Photograph by Brent Humphreys.
November 2008
Table of Contents
Features
Come Early. Be Loud. Cash In.How did the University of Texas build the most successful college sports program in history? One visionary coach at a time. One world-class athlete at a time. One state-of-the-art stadium at a time. And with an ambitious, aggressive business model that’s the envy of its rivals everywhere. The ExoneratedThirty-seven men, 525 years behind bars for crimes they didn’t commit. Thanks to DNA testing, their claims of innocence have finally been proved—but what happens to them now?
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Your Bird HereTurkey, shmurkey! This Thanksgiving, when your mother-in-law gets ready to serve up boring old tradition as a main course, you should cry fowl and turn her attention to these other fine, feathered, delectable friends. My Frail IslandThe damage done by Hurricane Ike to Galveston, my beloved hometown, is in many ways worse than you’ve read about. And I’m not only talking about the physical devastation.
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Columns
Behind the LinesI Don’t Like IkeHere comes the story of the hurricane.
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Kinky FriedmanOnly the LonelyHow I came to know the hermit of Echo Hill.
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Reporter
The Horse’s MouthDoing Political Impressions |
Texquisite CorpseTwin WellsChapter Eleven of “Twin Wells,” by Stephen Graham Jones.
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The Filter
Miscellany
ContributorsMisty Keasler, Van Ditthavong, and Lou Brooks. Editor’s LetterThe Good Seed |
Roar of the CrowdBoone or Bust? |
Web Exclusives
Warren HoodA web-only interview with the Austin violinist. Sign of the TimesMissing an Obama yard sign in West Houston. The Chattering ClassReader comments in the final days of the election. |
The Day AfterJournalists and other notables to give us their reactions to the long campaign and the election of Barack Obama. Speaker UpCandidates for Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives tell us why they think they should hold the highly coveted gavel. Madame Secretary, I Presume?Hillary Clinton has served on the Senate Armed Services Committee, visited troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and successfully dodged hostile (as opposed to agreeable) gunfire in Bosnia. |
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Recipes
Fried Shishito PeppersTei-An, Dallas |
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