June 2012 Cover

Photograph by Justin Carrasquillo.

June 2012

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Features

As the man known to the world as J. R. Ewing fends off throat cancer, he gears up to reprise the role that turned him into an icon and looks back on one of the most extraordinary—and eccentric—lives in show  business.

Over the past two decades Texas has exonerated more than eighty wrongfully convicted prisoners. How does this happen? Can anything be done to stop it? We assembled a group of experts (a police chief, a state senator, a judge, a prosecutor, a district attorney, and an exoneree) to find out.

Austin Mahone is sixteen years old. He doesn’t have a record contract, a tour bus, or a backing band. But he does have more than 650,000 followers on Twitter and the email addresses of 2,000,000 fans. Meet San Antonio’s answer to Justin Bieber.

The Hill Country Drive, the BBQ Market Drive, the Backwoods Drive, and thirteen other summer trips, from the mountains to the coast, that will take you down some of the prettiest, most picturesque, most wide-open stretches of asphalt Texas has to offer. Buckle up!

Itchin' to get in your car and take a drive but can't leave the office? Get your fix with a gallery of images from our cover story.

Columns

Behind the Lines

You might think they’re invincible, but Texas Republicans could soon find themselves in peril. At least that’s what Steve Munisteri says. And he should know.

Letter From Corpus Christi

Five years ago, Hannah Overton, a church-going Corpus Christi mother of five, was convicted of murdering her soon-to-be adoptive child and sentenced to life in prison. In April, she returned to  court—and watched her lawyers put the prosecution on defense.

Letter from Rochester

On November 5, 2009, Nader Hasan’s cousin Nidal Hasan killed thirteen people at Fort Hood. Kerry Cahill’s father, Michael, was one of the victims. Today, Nader and Kerry are unlikely allies.

The Texanist

Violent mockingbirds, farm-to-market roads, football versus lacrosse, and the incredible nerve of storekeepers who charge for spit cups.

Reporter

The Horse’s Mouth

Jay Hunter Morris on singing opera

The Working Life

Jennifer Walden, plastic surgeon

Object Lesson

Laura Wilson's Studio

Street Smarts

Historic downtown Galveston

Music Review

Music Review

Hollywood, TX

The new Dallas smartly pretends the nineties never happened.

State of the Art

Skyspace, Houston

The Filter

Pat’s Pick

The Filter: Dining

Miscellany

Justin 
Carrasquillo, Sam Martin, Joe Nick 
Patoski

Web Exclusives

The senior editor on her glimpse into Austin Mahone's rise to teen pop stardom in a world where YouTube and Twitter are making adults in the music business scratch their heads.

The Homegrown Music and Arts Festival, Jimmie Vaughan, and the South Texas Heritage Center . . .

Multimedia

Itchin' to get in your car and take a drive but can't leave the office? Get your fix with a gallery of images from our cover story.

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