Kathryn Jones

Features

Brownsville to Laredo on U.S. 83 and Mexico Highway 2

Vintage jukeboxes, puffed tacos, a deserted village—and a vision of Tom Landry. (May 2002)

Old-Fashioned Texas

Texas is changing before our eyes, but fried pies, drive-in movie theaters, and other vestiges of earlier days are all around. To find these treasures, we risked life, limb, and cholesterol count-and had a blast from the past. (August 2001)

Business • Sanjiv Sidhu

Shy-tech. (September 2000)

Place in the Heart

When you fall in love with a piece of land in Texas, you quickly learn that it changes. And it changes you. (November 1999)

MULTIMEDIA • John Romero

Game Boy. (September 1998)

Shrinking Giant

Once more than a million acres, the Matador Ranch is today a fraction of that size. How it got from there to here is the story of Texas ranching. (August 1998)

Briscoe’s Bounty

Dolph Briscoe used to govern Texas. He still owns a bigger piece of it than any individual in the world. (August 1998)

“I’ve Written Enough Fiction”

So says Larry McMurtry, Texas’ best—and best-known— novelist. But that doesn’t mean he’s giving up literature altogether; in fact, his days are quite booked. (December 1997)

Raymond Nasher

His artful gift to the city of Dallas ensures his legacy. (December 1997)

Columns | Miscellany

A Wyly Strategy

Dallas billionaire Sam Wyly is gearing up for another battle in his war with Computer Associates. This time he may have the firepower to win. (August 2002)

Together at Last

Compaq and Hewlett-Packard have completed the largest merger in the history of the technology industry, but is that good news for Houston and Texas? (June 2002)

Up in the Air

Since September 11, Texas' big three airlines—American, Continental, and Southwest—have struggled to survive. Here's their flight plan for the future. (February 2002)

Jim Wright

(September 2001)

The Airline Guys

Robert Crandall and Frank Lorenzo. (September 2001)

Comer J. Cottrell, Jr.

(September 2001)

Rod Canion

Booting up Rod Canion, version 2.0. (September 2001)

Whine Country

Californians can blame Texans all they want for their energy crisis, but the truth is they had the power to avoid it. (August 2001)

Cybersleuths

Put down that mouse and no one gets hurt: Meet a band of investigators in Houston and Dallas who are pulling the plug on a wave of computer crime. (August 2000)

Spence for Hire

How is the president and co-founder of Austin ad agency GSD&M expanding his reach into the realm of entertainment? One account at a time. (March 2000)

Pop Art

How 7 UP is trying to win back its share of the soft drink market, one commercial at a time. (January 1999)

Our Foreign Legion

Austria. The Bahamas. Botswana. Jamaica. Sweden. In each place the U.S. ambassador is a Texan sent there by Bill Clinton, who�s as partial to our state�s best and brightest (and richest) as LBJ was. (November 1998)

Marathon Man

Houston’s J.P. Bryan is remaking a West Texas town into what could be the next Taos—and for some locals, that’s a mixed blessing. (July 1998)

Grape and Pillage

By chain-sawing three acres of its research vineyard near Fort Stockton, the University of Texas System uncorked quite a controversy. (November 1997)

Corporate Makeover

EDS, the company Ross Perot imbued with his own conservative image, is designing Internet sites for magazines like Elle. What a tangled Web we weave. (July 1997)

Viz Kids

Texas A&M is churning out a new crop of students who aren't farmers or vets. They're the computer aces of the Visualization Lab, and they're Hollywood's new masters of special effects. (December 1996)