Table of Contents
May 2008
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Features
“Willie’s God! Willie’s God! We Love Willie!”In this extraordinary oral history, Willie Nelson’s friends, kin, and collaborators (Jimmy Carter, Emmylou Harris, Robert Redford, Merle Haggard, and many more big names) tell their favorite stories about him—and pay a special seventy-fifth-birthday tribute to perhaps the most iconic Texan of all. Faith, Hope, and ChastityTexas receives more federal funding for abstinence education than any other state. But is teaching kids not to have sex the same as sex education? |
Remains of the DayThe Texas State Cemetery, home to the final resting places of the celebrated and the notorious, is a walk through time, revealing all that is great, courageous, tragic, pompous, and absurd about Texas. This Land Is His LandJerry Patterson’s enemies make him out to be the Grinch who sold Christmas (Mountains, that is). Of course, he couldn’t give a &$%#. Natural BeautiesDozens of roses—and not just yellow ones—have flourished in Texas for more than a century, planted by immigrants who cherished them as sentimental reminders of home. Here are a few of our favorites. |
Columns
Behind the LinesAlmost BlueWhat the massive Democratic turnout says about the political landscape in Texas. Letter From Farmers BranchNo Place Like HomeBienvenidos a Farmers Branch, the headline-worthy Dallas suburb where the biggest hard-liner on illegal immigration could soon be known as Mr. Mayor. |
Letter From HoustonGirl, InterruptedHouston’s most famous teenage killer is trying to reclaim her life and move on. |
Reporter
In the ChuteA Dark VisionaryThe Working LifeAbby McAfee Daigle |
The Filter
In the ChuteA Dark Visionary |
Miscellaneous
ContributorsDon and Molly Glentze, Jeff Wilson, and Michael Hall Editor’s LetterSay Hey WillieRoar of the CrowdTwist of Faith |
Web ExtraBill Bishop |
How Abbott Killed the Needle Exchange Program (Tue May 13 at 4:39 PM)
There's Two I's in "Bonnie Richardson" (Sat May 10 at 11:45 PM)
Mother's Day Gift That Keeps on Giving (Thu May 1 at 10:55 AM)
Side Effexors May Include 10-Month Elections (Tue May 13 at 2:20 PM)
The TEXAS MONTHLY Podcast: Rodney Ellis on Guilt, Innocent, and the Death Penalty (Thu May 8 at 1:43 PM)
