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The Texas Monthly Guide to Private Schools, Part I

Two questions are crucial: should your child go to private school; and if so, which one.

Roux the Day

Crawfish pie is not the only Cajun dish worth sampling.

Contest

Poems to celebrate the new season.

Behind the Lines

Steel Walls Do Not an Art Museum Make

The Houston Contemporary Arts Museum has an acute case of schizophrenia.

Touts

Some recommendations on what to do, see, and buy this month.

The Sport of Rough Gentlemen

Football evolved from rugby, which may show that evolution doesn’t always mean progress.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Waltzing Methuselah

Alternatives to raging against the dying of the light.

Dallas’s Restaurants

Our reviewer is well pleased but not ecstatic with three famous establishments.

Contest

Trains did have exotic names. Here’s your chance to invent your own.

Tykes Bearing Gifts

Throwing a birthday party for young children is really a very simple, enjoyable thing—to watch.

Behind the Lines

Among the Ruins

Across Yucatan on pennies a day. An intrepid traveler reports.

Touts

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Marginal Utilities

Utilities companies’ long range plans didn’t include a fuel shortage. Now they have shortages of a different kind to worry about.

When All the Laughter Turned to Sap

All these movies have something missing; it didn’t take Sam Spade to find it.

Splendor on the Grass

Cooking over an open fire is no mystic art. And it helps if you start everything in your kitchen at home.

Contest

Behind the Lines

Touts

Katie at the Bat

Women’s college sports, after years of atrophy, are getting more attention, but the same amount of financial support—almost none.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

From the Publisher

The Adipose Tissue Issue

There’s a mechanism in the brain that’s supposed to keep you from getting fat. The only problem is you have to eat right and exercise to make it work.

Ashes to Ashes, Trust to Dust

Real Estate Investment Trusts proved that you could lose money in real estate; and nobody ever wrote to thank them for the lesson either.

From Badlands to Worselands

Gatsby is not a complete disappointment while an unheralded little movie about Texas looks great.

Contest

Games Small People Play

The games of yesterday are the memories of today. Here are a few bits and pieces on how to help your own child store up some memories.

The Constant Reader

A look at new work from Larry King, Ronnie Dugger, and Edwin Shrake.

Behind the Lines

We Texans have always seemed to drive more, and farther, and for perhaps stranger reasons, than just about anyone else. Young people in the bleak and monotonous landscapes of West and North Texas grew up accustomed to endless, aimless rides around the countryside and to regular trips into the

Some Things Old, Some Things New

Turffaut does it again, Polanski leaves a lot to be desired, and Losey wins and loses at the same time.

Crime: The Way It’s Done

Crime is a craft and has its secrets.

Crime On The Streets

Don't look now Dow-Jones, but white collar crime is becoming a major growth industry.

Farewell to LBJ: A Hill Country Valediction

Some last words, reverent and irreverent, like Lyndon himself.

Opera Options

Getting the most from the Met for less.

One Man Shows

Two owner-chefs singlehandedly put out some of the best food around.

Norah Jones

The Grapevine-raised singer was 
a star from the word go; her 2002 debut album of jazz-pop balladry, Come 
Away With Me, sold in excess of 20 million copies. Yet rather than spend the rest of her career repeating the formula, Jones has grown into a curious musical adventurer. Her

Primal Screen

Here is a partial list of the nice people Skip Hollandsworth has written about since he joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1989: Charles Albright, a serial killer in Dallas who removed his victims’ eyes; Marie Robards, a Fort Worth teenager who killed her father by poisoning

Blood Simple (1984)

Director: Joel and Ethan CoenPlot: Bar owner hires hit man to kill his wife and her lover. Double-crossing ensues.Excerpts from our roundtable discussion:BLOOM: I like Blood Simple too. But it’s very cinematic. It is based on images and ideas of Texas from film history and from popular-culture history more

Water Works

Should the last free-flowing river in Texas be dammed?

Head for the Hills

A grand old opry in Mason, a homestyle bakery in Llano, a cabin with a view of the Sabinal Canyon, and sixteen other things I love about the Hill Country.

Best of Texas: Dallas Dining

The ten restaurants in Dallas that (almost) make me regret that I live in Austin.

Best of Texas: Dallas Arts

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

Best of Texas: Dallas Shopping

Anne Valerie Hash blouses, Dolce Vita boots, VBH handbags, and 115 other items that make life worth living.

Best of Texas: Dallas

Roger Staubach, on business, the Cowboys, and the joys of eating out.