Kathryn Jones
Features
Brownsville to Laredo on U.S. 83 and Mexico Highway 2
Vintage jukeboxes, puffed tacos, a deserted village—and a vision of Tom Landry.
Old-Fashioned Texas
Texas is changing before our eyes, but fried pies, drive-in movie theaters, and other vestiges of earlier days are all around. To find these treasures, we risked life, limb, and cholesterol count-and had a blast from the past.
Business • Sanjiv Sidhu
Shy-tech.
Place in the Heart
When you fall in love with a piece of land in Texas, you quickly learn that it changes. And it changes you.
MULTIMEDIA • John Romero
Game Boy.
Shrinking Giant
Once more than a million acres, the Matador Ranch is today a fraction of that size. How it got from there to here is the story of Texas ranching.
Briscoe’s Bounty
Dolph Briscoe used to govern Texas. He still owns a bigger piece of it than any individual in the world.
“I’ve Written Enough Fiction”
So says Larry McMurtry, Texas’ best—and best-known— novelist. But that doesn’t mean he’s giving up literature altogether; in fact, his days are quite booked.
Raymond Nasher
His artful gift to the city of Dallas ensures his legacy.
Columns | Miscellany
A Wyly Strategy
Dallas billionaire Sam Wyly is gearing up for another battle in his war with Computer Associates. This time he may have the firepower to win.
Together at Last
Compaq and Hewlett-Packard have completed the largest merger in the history of the technology industry, but is that good news for Houston and Texas?
Up in the Air
Since September 11, Texas' big three airlines—American, Continental, and Southwest—have struggled to survive. Here's their flight plan for the future.
Jim Wright
The Airline Guys
Robert Crandall and Frank Lorenzo.
Comer J. Cottrell, Jr.
Rod Canion
Booting up Rod Canion, version 2.0.
Whine Country
Californians can blame Texans all they want for their energy crisis, but the truth is they had the power to avoid it.
Cybersleuths
Put down that mouse and no one gets hurt: Meet a band of investigators in Houston and Dallas who are pulling the plug on a wave of computer crime.
Spence for Hire
How is the president and co-founder of Austin ad agency GSD&M expanding his reach into the realm of entertainment? One account at a time.
Pop Art
How 7 UP is trying to win back its share of the soft drink market, one commercial at a time.
Our Foreign Legion
Austria. The Bahamas. Botswana. Jamaica. Sweden. In each place the U.S. ambassador is a Texan sent there by Bill Clinton, whoÕs as partial to our stateÕs best and brightest (and richest) as LBJ was.
Marathon Man
Houston’s J.P. Bryan is remaking a West Texas town into what could be the next Taos—and for some locals, that’s a mixed blessing.
Grape and Pillage
By chain-sawing three acres of its research vineyard near Fort Stockton, the University of Texas System uncorked quite a controversy.
Corporate Makeover
EDS, the company Ross Perot imbued with his own conservative image, is designing Internet sites for magazines like Elle. What a tangled Web we weave.
Viz Kids
Texas A&M is churning out a new crop of students who aren't farmers or vets. They're the computer aces of the Visualization Lab, and they're Hollywood's new masters of special effects.
Royal Treatment
Archer City brings up the lights on the Royal theater.
Reporter
Into the Sunset
Sorry, Willie. My heroes have always been cowgirls—which is why I'm sad that these Texas icons are disappearing.
Family Matters
Kathryn Jones pulls at her family's roots.
Out of Range
Tracking down antelope in Marfa.
Skeleton Crew?
Chasing ghosts in Corpus Christi.
Back to Jasper
Looking in on Jasper.
Drawing the Line
Where is the Texas-Oklahoma border? The answer has people on both sides of the river seeing Red.
Disunion
The Texas film industry’s labor pain.
Malled
Wealthy school districts think they’ve found a way to shield millions of dollars from the state’s Robin Hood law. Are they about to get malled?
Nerd Herd
The drought drives cattle ranchers online.
Web Exclusives
Flying Aces
September 11 changed the airline industry. It's a good thing that the state's top airlines each have the right guy calling the shots.
Brownsville to Laredo on U.S. 83 and Mexico Highway 2
Vintage jukeboxes, puffed tacos, a deserted village—and a vision of Tom Landry.
Texas Monthly Biz
American Flier
Don Carty's vision for American Airlines takes off.
Barons of Buyout
Texas’ buyout barons log on to online air travel.
BabyBell Hell
SBC fails to connect with high-speed Internet access.
A Bug in the Chips
Wayne Reaud's hard drive against Compaq.
Can ZixIt Fix It?
A blockbuster start-up tries to end e-mail insecurity.
Saving Penney's
Can the Web make a shiny new Penney's?
The New, New Henry C
Henry Cisneros, TV star.
Splurge! Merge! Purge!
Six months after the merger of Exxon and Mobil, a tally of the winners and losers.
Wired Guns
They do more than just build companies: Meet the power players of Texas high tech.
The Money of Color
At the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, a handful of rich Texans are exhibiting their mastery of the art of out-of-state philanthropy.
Charles Hurwitz Is a Greedy Clear-cutter. Charles Hurwitz Is a Caring Environmentalist.
Different people have different opinions about the controversial CEO of Maxxam, and nothing will change their minds—not even a deal on the Headwaters Forest.
Herb’s Flight Plan
For 28 years Herb Kelleher has run Southwest Airlines as a low-cost, short-haul carrier that’s fun to fly on and even more fun to work for. But there could be changes on the horizon.
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