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.
Helen Thompson
Articles by Helen Thompson
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.