June 2016
Features
Something in the Water
Getting wet, getting scared, and getting my family a little closer to Texas at Schlitterbahn.
Bernie in Hell
Two decades after killing Marjorie Nugent, Bernie Tiede was sentenced this spring for her murder—again. So what do we make of him now?
That Old Frio River
Relinquishing oneself to these green waters is a tradition that runs deep in my family.
What Every Texan Should Know About . . .
Tying a Texas rig. Buying custom boots. Making a no-frills margarita. In this excerpt from How to Be a Texan: The Manual, Andrea Valdez explains how to behave like a native.
Get Thee to Water
We’ve mapped out nineteen places to cool off the way nature intended by swimming, wading, and diving into Texas’s restorative waterways.
Family
Off Course
I never knew my father, a decorated World War II pilot who died before I was born. But a trek at age 67 to the site where his airplane crashed brought me closer to him than I’d ever dared hope.
Columns
Spurs of the Moment
They are successful, visionary, and humble. If only we could say the same for our presidential candidates.
The Texanist
Our estimable advice columnist on saying “I do” to a potbellied pig, bidding farewell to supper, giving your regards to Texas, and complaining about cold tortillas.
Delay of Game
Discovering the joys of Friday Night Lights, ten years after everyone else.
The Newer Testament
How a computer-loving Texas Tech grad launched one of the fastest-growing megachurches in the country.
Reporter
The Lyndon Johnson Show
All the Way playwright Robert Schenkkan on Donald Trump, George Wallace, and why Bryan Cranston makes a great LBJ.
Old News: An Illustrated Look at Curious Headlines From a Bygone Era
Veggie tales from Brownsville in the early twentieth century.
Meanwhile, in Texas . . .
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
The Checklist
What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
That Wasn’t an Excavator. It Was an I-Gotta-Take-a-Dump Truck.
The Blackland Prairie becomes an unfortunate dumping ground.
Lead
The Gulf War
Texas’s commercial and recreational fishermen are fighting it out over access to a once-imperiled fish.
Miscellany
Touts
The Regency Bridge
Outside San Saba stands the last Texas suspension span still open to traffic.
Nipped in the Bud
When Austin’s vegetable-forward restaurant Gardner failed, the proprietors transformed it into Chicon, a place aimed at the (adobo-rubbed) meat and (fingerling) potatoes crowd.
