Style & Design
September 1, 1994
Steve Burrus
Turning denim into dollars for AIDS.
298 Articles
Music
August 1, 1994
Adkins Family Values
The family that plays together stays together. Meet one of the world’s most successful classical music clans.
Sports
July 31, 1994
Empty Cup
To Dallas, the World Cup meant gearing up for riots, a crime wave, and—of course—real football.
Arts & Entertainment
June 1, 1994
The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (But Just Barely)
After fifteen years, Tommy Tune and Larry L. King are at it again: The sequel to the most famous musical about our state opens on Broadway.
Being Texan
May 1, 1994
Nerdvana!
In the nineties, it’s hip to be square and cool to be clueless. Our guide to the new Texas man.
Travel & Outdoors
April 1, 1994
Something Wild
For an off-beat trip, head to Glen Rose, home of dinosaur tracks, exotic animals, a creationism museum, and lots more.
Reporter
April 1, 1994
Karate Cop
Tough guy Chuck Norris’ kick is better than his kiss on the TV hit Walker, Texas Ranger.
Health
February 1, 1994
Love and Death on the Third Floor
She was the princess who wore Tiffany perfume. He was the middle-class guy who raced cars. But when they met on the cystic fibrosis wing of a Dallas hospital, romance bloomed.
Feature
December 1, 1993
Who Killed Baby Carolyn?
Decades after Carolyn McMorris died of a massive head injury, her sisters shockingly allege that their stepmother murdered her.
Feature
December 1, 1993
Fallen Angels
We started out as pious kids helping Wichita Falls celebrate the birth of Christ. We ended up astray in a manger.
News & Politics
September 1, 1993
The Seduction of Cruiser and Bruiser
Police officers Randy Harris and Swany Davenport were called heroes for busting Dallas drug dealers. But when they broke the laws they had pledged to uphold, the dealers cried foul—and the heroes got busted.
Film & TV
June 30, 1993
The Making of a Sex Symbol, 1993
How did Vickie Smith, waitress from Mexia, become Anna Nicole Smith, world-famous face? It’s anyone’s Guess?
True Crime
April 30, 1993
See No Evil
Dallas police say Charles Albright is the coldest, most depraved killer of women in the city’s history. To me, he seems like a perfect gentleman. Maybe too perfect.
Business
February 1, 1993
Some Things Never Change: Power Hungry
In Texas, lunch is for gossip and dinner is for dates. Breakfast, however, is for wheeling and dealing.
Business
February 1, 1993
Profile: Food Fight
Last summer, restaurateurs Shannon Wynne and Gene Street bragged about their new partnership, but now they’re eating their words.
True Crime
November 1, 1992
The Almost Great Bank Robbery
It seemed like the perfect inside job: A respected cop conspires with his teller girlfriend to pull the biggest bank heist in San Antonio history. If they hadn’t been so careless, they might have gotten away with it.
True Crime
September 30, 1992
The Meanest Divorce
When Chuck Smith kidnapped his own small boys to keep them from his estranged wife, a simple divorce case turned into an international family feud.
True Crime
June 30, 1992
Possessed by the Devil
The way two mysterious deaths affected the town of Childress says a lot about the lure of satanism and the power of gossip.
Travel & Outdoors
May 31, 1992
Judge Roy Scream vs. The Texas Cyclone
How to beat the heat, find the food, and master the coasters at Texas’ four big theme parks.
Business
May 31, 1992
Beyond Luxury
God save the queen! A Dallas hotel company has won the right to manage London’s most exclusive property.
Sports
March 1, 1992
Rodeo, Texas, U.S.A.
Rodeo, rodeo, wherefore art thou rodeo? Mary Ellen Mark went to small towns all over Texas to find out.
True Crime
February 1, 1992
The Ranger Bandit
Steve Benifiel was an old-fashioned outlaw who practically owned the town of Ranger—until he was busted for running one of West Texas’s biggest drug rings.
Business
January 1, 1992
Doing the Hustle
Today, TGI Friday’s is sedate, but twenty years ago this month, the place started the singles era in Dallas.
