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Honky-tonks: how to get in, how to get out.
For a perfectly decorated tree, call Tom Osborn. But only if money is no object.
It’s not quite a lie and not quite the truth. It’s a patriotic duty.
They told me alligators don’t eat people. But when I found myself face to face with one in a dark East Texas swamp, I hoped they’d told him too.
Three Texas Trivia games separate Lone Star zealots from ordinary believers.
Frederick Barthelme’s first novel, Second Marriage, is a wondrous tale of love and absurdity set in the Gulf Coast suburbs.
Selling crime self-help devices has become a booming business. But do any of these gadgets really make us safer?
Body Double settles for facile thrills; Comfort and Joy offers moments of magical bliss; The Little Drummer Girl is off-pitch.
The Word Processor reveals the wisdom of the Good Book with a few keystrokes.
After winning seven straight state basketball championships, the Snook Bluejays are learning that success has a flip side.
Kung’s underground hideaway; Dallas’ Cadillac wars; the Panhandle’s art terrorists; Houston’s poet-laureate; Austin’s airport quandary.
A new law takes the driving out of DWI; a new battle brews on the Texas Supreme Court; Exxon gets rid of an old burden; so does Clinton Manges.
