June 1997
Features
Bolstered by his favorite phrase, my son Mark faced life with grace, dignity, and good humor. I knew he’d face death the same way.
By employing stereotypes like Sambo and Aunt Jemima, Austin painter Michael Ray Charles hopes to master the art of racial healing.
Dallas’ Sloane Simpson was a society queen who enchanted New York, seduced Mexico City, and turned Acapulco into a jet-set getaway. But when she died last year at age eighty, she was almost completely forgotten.
For seven days Rick McLaren and his armed cohorts were holed up in their Republic of Texas “embassy” while reporters dug for stories, lawmen kept watch, and the residents of nearby Fort Davis wished they’d all go away.
From buckskin to polyester, a look at 166 years of Texas fashion that doesn’t skirt the issues.
Frankie Mitchell and Janet Evans want to be together, but their families are feuding. It’s a story as old as Shakespeare—older, in fact, because they’re Gypsies, the children of two prominent Dallas clans, and ancient superstitions guide every aspect of their lives. Even love.
Columns
For El Paso physician Abraham Verghese, writing about life and death in the age of AIDS is a prescription for literary success.
How a man named Eldrewey Stearns began the fight for civil rights in Houston.
I grew up playing alongside some of the best Texas golfers of my generation. Then I started to lose my grip.
High in the Mexican mountains and only a day’s drive from Texas lies El Cielo, a stunning cloud forest where exotic birds soar but the temperature doesn’t.
Reporter
That’s what Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall got on their recent trip to West Texas. West Texas retailers got it too.
A little-known financial institution could be the future of the war on poverty in Texas.
The state prison name game; Dallas alternative-country band the Old 97’s is feeling no depression.
A little-known financial institution could be the future of the war on poverty in Texas.
Miscellany
Which sports did Babe Didrikson dominate, and in what Hepburn-Tracy film did she appear?
It’s okay to be shellfish: You won’t want to share this shrimp appetizer from San Antonio’s Massimo.