That’s the message Ray Stanford sends nightly into outer space; so far no one has answered.

The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down and there are little bits of Texas all over the place.

When a noted American humorist retired to Alpine, the joke was on him.

We spotlight the follies and foibles of our state that will go down in history—way down.

And when is he going to start?

East Texas author William Goyen was more at home in the Fifties.

Spaghetti Western: when it is good it is very good, and when it is bad it is soggy.

It was a good month for Stanley Kubrick and a bad month for computers.

You don’t have to like inflation to learn something from it.

Lawrence Foster prepares for an encounter with Gustav Mahler.

ZZ Top knew a good thing when they saw it: Texas.

Who is Kirkpatrick Sale and why is he saying all those terrible things about us?

Don’t bet your life—or your livelihood—on a football point spread.

Chain gang.

Notes and bolts.