Gregory Curtis

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.

May 13, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis

In Dallas, our newly not-so-unpopular forty-third president tries to bend the arc of history’s judgment.

Jan 23, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis

The cities have prevailed—but we’re still rural at heart.

Jan 21, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis

West Texans are going to have to figure out what they’re going to do when the well runs dry.

Jan 21, 2013 — By Brian D. Sweany and Gregory Curtis

The fourth volume of an epic LBJ biography stirs more controversy.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis

If the Southland gave birth to the blues, Mack McCormick wants to know the time and place of the blessed event.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis

Scenes from the new oil bust.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis

A charter school that makes the grade.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis

A cool, brilliantly blue day in early February found me driving north from Austin on a sort of pilgrimage. I was going to see John Graves, the writer and gentleman farmer, now 73 years old, at his place on four hundred acres of rocky blackland prairie near Glen Rose. My…

Jan 20, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis

A case for the parks.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis

Cover up.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis

Beat the crowds; do some Spade work.

Jan 1, 2008 — By Gregory Curtis

There should be no mystery about the latest artifact of “history.”

Mar 1, 2004 — By Gregory Curtis

She named him Mark. I didn’t know why, any more than I knew why my daughter was drawn to riding in the first place. But I did know that she loved him—and that letting him go was the hardest thing she’d ever done.

Jun 30, 2000 — By Gregory Curtis

I’ll be seeing you.

May 31, 2000 — By Gregory Curtis

The New York Times versus Texas: It’s only the beginning.

Apr 1, 2000 — By Gregory Curtis

Reclaiming George W. Bush.

Mar 1, 2000 — By Gregory Curtis

The last word (for now) on Davy Crockett.

Feb 1, 2000 — By Gregory Curtis

My mane attraction.

Dec 1, 1999 — By Gregory Curtis

’Dome, sweet ’Dome: Good-bye to the stadium of the century.

Aug 31, 1999 — By Gregory Curtis

Read all about her.

Aug 31, 1999 — By Gregory Curtis

Down—and up—on the bayou.

Jun 30, 1999 — By Gregory Curtis

How great is Walter Prescott Webb? I had no idea.

Apr 30, 1999 — By Gregory Curtis

Y’all, the world’s a stage.

Apr 1, 1999 — By Gregory Curtis

What the University of Houston can teach Texas.

Jan 1, 1999 — By Gregory Curtis

Houston and Dallas go for the gold.

Dec 1, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis

A TAAS test test.

Nov 1, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis

Why the Warren Commission was right.

Nov 1, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis

Urban Cowboy rides again.

Sep 30, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis

The book on foreign policy.

Aug 31, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis

A matter of life and death.

Aug 31, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis

This summer’s hot topic? Weather.

Jun 30, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis

The Honorable Lee P. Brown Mayor of HoustonHouston, Texas Dear Mayor Brown, THANKS AGAIN FOR SEEING ME the other day. I’m always happy to have a reason to go to Houston City Hall. It’s not much to look at from the outside, but inside it’s…

May 31, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis

Crime in Mexico hits home.

Apr 30, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis

Now playing: Houston’s Fifth Ward.

Apr 1, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis

How Texas—and Texas Monthly—has changed.

Mar 1, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis

Why the state’s tobacco settlement has ignited a controversy.

Feb 1, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis

Why our pictures are worth a thousand words.

Jan 1, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis

AT LEAST DAN MORALES knew that the mere proclamation he was going to have a press conference was not likely to stop the world in its tracks. The night before and all that morning, some supporters, as well as the attorney general himself, were busy calling around to say that…

Nov 1, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis

Two new volumes signal a reawakening of interest in the former president.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis

Should Texas execute a woman? You could debate that question to death.

Aug 31, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis

Good chemistry.

Aug 31, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis

Is there such a thing as privacy on the Internet?

Jun 30, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis

Boone Pickens no longer wears a tie. Herein lies a tale.

May 31, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis

How a man named Eldrewey Stearns began the fight for civil rights in Houston.

Apr 30, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis and Paul Burka

Why Texas needs an income tax.

Mar 1, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis

Everyone at the Capitol that morning in late January knew George W. Bush was at a high plateau, and they were there expecting to witness history being made. Popular and successful after two years as governor, openly discussed already as a potential candidate for national office, he was, on this…

Feb 1, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis

STEPHEN KLINEBERG IS A MAN WHO REVELS IN STATISTICS, finding a pleasure in them so intense it borders on the sensual. We sat at a small round table in his breakfast room as he led me through the arrays of numbers that he has worked each of the last fifteen…

Jan 1, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis

IN NOVEMBER WE PUBLISHED A RANKING of 3,172 public grade schools in Texas, giving each school one of five grades, from four stars (the best) to no stars (the worst). This article provoked an unusual amount of mail. Some of the letters were barely restrained victory whoops from people connected…

Dec 1, 1996 — By Gregory Curtis

Why the big fight between a small town and a small church wound up in the Supreme Court.