How perfect is this: The best new restaurant to open during the Year of Financial Meltdown is located in the lobby of an old Houston bank. What better place to invest your money than in the soul-nourishing flavor combos of chef Michael Kramer’s beautifully composed plates?

The looming clash between Republican gubernatorial candidates Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison may not be as fearsome as the storied Ali-Frazier bout, but it’s the heavyweight showdown every Texas political junkie has been waiting for.

After his son died of a drug overdose in his fraternity house at SMU, Tom Stiles began asking questions that campus authorities preferred not to answer. Two years later, he is still learning the truth about what happened—and why.

Fifty years ago, a plane carrying Buddy Holly crashed in a remote Iowa cornfield. This month, hundreds of fans will gather at the ballroom where he played his final show to sing, dance, and mourn the greatest rock star ever to come out of Texas.

Preston Hollow gets its Bush back.

Was January 20 really the dawn of a new and more inclusive age?

How Lamar Hunt and Clint Murchison Jr. cooked up the first Super Bowl.

Eating high on the hog when you’re low on the totem pole.

The Houston Ballet; a Marcia Gygli King retrospective; Philip Glass.

What to do with a yard full of varmints.

Second Street District, Austin.

The brave new world of Web serials and how they make money.

“Here’s the thing: I was born and raised in eastern Kentucky. I wasn’t born in downtown Paris. What do I love? I love Southern food. I love soul food. I love barbecue. I learned about food in dives. ”

David Bowman, Paul Burka, and Bear Guerra.