Jordan Mackay
Features
Get With the Program
Two-four-six-eight, who do we appreciate? San Antonio businessman Jack DeVere, whose collection of Texas football memorabilia evokes a simpler, more innocent time.
Film • Bonnie Curtis
Producing results.
Great Escapes
From a boutique hotel in hip South Austin to a bed-and-breakfast across the Mexican border, from fly fishing on the Llano River to bathing in the Chinati Hot Springs, 33 getaways the guidebooks don’t tell you about, courtesy of our intrepid staff of weekend warriors.
Musical Marginalia
The places, people and stories behind Texas music.
Tomorrow People
Meet the senior class of what might be called Texas Music U. — four up-and-coming acts that should graduate to the big time.
A Murder on Campus
A fraternity, a bid-night party, a random act of violence, an unnatural end: the life and death of Southwest Texas State University junior Nick Armstrong.
Face • Lauren Bush
This year’s model.
Sports
Hot hurdling in Giddings, super six-man football in Gordon: Ten towns that got game.
The Boosters—Nancy Schafer, Barbara Morgan, and Marsha Milam
Their film festivals are one of the state’s feature presentations.
Columns | Miscellany
Drew Carries On
Sixteen years after a car crash ended his football career, former Cowboys star Drew Pearson is a team player again—in the XFL.
On the Rebound
The Dallas Mavericks have a new owner and a new attitude, but they have no real plan to make themselves the kings of the court. I do.
West Texas Tornado
Cedric Benson of the Midland Lee Rebels has a cause: He may just be the greatest running back in Texas 5A history.
Sour Grapes
For nearly 25 years the state's wineries have struggled to mature. Will Texas wines ever go well with anything?
Straight Shooter
Rashard Lewis may have left his Texas hometown for the NBA at a frighteningly young age, but he's no Leon Smith.
The Running Men
What two college track coaches in Houston are teaching speedsters there—and everywhere—about going for Olympic gold.
Renaissance Man
Laugh not, wretch, at the man in the tights: Twenty-five years after George Coulam founded the Texas Renaissance Festival, it hath been a big success.
TV or Not TV?
He’s no Seinfeld. He’s not even Jeff Foxworthy. But Galveston native Bill Engvall is a successful stand-up comic, and one day, just maybe, he’ll get a sitcom of his own.
Whereabouts Known
Bruce McGill played D-Day, the biker with the handlebar mustache, in the classic comedy Animal House. Twenty years later, he’s still a character.
Bond Plays On
Horse Play
Can SMU football come back from the dead by building a $56 million stadium?
International Males
Conspiracy Dearies
Reid All About It
Little, Big Man
Movers and Acres
Oh, Danny Boy
An Evan Smithee Production
Arts and Wozencraft
Banks a Lot
It Ain’t Over Till It’s Overbeek
Her Home Page Is Her Castle
The Lens Justifies the Means
Travelin’ Man
What a Drag
Ennis Racket
Hail, Mary Ellen
Reporter
Snap Decision
Why Troy Aikman shouldn't retire.
Unbearable
Baylor University gets sued by one of its own.
Sign of the Times
The New York Times takes on Texas—again.
Soda Flop?
Soft drinks in our public schools.
This Year’s Model
Must He TV
Brian Benben goes after men-men for CBS
Holding Court
Day of the Ed
Ernest Goes to Texas
Wooly
Things get woolly for the state’s mohair producers.
Bass, Master
Sour Grupos
Snoop Dreams
CEO ABCs
The best Texas CEOs.
Toad Warriors
Pulpit Fiction
Austin, Storied
Testy
A suburban mom’s patience is tested by drug testing.
Mary, Queen of Plots
Titillating
A new sports bar inspires Abilenians to get something off their chest.
Yule Love It
Sea You Really Soon
Stick a Rourke in It—It’s Done.
Triumph of the Williams
Mission Accomplished
Let Them Read Shrake
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Ink Big
War Stories
King of Diamonds
Antsy Griffith
Next of Kinski
Web Exclusives
The Basketball Diary
Assisitant editor Jordan Mackay charts the Dallas Mavericks season - visit every week for updates and commentary.
Your questions on Texas wine answered
Test assistant editor Jordan Mackay's knowledge of Texas wine—his piece, "Sour Grapes," about the state of the Texas wine industry, ran in this issue.
Texas Music News
Camp and Circumstance
Texas Monthly Biz
Hut, Hut, Pay Hike!
Texas high school coaches rush ahead for the big bucks.
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