December 2007
Table of Contents
Features
Meat Your MakerFrom city to country, fancy to down-home, the state’s 38 best steakhouses. Plus: the Japanese beef that everyone should be eating, our favorite butcher shops, and how to grill a ribeye that even your father-in-law will love. Plus:
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That Championship SeasonLong before the BCS, long before anyone thought to publish insider newsletters for boosters, the Aggies were the best college football team in the nation—for the first and only time. The long-gone glory days remembered. Everyone’s PoopSewerage is the cornerstone of civilization, the sine qua non of urban life, and the best possible window into how we live, what we eat, and who we are. The Best Public SchoolsA ranking of 859 elementary, middle, and high schools that really make the grade. |
Columns
Letter From HoustonReversal of FortuneHow Houston’s rich got to be the same as you and me—that is, boring. Letter from San AntonioBoom With A ViewThere’s no stopping the skyrocketing growth of San Antonio—until recently the Land That Time Forgot—and there’s no going back. |
Reporter
Texas Monthly TalksKay Bailey Hutchison |
The Filter
The Filter: DiningNew and Noteworthy |
Miscellany
Roar of the CrowdAlpine Mystery Slights |
Editor’s LetterMeat the Press |
Web Exclusives
Aaron AllstonThe Round Rock author and former video game designer has just penned his ninth Star Wars serialization, Legacy of the Force: Fury. Barry WalkerThe curator of The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston discusses the museum’s recent acquisitions, from Jasper Johns to Philip Guston. |
Dickens on The StrandGalveston |
Recipes
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