ON THE COVER: Illustrated for Texas Monthly by James Bennett.
January 2004
Table of Contents
Features
The 2004 Bum Steer AwardsIt was a year of altitude-adjusting actors, bird-flipping benevolences, chili charlatans, dastardly deejays, embattled educators, flying freighty-cats, gubernatorial gallivantings, hip-hop hostilities, insatiable Isoptera, Judaically jolting jamborees, Kloroxed Kings, loblolly Leatherfaces, methodological manure-men, neuterings non grata, olé-less objets d'art, piscatorial policemen, queso quarrels, rear-end rectifyings, showboating second bananas, trio-trashing tractors, unamused über-actresses, vituperative vixens, wool-pulled-over Wal-Marts, x-coriated x-millionaires, "Yeehad" yuks, and zinged Ziggyburgers. Showdown at Waggoner RanchIt’s the nation’s biggest spread within the confines of a single fence—more than eight hundred square miles extending across six counties. So it’s fitting that the family feud over its future is big too. And mythic. Duke of DunbarThat would be 75-year-old Robert Hughes, who has amassed more victories while coaching in Fort Worth than anyone in high school basketball history. For most people, that would be enough. |
Blazing BrushstrokesGrowing up, I read scores of pulpy paperback westerns with good-guy-bad-guy action—and it was their amazing covers in gaudy, manly hues that roped me in. McKenzie Mullins Has CowWhich means she's an expert at reading bovine body language, and that makes her, at the absurdly young age of thirteen—only four years after overcoming her fear of horses—one of the world's best practitioners of the art of cutting. |
Columns
SportsDon’t Look YaoLed by the NBA’s most inadvertently colorful coach, this year's Houston Rockets are so much more than an excuse to see a certain ninety-inch-tall Chinese import. TravelRio de EneroWhen the San Antonio River’s downtown stretches are drained for a week each January, the crowds may ebb too. But it’s a perfect time to discover the waterway’s more natural side. |
Food and DrinkStock TipsAfter years of writing about chefs, I wanted to get a taste of what it’s like to be one—which is how I found myself browning veal knuckle bones at the fastest-growing cooking school in Texas. |
Reporter
ReporterEternal FlameWhat do you do if your university's administrators extinguish your Bonfire? If you're Aggies, you take the show on the road. Book ReviewThe Last Stand of the Tin Can SailorsBook ReviewHandsome Harry |
Book ReviewCut and RunMusic ReviewWesternaireMusic ReviewMarvelous ThingsMusic ReviewWheels of Fortune |
The Filter
Pat’s PickOn The RoadPat’s PickSeason’s Eating |
Miscellany
Web Exclusives
The FunniesSenior executive editor Paul Burka and senior editor Anne Dingus discuss this year’s Bum Steer Awards. Whoop!Photographer O. Rufus Lovett talks about capturing Aggie spirit on film. Rockets ManHouston Rockets general manager Carroll Dawson on new head coach Jeff Van Gundy, Yao Ming, and the game. Bum GiftsTwenty titter-producing trinkets and toys, from a Leatherface action figure and a Houston Texans Christmas Village to a Texas Shriner doll and a snap-on longneck top for boring ol' cans. Aggie LandSenior editor Pamela Colloff talks about the typical A&M student, chivalry, and Aggie spirit. |
Bum BooksThese titles are sure to get a laugh—or at least a smile—from even the most somber bookworms. Texas History 101The Alamo is a symbol of Texas’s independence, but it also was part of the largest concentration of Catholic missions in North America. Happy TrailsComfort is surprisingly different from other Hill Country towns. In fact, it has a cosmopolitan feel. Maybe that’s why it has attracted so many urban refugees. Texas TidbitsSan Antonio is home to the Alamo, which draws more than 2.5 million visitors a year, but did you know that the city also boasts the state's first modern art museum? |
Recipes
Open-Faced RavioliFrom Zoë-Italian, Fort Worth Rosca de ReyesWe have adopted this recipe from La Mexicana Bakery for the home baker. |
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