February 2013 Cover

Illustrated by Kent Matheson. Fortieth-anniversary seal by Kendrick Kidd; 3-d rendering by Digital Progression.

February 2013

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Modern Texas, as told through the arhcives of Texas Monthly.

And the year's best new restaurants are . . .

Austin is booming with jobs, condos, festivals, traffic, hipsters, joggers, and high-concept dive bars (anyone for Lone Star and seared foie gras?). Does that mean it’s no longer Austin?

Is Austin the state’s most segregated city?

Taking Austin in from the city's most iconic summit.

Two questions for Ginger Goodin, of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.

Midland's Tom Craddick shares a few memories from his forty-plus years in the Legislature.

My unsentimental education in the wheeler-dealer ways of the most American of Texas cities.

In a city that loves its parties, there’s perhaps none so aesthetically significant as Two x Two for AIDS and Art, Dallas’s most cutting-edge fundraiser—and one hell of a good time.

The nomenclature of the area known as Dallas–Fort Worth. 

A return to the Trinity.

How I’m learning to love the Cowboys. And the Mavericks. And the Rangers. And the Stars. And . . .

Why the capital should rightfully be Houston, not Austin.

Forty years (and more) of the exuberant, eclectic neighborhood where I was born, grew as a writer, and found inspiration for the early pages of this magazine.

Activist Glenda Joe on the immigrant experience in Houston.

Columns

Behind the Lines

The cities have prevailed—but we're still rural at heart.

On pecan picking, marrying a Californian, and apartment dwelling . . .

Miscellany

Looking ahead to our next forty years. 

Web Exclusives

Tales From Dell City, Texas, "Taquerías of Southmost,” Terry Allen, and lessons in method acting . . .

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