To experience the majesty and peril of the desert on my own terms, I spent a week alone in the Solitario, the most remote area of Big Bend Ranch State Park. I confronted my darkest fears—and made small talk with an insect.
Water, water, everywhere.
The Laguna Madre, which runs from Corpus Christi Bay to Port Isabel, is one of the most undeveloped areas of coastline in the United States.
Gruene prides itself on keeping things the way they've always been. That suits us just fine.
Senior editor Patricia Sharpe on crème brûlée, eating out, and the best new restaurant in the state.
Journalists around the nation wanted access to Todd Becker, the all-American dad who also ran a safe-stealing ring, but only executive editor Skip Hollandsworth got him to talk.
Associate photography editor Leslie Baldwin discusses assigning photographers, editing pictures, and researching George W. Bush
Senior executive editor Paul Burka on George W. Bush and this month's cover story, "The Man Who Isn't There."
Recipe from Chef-owner Claire Smith and chef Jeb Stuart, Shade, Houston.Chocolate Cherry Croissant Bread Pudding8 croissants 1 cup semisweet chocolate chunks 1 cup sun-dried cherries 6 egg yolks 1/2 cup sugar 1 quart heavy cream, reserve 1/4 cup for Bourbon Sauce (recipe below) 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 2 tablespoons Creme
NASA's ties to Texas have always been strong, even in the agency's infancy.
The Texas Travel Industry Association’s Texas Cooking is a cookbook with an agenda—to make you want to experience Texas. Organized by regions of the state rather than by dishes, this cookbook combines descriptions of the state’s geography, history, and tourist destinations with interesting recipes.The cookbook begins with an overview of
That’s Amore If your relationship (with your sweetie or with chocolate) needs a jump start this Valentine’s, try one of these novel Texas-made gifts. Austin’s Dr. Chocolate (512-454-0555) promises to cure the Valentine’s Day doldrums with one of its Pizzas d’Amore, cleverly garnished with candied cherries (standing in for pepperoni)
Eat! They Said In the game of Where To Eat When on the Road, the surprises behind doors 1, 2, and 3 really aren’t surprises at all. There’s your standard please-drive-forward-and-pick-up-at-the-window hamburger, your country-kitchen chicken-fried steak (which is sometimes simply shoe leather slopped with gravy), and your Italian bread salad
Attention, Houston: Claire Smith is back. Residents of the Bayou City became the young chef’s loyal followers during the six years that she owned the Daily Review Cafe and mourned when, in 2000, she decamped for Chicago. Happily, it didn’t take too long for her to come to her senses
A MUSE, ME Fernande Olivier must have been a heck of a girl. At least Picasso seems to have thought so between the spring and fall of 1909, when his imagination was so captured by her that he produced more than sixty heads, busts, and half- and full-length cubist representations
AUSTIN POWER Let me set you a scene, one I’ve participated in often during many a pleasantry-exchanging encounter: “So where are you from?” inquires a new acquaintance. “Austin,” I reply, with a smile on my face. “Oh, you must love it. Austin’s a great city.” Time and time again, I’ve
WHAT, THIS OLD THING? Some women think about killing out of jealousy or love. Others for a Judith Leiber handbag. To fans of Leiber’s work, “handbag” is a dirty word; they prefer “minaudière.” They’ll speak breathlessly of the tiny sparkling jewels or the shapes: the asparagus, the springer spaniel, the
HOT TIME IN THE CITY It takes a lot of planning to get ready for the nation’s biggest party. Just ask Houston city officials, who have been preparing for Super Bowl XXXVIII for the past three years. Those who want to revel in the hoopla can attend any (or all)
Getting Robert Durst acquitted might be too tall an order for most lawyers, but for Dick DeGuerin, it was just another day at the office.
Me for governor, continued.
Mark Cuban shoots (from the hip).
Two mayors give their cities the business.
An astronaut's wife grieves.
Call it "Glove Story": Being the president of the international Michael Jackson Fan Club means never having to say you're sorry—even now.
The flat-as-a-mouse-pad landscape bordering the Laguna Madre contains one of the greatest wildlife-viewing regions in North America—and that's not all.
So says my friend Jost Lunstroth, one of thousands of formerly successful Texans for whom unemployment is more than a statistic.
To his suburban Dallas neighbors, Todd Becker was a doting husband and devoted father. They had no clue that he led a secret, lucrative life as a safecracker.
Now serving: the best new restaurants in Texas, including a glamorous international kitchen in Dallas, a hot sushi spot in Austin, and—the best of them all—a drop-dead room with a globe-trotting menu in Houston.
They dislike us. They really dislike us.
Nellie Connally, now and always.
This recipe makes a tart, intensely flavored sauce that goes well with meats like pork chops.6 pounds Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and diced 2 1/2 cups red-wine vinegar 2 cups brown sugar, packed 1 tablespoon minced lemon zest 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon allspice 1/2 teaspoon cloves 1/2 teaspoon
These titles are sure to get a laugh—or at least a smile—from even the most somber bookworms.
Senior editor Pamela Colloff talks about the typical A&M student, chivalry, and Aggie spirit.
Twenty titter-producing trinkets and toys, from a Leatherface action figure and a Houston Texans Christmas Village to a Texas Shriner doll and a snap-on longneck top for boring ol' cans.
Houston Rockets general manager Carroll Dawson on new head coach Jeff Van Gundy, Yao Ming, and the game.
Photographer O. Rufus Lovett talks about capturing Aggie spirit on film.
Senior executive editor Paul Burka and senior editor Anne Dingus discuss this year’s Bum Steer Awards.
San Antonio is home to the Alamo, which draws more than 2.5 million visitors a year, but did you know that the city also boasts the state's first modern art museum?
From Zoë-Italian, Fort Worth
The Alamo is a symbol of Texas’s independence, but it also was part of the largest concentration of Catholic missions in North America.
Comfort is surprisingly different from other Hill Country towns. In fact, it has a cosmopolitan feel. Maybe that’s why it has attracted so many urban refugees.
Quite often, those of us in urban areas get so caught up in the race for trendy foodstuffs and recreating fancy restaurant meals that we forget about the simple things that taste great. The Junior League of Amarillo reminds us that the food we crave may start with a can
When the San Antonio River’s downtown stretches are drained for a week each January, the crowds may ebb too. But it’s a perfect time to discover the waterway’s more natural side.
Led by the NBA’s most inadvertently colorful coach, this year's Houston Rockets are so much more than an excuse to see a certain ninety-inch-tall Chinese import.
My Jerry Jeff Walker.
Andy Roddick avoids Tracy Austin Syndrome.
CAT’S MEOW “Where the heck is that?” everybody said when I announced I was headed to Carol’s at Cat Spring. Good question. Physically, the historic German community (population: 76) is some fifty miles west of Houston. Spiritually, it’s in a world of its own. Winds rustle the live oaks,
The new Fort Worth ristorante Zoë-Italian is molto bene.
After years of writing about chefs, I wanted to get a taste of what it’s like to be one—which is how I found myself browning veal knuckle bones at the fastest-growing cooking school in Texas.
THE ACCOMMODATIONS WEREN’T BAD, BUT THE ALPO WAS SERVED COLD Curtis Lee Robin, of Vidor, after being convicted of abusing his eleven-year-old stepson by locking him out of the house at night, thus forcing him to sleep in a doghouse, agreed to a plea bargain under which he would sleep
