January 1991 Issue

The Hyde Park Rapist

A frightened silence keeps a neighborhood threat alive.

By Robert Draper

God’s Jeweler

Piery or passion: the trials of James Avery, craftsman.

By Dana Rubin

The 1991 Bum Steer Awards

It was a year of absent anchors, Bush broccoliphobia, contraband clocks, dastardly Dakotas, egad! Elections, foolhardy fig leaves, governor’s grackles, Hussein harmonizing, incoherent Incaviglia, jury junkets, KO kisses, licentious license plates, misunderstood mummies, naughty notebooks, oil-spill oratory, pretentious pyres, quintessential quadraceps, reverential Sakowitz, telephone telepathy, unwise uppercuts, viper volunteers, wildcatting

By Texas Monthly

Passage to Indian

An enterprising businessman at the turn of the century steered tourists to the Southwest with Pueblo Deco architecture.

By Texas Monthly

Highway 1

Retracing the trail that tamed the Texas wilderness--the Camino Real.

By Stephen Harrigan

Cornbread

Cornbread from Evan’s, Houston 1/4 cup chopped yello onion 1 tablespoon butter 2 jalapeños, seeded and minced 1/2 cup fresh corn kernels 1/4 cup chopped pimento 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 1/2 teaspooons baking powder 1 1/2 tablesppons sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cup

By Texas Monthly

Black-Eyed Pea Pie

6 cups chicken or vegetable stock 2 cups dried black-eyed peas 2 cups chopped yellow onion 1 tablespoon finely ground white pepper 1 bay leaf 1 jalapeño, seeded and minced 1 ham bone (optional) 8 cloves garlic, minced 3 bunches collards or mustard greens, destemmed Cornbread (recipe below) 4

By Texas Monthly

A Bitter Pill

By Skip Hollandsworth

The Governor Who Ate Onions

By Gregory Curtis

Big Bang

By Patricia Sharpe

Coffee Mates

By Shaila K. Dewan and Sara Waldrop

Risky Business

Eastern states have hit the jackpot with lotteries. But will Lotto play in Texas?

By John Anderson

Return to Sender

In 1998 Neiman Marcus shelled out $119 million for Horchow Mail Order—only to have the cataloger lose $28 million within two years.

By John Anderson

State Secrets

A quarter may not be enough to buy a newspaper much longer.

By Paul Burka

Texas Desperado

By Tim Jessell

The Art of Persuasion

By Texas Monthly

State Fare

Evan Daily wants to improve the environment; so when he opened Evan’s at 3939 Montrose in Houston the week of Earth Day 1990, he took steps beyond using recycled-paper menus and business cards. At Evan’s, organic produce and chemical-free meats are the basis of the meal, not just food for

By Patricia Sharpe

The Grim Recorders

Gas prices, weather, and day of the week all count in the dismal task of predicting holiday highway death tolls.

By Joe Nick Patoski

Serious Fun

Check Magazine.

By Joe Nick Patoski