Feature
June 30, 2000
Conservative. Compassionate?
The two faces of Bush’s compassionate conservatism guru.
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Politics & Policy
June 30, 2000
How W. Can Win
The first test was whether primary voters thought he had what it takes to be president. It was touch and go for a while, but he passed. Now George W. Bush has to get the rest of the country on his side. An inside look at his plan for doing
Book Review
June 30, 2000
The Special Prisoner
In Japanese POW camps in World War II, American airmen were designated as “special prisoners,” but the title of Jim Lehrer’s novel The Special Prisoner (Random House) refers to septuagenarian Bishop John Quincy Watson of San Antonio. Fifty years after he endured a horrific imprisonment in Camp Sengei 4, Watson
Book Review
June 30, 2000
It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Two Lance Armstrongs can be found in the Austinite’s self-reflection, It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (G. P. Putnam’s Sons). There’s Fairy Tale Lance—the cyclist who survives cancer to win bike racing’s greatest prize, the Tour de France. And there’s Lance the Id—the still-young man struggling
Book Review
June 30, 2000
Hot Books
If time, money, or other constraints prevent you from answering the call of the open road this summer, you can still take a long trip—at least vicariously—with Larry McMurtry. Roads, his latest effort, is a look at America’s highways, and in a way, a larger-scale version of In a Narrow
The Ex Files
June 30, 2000
Ronnie Dunn
Ronnie Dunn was a good sport.
Face
June 30, 2000
Kevin Prigel
The Fort Worth whiz kid taken seriously on Wall Street.
Y’all Street
June 30, 2000
EOG Resources
The Texas stock to buy right now.
Film
June 30, 2000
Easy Writer
In Rosanky, Texas (pop: 210), far from the pressures of Hollywood, screenwriter-director Tim McCanlies thrives.
Music
June 30, 2000
On the Fringe
You might have thought Waco’s Hank Thompson, a forebear of today’s alt-country scene, was dead and gone. But faster than you can say “No Depression,” he’s back, and even at 74, he shows no signs of slowing down.
Low Talk
June 30, 2000
Women On The Verge
The Latinas in the Democrats’ sights.
The List
June 30, 2000
Disorder in the Court
Five ways the state's legal profession is changing.
Music Review
June 30, 2000
Peep Show
Austin’s Goudie has built a reputation for melodic pop, but its major-label debut is surprisingly rock: Peep Show wallows in thick walls of guitar and arrangements constantly on the verge of collapse. While it’s not the kind of bombast you’d expect on Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich’s Elektra imprint, rarely do
Music Review
June 30, 2000
Dallas Alley Drag
In the history of Texas blues the glory often went to the guitar players, but this collection of twenties and thirties blues, rags, and stomps proves they weren’t the only show in town. Playing rolling bass underpinnings with their left hand and rocking lead lines with their right, the Dallas
Music Review
June 30, 2000
Red River
You’d probably never call Knife in the Water’s music “country,” but it certainly evokes country music in the sense that it takes painful and melancholy experiences and turns them into something strangely beautiful. Red River is the Austin quintet’s second release, ten moody and meandering tunes that wash together with
Music Review
June 30, 2000
Transcendental Blues
In the fourteen years since Steve Earle released his debut LP, Guitar Town, and carved “Dwight Yoakam Eats Sushi” into an elevator wall at MCA-Nashville, he has given a generation of songwriters the courage to buck the Nashville suits. But somewhere in Earle’s well-documented war with authority (a dollar for
Health
June 30, 2000
Vocal Heroes
The doctors at Abilene’s Voice Institute of West Texas can treat all manner of problems with the way you talk? Speech, speech!
Music Review
June 30, 2000
The Complete Science Fiction Sessions. Sessions Skies of America
After disbanding his precedent-setting quartet in 1961, Ornette Coleman spent the decade releasing sporadic and stylistically varied recordings. Hamstrung by low budgets and an apparent artistic funk, the Fort Worth native’s work rarely achieved its earlier brilliance. In 1971, when Tony Orlando ruled the airwaves, Coleman signed with Columbia Records
Texas Classics
June 30, 2000
A Woman of Independent Means
My First Thirty Years.
Roar of the Crowd
June 30, 2000
Roar of the Crowd
Unsung heroes of Texas music.
Reporter
June 30, 2000
End of the Line
A small town loses its largest private employer—but not its drive to survive.
Biz Feature
June 30, 2000
The New, New Henry C
Henry Cisneros, TV star.
Texas Primer
June 30, 2000
Ginger Rogers
In what movie was Ginger Rogers first paired with Fred Astaire?
How I Made It
June 30, 2000
Gordon Bethune
I was in the Navy, and by default, I got promoted to petty officer second class. I supervised the second shift, which worked from seven at night to seven in the morning. We were airplane mechanics, but I was in charge. I had to get these other eight guys to
Feature
June 30, 2000
The Anti-Tiger
He’d like to just do it—but for Dallas native Justin Leonard to reclaim his spot in pro golf’s upper echelon, he’ll have to workeven harder than you know who.
Behind the Lines
June 30, 2000
It’s Been Fun
I’ll be seeing you.
The Culture
June 30, 2000
E’er Heads
I think, therefore iamb: My personal tour of the history of bad Texas poetry, from best to versed, prose to cons.
