The Horse's Mouth
February 1, 2008
Robots
David Hanson on robot love.
298 Articles
Web Exclusive
October 31, 2007
Me and Tommy Lee
No Country for Old Men is Tommy Lee Jones’s new movie. I don’t think he’ll be granting me an interview anytime soon.
Letter From Houston
August 31, 2006
The Satanic Versus
Andrea Yates does battle with her demons. Again.
The Horse's Mouth
April 30, 2006
Being a Soap Opera Star
As Helen Wagner’s world turns.
True Crime
April 30, 2006
The Last Rustler
If he was asked what he did for a living, Roddy Dean Pippin would smile and say something about the cattle business. But he didn’t exactly buy and sell cows. He stole them. And right up until he was caught, he was as good as any such thief had ever
Feature
March 1, 2006
Casualty Of War
A real-life G.I. Joe, Master Sergeant James Coons hardly seemed like a candidate for post-traumatic stress disorder. But when his demons got the best of him, there was nothing anyone could do—not that anyone really tried.
Reporter
December 1, 2005
Y’all Come Back
Homecoming in the town of Spur means football, the crowning of a queen, parades, pep rallies, barbecue, a bonfire, and so much more.
True Crime
November 1, 2005
The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob
The feds knew him as a prolific bank robber. But the bearded man who eluded them for so long was not who they imagined him to be. And absolutely no one expected the story to end the way it did.
Feature
June 30, 2005
Angie Barrett Does Not Use Butt Cream
She shares that curious fact with you for posterior’s— er, posterity’s sake. What you really need to know about the shopgirl turned shoplifter is that her rehabilitation is continuing apace atop Dallas’ social heap. And thanks to a new reality show about her life, there’s no end in sight.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 2005
I Inject, Your Honor
The Panhandle DA known statewide for his zeal in busting drug dealers and abusers turns out to have been an addict. Prosecutor, heal thyself.
Politics & Policy
September 30, 2004
Good Vibrations
How a woman who sold sex toys in Burleson became public enemy number one and survived the bad buzz.
Feature
August 31, 2004
Wrecked
The car crash that killed four teenage girls in Tatum last September is an East Texas version of a Greek tragedy, one that has forced the tiny town's residents to address some of life's most agonizing questions: When the worst things happenwhen the most heartbreaking events come into your life
True Crime
February 1, 2004
Family Man
To his suburban Dallas neighbors, Todd Becker was a doting husband and devoted father. They had no clue that he led a secret, lucrative life as a safecracker.
Reporter
August 31, 2003
Tyler Hollandsworth
Three cheers for Tyler Hollandsworth, a stereotypical Dallas girl.
Film & TV
August 31, 2003
Love Thy Self-Help
America's notoriously needy readers certainly doand for the robust health of this publishing genre, they have Dallas in general and Phil McGraw's agent in particular to thank.
Reporter
March 1, 2003
Facing the Music
Michael Morales' guilty plea doesn't answer the most interesting question about his attempted extortion of Tony Sanchez: Who else knew about his cockamamy plot, and when did they know it?
The Culture
February 1, 2003
What Does Kay Want?
Good question, and everyone seems to have an answer: To be respected for her accomplishments as a U.S. senator. To help lead the GOP after its Election Day triumph. To be a mom, finally, in her late fifties. To come back home and run for governor—maybe. But, please, no psychobabble.
True Crime
November 1, 2002
Suburban Madness
Why would a devoted wife deliberately run over her beloved husband three times? It’s quite simple, really. He was having an affair with a woman accused by her allegedly pill-popping ex-husband of carrying on a lesbian relationship with her best friend, whose ex-husband has been indicted for an illegal wiretapping
Travel & Outdoors
September 30, 2002
The Yucatan
AS MUCH AS I LIKE to think of myself as a grand adventurer, an explorer of all things exotic, I have to admit that when it came time for my Mexican vacation, I headed straight for a beach resort. I’m not talking about a tiny hotel on a remote beach
True Crime
June 30, 2002
Maybe Darlie Didn’t Do It
Darlie Routier has been on death row for five years now, always insisting that she didn't kill her sons Devon and Damon. And as her lawyers prepare to head into court yet again, new information about her case raises the possibility that she may have been telling the truth all
Music
May 31, 2002
Green’s Day
Executive editor Skip Hollandsworth talks about Pat Green and this month's cover story, "With Envy."
Music
May 31, 2002
With Envy
Pat Green’s fans—and they are legion—love his songs about the joys of Luckenbach and Lone Star beer. His critics—also legion—think his lyrics are trite. But no matter how you feel about him, there’s no denying that he’s the hottest country music act in Texas. And that he has made the
Reporter
April 1, 2002
Snow Job
The Dallas Police Department's Sheetrock Scandal.
True Crime
March 1, 2002
The Day Treva Throneberry Disappeared
The North Texas teenager went missing in the late eighties. For years, no one knew where she was, or even if she was still alive-no one, that is, except a mysterious young woman two thousand miles away.
Reporter
December 1, 2001
The Inmate
Vanessa Leggett plots her own true-crime story.
