January 2004
January 2004
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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. |
The Filter
Pat's PickOn The Road |
Pat's PickSeason’s Eating |
Miscellaneous
AtsboxGOING BATTYAtsboxON STAGEAtsboxSTRAIGHT TALKRecipeOpen-Faced Ravioli and Balsamic Roasted Chicken With Black Olive-Tomato ButterFrom Zoë-Italian, Fort Worth RecipeLa Mexicana's Rosca de ReyesWe have adopted this recipe from La Mexicana Bakery for the home baker. RecipeHomemade Apple Butter |
Web ExtraThe FunniesSenior executive editor Paul Burka and senior editor Anne Dingus discuss this year’s Bum Steer Awards. Web ExtraRockets ManHouston Rockets general manager Carroll Dawson on new head coach Jeff Van Gundy, Yao Ming, and the game. Web ExtraBum 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. Web ExtraAggie LandSenior editor Pamela Colloff talks about the typical A&M student, chivalry, and Aggie spirit. Web ExtraBum BooksThese titles are sure to get a laugh—or at least a smile—from even the most somber bookworms. Books That CookBeyond the Rim: A Taste of AmarilloTexas 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? |
D's use the spectre of Karl Rove to raise money (Tue Jul 1 at 12:20 AM)
Oh Big Brother, Where Art Thou (Fri Jul 4 at 9:30 AM)
Clay Felker (Tue Jul 1 at 11:15 AM)
Madam, I'm Adam (Sun Jun 22 at 4:34 PM)
Eating Vancouver (Mon Jun 30 at 10:04 PM)
