September 2001 Cover

Henry and John Paul Cisneros photographed exclusively for Texas Monthly by James McGoon on July 5, 2001, in San Antonio.

September 2001

Table of Contents

Features

He's is a healthy teenager (and nothing could make his dad happier).

Picking up the trail of Walker Railey.

Tuning in to Shaggy.

Prudence Mackintosh's sons.

A blast from the past.

Columns

Behind the Lines

Governor George W. Bush, M.I.A.

Politics

The former golden boy of Texas politics is still running hard.

Politics

Polling the ex-governors.

Politics

Brain cancer has put life and politics in perspective for Lena Guerrero.

Politics

Evan Smith on Robert Strauss.

Business

The oil boom is long over, but he and other wildcatters are still thriving.

Business

Booting up Rod Canion, version 2.0.

Business

Remembering the Hunt brother’s silver anniversary.

Business

Business

Robert Crandall and Frank Lorenzo.

Culture

Phyllis George and Texas’ other former Miss America’s didn’t let the tiara go to their head.

Culture

The original Urban Cowboy.

Culture

Falling for Davy Crockett (um, Fess Parker).

Sports

He has moved from pig skin to pork sausage, but he's still trying to score.

Sports

Evan Smith on Johnny “Lam” Jones.

Texana

Once notorious, Candy Barr's now anonymous—and happily so.

Texana

Only a man who came within three days of being executed for a crime he didn’t commit could be as passionate an advocate for a death-penalty moratorium as former death row inmate Randall Dale Adams.

The Filter

Pat’s Pick

The Fredericksburg Herb Farm branches out.

Miscellany

The Last Roundup

Keeping time with the Texas Jewboys.

Web Exclusives

Liz Smith, the grande dame of dish, talks about Texas, her book Natural Blonde, religion, and her pal Ann Richards.

Executive editor Skip Hollandsworth, who wrote about Candy Barr, and others tell the story behind this month's special issue.

Things are picking up in Dallas' Oak Cliff—thanks to a little help from Magic Johnson and Starbucks.

Novelist Salman Rushdie, whose new book, Fury, will be published by Random House in September, kicks off the twenty-first annual Margarett Root Brown Houston Reading Series on September 10 at the Alley Theatre.

For some hardworking bands, reality bites. But not for the Dallas group Flickerstick.

Ready for a blast from the past? This spiral bound cookbook goes back to the Dallas Cowboys team of 1979

Glen Rose and Granbury are fast becoming the weekend getaway spots. Find out why.

Will La Llorana, a native of the Rio Grande Valley, ever find her lost children? According to legend, probably not.

Sometimes, when the weather is just right, a Texas summer day can be full of more plots and twists than a good novel.

Recipes

Airy breads with sweet or savory fillings, kolaches are the Czechs’ best-known contribution to Texas cooking. We show how to make them with three different fillings.

Fresh rosemary gives this recipe for baked chicken a wonderfully pungent aroma.

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