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January 21, 2013
Set Him Free
Senior editor Michael Hall on talking to Richard LaFuente, who some believe was wrongly convicted of murder in 1986.
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Ryan Vogt
37 Articles
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January 20, 2013
Making a Move
Senior editor Katy Vine on writing about the chess phenomenon in Brownsville.
By Ryan Vogt
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January 20, 2013
Vroom!
Senior editor Michael Hall on driving a race car at the Texas Motor Speedway.
By Ryan Vogt
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January 20, 2013
Crime and Punishment
Senior editor Pamela Colloff talks about racism in rural Texas and Billy Ray Johnson, who was brutally beaten in the East Texas town of Linden.
By Ryan Vogt
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February 1, 2007
Food Obsessed
Senior editor Patricia Sharpe on ranking the state’s best new restaurants.
By Ryan Vogt
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September 30, 2006
Up and Away
New-media director Charlie Llewellin on hiking across Texas.
By Ryan Vogt
Texas Tidbits|
September 30, 2006
Head Coach
Kristy Curry has the eyes of the Lady Raider Nation upon her.
By Ryan Vogt
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September 30, 2006
Doubting Dell
Executive editor S. C. Gwynne on writing about computer giant Dell.
By Ryan Vogt
Texas History 101|
August 31, 2006
Texas History 101
In the fifties and sixties, the kings of the Dallas burlesque business were brothers Abe and Barney Weinstein, and their competition, Jack Ruby.
By Ryan Vogt
Texas Tidbits|
August 31, 2006
Texas Tidbits
The mascots, the rituals, the hand signs—these are just a few of the reasons why we love Texas universities.
By Ryan Vogt
Happy Trails|
August 31, 2006
Happy Trails
A recent trip to the Schulenburg Festival left us wishing for the good old days.
By Ryan Vogt
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August 31, 2006
Book Review
Senior editor John Spong on writing about controversy at a private school in Austin.
By Ryan Vogt
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August 31, 2006
Across the Border
Contributing editor Dick J. Reavis on reporting from Mexico during that country’s presidential election.
By Ryan Vogt
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August 31, 2006
Minister of Faith
Senior editor Nate Blakeslee on interviewing Republican preacher David Barton.
By Ryan Vogt
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July 31, 2006
A Life’s Calling
Writer-at-large William Martin on writing about T.D. Jakes, one of the nation’s most famous ministers.
By Ryan Vogt
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July 31, 2006
Free and Easy
Writer-at-large Suzy Banks on thinking about fun things to do for free.
By Ryan Vogt
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July 31, 2006
Down and Out
Writer-at-large Cecilia Ballí talks about former Cameron county sheriff Conrado Cantu.
By Ryan Vogt
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July 31, 2006
The Deadly Tower
Senior editor Pamela Colloff talks about tracking down eyewitnesses and listening to their accounts of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree from atop the University of Texas Tower.
By Ryan Vogt
Texas Tidbits|
July 31, 2006
Texas Tidbits
The element most conspicuously absent from our tour of the University of Texas Tower was any mention of sniper Charles Whitman.
By Ryan Vogt
Happy Trails|
July 31, 2006
Happy Trails
For most of my life as a provincial San Antonian, I had often heard about this wondrous place in Austin called Barton Springs.
By Ryan Vogt
Texas History 101|
July 31, 2006
Texas History 101
Today, the McDonald Observatory considers catering to star-savvy folks serious business.
By Ryan Vogt
The Last Von Erich
Associate editor John Spong on retelling a tragic family epic—the rise and fall of Dallas’s pro wrestling dynasty.
By Ryan Vogt
Texas History 101|
September 30, 2005
Texas History 101
The Alamo: A Crash Course
By Ryan Vogt
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September 30, 2005
Pedal Pushers
Contributing photographer Wyatt McSpadden, who shot this month’s feature “Tour de Texas,” describes how a plum assignment became a poignant father-son journey.
By Ryan Vogt
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September 30, 2005
Mid-century Memphis
Former Texas Monthly senior editor Robert Draper on assembling an Eisenhower-era time capsule, including the memories of a teenage calamity and the recollections of the Panhandle town that still bears its scars.
By Ryan Vogt
Man of the Cloth
Senior editor Michael Hall on tackling Mack Brown—UT’s minister to footballers, alums, and Saturday fans alike—who’s made donning burnt orange cool again.
By Ryan Vogt
Texas Tidbits|
August 31, 2005
Texas Tidbits
Dig into the archives of some famed Texas music halls, and you may hear history whispering more than just melodies.
By Ryan Vogt
Texas History 101|
August 31, 2005
Texas History 101
Rough Riding, South Texas-Style
By Ryan Vogt
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August 31, 2005
Quiz Show
Writer-at-large Anne Dingus on testing your Texas know-how one riddle, rhyme, and pun at a time.
By Ryan Vogt
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August 31, 2005
Mineral Hells
Associate editor Katy Vine discusses how she pieced together the small-town murder saga for this month’s feature “Girls Gone Wild”.
By Ryan Vogt
Medical Drama
Executive editor S. C. Gwynne on examining one of the state’s most litigious, at times lethal, MDs.
By Ryan Vogt
Fame Game
Writer-at-large Don Graham on why Cormac McCarthy wouldn’t win a popularity contest against John Grisham or Tom Clancy—and why that’s a good thing.
By Ryan Vogt
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July 31, 2005
Fry Daddy
Writer-at-large John Morthland on channeling Calvin Trillin and chasing down all things chicken-fried.
By Ryan Vogt
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July 31, 2005
Preacher Man
Contributing editor William Martin, who wrote this month’s cover story, on the rise of America’s largest church, positive thinking versus old-time religion, and why Joel Osteen doesn’t cry on camera.
By Ryan Vogt
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July 31, 2005
Border Patrol
Writer-at-large Cecilia Ballí discusses the plight of violence-ridden Nuevo Laredo.
By Ryan Vogt
Texas Tidbits|
July 31, 2005
Texas Tidbits
Oil wells in Luling.
By Ryan Vogt
Texas History 101|
July 31, 2005
Texas History 101
The last battle of the civil war was fought in Texas—a month after the war officially ended.
By Ryan Vogt