Animal Magnetism
My mane attraction.
Former Texas Monthly editor in chief Gregory Curtis was born in Corpus Christi and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He received a BA in English from Rice University and a master’s in English from San Francisco State College. While in San Francisco, he ran a small printing and publishing company. He came to Texas Monthly in 1972 as part of the original staff. In 1981 he became editor in chief, a position he held until 2000. In addition to Texas Monthly, he has written for the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Fortune, and Time. Curtis is the author of three books—Disarmed: The Story of the Venus de Milo, The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World’s First Artists, and Paris Without Her: A Memoir. He lives in Austin. Once an adequate equestrian, he is now an aspiring magician.
My mane attraction.
As Texans’ pride of place rose with the price of oil, collectors scrambled for the few documents of the Texas Revolution. Suddenly there seemed to be plenty to go around. But no one thought to ask why.
How a man named Eldrewey Stearns began the fight for civil rights in Houston.
Why the Warren Commission was right.
The shuttle age commences, becomes routine, and draws to a close, while Mars beckons.
In Dallas, our newly not-so-unpopular forty-third president tries to bend the arc of history’s judgment.
The cities have prevailed—but we’re still rural at heart.
West Texans are going to have to figure out what they’re going to do when the well runs dry.
The fourth volume of an epic LBJ biography stirs more controversy.
If the Southland gave birth to the blues, Mack McCormick wants to know the time and place of the blessed event.
Scenes from the new oil bust.
A charter school that makes the grade.
A cool, brilliantly blue day in early February found me driving north from Austin on a sort of pilgrimage. I was going to see John Graves, the writer and gentleman farmer, now 73 years old, at his place on four hundred acres of rocky blackland prairie near Glen Rose.My visit
A case for the parks.
Cover up.
Beat the crowds; do some Spade work.
There should be no mystery about the latest artifact of “history.”
She named him Mark. I didn’t know why, any more than I knew why my daughter was drawn to riding in the first place. But I did know that she loved him—and that letting him go was the hardest thing she’d ever done.
I’ll be seeing you.
The New York Times versus Texas: It’s only the beginning.
Reclaiming George W. Bush.
The last word (for now) on Davy Crockett.
My mane attraction.
’Dome, sweet ’Dome: Good-bye to the stadium of the century.
Read all about her.
Down—and up—on the bayou.
How great is Walter Prescott Webb? I had no idea.
Y’all, the world’s a stage.
What the University of Houston can teach Texas.
Houston and Dallas go for the gold.
A TAAS test test.
Why the Warren Commission was right.
‘Urban Cowboy’ rides again.
The book on foreign policy.
A matter of life and death.
This summer’s hot topic? Weather.
The Honorable Lee P. Brown Mayor of HoustonHouston, TexasDear Mayor Brown,THANKS AGAIN FOR SEEING ME the other day. I’m always happy to have a reason to go to Houston City Hall. It’s not much to look at from the outside, but inside it’s one of my favorite
Crime in Mexico hits home.
Now playing: Houston’s Fifth Ward.
How Texas—and Texas Monthly—has changed.
Why the state’s tobacco settlement has ignited a controversy.
Why our pictures are worth a thousand words.
AT LEAST DAN MORALES knew that the mere proclamation he was going to have a press conference was not likely to stop the world in its tracks. The night before and all that morning, some supporters, as well as the attorney general himself, were busy calling around to say that
Two new volumes signal a reawakening of interest in the former president.
Should Texas execute a woman? You could debate that question to death.
Good chemistry.
Is there such a thing as privacy on the Internet?
Boone Pickens no longer wears a tie. Herein lies a tale.
How a man named Eldrewey Stearns began the fight for civil rights in Houston.
Why Texas needs an income tax.
Everyone at the Capitol that morning in late January knew George W. Bush was at a high plateau, and they were there expecting to witness history being made. Popular and successful after two years as governor, openly discussed already as a potential candidate for national office, he was, on this
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
IN NOVEMBER WE PUBLISHED A RANKING of 3,172 public grade schools in Texas, giving each school one of five grades, from four stars (the best) to no stars (the worst). This article provoked an unusual amount of mail. Some of the letters were barely restrained victory whoops from people connected
Why the big fight between a small town and a small church wound up in the Supreme Court.