
Dallas police say Charles Albright is the coldest, most depraved killer of women in the city’s history. To me, he seems like a perfect gentleman. Maybe too perfect.
Before joining the Texas Monthly staff, in 1989, executive editor Skip Hollandsworth worked as a reporter and columnist in Dallas and as a television producer and documentary filmmaker. During his tenure with the magazine, he has received several journalism awards, including a National Headliners Award, the national John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism, the City and Regional Magazine gold award for feature writing, and the Texas Institute of Letters O. Henry Award for magazine writing.
He has been a finalist four times for a National Magazine Award, the magazine industry’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, and in 2010 he won the National Magazine Award in feature writing for “Still Life,” his story about a young man who, after suffering a crippling football injury in high school, spent the next 33 years in his bedroom, unable to move. The 2011 movie Bernie, which Hollandsworth co-wrote with Richard Linklater, is based on his January 1998 story, “Midnight in the Garden of East Texas.”
His true crime history, The Midnight Assassin, about a series of murders that took place in Austin in 1885, is being published in April 2016 by Henry Holt and Co.
Apr 30, 1993 — By Skip Hollandsworth
Dallas police say Charles Albright is the coldest, most depraved killer of women in the city’s history. To me, he seems like a perfect gentleman. Maybe too perfect.
Feb 1, 1993 — By Skip Hollandsworth
In Texas, lunch is for gossip and dinner is for dates. Breakfast, however, is for wheeling and dealing.
Feb 1, 1993 — By Skip Hollandsworth
Last summer, restaurateurs Shannon Wynne and Gene Street bragged about their new partnership, but now they’re eating their words.
Nov 1, 1992 — By Skip Hollandsworth
It seemed like the perfect inside job: A respected cop conspires with his teller girlfriend to pull the biggest bank heist in San Antonio history. If they hadn’t been so careless, they might have gotten away with it.
Sep 30, 1992 — By Skip Hollandsworth
When Chuck Smith kidnapped his own small boys to keep them from his estranged wife, a simple divorce case turned into an international family feud.
Jun 30, 1992 — By Skip Hollandsworth
The way two mysterious deaths affected the town of Childress says a lot about the lure of satanism and the power of gossip.
May 31, 1992 — By Skip Hollandsworth, Joe Nick Patoski and Mimi Swartz
How to beat the heat, find the food, and master the coasters at Texas’ four big theme parks.
May 31, 1992 — By Skip Hollandsworth
God save the queen! A Dallas hotel company has won the right to manage London’s most exclusive property.
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
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.
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
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.
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