October 1999
Table of Contents
Features
Three Cheers for High School Football!The greatest coach, the most-fearsome players, the top teams, games you shouldn’t miss, and more. We Love the Westlake Chaps. No, Really.Half the state hates them and secretly admires them. The other half admires them and secretly hates them. Such is the plight of the decade’s best high school football team. Over TimeEleven years later, the Permian High School Panthers remember Friday Night Lights, the book that put them—and Odessa—on the map. |
Is Robert Abel Getting Away With Murder?Investigators in the coastal plain think so, and they’re doing what they can to tie the retired NASA engineer to the deaths of at least four young women there. But thus far the tangible evidence has eluded them. And, consequently, so has he. Paris, TexasMadeline at Neiman Marcus, the Capitol, the Alamo: A classic children’s heroine comes to the Lone Star State—and a bookstore near you. Hey, DudeYou might be bunking in a room that would give Martha Stewart seizures, but at these eleven guest ranches you can saddle up and get in touch with your inner buckaroo. |
Columns
Behind the LinesObstacle CourseDrugs. Cussing. Funeral home regulation. George W. Bush is on the ropes—or is he? PoliticsLet There Be LiteForgive state senators like David Sibley and Bill Ratliff their jockeying to succeed Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry. They want to be number two; they have to try harder. EducationRunn Also RisesHow an elementary school turned itself around: a South Texas success story. |
TravelYou Gotta BelizeI was lured to Central America by the promise of “unspoiled adventure travel.” After sailing for a week in the Caribbean, I can report that I wasn’t disappointed. TexanaDead BeatFor an outing that’ll make you go stark graving mad, visit Texas’ peaceful old cemeteries—and experience the esprit de corpse. ReligionWitch HuntThe Wiccans of Fort Hood have conjured up their share of enemies, including a Republican congressman and a Baptist preacher. Are their claims of religious freedom appropriate, or are they off base? |
Reporter
FaceJudy WalgrenReporterFelonious Monk?There’s something unorthodox—to say the least—about the Christ of the Hills Monastery in Blanco. |
Hot BoxCD and Book ReviewsCDs by Daniel Johnston, Don Walser, and Willie Nelson; BOOKS by Tom Grimes and Joe R. Lansdale. |
Miscellany
Roar of the CrowdOur Lady Bird |
The Inside StoryCamera! Lights! Action! |
Recipes
State FareRevenge of the bird: A pleasant pheasant from the Rough Creek Lodge near Glen Rose. |
