Skip Hollandsworth

Mar 1, 1992 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Rodeo, rodeo, wherefore art thou rodeo? Mary Ellen Mark went to small towns all over Texas to find out.

Feb 1, 1992 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Steve Benifiel was an old-fashioned outlaw who practically owned the town of Ranger—until he was busted for running one of West Texas’s biggest drug rings.

Jan 1, 1992 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Today, TGI Friday’s is sedate, but twenty years ago this month, the place started the singles era in Dallas.

Dec 1, 1991 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Young girls who want to win an Olympic gymnastics medal have to pay the price, and Bela Karolyi makes sure that they don’t get off cheap.

Sep 30, 1991 — By Skip Hollandsworth

How a Fort Worth glass manufacturer became a modern-day medici.

Jul 31, 1991 — By Skip Hollandsworth

A tale of rivalry, intrigue, and foul play in the science lab.

Jun 30, 1991 — By Skip Hollandsworth

In Texas, the cowboy boot still makes the man.

Jun 30, 1991 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Kicked out of the Miss USA contest, two Texas beauty moguls landed on their feet and started their own pagent.

Apr 1, 1991 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Nice-guy bodybuilder Larry North has muscled his way into Dallas’ power circles.

Mar 1, 1991 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Are good times and fun pranks giving way to racial slurs and ritualized violence? An inside look at UT’s fraternity row.

Jan 1, 1991 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Nov 1, 1990 — By Skip Hollandsworth

How the battle for the Southwest Airlines account turned into a long-awaited showdown between Texas’s two top agencies.

Sep 30, 1990 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Not since Remington and Russell has a cowboy artist sold so many works-for so much-Fredericksburg’s G. Harvey.

Jun 30, 1990 — By Skip Hollandsworth

With his bust-a-gut jokes and cornpone tales, backwoods humorist Bob Murphey delivers a time gone by.

May 31, 1990 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Conquering Arlington’s Texas Giant.

May 31, 1990 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Drug treatment seldom works: at many centers, greedy entrepreneurs prey on frightened parents and troubled kids. But one teenager’s parents decided to take one last, desperate step: they sent their son to the toughest program in Texas.

Apr 1, 1990 — By Skip Hollandsworth

In her golden years, a lady is free to be imperious, incorrigible, impertinent, and altogether indispensable.

Feb 1, 1990 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Peer pressure dispenses juvenile justice in Montgomery County.

Feb 1, 1990 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Coasta Bend farmers are desperate for a rainy day.

Feb 1, 1990 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Codependency leaders preach that we are the victims of a psychological plague. It remains to be seen whether they are selling us a valuable insight or merely a bill of goods.

Jan 1, 1990 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Shopper Ethel Sexton is dressed to the nines in her garage-sale finery.

Jan 1, 1990 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Bonfire-crazed yell leaders Keving Fitzgerald and Brant Ince foresee defeat for fire’s foes.

Jan 1, 1990 — By Skip Hollandsworth

To find their true masculine selves, wildmen dance and sweat, bond and meditate, renounce their mothers and grunt, “Ho!” I thought, “Hmmm.”

Nov 1, 1989 — By Skip Hollandsworth

When San Antonio’s Memorial Minutemen took on a crosstown rival, all they had to lose was their chance to go down in history as Texas’ worst high school football team.

Mar 1, 1986 — By Skip Hollandsworth

There are bass in Sam Rayburn Reservoir, and the gals were out to hook ‘em. And Rhonda Wilcox hoped to hook the biggest one of all.

Nov 1, 1985 — By Skip Hollandsworth

My father had to have an answer for everything—adultery, spiritual crises, the pigeons defecating in the church gutter. No wonder I didn’t become a preacher. The miracle is that my sister did.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Skip Hollandsworth

The small-town orchestra has it all: performers who love the music passionately, audiences who lend their wholehearted support, and even occasional moments when all the instruments are playing the right note.

Dec 31, 1969 — By Skip Hollandsworth and Brian D. Sweany

Thanks to the vision of the Dallas Arts District, the city has finally created a masterpiece in the heart of downtown.