A Q&A With Thomas Mallon
An interview with Thomas Mallon, author of Mrs. Paine’s Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy.
An interview with Thomas Mallon, author of Mrs. Paine’s Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy.
An interview with Prudence Mackintosh, author of Sneaking Out.
An interview with Diana López, author of Sofia’s Saints.
An interview with Harry Knowles, author of Ain’t It Cool? Hollywood’s Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out
An interview with Joyce King, author of Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas.
An interview with Jack Jackson, author of The Alamo: An Epic Told From Both Sides.
An interview with James Hoggard, author of Patterns of Illusion: Stories and a Novella.
An interview with Keith Graves, author of Loretta: Ace Pinky Scout.
An interview with Amy Fusselman, author of The Pharmacist’s Mate.
An interview with Robert Bryce, author of Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron.
An interview with H. W. Brands, author of The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream.
An interview with Jay Brandon, author of Executive Privilege.
An interview with Rick Bayless, author of Mexico: One Plate at a Time.
EL ESCRITOR PERUANO MARIO VARGAS Llosa viene a Houston el 11 de noviembre como invitado del Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. El novelista, crítico literario, dramaturgo y ensayista es considerado uno de los más grandes escritores hispanoamericanos de nuestro siglo. Entre sus obras se encuentran las novelas La casa verde,
PERUVIAN WRITER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA will be in Houston November 11, as a guest for the Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. The novelist, literary critic, playwright, and essayist is considered to be one of the greatest Spanish American writers of our century. His works include the novels The Green House,
Read Q&A's with James Hoggard, Joyce King, H.W.Brands, and other authors participating in the 2002 Texas Book Festival.
Bill Wittliff and Edwin "Bud" Shrake, the recipients of the 2002 Texas Book Festival Bookend award, embody Texas literature today.
From elementary school to high school, we've got more than five thousand public schools ranked. See if your kid's school is making the grade.
texasmonthly.com: You are featured in Dorothy McConachie’s book, Top Texas Teachers. How were you chosen?Carolina Carner: They picked 35 teachers from across the state. One of my students nominated me at Barnes and Noble in Round Rock. McConachie got thousands of entries, and I was picked out of all of
Senior editor Pamela Colloff talks about George W. Bush and this month's cover story, "Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch."
An Austin group brings theater into schools.
Beans and cornbread are simple foods worth sighing about.
In the new book, Top Texas Teachers, author Dorothy McConachie gives 35 educators top honors.
In case you didn't know, hockey is gaining momentum in Texas. It may never surpass football on Friday nights, but for fans, there's nothing like seeing their favorite team hit the ice.
Half Moon Reef Lighthouse served as a beacon for ships coming into Matagorda Bay.
This dish from chef Doug Brown is tempting to fix on a cool fall day. It is, however, quite a challenge even for experienced cooks.
FAMED TEXAS TENOR ILLINOIS JACQUET’S very first session, with Lionel Hampton in May 1942, yielded “Flying Home” (heard on Hamp: The Legendary Decca Recordings[Decca]). It was his most famous record, but it was only the beginning of a long and impressive recording career. His 1946 work with Count Basie (“Mutton
The small East Texas town of Jefferson makes for a perfect weekend getawayit just takes a while to get there.
Royers' Round Top Cafe: A Relational Odyssey
Recipe from Saffron, San Antonio
These are the best of the best—the top ten high schools in each of four economic categories, as ranked by the National Center for Educational Accountability. For the full list of more than one thousand public high schools in Texas, see page 170 (in the print copy).HIGHEST ECONOMIC GROUPCollege Station/A&M
DISTRICT/SCHOOL| STARS | % LOW INCOME | ALGEBRA PASSING RATEPewitt/Pewitt | 5 | 50.4 | 95.0Ysleta/Del Valle | 5 | 89.4 | 78.6Hidalgo/Hidalgo | 5 | 96.9 | 62.1San Antonio/Highlands | 5 | 89.0 | 57.2San Antonio/Jefferson | 5 | 90.6 | 57.1_________________________________________Humble/Quest | 1 | 9.4 | 26.9Holliday/Holliday |
Most of the lighthouses that once kept watch over the Texas Gulf Coast have vanished, victims of time and the modern world. Yet a few romantic relics remain.
The line on James Leininger is fairly simple: He's a doctrinaire conservative who spends millions supporting candidates and causes he likes—and opposing those he doesn't. That makes him one of the most influential players in Texas politics in the post-Bush era.
Find out in our updated, expanded, and still exclusive ranking of nearly every public high school in Texas.
Once upon a time, the Central Texas town of Crawford was like Mayberry: Everyone knew everyone, no one talked politics, and the air was ripe with the aroma of hogs. Then the leader of the free world bought a little place west of the Middle Bosque River, and nothing was
Why would a devoted wife deliberately run over her beloved husband three times? It’s quite simple, really. He was having an affair with a woman accused by her allegedly pill-popping ex-husband of carrying on a lesbian relationship with her best friend, whose ex-husband has been indicted for an illegal wiretapping
Ramsey Muñiz behind bars.
How I became a wild man from Borneo.
It's been two years since Tulia's tainted drug busts first came to light. Do you really want to know how little has changed there?
Jim Lehrer between the covers.
Billie Carr, R.I.P. Liberals too.
I'm susceptible to seasickness and sun poisoning, and I hate being part of a herd. So, naturally, I took a cruise.
If your goal is to own a pro hockey team, Tom Hicks has a deal for you: He'll sell you the Dallas Stars for a mere $300 millionand throw in the prospect of an NHL-destroying lockout at no extra charge.
At eighty, most of us would be off our feet, not out on stage. But Illinois Jacquet, the great Texas tenor, keeps blowing his saxand tooting his own horn.
The mayor of San Antonio says a 2,600-acre golf resort on top of the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone won't ruin the city's sole source of drinking water. Who wants to tee off on that one?
BACK TO BASICS Tucked away on a beautiful tree-lined road outside Elm Mott in north central Texas is Homestead Heritage, a pristine little village of sorts where the residents are dedicated to preserving traditional crafts and living off the land. You can sample the fruits of their labors at the