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July 2011

  • Features

    • Essay

      Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?

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      As a kid I was the pickiest eater you have ever seen, and family meals gave new meaning to the words “food fight.” But I gritted my teeth and overcame it—one disgusting tomato at a time.

    • Recipe

      The Margarita Variations

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      On the rocks or frozen? Salt or no salt? And what tequila is best? So many questions, but these four recipes make it easy for you to shake up the best margaritas around.

    • Feature

      Hall of Fame

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      Hugo Berlanga  D–Corpus ChristiTenure: Representative from 1977 to 1999Number of times on the Best list: 3I was the first Hispanic speaker pro tempore in the history of the House. I served under Gib Lewis, and he later told me that the reason he selected me is that he needed someone who could help work the …

    • Feature

      The Best and Worst Legislators 2011

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      For the Eighty-second Legislature (our twentieth at the Capitol), everything old was new again: the state faced a budget deficit; the governor harbored presidential ambitions; the members of the Best list were hard to find; and the names on the Worst list picked themselves.

    • Feature

      20 Sessions

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      A brief history of every Legislature we’ve ever covered.

    • Feature

      The Not So Happy Campers

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      For more than seven decades, Camp Mystic has been one of the prettiest, happiest, and most exclusive destinations in Texas. But after a bitter, multimillion-dollar legal battle, the very thing that the owners cherished—family—may be the force that tears the camp apart for good.

  • Columns

    • The Texanist

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      Offering Fine Advice Since 2007

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      Spousal adjustments, fly abatement, soccer parenting, and the truth about creased jeans. 

    • Behind the Lines

      Capitol Affair

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      How architecture changed the balance of power at the Legislature and other observations from my three decades covering Texas politics.

    • Letter From Cleveland

      The Worst Hard Time

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      My hometown of Cleveland has become the most disgraced community in America because of a brutal, unspeakable crime that has set everyone against one another.

    • Sarah Bird

      Sink or Swim

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      In an excerpt from Sarah Bird’s new novel The Gap Year, a single mom prepares to send her only daughter off to college. Guess which one is a wreck.

  • Reporter

  • Web

  • Miscellany

    • Editor's Letter

      The Usual Suspects

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      There’s an old joke that goes like this: A girl is out milking the family cow one morning when a stranger rolls up and asks if her parents are at home. The girl yells out, “Mama, there’s a man here to see you!” Her mother peers out the door and, seeing the man, says to …

    • Roar of the Crowd

      Roar of the Crowd

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      Spoiled Sports I have yet to open my May issue because every time I see that cover, it shocks me. America’s Team?! How can you call any team that has never won a championship “America’s Team”? Please keep in mind that the firing of Wade Phillips was a bigger news story across America than the …

    • Contributors

      Contributors

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      Courtney Bond, Sarah Bird, and Jan Jarboe Russell.

    • Cover Credit

      Cover Credit

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      Composite photograph by Randal Ford. Styling by Lauren Smith Ford. Hair and makeup by Franchiska Bryant. Wardrobe courtesy of Allens Boots, Julian Gold, Neiman Marcus, and Sheplers.