The Best and Worst Legislators 1993

Our biennial boosting and bashing of the state’s most beguiling politicians.

Compiled by Paul Burka and Patricia Kilday Hart

Sex, Lies, and Audiotape

Is folksy, friendly Kenny Rogers an insatiable phone-sex addict? Three women from the Dallas-Fort Worth area say he is, and now the Houston-born singer is fighting to restore his good name.

by Mimi Swartz

Vine and Dandy

What’s red and white and growing all over (as a tourist attraction)? Texas wineries.

by Anne Dingus

The Making of a Sex Symbol, 1993

How did Vickie Smith, waitress from Mexia, become Anna Nicole Smith, world-famous face? It’s anyone’s Guess?

by Skip Hollandsworth

Raise the Roof

The Alamodome is more than an outsized sports arena. It’s a marvel of urban planning that ensures San Antonio’s downtown vitality for years to come.

by Joe Nick Patoski

Food

Chuck Wagon Redux

The latest culinary crazy, Cowboy Cuisine has put a new spin on traditional Texas cooking.

by Patricia Sharpe

Behind the Lines

Paid to Do Injustice

by Gregory Curtis

Lifestyle

Dark Shadows

Thirty years ago, the old Mount Carmel Center was our local haunted house. Even then the specter of evil was present.

by Cathy Schechter

Art

Moving Pictures

A provocative San Antonio exhibit captures the flash and fervor of the Chicano movement in art and politics.

by Michael Ennis

Reporter

Snakes Alive!

Collectors flock to Del Rio to capture a care, fantastically patterned reptile.

by Helen Thompson

Reporter

Movie Mac

Houston’s Mattress Mac is making a comfortable living as a film producer.

by Helen Thompson

Reporter

Broiling Over

Propane producers and the Railroad commission want us to retire the charcoal grill.

by Helen Thompson

Roar of the Crowd

Drama Lesson

State Fare

Five-Grain Salad and Venison Sausage Quesadillas

by Patricia Sharpe

State of the Art

Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1953

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State Secrets

Demo-Splat

Edited by Robert Draper