Little Boy Lost
From the moment he first held a guitar pick, Charlie Sexton was said to be on the road to stardom, but high praise and high cheekbones haven’t kept him from stumbling along the way.
From the moment he first held a guitar pick, Charlie Sexton was said to be on the road to stardom, but high praise and high cheekbones haven’t kept him from stumbling along the way.
AustinSaigon Kitchen, 9200 N. Lamar, 512-837-9910. This modest-looking restaurant’s bracing hot-and-sour soup was filled with shrimp, pineapple, celery, tomato, okra, noodles, and anise. Vermicelli with rice-paper pancakes that were more like omelettes came with grilled pork, fish sauce, and a platter frilly lettuce, cilantro, cucumbers, and mint. Tender frogs’ legs
Most of the specialty items needed to prepare Vietnamese recipes can be found at the following Asian and Vietnamese groceries.AustinLien, Huong Oriental Market, 8610 N. Lamar, 512-835-9618. My Thanh Oriental Market, 7435 N. Lamar, 454-4804. Say Hi, 5249 Burnet Road, 453-1411.DallasAsian Grocery, 9191 Forest Lane, 214-235-3038. Laos Store, 4536 Bryan,
Bullets over Broadway at the Granbury Opera House.
He scored big for UT and four NFL teams; now Raul Allegre is back in the game with his weekly Spanish-language football show.
The celebrity realtor as realtor celebrity.
For Dallas writer Carlton Stowers, Sins of the Son is more than just another true crime story. The son is his own.
After years of arguing that vigorous activity is a key to good health, Kenneth Cooper is exercising his right to change his mind.
For sixty years, Austinite Raymond Daum befriended Hollywood’s biggest stars. Now he’s selling off his memories.
To win a high-profile these days, you need to hire a jury consultant. Galveston's Robert Hirschhorn is one of the best.
Life as it really was in Texas’ African American community, as seen through the eyes of almost forgotten photographers.
Tracking down deadly genes.
Hello, Mr. Chips.
TV glitzmeister Aaron Spelling tries to wakeup Michener’s epic snooze.
In Tyler, a high school student’s Confederate flag T-shirt is raising old fears.
Once, the fight for funding and attention in college sports pitted women against men. Today, with women’s sports commanding greater respectability, it’s also women versus women, and the fight is uglier.
Who has stolen almost $1 million worth of chemicals from South Texas farms?
A creative Dallas man nails down fees hanging rich people’s artwork.
A South Texas town rebuilds its church with faith, hope, and lots of charity.
The sour odor of calf chips from an Erath County feedlot has one family crying foul.
Propane producers and the Railroad commission want us to retire the charcoal grill.
Houston’s Mattress Mac is making a comfortable living as a film producer.
Collectors flock to Del Rio to capture a care, fantastically patterned reptile.
As the Guadalupe overflows with tourists, locals battle over managing crowds.
A San Antonian is going out of business by giving away the store—literally.
Fanned by winds, flames ravage West Texas’ mountains.
A Dallas Lawyer juries with cinematic reenactments of accidents.
In a historic move, the state claims co-ownership of some Brazos Valley farms.
A modern surgeon employs a long-discredited cure-all: medicinal leeches.
Houston’s young execs take to the streets on a fleet of shiny Harleys.
A big new Dallas bookstore with amenities is a hit with the reading public.
Will public housing in East Texas be integrated? Not if the Klan has its way.
In the heady days of banking, Texans ran the state’s biggest, most profitable institutions. Not anymore.
A small town hunkers down for a court fight with Bunker Hunt’s bankruptcy trustee.
The biggest, most boisterous Radio Shack in the universe lands in Arlington.
Cottonseed was delicious and nutritious, but it was only for cows—until now.
The Pantex H-bomb plant prepares to mothball the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Old-timers around Canon recall that in 1959, when Harry Wheeler erected the seven-ton concrete-and-stucco cowboy outside his trading post and curio shop, he had to bring in a truck and crane from a local drilling company to set the big galoot on his feet. Towering over U.S. 60, Tex Randall
“WE CATER TO REAL COFFEE drinkers,” says seventy-year old Joseph Fertitta, the president of Beaumont’s Texas Coffee Company and son of the founder. Texas’ only family-owned Coffee-manufacturing company has been perking along with its Seaport brand since 1921, competing in the national market by virtue of its product’s prodigious strength.
In the beginning, say Stevens and Pruett, a listener dubbed them “radio gods.”
As bills mount, AIDS patients sell their life insurance policies—in Waco.
Deaths among rare rhinos leave scientists scratching their heads.
Can the desire to win transform Japan’s gung ho golfers into pros?
A gift from James Michener enriches Texas’ student writers.
Johnny’s Round Top cafe had a colorful history that spanned more than fifty years before the restaurant went out of business in 1989. Built by a franchiser who was partial to rotating roofs that looked like circus tents, the Round Top in Big Spring was one of a modest chain
“People will watch anything,” says B-film director Bret McCormick.
Condo Manager Sharon Butler questions what officials consider affordable.
A summer guide to the coolest place in Texas: the Davis Mountains.