August 2014
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Features
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Is This the Most Dangerous Man in Texas?
University of Texas regent Wallace Hall has been accused of leading a witch hunt against UT-Austin president William Powers. But the Dallas investor insists he’s doing his job. And he doesn’t care what you think.
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The First Resident of Belken County
When the National Book Critics Circle gave the Austin writer Rolando Hinojosa its lifetime achievement award, it was simply taking note of what many of us had known for years.
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And They Said, “Let There Be Cilantro”
Thirty years ago, Texans who equated fine dining with chicken cordon bleu and trout meunière suddenly found themselves eating barbecued Gulf shrimp and goat cheese quesadillas. An oral history of the Southwestern cuisine revolution.
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Land That We Love
If you ask thirteen famous Texans to name their favorite place, don’t be surprised when you get thirteen very different answers.
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Columns
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Sam Rayburn’s Bates List Finder
The legendary speaker of the House had his own version of a little black book—and it included numbers for a florist, a fishing buddy, and two future presidents.
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Start Making Cents
The virtual currency Bitcoin is perfect for Texas’s don’t-fence-me-in ethos. It may also be a disaster waiting to happen.
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The Way They Get By
Spoon gets ready to take its new album to the top of the charts.
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The Texanist
Our estimable advice columnist on bad barbecue vs. no barbecue, rodeo bullfighting, and dogs at bars.
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Grand Old Problem
What Greg Abbott and the Republican party should have learned from their state convention.
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Reporter
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Asylum Politics
Why did dozens of Sikh detainees in a federal facility in El Paso go on hunger strike in April?
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Billy Joe Shaver Is Still Alive
The outlaw singer-songwriter returns.
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Payback’s a Glitch
The five members of the Dallas County Commissioners’ Court unanimously voted for a resolution commemorating Juneteenth without realizing that it also endorsed reparations for slavery. Aside from Commissioner John Wiley Price, who put forth the resolution, none of the other commissioners had bothered to find out what was in the proposal before voting for it. …
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Oil Paintings
Luling’s artful pump jacks.
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The Archer City Kid
Archer City’s fresh-faced new mayor.
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Old News: An Illustrated Look at Curious Headlines From a Bygone Era
“An irate gentleman went for the city editor of the Dallas Herald a few days ago, but was met with a six-chambered apology-maker. It might as well be understood now that all local editors in Texas have their pants made with pistol pockets in them.” —San Marcos Free Press, June 19, 1884
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Look What the Tide Dragged In
Mucking about on the Gulf Coast.
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The Checklist
What to hear, read, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas literacy.
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The Senator From San Antonio
Leticia Van de Putte on what happened last summer—and what might happen in November.
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Meanwhile, in Texas…
Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
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Touts
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Evens
A Houston textile designer shows that the art of dyeing isn’t dying.
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Peck of Pickled Peppers
From Barbaro, in San Antonio.
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Head of the Table
At Houston’s Table on Post Oak the second in command finally gets his chance to shine.
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Hooked on a Reeling
Even with the bigger crowds, Port Aransas remains a fisherman’s paradise.
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Puffy Tacos
Oil, masa, air bubbles, and the filling of your choice—do you really need anything else?
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Miscellany
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Texas, My Texas
My favorite place.
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Roar of the Crowd
Readers respond to the July 2014 issue.
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