Music
January 20, 2013
Little Boy Lost
From the moment he first held a guitar pick, Charlie Sexton was said to be on the road to stardom, but high praise and high cheekbones haven’t kept him from stumbling along the way.
Author
Helen Thompson
Vietnamese Restaurants
AustinSaigon Kitchen, 9200 N. Lamar, 512-837-9910. This modest-looking restaurant’s bracing hot-and-sour soup was filled with shrimp, pineapple, celery, tomato, okra, noodles, and anise. Vermicelli with rice-paper pancakes that were more like omelettes came with grilled pork, fish sauce, and a platter frilly lettuce, cilantro, cucumbers, and mint. Tender frogs’ legs
Vietnamese Grocery Stores
Most of the specialty items needed to prepare Vietnamese recipes can be found at the following Asian and Vietnamese groceries.AustinLien, Huong Oriental Market, 8610 N. Lamar, 512-835-9618. My Thanh Oriental Market, 7435 N. Lamar, 454-4804. Say Hi, 5249 Burnet Road, 453-1411.DallasAsian Grocery, 9191 Forest Lane, 214-235-3038. Laos Store, 4536 Bryan,
Sour Notes
Bullets over Broadway at the Granbury Opera House.
Getting His Kicks
He scored big for UT and four NFL teams; now Raul Allegre is back in the game with his weekly Spanish-language football show.
Family Plot
For Dallas writer Carlton Stowers, Sins of the Son is more than just another true crime story. The son is his own.
Walk, Don’t Run
After years of arguing that vigorous activity is a key to good health, Kenneth Cooper is exercising his right to change his mind.
A Fan’s Notes
For sixty years, Austinite Raymond Daum befriended Hollywood’s biggest stars. Now he’s selling off his memories.
Law
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December 1, 1994
Best-Case Scenario
To win a high-profile these days, you need to hire a jury consultant. Galveston's Robert Hirschhorn is one of the best.
Reporter
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July 31, 1994
Messing With Texas
TV glitzmeister Aaron Spelling tries to wakeup Michener’s epic snooze.
Reporter
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April 1, 1994
Rebel Rousers
In Tyler, a high school student’s Confederate flag T-shirt is raising old fears.
Reporter
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September 30, 1993
Grande Larceny
Who has stolen almost $1 million worth of chemicals from South Texas farms?
Reporter
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July 31, 1993
Picture This
A creative Dallas man nails down fees hanging rich people’s artwork.
Reporter
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July 31, 1993
Tested by Fire
A South Texas town rebuilds its church with faith, hope, and lots of charity.
Reporter
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July 31, 1993
Stink Big
The sour odor of calf chips from an Erath County feedlot has one family crying foul.
Reporter
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June 30, 1993
Broiling Over
Propane producers and the Railroad commission want us to retire the charcoal grill.
Reporter
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June 30, 1993
Movie Mac
Houston’s Mattress Mac is making a comfortable living as a film producer.
Reporter
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June 30, 1993
Snakes Alive!
Collectors flock to Del Rio to capture a care, fantastically patterned reptile.
Reporter
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May 31, 1993
Free Weights
A San Antonian is going out of business by giving away the store—literally.
Reporter
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May 31, 1993
Water Foul
As the Guadalupe overflows with tourists, locals battle over managing crowds.
Reporter
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April 30, 1993
Trial by Video
A Dallas Lawyer juries with cinematic reenactments of accidents.
Reporter
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April 30, 1993
Land Grab
In a historic move, the state claims co-ownership of some Brazos Valley farms.
Reporter
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April 1, 1993
Blood Relations
A modern surgeon employs a long-discredited cure-all: medicinal leeches.
Reporter
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April 1, 1993
Hog Wild
Houston’s young execs take to the streets on a fleet of shiny Harleys.
Reporter
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March 1, 1993
Novel Twist
A big new Dallas bookstore with amenities is a hit with the reading public.
Reporter
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March 1, 1993
Race Wrangling
Will public housing in East Texas be integrated? Not if the Klan has its way.
Focus: Withdrawn
In the heady days of banking, Texans ran the state’s biggest, most profitable institutions. Not anymore.
Reporter
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January 1, 1993
Bunker Mentality
A small town hunkers down for a court fight with Bunker Hunt’s bankruptcy trustee.
Reporter
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December 1, 1992
Tandyland
The biggest, most boisterous Radio Shack in the universe lands in Arlington.
Reporter
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December 1, 1992
Seed Fee
Cottonseed was delicious and nutritious, but it was only for cows—until now.
Reporter
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December 1, 1992
Bombs Away
The Pantex H-bomb plant prepares to mothball the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Grim Reaping
As bills mount, AIDS patients sell their life insurance policies—in Waco.
Cowboy Texas Randall
Old-timers around Canon recall that in 1959, when Harry Wheeler erected the seven-ton concrete-and-stucco cowboy outside his trading post and curio shop, he had to bring in a truck and crane from a local drilling company to set the big galoot on his feet. Towering over U.S. 60, Tex Randall
Java Jive
“WE CATER TO REAL COFFEE drinkers,” says seventy-year old Joseph Fertitta, the president of Beaumont’s Texas Coffee Company and son of the founder. Texas’ only family-owned Coffee-manufacturing company has been perking along with its Seaport brand since 1921, competing in the national market by virtue of its product’s prodigious strength.
Radio Foreplay
In the beginning, say Stevens and Pruett, a listener dubbed them “radio gods.”
Rhino Relapse
Deaths among rare rhinos leave scientists scratching their heads.
A Yen to Golf
Can the desire to win transform Japan’s gung ho golfers into pros?
Novel Approach
A gift from James Michener enriches Texas’ student writers.
Johnny’s Round Top
Johnny’s Round Top cafe had a colorful history that spanned more than fifty years before the restaurant went out of business in 1989. Built by a franchiser who was partial to rotating roofs that looked like circus tents, the Round Top in Big Spring was one of a modest chain
B-ing There
“People will watch anything,” says B-film director Bret McCormick.
Unresolved Trust
Condo Manager Sharon Butler questions what officials consider affordable.
So Cool
A summer guide to the coolest place in Texas: the Davis Mountains.
Between the Lines
A graphoanalyst sees personality writ large in the smallest of details.
Going, Going, Gone
Sam Greer admired his wife’s work—so much that he decided to share it.
Dream Weaver
A Dallas stylist’s patrons enjoy hair-raising experiences.
Whittling Away
Students’ attention wanders when commercials come on the tube—just like at home.
Alien Contact
Our fearless reporter survives a close encounter with UFO investigators.