Meet the hip young chefs at two Texas restaurants that everyone’s buzzing about.
April 1995

Features
They crack wise while bulls charge them, and fans eat it up. A look at rodeo’s real ring leaders.
How a small Houston biotech company and a giant California-based rival are battling over who developed what may be a revolutionary cure for asthma and allergies.
Phil Gramm is a world-class fundraiser, but it will take more than money to carry him to the White House in 1996.
Led by an owner of a roofing company, a group of novice sleuths solves gruesome crimes in San Antonio. It sounds like a TV show—and it may soon be one.
A year after Robert James Waller left Iowa for the quieter climes of Big Bend, the best-selling author is discovering that it’s one thing to live like Texan and quite another to be one.
Columns
Now is the time to visit New Mexico, where the A-bomb exploded on the scene half a century ago.
More criminals are condemned to death in the Harris County courthouse than anywhere else in the world.
When Susan Hadden was murdered, the country lost a visionary thinker on the information highway and the Internet.
For sixty years, Austinite Raymond Daum befriended Hollywood’s biggest stars. Now he’s selling off his memories.
Shawn Colvin, the latest pop émigré to land in Austin, sets the record straight on her long and difficult road to stardom.
Son of a gun, you’ll have big fun—and terrific fresh crawfish—at these seven Louisiana seafood joints.
Miscellany

Tacos go uptown in the hands of Dean Fearing. All it takes is a little lobster, jalapeño-spiked cheese, fresh spinach, and Fearing’s snappy yellow-tomato salsa. This new, beautifully photographed compendium by Arlene Feltman-Sailhac focuses on nine masters of Southwestern cuisine. Other Texas chefs spotlighted are Robert Del Grande of…
Reporter
Never mind the bullocks, here’s Sincola: An Austin band tries to live up to the hype.
Pollution from Mexico is already plaguing West Texas—and it's only going to get worse.
The Humane Society wants to rein in Beltex of Fort Worth, one of the nation’s largest slaughterhouses.
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Recipe from Dean Fearing, Mansion on Turtle Creek, Dallas. Yellow-Tomato Salsa 1 pound yellow tomatoes or yellow cherry tomatoes, chopped 1 large shallot, minced 1 large clove garlic, minced 2 tablespoons finely minced cilantro 1 tablespoon champagne vinegar or white wine vinegar 2 serrano chiles,…