MúsicaTexas’ tejano radio stations dish out a spicy mix of music and patter in English and Spanish, and the ratings are magnifico. FoodWater BabiesDeepwater Gulf shrimp get all the press, but the sweetest, most succulent shrimp in Texas come from the bays. |
Reporter
ReporterBunker MentalityA small town hunkers down for a court fight with Bunker Hunt’s bankruptcy trustee. ReporterEngraved in StoneAn ancient cache of pebbles and flints yields North America’s oldest art. |
ReporterA Natural PhenomenonA Hill Country ecobusiness discovers that green is also the color of money. |
Miscellany
Roar of the CrowdPolitical PretextsState of the ArtBrother J.H. Lewis and His Church |
State SecretsCole Day in Hell |
Recipes
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