Gregory Curtis
Gregory Curtis was the editor of TEXAS MONTHLY from 1981 until 2000. You can find out more about his current activities at www.gregorycurtis.com.
Features
Debating Robert Caro
The fourth volume of an epic LBJ biography stirs more controversy.
Good-bye to a Horse
She named him Mark. I didn't know why, any more than I knew why my daughter was drawn to riding in the first place. But I did know that she loved him—and that letting him go was the hardest thing she'd ever done.
Education • Barbara R. Foorman
Read all about her.
The Lone Gunman
Why the Warren Commission was right.
LAW • Karla Faye Tucker
A matter of life and death.
San Francisco
Beat the crowds; do some Spade work.
Science • Richard E. Smalley
Good chemistry.
Film • Al Reinert and William Broyles, Jr.
Scripting success.
Education • Charles Miller
Head of the class.
How Farrah Fawcett Changed the World
It was simple, really. With Charlie’s Angels, television discovered sex.
The Joy of Cheerleading
One week with a thousand cheerleaders.
Disaster, Part One: Lubbock
West Texans are going to have to figure out what they’re going to do when the well runs dry.
Witch-Hunt
Witches are where you find them. But where is that?
The Best Worst TV in Texas
Fires, murders, robberies, assaults, highway accidents: they happen every day in the city, and what happens every day is big news on San Antonio TV.
The Wizards of Odds
In Texas the bookies go where the action is and in Texas the action is with football.
Suit Yourself!
From underwear to trenchcoats, everything you never knew about men's fashions answered.
Body Business At Tokyo House
Sam Corey runs a chain of massage parlors. He says they're all on the up and up.
Film Fatale
Bright lights and movie madness in Big D.
The Movie Pushers
Why movies play where they do, when they do, and if they do.
Don't Touch That Dial!
Is anybody in Dallas watching?
Columns | Miscellany
Urban Cowboys
The cities have prevailed—but we're still rural at heart.
What a Crockett!
There should be no mystery about the latest artifact of “history.”
It’s Been Fun
I’ll be seeing you.
The Attack
The New York Times versus Texas: It’s only the beginning.
Dear Governor:
Reclaiming George W. Bush.
Should We Care
The last word (for now) on Davy Crockett.
Animal Magnetism
My mane attraction.
Doomed Dome
’Dome, sweet ’Dome: Good-bye to the stadium of the century.
No Shortcuts
A charter school that makes the grade.
In, Not On, the Bayou
Down—and up—on the bayou.
West Is West
How great is Walter Prescott Webb? I had no idea.
Shakespeare in Lufkin
Y’all, the world’s a stage.
The Bridge
What the University of Houston can teach Texas.
Fix the Roof
A case for the parks.
Son of Oil Bust
Scenes from the new oil bust.
The Games Game
Houston and Dallas go for the gold.
A Test on the Test
A TAAS test test.
Looking for Love
Urban Cowboy rides again.
New World Order
The book on foreign policy.
Scorched Earth
This summer’s hot topic? Weather.
A Letter to the Mayor
Brave and Selfless
Crime in Mexico hits home.
Getting Out
Now playing: Houston’s Fifth Ward.
Empire of Culture
How Texas—and Texas Monthly—has changed.
Smoke Detectors
Why the state’s tobacco settlement has ignited a controversy.
Behind the Lines
Why our pictures are worth a thousand words.
Who killed the Texas Democratic party?
Love, War, and LBJ
Two new volumes signal a reawakening of interest in the former president.
Seven Women
Should Texas execute a woman? You could debate that question to death.
Total Exposure
Is there such a thing as privacy on the Internet?
Hang Like a Bulldog
Boone Pickens no longer wears a tie. Herein lies a tale.
The First Protester
How a man named Eldrewey Stearns began the fight for civil rights in Houston.
For an Income Tax
Why Texas needs an income tax.
Scattered Applause
By the Numbers
Testy Mail
The Church on the Hill
Why the big fight between a small town and a small church wound up in the Supreme Court.
Principals, Not Heels
Why good schools have clean bathrooms and principals who don’t wear high heels.
Shooting on the Border
Blow by Blow
The art of throwing punches, the science of skipping rope, and other reasons why boxing is a hit with me.
The Fourth Tramp
A new book about Lee Harvey Oswald reveals that conspiracy theorists are still straining to repackage old news into something new.
Bookends
The conventional wisdom is that the independents are good and the national chains are evil—but don’t judge a bookstore by its cover.
Shots in the Dark
Two grim incidents involving guns, three dead teenagers: Reflections on self-defense.
Poets and Pedestrians
Two poets, well versed in the ways of Houston, reflect on the city’s effect on lives and letters.
Shape Up
Affirmative Reaction
The Uncertain Sage
The Intimate GOP
Why Unforgiven?
Threat or Menace?
Happy Babble
George H. W. Bush's commencement speech at Southern Methodist University was long on rhetoric and short on specifics.
Oil and Water
Testing Delusions
The Jammin’ Judge
A New Foundation
A Principal’s World
A Round Per Second
Texas Breaks Away
Texans Versus Shapes
Heroes in the shade.
Behind the Lines
The case against conspiracy.
Behind the Lines
Conover Hunt and the Sixth Floor Museum.
A Case of the Blues
If the Southland gave birth to the blues, Mack McCormick wants to know the time and place of the blessed event.
He's About a Mover
Doug Sahm's music is his own, but what luck that he plays it for everybody.
Chariots in the Bedroom
Our reviewer, whose capacity for punishment is apparently boundless, reports on ten best-selling paperback books.
San Francisco: An Offbeat Guide
Try something different next time you head West.
Behind the Lines
Five Odd Books for Summer Reading
Turn off the T.V. and read a spell. These books are fun.
The Inside Story
Cover up.
Briar Patch
Briar Patch
Briar Patch
Briar Patch
Touts
Loose Leaf
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