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Want to do deals in Mexico? Get ready for hugs, long lunches, and other mysteries of the country’s business culture.
Want to do deals in Mexico? Get ready for hugs, long lunches, and other mysteries of the country’s business culture.
How the memoir of an unknown and homeless writer brought him fame and a place to live.
The biggest brouhaha in Dallas isn’t about taxes, potholes, or garbage collection. It’s about seventy bronze steers.
As Corpus Christi oil magnate Robert Rowling has discovered, rebuilding his city is good for civic pride and better for business.
For country club developer Robert Dedman, success is won by squeezing every minute out of every hour of every day.
After ten low-key years, country singer turned mystery novelist Kinky Friedman is once again poised to hit the big time.
Police officers Randy Harris and Swany Davenport were called heroes for busting Dallas drug dealers. But when they broke the laws they had pledged to uphold, the dealers cried foul—and the heroes got busted.
Think casual entertaining, and you think “grill.” This dish, from the New Southwestern bistro Third Coast Rotisserie and Grill in Houston, propels tradition up a notch.The shrimp and scallop skewers, a creation of executive chef Gary Tottis, take one of Texas’ great natural resources—seafood—and give it a distinctive Mexican accent—the
The Mound Builders’ ancient works survived wind, rain, and looters. Now they face a worse peril: state bureaucrats.
Legendary humorist Will Rogers was from Oklahoma, but he never met a Texas he didn’t like.
One boy’s excellent adventure at the new playground of the nineties.
American CEO Crandall and plaintiff’s lawyer Jamail waged the latest airline war in court.
In her new book, Georgette Mosbacher gives feminism a feminine touch.
Trade with Mexico has made this onetime border pit stop Texas’ fastest-growing city.
In his new release, Jimmie Dale Gilmore sings country music the way it’s supposed to be sung—pure and easy.
A year after a grand mal seizure left me convulsing on the floor, I’m still finding my way back into everyday life.
We could show you pie charts or a thirty-minute infomercial, but take our word for it: Ross Perot is still the richest Texan.
When it comes to giving his millions to charity, BMC Software founder John Jay Moores is an old softie.
Forget what you’ve heard about wacky Waco. In the fifties, as Windy Drum’s photographs demonstrate, the city was bustling, optimistic, and all-American.
For business travelers with reservations about big-city hotels, bed and breakfasts suddenly have staying power.
At play in the fields of Mexico, onetime major leaguers find beisbol is an entirely different game.
John Connally’s forgotten legacy.
Ikea appeals to twentysomethings who are beyond bricks and boards but not yet ready for a lifetime furniture commitment.
A creative Dallas man nails down fees hanging rich people’s artwork.
A South Texas town rebuilds its church with faith, hope, and lots of charity.
The sour odor of calf chips from an Erath County feedlot has one family crying foul.
The boss of American Airlines is mad as hell at cut-rate competitors, selfish unions, and ignorant government regulators—and he’s not going to take it anymore.
Since the fifties, they’ve been East Texas’ most colorful watering holes—bar none.
One of the world’s magnificent game fish, tarpon are back in Texas waters. Can we keep them from disappearing again?
Larry McMurtry rallies Lonesome Dove’s geriatric survivors for a last perilous, meandering adventure in Streets of Laredo.
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.
What’s red and white and growing all over (as a tourist attraction)? Texas wineries.
Propane producers and the Railroad commission want us to retire the charcoal grill.
Houston’s Mattress Mac is making a comfortable living as a film producer.
Collectors flock to Del Rio to capture a care, fantastically patterned reptile.
Thirty years ago, the old Mount Carmel Center was our local haunted house. Even then the specter of evil was present.
The latest culinary crazy, Cowboy Cuisine has put a new spin on traditional Texas cooking.
How did Vickie Smith, waitress from Mexia, become Anna Nicole Smith, world-famous face? It’s anyone’s Guess?