March 2008 Cover

Photograph by Randal Ford.

March 2008

Table of Contents

Features

Did Kari Baker, despondent over her daughter’s passing, commit suicide? Or was she killed by her husband, Matt, a Baptist preacher in Waco and an alleged sexual predator? He says he didn’t do it, but her family insists otherwise—and they say they’ll keep after him until justice is done.

Yes, the setting is ritzy and the food remarkable. But what really makes the state’s best new restaurant sizzle is something less tangible: the (Dean) Fearing factor.

Live from Fearing’s in Dallas, the state’s best new restaurant.

A veteran Hollywood screenwriter couldn’t have come up with a better narrative arc: Seeking redemption, 59-year-old reenrolls at university he was once asked to leave, tries out for football team, makes it, becomes one of oldest-ever players in NCAA history. Or at least that’s how the hero wants it to be told. The full story may not be quite so neat and tidy, but . . . aw, hell, roll cameras anyway!

The full Mike Flynt story may not be quite so neat and tidy, but...aw, hell, roll cameras anyway!

Thirty years after he took his first photograph for us—of charming kook Stanley Marsh 3—contributing photographer Wyatt McSpadden looks back on his extraordinary career and tells the stories behind some of our favorite images.

In 1978, he got his first assignment. Thirty years later, he’s still here.

Columns

Behind the Lines

It’s the only election that matters.

Paul Burka reads “The Democraddick Primary”.

Letter From Houston

How soon before the Harris County DA makes his exit? Not soon enough.

Antonya Nelson

My Mexican housekeeper’s son had the troubles of many American teens. If only I could have helped him more.

Michael Ennis

The historic showdown between Texas and California has been a cold war, a simmering ideological feud between two great powers. And the winner (for now) is . . .

Kinky Friedman

Why cigar haters make ashes of themselves.

Reporter

In the Chute

The Long Center performs; FotoFest flashes; Diboll gets husk-y.

The Horse’s Mouth

Dave Hickey on being an art critic.

The Cheap Seats

The miserable lives of Texas Rangers fans.

The Working Life

Advertising Executive

Faith Bases

San Antonio

Hollywood, TX

Action Heroes 2008.

Go

A natural antidote to San Antonio sprawl.

Texquisite Corpse

Chapter Three of “Twin Wells,” by David Searcy.

The Gunslinger read by David Searcy

Texas Monthly Talks

Mark McKinnon on John McCain’s comeback.

Music Review

Music Review

Music Review

The Filter

Pat’s Pick

The Filter: Dining

Miscellany

Kinky Friedman, Andi Beierman, and Brent Humphreys.

Roar of the Crowd

Web Exclusives

An interview with Cliff Redd—executive director of the Long Center

A Waco housewife tracks the Matt Baker case.

Multimedia

The full Mike Flynt story may not be quite so neat and tidy, but...aw, hell, roll cameras anyway!

Paul Burka reads “The Democraddick Primary”.

The Gunslinger read by David Searcy

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