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Food Obsessed
Senior editor Patricia Sharpe on ranking the state’s best new restaurants.
Crime and Punishment
Senior editor Pamela Colloff talks about racism in rural Texas and Billy Ray Johnson, who was brutally beaten in the East Texas town of Linden.
Making a Move
Senior editor Katy Vine on writing about the chess phenomenon in Brownsville.
Vroom!
Senior editor Michael Hall on driving a race car at the Texas Motor Speedway.
Head Coach
Kristy Curry has the eyes of the Lady Raider Nation upon her.
Doubting Dell
Executive editor S. C. Gwynne on writing about computer giant Dell.
Up and Away
New-media director Charlie Llewellin on hiking across Texas.
Set Him Free
Senior editor Michael Hall on talking to Richard LaFuente, who some believe was wrongly convicted of murder in 1986.
Texas History 101
In the fifties and sixties, the kings of the Dallas burlesque business were brothers Abe and Barney Weinstein, and their competition, Jack Ruby.
Texas Tidbits
The mascots, the rituals, the hand signs—these are just a few of the reasons why we love Texas universities.
Happy Trails
A recent trip to the Schulenburg Festival left us wishing for the good old days.
Book Review
Senior editor John Spong on writing about controversy at a private school in Austin.
Across the Border
Contributing editor Dick J. Reavis on reporting from Mexico during that country’s presidential election.
Minister of Faith
Senior editor Nate Blakeslee on interviewing Republican preacher David Barton.
Texas Tidbits
The element most conspicuously absent from our tour of the University of Texas Tower was any mention of sniper Charles Whitman.
Happy Trails
For most of my life as a provincial San Antonian, I had often heard about this wondrous place in Austin called Barton Springs.
Texas History 101
Today, the McDonald Observatory considers catering to star-savvy folks serious business.
A Life’s Calling
Writer-at-large William Martin on writing about T.D. Jakes, one of the nation’s most famous ministers.
Free and Easy
Writer-at-large Suzy Banks on thinking about fun things to do for free.
Down and Out
Writer-at-large Cecilia Ballí talks about former Cameron county sheriff Conrado Cantu.
The Deadly Tower
Senior editor Pamela Colloff talks about tracking down eyewitnesses and listening to their accounts of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree from atop the University of Texas Tower.
The Last Von Erich
Associate editor John Spong on retelling a tragic family epic—the rise and fall of Dallas’ pro wrestling dynasty.
Texas History 101
The Alamo: A Crash Course
Pedal Pushers
Contributing photographer Wyatt McSpadden, who shot this month’s feature “Tour de Texas,” describes how a plum assignment became a poignant father-son journey.
Mid-century Memphis
Former Texas Monthly senior editor Robert Draper on assembling an Eisenhower-era time capsule, including the memories of a teenage calamity and the recollections of the Panhandle town that still bears its scars.
Quiz Show
Writer-at-large Anne Dingus on testing your Texas know-how one riddle, rhyme, and pun at a time.
Mineral Hells
Associate editor Katy Vine discusses how she pieced together the small-town murder saga for this month’s feature “Girls Gone Wild”.
Medical Drama
Executive editor S. C. Gwynne on examining one of the state’s most litigious, at times lethal, MDs.
Man of the Cloth
Senior editor Michael Hall on tackling Mack Brown—UT’s minister to footballers, alums, and Saturday fans alike—who’s made donning burnt orange cool again.
Texas Tidbits
Dig into the archives of some famed Texas music halls, and you may hear history whispering more than just melodies.
Texas History 101
Rough Riding, South Texas-Style
Fame Game
Writer-at-large Don Graham on why Cormac McCarthy wouldn’t win a popularity contest against John Grisham or Tom Clancy—and why that’s a good thing.
Fry Daddy
Writer-at-large John Morthland on channeling Calvin Trillin and chasing down all things chicken-fried.
Preacher Man
Contributing editor William Martin, who wrote this month’s cover story, on the rise of America’s largest church, positive thinking versus old-time religion, and why Joel Osteen doesn’t cry on camera.
Border Patrol
Writer-at-large Cecilia Ballí discusses the plight of violence-ridden Nuevo Laredo.
Texas Tidbits
Oil wells in Luling.
Texas History 101
The last battle of the civil war was fought in Texas—a month after the war officially ended.
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