News & Politics
January 20, 2013
Boone Pickens and the Roach Motel
The controversial home of an embattled college president is a symbol of a Panhandle brawl full of conspiracies.
Feature
April 30, 1993
Act II
After years of being alternately judged a great playwright and a great disappointment, Edward Albee has found his footing in Houston, where he teaches, socializes, and gets star treatment.
Politics & Policy
February 1, 1993
Focus: Schmooze Cast
When Leadership Texas began, there were no role models for women. Now its members are the role models.
Feature
August 31, 1989
The Man Hollywood Trusts
From Top Gun to Batman, Austin’s Warren Skaaren writes the movies everyone wants to see.
Feature
June 30, 1989
How Not to Rob a Bank
Two nice guys with financial troubles thought they found the perfect solution to the bust. Well, it seemed like a good idea at that time.
Feature
March 1, 1989
The Bush League
In George Bush’s Cabinet, Texans are crawling out of the woodwork. Read about their pasts, their pets, their secret passions.
Business
February 1, 1989
A Dirty, Rotten Mess
Every day each of us contributes five pounds to the growing mountain of garbage. Now the mountain looks like a volcano that’s threatening to erupt.
Lifestyle
January 1, 1989
Onward Through the Fog
The plane was heading to Houston at dawn. Surely the pilot was kidding when he said we would be landing in Nashville.
Feature
July 31, 1988
The Ants From Hell
Fire ants are on the relentless march across Texas, maiming, devouring, and stinging the living daylights out of everything in their path. We’ve tried to stop them, and it has only made them stronger.
Lovers
February 1, 1988
The Desperate Man
Everyone knows a single man has it made. His one wishes the fun was over.
Lovers
February 1, 1988
The Seven-Year Hitch
In 1981 these romances made the Dallas Morning News. We find out who’s loving happily every after.
Feature
September 30, 1987
The Double Life of Finis Crutchfield
The bishop denied until the end that he got AIDS from homosexual contact. But the furor that resulted from his death has opened the door on his life as a gay man.
Best and Worst Legislators
June 30, 1987
1987: The Best and the Worst Legislators
We just rate them. You voted for them.
True Crime
April 1, 1987
The Deadly Doctor
As a medical student, Deborah Spiva was at the top of her class. As a researcher, she did experiments that came out perfectly. As a physician, she was known for treating patients with rare diseases. She was too good to be true.
Feature
December 1, 1986
Making It In the Bust
At a time when Texas seems to have lost its gift for creating fortunes, there has emerged a group of entrepreneurs who are making money by catering to the needs of people who are going broke.
Feature
December 1, 1986
Famous Fixers
They have done it all: saved New York City and Massachusetts, written economic classics, created new companies, and turned old ones around. Now, at our request, they’re fixing Texas.
Feature
December 1, 1986
Against the Grain
One school of though holds that when the economy is in a nosedive, that’s the time to go into business. At lease that’s what a farmer, an oilman, a developer, and a banker believe.
Feature
December 1, 1986
Advice From the Experts
We gave a bunch of smart Texans $50,000. (Okay, we didn’t really, we just said we did.) The money comes with these strings attached: it has to be invested in Texas now, and the investments have to pay off by 1996.
Feature
July 31, 1986
Mack Wallace, Railroad Commissioner, Wants to Save the World
Tapped by destiny, one man in Austin is forging an unlikely alliance between Texas oilmen and the friends of Israel.
Feature
May 31, 1986
Hate Thy Neighbor
A look at Houston’s Meyerland, Dallas’ Munger Place, El Paso’s Sunset Heights, and Austin’s Hyde Park shows that few fights get the blood boiling like a good fight with a neighbor.
Reporter
March 1, 1986
Texas Monthly Reporter
Rio Hondo’s Broadway producer; Boys’ Life’s ripe old age; etiquette’s ups and downs.