November 1999
Features
From La Valentina in Dallas to Casa del Sol in Juárez, 75 Mexican restaurants that will leave your taste buds begging for more, plus seven great recipes.
Henry Cisneros’ power derived from his ability to bring people together. It was supposed to get him elected governor, senator, president. He’s finally the president, all right —of a Spanish-language TV network. And all thoughts of a career in public life are in the past.
Amarillo is a city where conformity counts, so the death of a punk at the hands of a football player had more than a little symbolic significance there. So did the jury’s decision to keep the killer from going to jail.
When you fall in love with a piece of land in Texas, you quickly learn that it changes. And it changes you.
When the notorious Dallas mobster and gambler Benny Binion died ten years ago, he passed on a multimillion-dollar legacy to his children. Have they made a mess of it? You bet.
For the hottest Texas band that isn’t the Dixie Chicks, the path to the top of the pop charts led through the Christian- music scene—and Dawson’s Creek.
Columns
Sixteen years after rocketing into the Whitney Biennial, Dallas photographer Nic Nicosia is still on the cutting edge.
Through the eyes of novelist Jim Thompson, Fort Worth in the twenties seemed appropriately noir.
Anne Rapp’s first script for Robert Altman, Cookie’s Fortune, was critically acclaimed. The second is now being filmed in Dallas and stars Richard Gere. Not bad for a girl from a tiny Panhandle town.
I can see without my glasses for the first time since childhood, which is why I’m a fan of LASIK surgery. But don’t take my word for it; ask Troy Aikman.
Is there a place in the genre for hip-hop influences? Houston pianist Jason Moran thinks so.
Laugh not, wretch, at the man in the tights: Twenty-five years after George Coulam founded the Texas Renaissance Festival, it hath been a big success.
Reporter
For an East Texas school, there’s nothing elementary about George W. Bush’s education plan.