Bill Kristol is saying that Missouri is a crucial state for Romney. It’s winner take all. If he can take Missouri and California, he can stay in the race.Good gossip on Fox: Huckabee hates Romney. Thinks he’s an arrogant rich guy. Now where could anybody get that idea.Huckabee leading in
The Giuliani folks used their influence in NY and NJ to change the rules to winner takes all. McCain is going to win both states. 52 delegates at stake.Fox reporting: Robo calls in Georgia. “Huckabee has no chance. You’re helping John McCain if you vote for Huckabee.”Fox: McCain not running
Evan just called to give me some numbers he got from an unnamed source. He always gets this stuff early.DEMOCRATSAlabama: Obama 63-37Alaska: Obama 51-45Arkansas: Clinton 72-26Connecticut: Obama 53-45Georgia: Obama 75-21Illinois: Obama 70-30Massachusetts: Obama 50-48Missouri: Obama 50-46New Jersey: Obama 53-47New York: Clinton 56-43 not very impressiveOklahoma: Clinton 61-31Tennessee: Clinto 52-41California: Clinto
There has never been anything like this before in American political history: 22 states voting on the same day, the closest thing to a national primary we have ever had.The first thing that I’ve picked up today, from a consultant who spoke to a Republican involved in the GOP campaign
“b/cs observer” — the pseudonym of an occasional contributor to this blog who resides in Aggieland — posted a smart comment (which means I agree with it) to my article of yesterday, “The McCain Mutiny.”This hatred of McCain still mystifies me to some extent. McCain may not be the most
[Cross-posted on Poll Dancing]The conservative Web sites are near-hysterical about the prospect of McCain as the GOP nominee. Thomas Sowell, a notable conservative author, writes on the Web site GOPUSA, a Texas-based operation:When confronted with any of his misdeeds, Senator McCain tends to fall back on his record as a
A criminal justice reform activist in Texas on overcrowded prisons, Tulia, the Texas Youth Commission, and the criminalization of mental illness.
Texas Monthly talks with two online energy experts concerning peak oil and the future of energy demand.
The digital natives are restless, and traditional journalism just won’t cut it.
In summer months, Houstonians are drinking ice cold . . . toilet water. Courtesy of Dallas.
2 pounds button mushrooms, washed 1 tablespoon butter plus 1 teaspoon 1 shallot, chopped 5 ounces heavy cream 2 cups chicken broth, homemade or canned Salt and pepper to taste Croutons (optional)Roughly chop 1 1/2 pounds of the mushrooms and set aside. Put 1 tablespoon butter in a medium-size, heavy-bottomed
What will dining be like in decades to come? We asked the state’s top chefs and foodies.
(See Faith Bases,to read the story.)
The Cypress Springs High School grad’s résumé at UT-Austin was almost unbelievable. Eighty-two complete-game shutouts? Seventy-nine and two thirds consecutive innings without an earned run? Twenty strikeouts in a single seven-inning game? No player had won the USA Softball Collegiate National Player of the Year more than once; Osterman did
Born and raised in Houston, Linke is a third-generation Texan. She has been a professional astrologer since 1971. She also holds a master’s degree in behavioral science from the University of Houston– Clearlake and did her clinical training in marriage counseling and family therapy.The future represents the unknown, and the
David Hanson on robot love.
UT and A&M Form Second Football TeamsAfter the top fifty NCAA programs were privatized, record revenues and stock splits made the IPO spin-offs inevitable. An antitrust lawsuit filed by Texas Tech and UTEP, whose teams remain not-for-profit university entities, was dismissed in federal court.¡Viva Los Cowboys!Dallas Cowboys head coach and
Chapter Two: The Mustang Room, by Dominic Smith.
Diana Natalicio on the future of higher ed in El Paso.
1. Yes, Lee’s Sandwiches hails from California, but that just means it’s a spot where you can experience Melting Pot America in its myriad glory. Your order is called in Vietnamese and English; it’s a little like being in a train station in seventies Saigon. The baguettes and croissants
I enjoyed your story on the 38 best steakhouses in Texas [“Meat Your Maker,” December 2007]. However, I was disappointed that Western Sky Steakhouse, in San Angelo, was not mentioned. I live in Kerrville, and for nearly thirty years I have been flying friends and clients out to Western
If I close my eyes tight, I can still taste the cloudlike custard filling of Au Petit Paris’s tartelette de tomates confit, with its milky hint of mozzarella and sweet, delicate bits of tomato; the warm, flaky pastry crust is simply museum quality. On the side is a pristine salad
Who’s the next Willie? The new Selena?
Katrina Moorhead; Teatro Dallas; Design Life Now.
Geeks from Austin will destroy American cinema.
There is no more important job than reshaping the military to confront a dark and dangerous future—and Pete Geren is reporting for duty.
