September 2008 Cover

Composite photograph by Randal Ford.

September 2008

Table of Contents

Features

Our most iconic oil and gas man, lately a water marauder and now a celebrated windcatter, has saved himself a couple of times in his eighty glorious years. Who’s to say he can’t save America?

A narrated slide show of the making of this month’s cover.

Skip Hollandsworth on Boone's trip to the White House to promote the Pickens Plan.

Die-hard fans of America’s Team are debating that very question as we speak—and also wondering if the kid from Wisconsin with the buxom distraction can take them to the Super Bowl any faster than, say, Gary Hogeboom did.

How my husband, Ferdinand, and I lost everything in the historic hurricane and then found a new life in the Lone Star State.

On September 10, Charles Dean Hood will receive a lethal injection. Perhaps. Four times before, the convicted murderer has had a date with the executioner only to have the criminal justice system grant him a reprieve—most recently (and most famously), twice in the space of a few hours on the night of June 17. Here, in missives to senior editor Michael Hall, he describes what it’s been like to live on death row—and to have your life spared when you thought the end had come.

Exclusive video of convicted murderer Charles Dean Hood as he talks about the day he almost died.

My friend Keith Carter is famous not just in his native East Texas but the world over for his discriminating and artful eye, having learned long ago that photography can d o far more than the simple recording of external fact.

Columns

Behind the Lines

Increasingly so. Surprise, surprise.

Mimi Swartz on Houston—the environmental capital of the world?

Antonya Nelson

The birds and the bees and my kids and me.

Letter From Washington, DC

Who better to diagnose John McCain’s woes than the man who used to be his Karl Rove?

Kinky Friedman

My little gambling problem.

Confessions of a gambling addict.

Reporter

In the Chute

The Dallas symphony; The Color Purple; the Nasher at five.

The Horse’s Mouth

The Cheap Seats

Guns up! Way up!

The Working Life

Small-Town Family Doctor

Faith Bases

Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, Dallas.

The Manual

How to wrangle a rattlesnake.

Hollywood, TX

The gay cliché.

Go

How the West was fun.

Texquisite Corpse

Chapter Nine of “Twin Wells.”

The last picture show. Read by Doug Dorst.

Texas Monthly Talks

Music Review

Music Review

Music Review

The Filter

The Filter: Dining

Dali Wine Bar Restaurant, Dallas and Kenzo Sushi Bistro, Katy.

Miscellany

Editor’s Letter

Roar of the Crowd

Web Exclusives

Multimedia

A narrated slide show of the making of this month’s cover.

Exclusive video of convicted murderer Charles Dean Hood as he talks about the day he almost died.

Confessions of a gambling addict.

Mimi Swartz on Houston—the environmental capital of the world?

Skip Hollandsworth on Boone's trip to the White House to promote the Pickens Plan.

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