I watched the New Hampshire Republican Forum on Fox last night. Chris Wallace was an excellent moderator, asking tough questions, quoting candidates’ previous statements back to them, and instigating debate between the candidates. One such debate that was really interesting was over whether executive or senatorial experience was more important,
The other day, my friend the Constant Eater showed up with this adorable notebook. Her son gave it to her for Christmas, and it’s for food freaks, so they can take notes on their favorite places just like restaurant reviewers do.Of course, my selfish interest in promoting it is that
In Texas, there is nothing that cannot be chicken-fried, including–now–a lamb chop. At chef Dean Fearing’s swank outpost at the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas, the six-ounce, golden-brown mega-morsel comes pounded so thin it overflows the plate, just like it’s supposed to. Of course, you have to wrap your mind around
Both parties have lists of candidates on their Web site. Neither list is accurate. At least the Republican list is in the order that the offices appear on the ballot: president, U.S. senator and representative, Railroad Commission, the statewide courts, the State Board of Education, then state Senate and House.
Paul’s June 2007 column on Ric Williamson and the Trans-Texas Corridor, which he referenced on Sunday, is now accessible to all readers. You can find it here.
I’m just guessing here, but Mike Krusee seems like the logical choice to succeed Ric Williamson as chair of the Texas Transportation Commission. Krusee was the original sponsor of the mammoth transportation bill in 2003, and he is a true believer in the need for toll roads and in the
Today is the filing deadline for the March 4 primary races. One thing to keep an eye on: Will Republicans field a candidate for Travis County DA? This is a crucial position, because the DA’s office includes the Public Integrity Unit, which is charged with being the ethics enforcer for
Recipe from North, Austin1 pound pulled chicken (recipe below) 8 ounces baby tomatoes 2 ounces toasted pine nuts 4 ounces crumbled gorgonzola 1 pound mixed greens 4 ounces gorgonzola dressing (recipe below)Place greens, tomatoes, and chicken into a large mixing bowl. Add dressing and toss ingredients together until it has
An extended interview with Kathy Patrick.
An extended interview with Jesse Dayton.
Garza was born and raised in Webb County. For the past fifteen years, he has been an inspector with the Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program, a mounted patrol started by the USDA in 1906.A tick rider patrols the border, the Rio Grande River, on horseback every day. Our job is
How high is too high to jack up a truck?
Chapter One: “A Stranger Comes to Town”
Finally someone sees Jenna Bush as she is today [“Girl Gone Mild,” November 2007]. She did nothing in her younger years that many other girls have not done—they just weren’t the daughter of a president. Jenna has grown up. People who are critical of her should do the same.
Bear with me—I’m trying to remember the olden days when a restaurant with more than two locations was by definition terrible. Nope, chains have changed. Sure, we’ll always have mass feeders like Chili’s and the Black-eyed Pea, but upscale chains are a different proposition altogether. And as much as I
Match 25 Texas towns with their slogans and you may win a prize.
The talented Beaumont-born singer has just released Holdin’ Our Own and Other Country Gold Duets (Stag), a joint album with Austin’s Brennen Leigh. Though it recalls a Nashville of yesteryear, it comprises mostly new material. He also recently scored big as the creative force behind a fictional country band,
Strait talk; Fort Worth takes stock; MLK in S.A.
Llano rocks!
Rebecca’s Table, Fredericksburg and So Vino Wine Bar & Bistro, Houston
As one of the country’s top photographers, he’s captured on film hundreds if not thousands of people over the past quarter of a century. These ten portraits have never before been seen, but they’re among his favorites. Ours too.
The bar was set pretty high even before last year’s Bum Steers cover was named one of seven winners in the American Society of Magazine Editors’ annual Best Cover Contest. I mean, honestly: How to top Dick Cheney with a scowl and a shotgun? It’s not as if there was
There should be no mystery about the latest artifact of “history.”
C. F. Payne, Cecilia Ballí, and Gregory Curtis
Now on DVD: Ghostland ObservatoryMaybe you love sequencers and robotic electronic dance beats. Maybe you don’t. Yet how you feel about this Austin electro-rock duo, a budding national phenomenon whose ferocious energy explodes on Live From Austin TX (New West)—originally a July 2007 Austin City Limits taping—really comes down
There’s a quality—an easygoing, lyrical storytelling manner that eschews stridency or pretension—that all folksingers strive for and few attain. But Danny Schmidt has it in abundance: With seductive simplicity, his music demands your attention. Schmidt is a native Austinite who honed his craft amid the music scene in Charlottesville,
The best music has always been made by those who defy easy categorization, as exemplified by not one but two posthumous releases from Texas jazz giants. Fort Worth’s Dewey Redman was a glass-half-empty kind of guy who saw his career accomplishments as merely wins in a long battle—so the
Is it really time to pronounce the body?
Austinite Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay became a poster boy for the learning potential of autistic children with his first book, The Mind Tree, a collection of stories and poems he wrote between the ages of eight and eleven. In How Can I Talk If My Lips Don’t Move: inside
We’ll take Robert Leleux at his word when he declares in The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy that, growing up in tiny Petunia, he didn’t know he was gay until he was seventeen and unexpectedly googly-eyed over his dance instructor at a community theater. Literary license or not,
This boisterous bookseller runs a Jefferson hair salon/bookstore, Beauty and the Book, that is a bastion of independent literary thinking—and egalitarian fun. She shares her Texas joie de vivre in The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life.What exactly is a Pulpwood Queen?The Pulpwood Queens are the largest
One year (okay, two days) of livin’ la vida locavore.
What it used to be like to cross the border.
Karen Tumulty on writing for Time.
Karen Tumulty on writing for Time.
