All over Dallas are working-class dreamers with more will than wallet, would-be entrepreneurs who’d start their own businesses if only they had savings, good credit, home equity. That’s what brings them to the PLAN Fund.

In Bill Wittliff’s Lonesome Dove photos, make-believe has never seemed so real.

Miranda Lambert likes guns, but there’s more to her than that, just as the sultry pouts on her album covers don’t tell the whole story of an East Texas girl who always wanted to be Merle Haggard.

There are any number of fun, adventurous, and unexpected things to do in the Big Bend region of far West Texas. Here are fifteen of my favorites, including scuba diving in Balmorhea, gliding over Marfa, drinking a microbrew in Alpine, horseback riding in Fort Davis, and floating through the Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande.

“All you’ve got is a famous name,” a Republican operative told George W. Bush. But six years later he was governor, and six years after that he was president. And six years after that, his place in history—not to mention the fate of the world—is a little uncertain.

Karl Rove’s mixed legacy.

What the double-breasted buffoons in today’s broadcast booths can learn from a legend of the game.

I was a server at Pappasito’s for a week. It felt like a lifetime.

The effortless goodwill of my high school reunion weekend.

Space, time, and Donald Judd reconsidered.

Marathon

Why all the fuss about Craig Biggio?

Let’s have a heart-to-heart.

A Quickie Guide.

Richard and Bunny Becker on making Texas wine.

Going, going, Gonzales.

Hip-checking Wes Anderson.

“I’m a personality and a singer—that’s how I make my living—but I’m always a guitar player.”

Bill Wittliff, Erin Trieb, and Robert Grossman

A menagerie of team mascots at work—and play.