Five years ago, Hollywood took some cowboys and cowgirls and portrayed their lives as filled with romance, heartbreak, and country music. Since then, they’ve returned to reality. And their lives have been filled with romance, heartbreak, and country music.

The genteel practice of law is dead. Nowadays lawyers fight for clients, raid each other’s firms, and bill, bill, bill.

The odds for having a child of our own were slim to none. We took a chance on slim.

My father had to have an answer for everything—adultery, spiritual crises, the pigeons defecating in the church gutter. No wonder I didn’t become a preacher. The miracle is that my sister did.

Here they are—the Texas homecoming queens. Take a look at the girls the boys liked best.

They’re cheesy, they’re tasteless. But each black velvet painting is a one-of-a-kind work of art.

A new chapter in art history? Five artists dabble in a medium you’ll never see at the Met.

People who have watched a certain prime-time soap opera think they know what goes on at the Petroleum Club. They don’t.

With one bold acquisition the Dallas Museum of Art could double the value of its holdings. But there were a few strings attached.

It had to happen. Novelist James Michener has finally trained his macroscope on Texas, and the result is, well, long.

Winners of Dallas, at ease!

Compact discs: coasters? Frisbees? or the best sound you’ll ever hear?

Graze on the street corners of Texas for fast, tasty, and inexpensive meals.

White Nights is too much cold war, not enough Baryshnikov; After Hours is overwrought Scorcese; Mishima is a mishmash.

A turf battle over shrimp on the coast; a nominee for the meanest man in Houston; a former Cowboy’s reflections on why athletes go broke.

They said it couldn’t be done, but Larry Brumfield built Texas’ largest indoor bass aquarium.

You have to wonder if guys like San Antonio’s C. A. Stubbs aren’t the future of urban politics.

NorthPark Mall inaugurated an epoch twenty years ago. It’s still the standard for upscale shopping.

Fundamentalists lose ground in textbook war; White maneuvers to keep Hispanic support; round two for Crystal City.

The sincerest form of plattery; imaginative new serving pieces for the holiday season.