The Italian restaurant was the spot where the upper crust dined with regular folks. After it was bought by Tilman Fertitta and relocated, it lost some of its charm as well as its less-well-off regulars.
No one had a deeper understanding of Texas power—its heroes and villains, its uses and abuses—than Paul.
The Eagle, a gathering place for kinksters and activists for 25 years, closed in 2020. Now, the local leather community has an uncertain future.
As they emerge from the pandemic, some of the state’s least socially distanced venues are welcoming more couples than ever before. But it’s not all orgies.
STEPHEN KLINEBERG IS A MAN WHO REVELS IN STATISTICS, finding a pleasure in them so intense it borders on the sensual. We sat at a small round table in his breakfast room as he led me through the arrays of numbers that he has worked each of the last fifteen
When rich Texas hostesses want to put on the biggest charity bash of the summer, where do they go? New Mexico, of course.
At the Society of Martha Washington’s annual Colonial Pageant and Ball, Webb County debutantes commemorate the Father and Mother of Our Country.
Nice-guy bodybuilder Larry North has muscled his way into Dallas’ power circles.
In her golden years, a lady is free to be imperious, incorrigible, impertinent, and altogether indispensable.
What kind of woman gets her own skin-care company, a place in Nouvelle Society, and the second-most-eligible bachelor in the world? Meet Georgette Mosbacher.
The god of merrymaking spends Mardi Gras in Galveston.
From the heights of the Dallas social heap, they leaped to the national celebrity circuit. Rich, young, and fashionable, Twinkle and Bradley Bayoud are a case study in how to rise to the top.
From lacquered debutante to fossilized ol’ gal, her greatest virtue is endurance.
In which a group of society ladies samples the thrills and chills of an essentially masculine pastime.
Most of the time you’re a nice, ordinary businessman. But for one brief, shining moment you were King Antonio, monarch of San Antonio’s Fiesta and semi-beloved ruler of the one Texas city that still loves a good king.
Shoot enough portraits of Texans, and you'll have made a portrait of Texas.
The long afternoons of the best friend the rich women of Houston have ever had.
Thousands of people from the North, broke and out of work, are streaming into the state. This is the true story of two of them who abandoned Detroit for Houston, learned about cockroaches, tacos, and freeways, and finally discovered happiness in broken air conditioners.
Actual photos! In living color! Incontrovertible evidence that kissing is fun!
Although Texans make good friends, they make even better enemies.
Climbing the social ladder, and other exercises at Hill Country summer camps.
