August 2008
Table of Contents
Features
Springs EternalGrab your towel, your sunscreen, and go! Presenting our 25 favorite swimming holes: Barton Springs, Blue Hole, Balmorhea, and other iconic places to lower your core temperature. At least for a couple of hours. The Killing FieldBefore they clubbed two deer to death in their tiny West Texas town, the four high school football stars were treated like royalty. Afterward, when news of their exploits hit the Internet, they were celebrities of a very different sort. Out of SightFor the 140 full-time, residential students lucky enough to be enrolled there, the Texas School for the Blind is “heaven,” “home,” and “the first place I had friends.” Plus:Out of Sight: PodcastPamela Colloff reads “Out of Sight.” Dance LessonsA slide show of students at the Texas School for the Blind getting ready for prom night—just like typical teenagers. |
State of PlayYou may think you know how the Obama-McCain battle in Texas is going to turn out. You may even be right. But the more important outcome is down-ballot, where two dozen or so races—and the future of politics and policy here—will be affected by what happens at the top of the ticket. Bass-O-MaticHow a fish called Ethel (seventeen pounds, ten ounces) caught by a fishing guide named Mark (Stevenson, in 1986, on Lake Fork) revolutionized a once-sleepy sport. |
Columns
Sarah BirdLactation NationPutting the fun in fun bags! The mommy in mommy muffins! (I could go on.) |
Reporter
The Filter
Pat’s PickScreen Door |
The Filter: DiningNew and Noteworthy |
Miscellany
Roar of the CrowdSecond HelpingsContributorsSarah Wilson, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, and Charlie Llewellin. |
Editor’s LetterA Patriot Act |
Web Exclusives
Nick FlynnThe new play from the author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. |
Recipes
Risotto “Jambalaya”Recipe courtesy of Screen Door in Dallas. |
