
Texas Primer: The Tar Ball
There’s one place where you can still find plenty of oil in Texas: the beach.
There’s one place where you can still find plenty of oil in Texas: the beach.
Nobody remembers his name, but the photographer who passed through Corpus Christi in 1934 left behind an unforgettable series of images.
Meet Bruce Auden of San Antonio, the fairest of the Fairmount.
For some entrepreneurs, the dark cloud of AIDS has proved to have a silver lining
Playing fast and loose with the new speed limit; an oil drilling technique gets the shaft; dam builders strick back—with Authority; how the budget battle is changing the Legislature.
Behaving yourself in the eighties; keeping the faith in the parish; winning Pulitzers with penguins.
Passing (slowly) through Kendleton. Then on to Houston, where student murals record the march of time and Vietnam vets gather; to a meal so good it’s kept under lock and key; and finally to the (formerly) Golden Triangle.
Let’s play pretend by swapping out Houstonians for Dallasites. Plus: Battling books, good Mex-Mex where you’d least expect it, and our guide to the latest legislative phrases (use ‘em three times and they’re yours!)
The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Mason Ruffner, and Omar and the Howlers all got the same message from album-oriented-rock radio: Wrap it up, we’ll take it.
Brownsville has everything Mexico’s leading filmmaker could want—except visas.
Maybe as much as $20,000, if Lee Ballard of Dallas has anything to do with it.
Hans Holbein’s life drawings are a tantalizing glumpse into the lusty court of Henry VIII. And courtesy of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, they’re on view at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.