Texas Monthly

Texas Primer: Conjunto

Tex plus Mex plus electric guitar plus accordion equals... art.

Roar of the Crowd

Behind bars.

Puzzle

Seeing spots.

Ask Jett Rink

The quintessential wildcatter fills you in on free enterprise and Texas after oil.

Roar of the Crowd

Puzzle

Stoned at home.

Roar of the Crowd

Gun-shy Baptists, isolated inmates, poor doctors.

Puzzle

Cell division.

Roar of the Crowd

Taking lives and saving lives.

Puzzle

Measure for measure.

Roar of the Crowd

No oil in Israel, no crown for the congressman, no Coke at the Last Supper.

Puzzle

Go play in the traffic.

Roar of the Crowd

End of the line for a cop, a coach, quilters, and the Confederate Air Force.

Puzzle

Paper tigers.

Other Main Streets

They’re where you went to get your hair cut or to see a picture show or to watch the squirrels on the courthouse lawn.

Roar of the Crowd

Banned in the schools, school kids in the band.

Puzzle

A slice of life.

Texas Primer: The Dallas Model

The sweetheart of the Apparel Mart: where she came from and where she’s going.

Bum Steer Awards 1983

Presenting blazing barbecue, bumbling Bush, blaspheming Baptists, and 118 more of the best of the worst of Texas.

Roar of the Crowd

Pickens, pesos, and notes from the fringe.

Texas Primer: The Comic Texan

The life and times of the cowboy-millionaire hero of a thousand postcards.

Roar of the Crowd

Standard bearers, sentence parers, blue wayfarers.

Roar of the Crowd

Sticks and bones.

Texas Monthly Reporter

The harsh truth about Mexican corruption; the twilight zone of Houston journalism; the instant $82 million oil bust; the tastemakers of art-to-eat.

Texas Primer: The Pecan

Plant it, sit in its shade, but most of all, feast on its fruit.

Roar of the Crowd

Immigrants

From all over the world, people are coming to Houston to find a better life. For a few of them—immigrants from Poland, Nigeria, and El Salvador—this is what it’s like.

Roar of the Crowd

Lies and whispers.

Roar of the Crowd

All’s Farrah; judges’ jury.

Oil Chic

Sounds like a joke, right? Cowboy chic was funny too, until it caught on.

James A. Baker III, Politician

How a Houston boy forgot his family’s advice about staying out of politics and became the White House chief of staff.

Roar of the Crowd

Hug the baby; buggy burners

Roar of the Crowd

Steers charge, Wildcats retreat, scorpions to eat.

Roar of the Crowd

Over the river and through the swamp.

The Book of the Century-And-A-Half

Governor Bill Clements lassoed James Michener to write a tome about Texas. It’s due out in a couple of years. But that’s too long to wait, so we decided to write a version of our own.

Puzzle

Rolling stock.

Roar of the Crowd

Hearing the call of the Word, the wild, and the hogs.

Bum Steer Awards 1982

In which we salute the folks who made Texas the bizarre, flagrant, preposterous, funny, and endearing place it was last year.

Roar of the Crowd

The high and the flighty.

Puzzle

The bottle-cap gambit.

Roar of the Crowd

The jobless and the topless.

Puzzle

Split personalities.

Roar of the Crowd

The plights of rivers, writers, and children.

Texas Monthly Reporter

Raising cain over Sam Houston’s house; searching for the face that will sell a million blue jeans; going bust in the refinery business.

Puzzle

Airs above the ground.

The Minds of Babes

With the Doman method of learning, your child may know as much as you do before he starts first grade.

Roar of the Crowd

Women in the air, men in the House, snakes in the grass.

Reporter

Four great Texas discoveries: world-class barbecue in Taylor, gold fever in Brock, psychic delvings in San Antonio, historical triage in Canyon.

Puzzle

Old chiselers.

Roar of the Crowd

Bullets, Bibles, and buds.