If you ever go to Houston, you’d better walk right. You’d better not gamble, and you’d better not fight.

I escaped once, but they sent me back.

There’s more at stake than money when two hustlers cue up.

What do you do when you have more paintings than walls to hang them on?

In the bush leagues, rooting for the home team can be a humbling experience.

A freshman in the Texas Legislature finds everything from the sublime to the ridiculous—well, maybe not the sublime.

Houston has the healthiest urban economy in the nation, but money can’t buy happiness.

The raw truth about out steaks and chops.

Bored? Lonely? Put some herbs in your life.

It’s been Us and Them in the deregulation fight, but one of us has become them.

Renewing the old adage of child rearing—you can’t fool mother nature.

Willie movin’ on; Erhard moving in; Hofheinz cleared; Gloria hacked; brown pelicans perking up; Chileans kicking off.

Good news/ bad news about Shakespeare; Doug Sahm controls his destiny; San Antonio gets jazzed up while Dallas goes crazy for pops; Texas poets in and out of their elements.

Commentations.

Best/ Worst legislators: everybody loves somebody sometime.

A far far eastern trip; a place in the country; one hundred ivory-ticklers.