Helen Thompson

Jan 20, 2013 — By Helen Thompson

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.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Helen Thompson

Austin Saigon 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…

Jan 20, 2013 — By Helen Thompson

Most of the specialty items needed to prepare Vietnamese recipes can be found at the following Asian and Vietnamese groceries. Austin Lien, 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. Dallas Asian Grocery, 9191 Forest…

Dec 1, 1995 — By Helen Thompson

Bullets over Broadway at the Granbury Opera House.

Sep 30, 1995 — By Helen Thompson

He scored big for UT and four NFL teams; now Raul Allegre is back in the game with his weekly Spanish-language football show.

Aug 31, 1995 — By Helen Thompson

The celebritty realtor as realor celebrity.

Jun 30, 1995 — By Helen Thompson

For Dallas writer Carlton Stowers, Sins of the Son is more than just another true crime story. The son is his own.

May 31, 1995 — By Helen Thompson

After years of arguing that vigorous activity is a key to good health, Kenneth Cooper is exercising his right to change his mind.

Apr 1, 1995 — By Helen Thompson

For sixty years, Austinite Raymond Daum befriended Hollywood’s biggest stars. Now he’s selling off his memories.

Mar 1, 1995 — By Helen Thompson

Dec 1, 1994 — By Helen Thompson

To win a high-profile these days, you need to hire a jury consultant. Galveston's Robert Hirschhorn is one of the best.

Nov 1, 1994 — By Helen Thompson

Life as it really was in Texas’ African American community, as seen through the eyes of almost forgotten photographers.

Aug 31, 1994 — By Helen Thompson

Tracking down deadly genes.

Aug 31, 1994 — By Helen Thompson

Hello, Mr. Chips.

Aug 31, 1994 — By Helen Thompson

Jul 31, 1994 — By Helen Thompson

TV glitzmeister Aaron Spelling tries to wakeup Michener’s epic snooze.

Apr 1, 1994 — By Helen Thompson

In Tyler, a high school student’s Confederate flag T-shirt is raising old fears.

Mar 1, 1994 — By Helen Thompson

Once, the fight for funding and attention in college sports pitted women against men. Today, with women’s sports commanding greater respectability, it’s also women versus women, and the fight is uglier.

Sep 30, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

Who has stolen almost $1 million worth of chemicals from South Texas farms?

Jul 31, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

A creative Dallas man nails down fees hanging rich people’s artwork.

Jul 31, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

A South Texas town rebuilds its church with faith, hope, and lots of charity.

Jul 31, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

The sour odor of calf chips from an Erath County feedlot has one family crying foul.

Jun 30, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

Propane producers and the Railroad commission want us to retire the charcoal grill.

Jun 30, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

Houston’s Mattress Mac is making a comfortable living as a film producer.

Jun 30, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

Collectors flock to Del Rio to capture a care, fantastically patterned reptile.

May 31, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

A San Antonian is going out of business by giving away the store—literally.

May 31, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

Fanned by winds, flames ravage West Texas’ mountains.

May 31, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

As the Guadalupe overflows with tourists, locals battle over managing crowds.

Apr 30, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

A Dallas Lawyer juries with cinematic reenactments of accidents.

Apr 30, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

In a historic move, the state claims co-ownership of some Brazos Valley farms.

Apr 1, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

A modern surgeon employs a long-discredited cure-all: medicinal leeches.

Apr 1, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

Houston’s young execs take to the streets on a fleet of shiny Harleys.

Apr 1, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

Mar 1, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

Will public housing in East Texas be integrated? Not if the Klan has its way.

Mar 1, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

A big new Dallas bookstore with amenities is a hit with the reading public.

Feb 1, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

In the heady days of banking, Texans ran the state’s biggest, most profitable institutions. Not anymore.

Jan 1, 1993 — By Helen Thompson

A small town hunkers down for a court fight with Bunker Hunt’s bankruptcy trustee.

Dec 1, 1992 — By Helen Thompson

The biggest, most boisterous Radio Shack in the universe lands in Arlington.

Dec 1, 1992 — By Helen Thompson

Cottonseed was delicious and nutritious, but it was only for cows—until now.

Dec 1, 1992 — By Helen Thompson

The Pantex H-bomb plant prepares to mothball the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Nov 1, 1992 — By Helen Thompson

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…

Nov 1, 1992 — By Helen Thompson

“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.

Nov 1, 1992 — By Helen Thompson

In the beginning, say Stevens and Pruett, a listener dubbed them “radio gods.”

Nov 1, 1992 — By Helen Thompson

As bills mount, AIDS patients sell their life insurance policies—in Waco.

Sep 30, 1992 — By Helen Thompson

Deaths among rare rhinos leave scientists scratching their heads.

Sep 30, 1992 — By Helen Thompson

Can the desire to win transform Japan’s gung ho golfers into pros?

Sep 30, 1992 — By Helen Thompson

A gift from James Michener enriches Texas’ student writers.

Aug 31, 1992 — By Helen Thompson

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…

Aug 31, 1992 — By Helen Thompson

“People will watch anything,” says B-film director Bret McCormick.

Aug 31, 1992 — By Helen Thompson

Condo Manager Sharon Butler questions what officials consider affordable.