True Crime
September 30, 2001
Hit Man
Psst! Looking to have somebody murdered? You might want to call Gary Johnson, the number one hired killer in Houston. Then again you might not. You see he works for the cops.
Texana
August 31, 2001
Jessica McClure
On October 14, 1987, an eighteen-month-old toddler named Jessica McClure fell 22 feet into an abandoned Midland water well that was only eight inches in diameter. For the next three days, rescuers frantically dug a tunnel to reach her while the little girl sang nursery rhymes to herself, called
The Culture
August 31, 2001
Doris Angleton
It was the great Houston murder mystery of the nineties. Who shot 46-year-old Doris Angleton, the beautiful, ebullient River Oaks mother of two young daughters and the wife of Robert Angleton, Houston’s top bookmaker? When Doris was found in her home in 1997—she had been shot thirteen times—their friends speculated
Texana
August 31, 2001
Candy Barr
Once notorious, Candy Barr's now anonymousand happily so.
True Crime
May 31, 2001
The Killing of Alydar
In 1990 the legendary Thoroughbred was put to sleep after his leg was broken—an accident, it seemed, until a tenacious prosecutor linked his death to a Houston bank scandal.
Music
April 30, 2001
Daddy’s Little Girl
LeAnn Rimes was a marshmallow-cheeked thirteen-year-old when she made it big. Now, five years later, she is locked in bitter legal battles with both her estranged father and her Nashville record company, and her life and career are collapsing around her. Can America's country princess get back on track?
Web Exclusive
April 30, 2001
Rimes and Reason
Executive editor Skip Hollandsworth tells the story behind this month's cover story about LeAnn Rimes.
Reporter
March 1, 2001
Maximum Insecurity
How the Texas Seven will change the state's prisons.
Politics & Policy
March 1, 2001
I Had a Ball
A passel of Texans invaded the nation’s capital in January, and the town may never be the same. A report from the inaugral front.
Feature
February 1, 2001
The Talented Mr. Wittliff
Can a savvy Hollywood dealmaker also be as down-home and unassuming as an old shoe? He can if he's Austin's Bill Wittliff, an award-winning screenwriter, an accomplished photographer, a collector with a passion for the pastin short, the nicest Renaissance man you'll ever meet.
Policy
December 1, 2000
Child of a Lesser God
It was a modern-day horror story: a little girl hidden away in rat-infested squalor for most of her life. When the authorities took her away from her mother and grandmother, the nine-year-old had never been to school or played outside.
Web Exclusive
September 30, 2000
The War of the Sarofims
Senior editor Skip Hollandsworth tells the story behind this month's cover story, "Can't Buy Me Love." How he got his sources to talk, what he did when they wouldn't, and other secrets of his reporting.
Feature
September 30, 2000
Can’t Buy Me Love
Take one of the nation's wealthiest men, the enigmatic, Egyptian-born Fayez Sarofim. Add his socialite first wife and her brassy successor. Stir in River Oaks mansions and greedy lawyers, boatloads of money and oceans of booze. Mix it all together and what do you get? A hell of a mess
Profile
August 31, 2000
Change of Routine
Sixteen years after her Olympic triumph, Mary Lou Retton talks about her family, her career, and what she really thought of Bela Karolyi.
Feature
August 31, 2000
Dance: Deborah Yates
It's all in the gams.
Feature
August 31, 2000
Angie Harmon
Not just a pretty face.
Feature
June 30, 2000
Capital Murder
In a year-long spree that began in late 1884, Texas’ first serial killer butchered seven women and one man in Austin. More than a century later questions about his identity and his motive remain unanswered.
True Crime
February 1, 2000
The Man Who Loved Cat Burgling
For years Dallas’ most prolific jewel thief robbed the mansions of socialites like Nancy Brinker and Annette Simmons. If not for his girlfriend’s crack use, he might have gotten away with it forever.
Sports
December 1, 1999
Athlete of the Century—Carl Lewis
“When it comes to individual athletic superiority, few people in the world can touch long, lean, impossibly fast Carl Lewis, who came to Texas in 1979, qualified for the Olympics in 1980, and dominated his sport—the world of sports, actually—for the next sixteen years.”
True Crime
September 30, 1999
Is Robert Abel Getting Away With Murder?
Investigators in the coastal plain think so, and they’re doing what they can to tie the retired NASA engineer to the deaths of at least four young women there. But thus far the tangible evidence has eluded them. And, consequently, so has he.
Health
August 31, 1999
Self-help: Phillip McGraw
Oprah’s guru.
Sports
August 31, 1999
Cat & Mouse With Tom & Jerry
How much do Tom Hicks and Jerry Jones pay themselves for the privilege of owning the Dallas Stars, the Texas Rangers, and the Dallas Cowboys? That and more in a revealing joint interview.
Politics & Policy
July 31, 1999
Up in Smoke
Has Dan Morales gone up in smoke? by Skip Hollandsworth.
Business
June 30, 1999
How Many of You Have Heard of Zig Ziglar Before—Or Is This Your First Time-uh?
From Harvard to Hesitation Hill, the nation’s most motivated motivational speaker is much in demand. And he’ll still see you at the top.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 1999
Younger. Wilder?
Those rumors you’ve heard about him are true. Sort of.