True Crime
June 30, 2000
Capital Murder
In a year-long spree that began in late 1884, Texas’ first serial killer butchered seven women and one man in Austin. More than a century later questions about his identity and his motive remain unanswered.
Politics & Policy
June 30, 2000
How W. Can Lose
What are George Bush’s weaknesses as he heads into the fall campaign? We asked six Texas Democrats— a former governor, a former lieutenant governor, two wannabes, and two wiseacre pundits—to make the case against him. They pulled no punches.
Feature
June 30, 2000
George W. Es Muy Bueno
The selling of George W.—in Spanish.
Around the State
June 30, 2000
Around the State
The Victoria Bach Festival celebrates 25 years with a Passion. Plus: Cyclists in Beeville ride the highway to Hell; museums in Fort Worth and Houston roll out the red carpet; theaters in Austin and Houston go Topsy-Turvy; and Joe Ely, Lloyd Maines, and Terri Hendrix keep their cool in Conroe.
High Tech Answer Man
June 30, 2000
Gimme a Breakup!
What the Microsoft case means for us.
The Ex Files
May 31, 2000
Annette O’Toole
Dancing with Annette O’Toole
Feature
May 31, 2000
We want some texas history—but not a history lesson.
After spending the night in the Quarters at Presidio La Bahia in Goliad, I’m sitting on the northwest bastion of the presidio, sipping coffee and staring down the muzzle of one of Colonel James Fannin’s cannons. Across the courtyard, the sun rises behind the eighteenth-century Our Lady of Loreto
Feature
May 31, 2000
We’re going to a touristy spot, but we’d like the place we stay to be a haven.
Dust and cobwebs are standard furnishings in old log cabins, but good luck finding any speck of grime at Fredericksburg’s Austin Street Retreat. The five tightly grouped structures are all more than a century old, but our cabin, called simply Maria’s, was immaculate—even the cracks in the ceiling had
Feature
May 31, 2000
We’re stressed out. Where can we get away from it all?
For a restful weekend retreat, it would be hard to top the Red Corral Ranch. The rambling 1,100-acre spread—which lies halfway between Wimberley and Blanco in one of the prettiest and most solitary stretches of the Hill Country—boasts an organic farm, nature trails, and an abundance of wildlife. Only
Feature
May 31, 2000
We’d like to spend some time on the water but without the hassle of crowds.
For those of you who thought you had to travel to the mountain rivers of Colorado or Wyoming to enjoy the lovely, archaic sport of fly-fishing, we take you now to, of all places, the Llano River in the Hill Country, where a stunning blond angler named Raye Carrington
Feature
May 31, 2000
We’d like to get away to a small town with lots for the family to do.
With its limestone bluffs and juniper-covered slopes, Somervell County is a diminutive slice of Hill Country that somehow migrated to the rolling prairies southwest of Fort Worth. The state’s last undammed river, the Paluxy, winds its way through the hills, as does the Brazos, and they converge a mile
Feature
May 31, 2000
We’re going to big bend but we don’t want to stay in the usual places.
If you want something really different, I’d suggest that you stay in one of the inns just across the border in Mexico. Let’s start with a place that could generously be described as, well, primitive. Across the river from Rio Grande Village, at the southeast edge of the park,
Feature
May 31, 2000
We’d like to get out of the city and still eat well.
At least one morning of your stay at the Inn Above Onion Creek, get up early and walk a few hundred yards to the overlook. The air will be cool and the grass spangled with tiny wildflowers; foraging cottontails will freeze as you pass. Your reward will be a
Feature
May 31, 2000
We’re looking for a wonderful boutique hotel for an urban getaway.
There is no better way to experience the hipper side of Austin than by staying at the recently renovated San José Hotel, located about half a mile south of downtown on thriving South Congress Avenue. The San José is nestled among the city’s better vintage-clothing and kitschy antiques shops,
Feature
May 31, 2000
We want to get back to nature but we don’t want to sleep on the ground.
On the delightfully isolated north shore of Lake Buchanan, the biggest and least populated of the Highland Lakes upstream of Austin, you’ll find Canyon of the Eagles Lodge and Nature Park. Texas’ first large, publicly developed eco-resort, it opened last fall as a partnership between the Presidian Corporation of
Y’all Street
May 31, 2000
Clear Channel Communications
The Texas stock to buy right now.
Biz The List
May 31, 2000
Sand Dollars
The economics of beach tourism.
Sports
May 31, 2000
Winter in L.A.
Whether coaching the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles or leading the Lakers to their best record in years, Phil Jackson has had one constant: Wellington native Tex Winter at his side.
Roar of the Crowd
May 31, 2000
Roar of the Crowd
Making sense of the Aggie Bonfire.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 2000
Executive Ranch
Life around the town of Crawford sure was slow until George W. Bush bought a ranch there.
Texas Primer
May 31, 2000
Dennis and Randy Quaid
What is the one movie that Dennis and Randy Quaid appeared in together?
Music
May 31, 2000
Chaps Schtick
How Lubbock’s Legendary Stardust Cowboy stays legendary after all these years.
Low Talk
May 31, 2000
The Temp
Meet our governor . . . Rodney Ellis?