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? Plus:Conviction: Slide ShowMen who were falsely imprisoned share their stories of trying to move forward in a world that has largely left them behind. Texas Monthly LiveIn a special event presented by Texas Monthly and SMU, senior editor Michael Hall, Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins, and James Waller, one of the exonerated men, discuss DNA testing, guilt, and innocence. A True Crime: VideoVideo interviews with wrongfully imprisoned men who have been exonerated through DNA testing. |
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. |
Columns
Gary CartwrightYou Aren’t HereThe very spot where William Barrett Travis wrote his famous “victory of death” letter is a Ripley’s Haunted Adventures. And other ways gross commercialization has desecrated the Alamo’s sacred battleground site. |
Reporter
The Horse’s MouthDoing Political Impressions |
The Filter
Miscellany
Roar of the CrowdBoone or Bust?ContributorsMisty Keasler, Van Ditthavong, and Lou Brooks. |
Editor’s LetterThe Good Seed |
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. |
Recipes
Fried Shishito PeppersTei-An, Dallas |
