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April 1998

  • Features

    • Feature

      Full Nelson

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      Ain’t it funny how time slips away? Before you know it, you’ve made two hundred albums, thirty movies, and had one amazing career. What follows is the Compleat Willie: a discography—including every U.S. album release as well as his early 45 rpm singles (before he signed with RCA in 1965)—and a filmography, featuring starring roles …

    • Feature

      Wowtown!

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      The billionaire Basses had a vision—and money, of course. Now, thanks to their efforts, Fort Worth has the hottest downtown in Texas.

    • Feature

      The Needle and the Damage Done

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      In 1979, as an undercover cop in Tyler, I got hooked on drugs. Nearly two decades later I’m clean, but the consequences of my addiction haunt me still.

    • Feature

      The Contender

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      He may soon compete for the super featherweight championship of the world, but for now Austin boxer Jesus Chavez is in the fight of his life—with federal immigration officials.

    • Feature

      Rattled

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      Nothing riles a Texan like a rattlesnake, whose aggression and toxicity account for endless horror stories. Some of them are even true.

    • Feature

      Out of This World

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      At the entrance to Las Pozas, the logical, the predictable, and the commonplace evaporate, giving way to one of the most enchanting places on earth.

    • Feature

      Forget the Alamo

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      Sorry, T. R. Fehrenbach: the new Texas historians don’t care about Davy Crockett or other old icons. To them, the real heroes are women, blacks, and yes, Mexican Americans.

    • Profile

      Willie at 65

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      The Red Headed Stranger is about to be eligible for Medicare? Ain’t it funny how time slips away.

  • Columns

    • Food

      Better Than Wurst

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      Portobello mushrooms and paella alongside the schnitzel and sauerkraut: In the Hill Country town of Fredericksburg, there’s clearly something cooking.

    • First Person

      Taxi Driver

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      I was my own boss, set my own hours, and came and went as I pleased. I was a Houston cabbie, and though it was hack work—literally—it paid the bills.

    • Family

      Kid Stuff

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      My literary mentor warned me not to write about my children. So why did I? Because I had to.

    • Cities

      Is Waco Wacko?

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      After the latest standoff there�by an armed UFO cultist�you might think so. But on the fifth anniversary of the Branch Davidian siege, the Central Texas community is doing just fine, thank you.

    • Behind the Lines

      Empire of Culture

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      How Texas—and Texas Monthly—has changed.

  • Reporter

    • The Ex Files

      Greg Germann

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      My dad teaches theater at Southern University in Baton Rouge now, but we lived in Austin for a while when he worked on his master’s degree at the University of Texas. He directed plays on campus and also wrote children’s plays that were performed there and in Houston. When I was five or six, I …

    • Artist Interview

      Primary Cullers

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      Winners in the March 10 primaries: George W. Bush His archnemesis, former Republican state chairman Tom Pauken, failed to make the runoff for attorney general, while his point man for his strategy to win Hispanic votes, former Secretary of State Tony Garza, won the GOP nomination for railroad commissioner. Big Money The Republican front-runners (Garza, …

    • Reporter

      Drag Time

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      The greatest Tuna of all.

    • Reporter

      Day Careful

      By

      A Dallas company’s virtual child care.

    • Reporter

      Plaza Sweet

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      The remaking of a South Texas town.

    • Reporter

      Statues of Limitations

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      Which version of history should be promoted by El Paso’s new statue series: the Wild West or the mild West?

    • Programming

      Snoop Dreams

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      We all know how great the World Wide Web is for snooping: In a few minutes online you learn Hollywood’s secrets from Harry Knowles’ site or get the latest dirt on the president from Matt Drudge. But did you ever consider that people could be looking over your shoulder when you’re surfing the Net? If …

    • Low Talk

      Anna Nicole Myth

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      Anna Nicole Smith’s bar mitzvah brouhaha.

    • Hot Box

      CD and Book Reviews

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      Hot CDs This month Texas music shines on the silver screen. The soundtrack for The Horse Whisperer (MCA) not only features cuts from Don Walser, George Strait, and Steve Earle but also a Butch Hancock—Joe Ely— Jimmie Dale Gilmore reunion (long removed from Lubbock, they are now called the Hill Country Flatlanders)—and, even more miraculously, …

    • Face

      Cheryl Clark

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      Growing up in Harlingen, Cheryl Clark cooked for family friends, but only for fun. Then, at fifteen, she lied about her age to get a real job in a restaurant, and ever since, like a soufflé with extra egg whites, her star has risen to extraordinary heights. After attending New York’s Culinary Institute of America, …

  • Web

    • Recipe

      Ceviche Veracruzana

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      Ceviche Veracruzana With Salmon, Capers, and Green Olives 1 pound salmon filet, cut into 1/2- to 3/4-inch cubes 1 cup fresh lemon juice salt to taste 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 medium onion, thinly sliced 2 garlic cloves, minced 7 Roma tomatoes (about 1 1/2 pounds), peeled and cored 15 green olives, pitted and chopped …

  • Miscellany

    • Roar of the Crowd

      Picture This

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      Pics and pans: Reflections on our one hundred best photos

    • The Inside Story

      Arts and Wozencraft

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      Except for the time she spent as a police officer in Plano and Tyler—when she couldn’t get past the “emotional shutdown” required by the job—Kim Wozencraft has always been a writer. She kept a journal as a child, as a student at Richland College in Dallas, and later, during a fourteen-month stint in federal prison, …

    • Around the State

      Around the State

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      For music fans in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Round Rock, and San Antonio, these are the fest of times. Plus: An oilman’s artistic vision is realized in San Antonio; a Dallas photography show honors lensmen from Mexico and Houston; Houston Grand Opera stages Arabella; and many of the nation’s swiftest athletes get on track in Austin. …

    • State Fare

      State Fare

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      Dallas’ AquaKnox offers ceviche with a smile—three kinds, in fact.

    • Texas Primer

      Mance Lipscomb

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      What was so special about Mance Lipscomb’s dentures?