Sports
December 1, 1991
“I Have Made Their Lives Miserable”
Young girls who want to win an Olympic gymnastics medal have to pay the price, and Bela Karolyi makes sure that they don’t get off cheap.
The Culture
September 30, 1991
This One’s a Beaut!
How a Fort Worth glass manufacturer became a modern-day medici.
True Crime
July 31, 1991
The Afrin Affair
A tale of rivalry, intrigue, and foul play in the science lab.
Style & Design
July 1, 1991
Boots and Me
In Texas, the cowboy boot still makes the man.
Lifestyle
June 30, 1991
Pomp and Circumstance
Kicked out of the Miss USA contest, two Texas beauty moguls landed on their feet and started their own pagent.
Health
April 1, 1991
Arrival of the Fittest
Nice-guy bodybuilder Larry North has muscled his way into Dallas’ power circles.
News & Politics
March 1, 1991
The Greek Way
Are good times and fun pranks giving way to racial slurs and ritualized violence? An inside look at UT’s fraternity row.
Business
January 1, 1991
A Bitter Pill
Business
November 1, 1990
Ad Men at War
How the battle for the Southwest Airlines account turned into a long-awaited showdown between Texas’s two top agencies.
Art
October 1, 1990
The Quickest Draw In the West
Not since Remington and Russell has a cowboy artist sold so many works—for so much—as Fredericksburg’s G. Harvey.
Arts & Entertainment
July 1, 1990
Texas Humor: This Man Can Really Shoot Bull
With his bust-a-gut jokes and cornpone tales, backwoods humorist Bob Murphey delivers a time gone by.
Business
May 31, 1990
A Ride On the Wild Side
Conquering Arlington’s Texas Giant.
Health
May 31, 1990
Can Kids On Drugs Be Saved?
Drug treatment seldom works: at many centers, greedy entrepreneurs prey on frightened parents and troubled kids. But one teenager’s parents decided to take one last, desperate step: they sent their son to the toughest program in Texas.
Being Texan
April 1, 1990
Grande Dames
In her golden years, a lady is free to be imperious, incorrigible, impertinent, and altogether indispensable.
Health
February 1, 1990
The Codependency Conspiracy
Codependency leaders preach that we are the victims of a psychological plague. It remains to be seen whether they are selling us a valuable insight or merely a bill of goods.
Reporter
February 1, 1990
Juvenile Justice
Peer pressure dispenses juvenile justice in Montgomery County.
Reporter
February 1, 1990
The Long Dry Spell
Coasta Bend farmers are desperate for a rainy day.
Travel & Outdoors
January 1, 1990
The Call of the Wildman
To find their true masculine selves, wildmen dance and sweat, bond and meditate, renounce their mothers and grunt, “Ho!” I thought, “Hmmm.”
Reporter
January 1, 1990
Upscale Garage Saling
Shopper Ethel Sexton is dressed to the nines in her garage-sale finery.
Reporter
January 1, 1990
Bon-Furor
Bonfire-crazed yell leaders Keving Fitzgerald and Brant Ince foresee defeat for fire’s foes.
Sports
November 1, 1989
Can’t Win for Losing
When San Antonio’s Memorial Minutemen took on a crosstown rival, all they had to lose was their chance to go down in history as Texas’ worst high school football team.
Hunting & Fishing
March 1, 1986
Bass’n Gal
There are bass in Sam Rayburn Reservoir, and the gals were out to hook ’em. And Rhonda Wilcox hoped to hook the biggest one of all.
Being Texan
November 1, 1985
Preacher’s Kids
My father had to have an answer for everything—adultery, spiritual crises, the pigeons defecating in the church gutter. No wonder I didn’t become a preacher. The miracle is that my sister did.
Music
July 1, 1985
Music to My Ears
The small-town orchestra has it all: performers who love the music passionately, audiences who lend their wholehearted support, and even occasional moments when all the instruments are playing the right note.
Web Exclusive
December 31, 1969
Best of Texas: Dallas Arts
Thanks to the vision of the Dallas Arts District, the city has finally created a masterpiece in the heart of downtown.