January 1993

Table of Contents

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Features

The 1993 Bum Steer Awards

It 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.

Scarred

Not 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 Dogpatch

Bill Clinton’s Arkansas isn’t the backwater you might think.

Shooting Stars

With wit and grit, Amarillo-born photographer Mark Seliger persuades reluctant celebrities to show their true selves.

Clash of the Cyberpunks

When 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

Business

Frozen Assets

Amy Miller built an Austin ice cream empire based on equal parts business savvy and zaniness. But will her winning formula travel?

Behind the Lines

A Mighty City

Mexico

Border Bonanza

Look for Texas to win big with North American free trade, as U.S. exports boom and Mexican companies migrate north.

Music

The Sound of Música

Texas’ tejano radio stations dish out a spicy mix of music and patter in English and Spanish, and the ratings are magnifico.

Food

Water Babies

Deepwater Gulf shrimp get all the press, but the sweetest, most succulent shrimp in Texas come from the bays.

Reporter

Reporter

Bunker Mentality

A small town hunkers down for a court fight with Bunker Hunt’s bankruptcy trustee.

Reporter

Engraved in Stone

An ancient cache of pebbles and flints yields North America’s oldest art.

Reporter

A Natural Phenomenon

A Hill Country ecobusiness discovers that green is also the color of money.

Miscellaneous

Roar of the Crowd

Political Pretexts

State of the Art

Brother J.H. Lewis and His Church

State Secrets

Cole Day in Hell