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ON THE COVER: Photograph by Andrew Eccles/Outline

October 1994

Table of Contents

Features

Anna Nicole Smith got her man: the full story on the big gal’s marriage to octogenarian oilman J. Howard Marshall.

Gangs, guns, and getting in trouble are a way of life for too many teenagers in San Antonio’s projects.

One night the pastor of Dallas’ all-powerful First Baptist Church mysteriously resigned. To this day, no one is sure why.

Excerpts from Joel Gregory’s new book Too Great a Temptation

In the final weeks, the governor’s race is too close to call. Here’s an analysis of what it will take to win.

All for Texas cheerleading, stand up, sit down, and read, read on.

Columns

Behind the Lines

Crime

Fred Zain was once a star witness for the prosecution, but his testimony may have sent innocent men to jail.

Politics

The law says customers can file their own car papers and save fifty bucks. In practice, forget it.

Recordings

Diverse styles and a shared devotion to fold music mark new releases by Nanci Griffith and Robert Earl Keen.

Religion

With love, discipline, and old-time religion, Kirbyjon Caldwell has built one of Texas’ most vital churches.

Music

The troubled imagination that fuels Daniel Johnston's powerful new album could also prove his undoing.

Books

A saga of lust and revenge with a corpulent heroine establishes Carol Dawson as Texas' most promising new writer.

Reporter

Reporter

A ban against hunting dogs is turning some East Texas hunters into backwoods pyros.

Reporter

Entrepreneurs in Donna are saving the good name of the real Texas tomatoes that come in a can.

Miscellany

Roar of the Crowd

State Secrets

Recipes

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