
The shuttle age commences, becomes routine, and draws to a close, while Mars beckons.
Al Reinert was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He co-wrote the screenplays for the Ron Howard film Apollo 13 and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, but is best known for directing and producing For All Mankind, an award-winning documentary about NASA’s Apollo program.
Jun 25, 2019 — By Gregory Curtis, Helen Thorpe, Stephen Harrigan and Al Reinert
The shuttle age commences, becomes routine, and draws to a close, while Mars beckons.
Jun 25, 2019 — By Al Reinert and Skip Hollandsworth
America finds inspiration and salvation on the moon—and then keeps going.
Jun 6, 2014 — By Al Reinert
After Ana Trujillo was arrested in the bludgeoning death of her lover, she hired lawyer Jack Carroll to represent her in what became Houston’s splashiest trial of the spring. Did I mention that Carroll is my brother-in-law? And that the murder weapon was a cobalt-blue, five-and-a-half-inch stiletto?
Jul 15, 2013 — By Al Reinert
A dramatic increase in border security over the past six years has made the Sierra Blanca inspection station one of the nation’s toughest. And I oughta know.
Jan 21, 2013 — By Al Reinert
Before you let this man into your living room, you should know that he drank with Clyde Barrow.
Jan 21, 2013 — By Al Reinert
Few things are as majestic as the launch of the space shuttle. But after nearly thirty years, NASA is sending up its final orbiters. Here's the view from up close.
Jan 20, 2013 — By Al Reinert
He made his first million before many kids finish college. Less than a decade later, Michael Dell continues to confound conventional wisdom.
Nov 1, 1991 — By Al Reinert
If anyone can keep Whitmire from being Houston’s mayor for life, it’s Sylvester Turner or Bob Lanier.
Jun 30, 1991 — By Al Reinert
Oscar-winning screenwriter Horton Foote continues to capture ordinary people coping with life’s difficulties.
Apr 30, 1991 — By Al Reinert
One man’s quest to clear the reputation of an animal maligned.
Feb 1, 1990 — By Al Reinert
Locked away in NASA’s storage vaults was some of the most glorious footage ever filmed. I thought turning it into a movie would be a snap. Ten years later I’ve revised my opinion.
Dec 1, 1988 — By Al Reinert
A Houston bellhop by day, tenor saxman Grady Gaines has come out of retirement to bring back the trademark sound of a great rock and roll band.
Nov 1, 1988 — By Al Reinert
Cool, clear, and pure, it’s the bounty of the Edwards Aquifer, and if something isn’t done to limit pumping by Hill Country farmers and a thirsty San Antonio, it may also be dry.
Jul 31, 1988 — By Al Reinert
Heat + pressure + yttrium + a politically savvy University of Houston physicist = a formula to change the world.
Feb 1, 1988 — By Jim Atkinson, Al Reinert, Liz Carpenter and Alison Cook
Time-honored Texas rituals by Paul Burka,
Sep 30, 1986 — By Al Reinert
The seeds of the Challenger disaster were sowed long ago, in the space agency’s conflict between its ideals and its politics.
Nov 1, 1984 — By Al Reinert
What astronaut Alan Bean saw on the moon changed his life. Now, with paint and canvas, he’s trying to let the rest of us see it too.
Aug 31, 1979 — By Al Reinert and Geoff Winningham
The best part of Texas high school football is that it’s the biggest thing in town—and still only a game.
Jun 30, 1979 — By Al Reinert
Ten years ago the Apollo astronauts, technicians and scientists all, landed on the Moon and touched what poets only dreamed. But that touch changed their lives.
Feb 1, 1979 — By Al Reinert
How a bountifully talented young Texas writer based a novel on Lyndon Johnson, won high praise, and then…
Nov 1, 1978 — By Al Reinert
At the Fort Worth stockyards, cattlemen buy and sell amid the last vestiges of the Old West.
Dec 1, 1975 — By Al Reinert
News flash: Lloyd Bentsen is still running for president.
Nov 1, 1975 — By Al Reinert
The friendly folks at the morgue speak a body language all their own.
Sep 30, 1975 — By Al Reinert
Two women—one a conservative Republican, the other a liberal Democrat—are the best politicians in Houston.
Mar 31, 1975 — By Al Reinert
A candid celebration of ten years of the Astrodome and Astrothink.
Dec 1, 1974 — By Al Reinert
The White House is the only challenge left.
Jun 30, 1974 — By Al Reinert
Beneath the phony outer schmaltz of Jack Valenti one finds the real schmaltz of a true believer.
Mar 31, 1974 — By Al Reinert
The GOP and Democratic chairmen are both from Texas. Right there the similarity ends, or begins, no, ends.
Dec 1, 1973 — By Al Reinert and Sherry Kafka
TEXAS ON THE POTOMAC THE TOSTADAS WERE (LET’S BE honest now) kind of stale, and the chile con queso was soggy, but, well what the hell, it sure was good to find some real Tex-Mex food. Purists could grumble if they wanted to and point out that the frijoles…
Nov 1, 1973 — By Stephen Harrigan, Al Reinert and Jane Sumner
RETURN OF THE OLD PUCKER THE ASTRODOME HAS REALLY OUTDONE itself. They had the help, though, of Hollywood press agentry and one of the bigger mouths in professional sports, so the Dome can’t take all the credit. Irregardless of culpability, it was an impressive show, that King-Riggs tennis match, and…
Sep 30, 1973 — By Al Reinert
An Aggie views the closing of the Chicken Ranch. George Washington didn't sleep there, but many famous and unfamous Texans did.
Jul 31, 1973 — By Al Reinert
Big-time poker players don't worry about luck; they don't need it.
Jul 31, 1973 — By Al Reinert
High-speed chases, murder investigations, and window-peeping are all in a day's work.
Jun 30, 1973 — By Al Reinert
Take 3 million acres, add politicians, lumber companies and Time, Inc., and what have you got? A very small park, or no park at all.
Jun 30, 1973 — By Al Reinert
Take 3 million acres, add politicians, lumber companies and Time, Inc., and what have you got? A very small park, or no park at all.
Apr 1, 1973 — By Thorne Dreyer and Al Reinert
Wandering through the strangest neighborhood east of the Pecos.
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