Spend a long weekend this spring meandering through Texas’ fabled heartland, where you can stop and smell the wildflowers, taste country cooking, and take home a trunkful of fine antiques.

Texas’ top drug lawyer helps dope dealers and cocaine kingpins beat their raps—and he’s proud of it.

The rodeo belt buckle is prized by cowboys and collectors alike. By the look of these handcrafted samples, it’s easy to see why.

After twenty years as the reigning queen of the soaps, the essential truth about Morgan Fairchild remains: She’s not a bitch, but she plays one on TV.

Inside a state-of-the-art semiconductor factory, a day’s work is never done, as technicians race to build smaller, faster, and more-powerful computer chips.

Midland’s energy companies are still laying people off a decade after the bottom of the bust. But—surprise—the city’s economy is booming again.

Dallas and Houston have done it; Beaumont and Corpus Christi have too. So why hasn’t Austin built a respectable art museum? It comes down to three things: money, management, and mission.

A new book about Lee Harvey Oswald reveals that conspiracy theorists are still straining to repackage old news into something new.

Austinite Lukas Haas is back on the big screen alongside Winona Ryder, Julia Roberts, and Jack Nicholson. For now, though, he isn’t letting Hollywood go to his head.

It took two decades of shows at honky-tonks filled with frat-boy fans and Aggie admirers, but singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen has his first major-label record deal.

The rap on Corpus Christi is that there’s no there there—but a case can be made that it’s a great weekend destination.

Edgar and Johnny Winter sing the blues over a comic book.

Wyatt Roberts says he’s simply crusading against sin, but critics contend that the Christian activist is trying to usher in a new era in Texas: the anti-gay nineties.

Brown and Root goes to Bosnia for the Pentagon—and cleans up.

The big-screen bungling of Rosellen Brown’s Before and After.

We take aim at five Texas militias.

How clueless is Congressman Steve Stockman? Plus: Life, death, and race in East Texas.

Tired of plain old greens and lifeless veggies? Houston’s La Mora has a salad you just can’t beet.

Primary color: Dole on a roll, a report card for the Religious Right, and other fallout from Election Day.