Don’t give up on oil yet, Texas. Come along to Pearsall, deep in the brush country, and learn how the new oil boom is different from the old.

Clues left behind by a former Dallas cop convinced his son that he killed President Kennedy—but that’s just the beginning of the mystery.

From the Panhandle to the Bayou City, homegrown classical music ensembles are our best-kept secret.

Dallas painter Sean Earley moves to Italy and learns to paint Texas.

When country singer Charley Pride isn’t on the road, chances are he’s puttering around a Dallas golf course—or riding herd on his business holdings.

All is clam, all is bright in folk-art manger scenes.

It all looked so different 27 years ago.

San Antonio’s new ancient-art gallery takes you back a few millennia.

Larry McMurtry returns to the mythic West and spins a thoughtful and touching tale.

A Christmas story for all you kids out there.

My daughter’s first day of kindergarten was hard—on me.

By running-and-gunning down opponents in the NCAA tournament, Tom Penders has jump-started UT basketball.

PR and nostalgia keep the legend alive. But will the town survive?

Nuclear polka blasts Japan! Brave Combo basks in the radioactive afterglow.

The Africanized bees have arrived, and Anita Collins can’t wait to take them on.

Photograph by William Coupon

Now that Drayton McLane has sold his family company to Wal-Mart, he has no intention of retiring from the daily grind.

When it’s time for that final fashion statement, a Fort Worth clothier has just the thing—complete with Velcro.

With a sweet leasing deal, Austin sister stations KASE and KVET pack a one-two punch on the FM dial.