January 2013 Issue

Primary Targets

Michael Quinn Sullivan is the most powerful (and feared) activist at the Capitol. So who is he?

Friday Night Tykes

I. The HawksPreteen football players are usually described by other preteen football players with one of three words: “nice,” “funny,” or, the highest possible compliment, “awesome.” Celdon Manning, a running back with the Allen Hawks, is the rare athlete who makes his teammates reach for the Scholastic Children’s Thesaurus.“Celdon is

The Mystery of Lightning Medicine Cloud

When a rare white buffalo was born in North Texas, thousands came to celebrate the new age he heralded. A year later the animal was dead.

On the Money

As the Eighty-third Legislature gears up at the Capitol this month, will lawmakers be penny-wise and pound-foolish? Or just plain foolish?

The Texanist: Is the Secret to Good Healthy Actually “Crazy Water”?

Is the secret to good healthy actually “Crazy Water”? Illustration by Jack UnruhQ: I am a Texan of advanced age who is hearing all the clamor surrounding health care. I grew up in Mineral Wells, drinking the famed water they merchandise, and I enjoy great health

5 Things You’ll Be Talking About in January

1. For George Strait, the road doesn’t go on foreverI was tooling around Austin in 1981, enjoying the free-love vibe and listening to the radio, when I first heard George Strait. His voice came out of my little dashboard speaker so strong and clear I ran two lights and a stop sign.

Flagging Spirits

In the face of Obama’s reelection, some Texas conservatives are unsure what to do next. Secede? Or lead?

Green Is Good, Green Is Right

The founder of Whole Foods Market on conscious capitalism and eating healthy.

The Red Imported Fire Ant

Why are they so damn angry all the time?

Dialed In

How Randall Stephenson plans to lead AT&T in the age of wireless.

Foxxed Out

After his Oscar turn in RAY, Jamie Foxx seemed to lose his way. Can DJANGO UNCHAINED revive the career of one of our great actors?

Straight Outta Golden

At the Sweet Potato Festival with Nashville’s next big thing from small-town Texas.

Everything Must Be Perfect

A night behind the velvet ropes.

King Ranch Casserole

It may not look like much, but don’t be fooled.

January's must-attend concerts, shows, and festivals.

Native Woods

Six heirloom-worthy pieces that really do grow on trees. 

Embracing the Pass

Was I giddy from the altitude or just happy to be strolling the sidewalks of El Paso?

Gastronome on the Range

At Stampede 66, Dallas chef Stephan Pyles’s latest gig, the symbols of his West Texas youth are writ not just large but colossal. Wild horses fashioned of gleaming wire come bursting through a solid wall. A giant rattlesnake of screen wire and glowing LED lights stretches its fifty-foot length

Brooke Rollins: The American Dream is Alive and Well in Texas

The Texas Public Policy Foundation's president on the direction of the Republican Party of Texas and what it's like to be one of Ronald Reagan's "happy warriors." 

Butterscotch Pudding With Salted Caramel

From Stampede 66, in Dallas

Fehrenbach response

The Drop Everything List

Inside the renovated LBJ Presidential Library, a yoga meditation ceremony, Caroyln Wonderland, and Robert Earl Keen . . .

Big Rich Texas’s Big Unlikely Success

Despite withering reviews, the Dallas-based reality television show has enjoyed increased ratings and has spawned a franchise.

The Drop Everything List

A "Funeral Party," Dale Watson, and Willie Nelson's New Year's Bash . . .

How Millionaires Celebrate End-of-Days

To commemorate the Mayan Apocalypse, video game tycoon Richard Garriott de Cayeux threw a lavish soiree at his 65-acre spread along Lake Austin, complete with various scenes of imagined end-of-the-world scenarios.

The Drop Everything List

The Cotton Bowl, the Sex Pistols tribute in San Antonio, the Gourds, and the Dallas Safari Club’s Convention & Sporting Expo . . .

The Drop Everything List

Charlie Rose interviews the Kennedys, the Rules of Basketball, BB King, and Grupo Fantasmo . . .