Can Jim Atkinson change the world?
Café CentralEl Paso What’s new at venerable Café Central? The decor, for one thing. The border stalwart has shed its animal-print upholstery and New York–bistro look in favor of a classic redo, with sleek chocolate-brown chairs, chrome sculptures, unusual art, and floor-to-ceiling beveled mirrors along the back wall. Given
The mysteries of AIDS are starting to unravel in the laboratory of this professor of medicine, microbiology, immunology, and biochemistry at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. Working with, among others, Dr. Matthew Dolan, formerly of the Wilford Hall Medical Center, at Lackland Air Force Base, Ahuja has
(Go to “El Gobernador” to read this story.)
What Comptroller Susan Combs is doing to make sure that everything is not always bigger in Texas.
The future according to third-graders.
What will dining, both out and in, be like in decades to come? We asked the state’s top chefs and food folk, from Dean Fearing and Hugo Ortega to David Bull and Charles Butt.
How many Aggies does it take to turn one tabby or tin-can-eater into two? The no-joke answer is perhaps a dozen—the number of researchers, students, and staff working under Westhusin in the Reproductive Sciences Laboratory at Texas A&M’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The Plainville, Kansas, native, who has a degree
What Stephan Pyles, Dean Fearing, and Robert Del Grande were to the last generation—the state’s biggest-brand celebrities in the fine-dining arena—this Alamo City native may well be to the next. A broadcast journalist by training (he has a degree in radio-TV-film from the University of North Texas, in Denton), Weissman
His LFT is a BFD—those f’s are for “fashion”—and therefore he is too. Following a hugely successful maiden foray into upscale retail with Octane and Premium93, both going strong as storefronts in the West Village neighborhood of Dallas, Varona opened Lifestyle Fashion Terminal last March at Victory Park, northwest of
If you think high school sports are too slick, too big-time, or too professional, just wait. When this Ohio transplant has his way—and he will—they’re going to get slicker, bigger, and much more pro. Stephenson, the former president of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football, founded Titus Sports Marketing in 2003. The
(See “The Gospel According to Matthew,” to read the story.)
He did not grow up planning to become an artist: Robleto was captain of the football team at San Antonio’s Robert E. Lee High School and initially chose biology as his major at UT-San Antonio. But in 1993 he quite literally had an epiphany and turned to making art.
“She’s the biggest no-brainer I can think of for your February issue. She’s literally the most accomplished female semiconductor designer in the world,” says John Thornton, a general partner at the venture capital firm Austin Ventures, who has put his money where his mouth is by backing Paul’s Black Sand
(See Texas Monthly Talks to read the full interview.)
Texas has the country’s most precise state water plan. So how is it that every one of our major cities is still on track to run dry in the next fifty years?
Green buildings, awesome movie theaters, and high-speed semiconductors won’t be worth much if we fail to educate our kids, more and more of whom can’t speak English when they enter the school system. Good thing this California native, who was picked by the League of United Latin American Citizens as
Al Gore may be the public face of climate change, but all around the world, researchers are toiling in semi-obscurity to deepen our understanding of the challenge it poses. One of these is McCarl, a Texas A&M University professor who has spent the past twenty years studying the potential effects
If you were the guy who shepherded the largest leveraged buyout in history, you’d be on this list too. It was early in 2007 when we became aware of the Austin-bred honors graduate of both UT and Harvard Business School who now inhabits the off-the-radar-screen world of private equity; he
Let’s get the groaner of a pun out of the way: These slacker marrieds, the co-founders of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain, are in a league of their own. Then again, there’s something to the idea that the natives of Berkeley, California, and Owensboro, Kentucky, respectively, have revolutionized the moviegoing
She’s the avatar of cool for the inn crowd’s in crowd. Thirteen years ago the native Odessan, a UT and UT Law grad, purchased a seedy motel on South Congress Avenue, in Austin, and transformed it, with the help of San Antonio’s Lake/Flato architects and designer pals from California, into
Take it from us: Print is so not dead, and all these “online journalists” are just a bunch of DIY wannabes without credentials or credibility. Some of them even have an agenda! But Kuff (which is what everyone calls him) is different. More substantive. More authoritative. More, well, like us.
If Josh Beckett is the next Roger Clemens, this six-foot-three-inch lefty with the 96-mile-per-hour fastball could be the next Josh Beckett. After going 13-0 with a 0.77 ERA and 139 strikeouts in 64 innings as a senior at Highland Park High School, in Dallas—including a perfect-game mercy-rule victory in which
He didn’t invent the outdoor music festival—perhaps you’ve heard of Woodstock?—but he’s as responsible as anyone for its resurgence as a twenty-first- century form, and he’s just now getting started. As one of three principals at Capital Sports and Entertainment, the College Station native and onetime club booker was the
