March 2013
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Features
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F1, Take One
Learning to love the foreign, overcharged, crowded, obsessive, and actually pretty exciting world of Texas’s newest major sport.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
After decades as one of the most admired athletes on the planet and one of the toughest competitors ever to ride a bike, Lance Armstrong is facing a new challenge: how to come back from a very public disgrace.
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Up With the Old Hotel
The demise of Big Spring’s Hotel Settles was a perfect symbol for the town’s bust. Now one native son is trying to restore both to their former glory.
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Trouble in Mind
Andre Thomas is deeply mentally ill. He is also a vicious murderer. How should he be punished?
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Columns
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The State of Taxes
Texas won’t get its financial house in order until lawmakers have a thoughtful conversation about the T-word. Don’t hold your breath.
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Roar of the Crowd
Readers respond to the February 2013 issue.
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The Texanist
Offering Fine Advice Since 2007
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Editor’s Letter
Austin is known, somewhat ostentatiously, as the Live Music Capital of the World, but as any longtime resident knows, the best show in town is not a musical performance at all. In fact, it is mostly tuneless, it has little in the way of rhythm, and no one has ever tried to dance to it (except, …
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Reporter
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Still Searching
A new book looks at the links between Cynthia Ann Parker and an iconic John Ford western.
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Money Makes the World Go Round
Money makes the world go round – Susan Combs on budgets, borrowing, and race cars.
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The Alligator Gar
The most misunderstood swamp creature of them all.
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Sons of Sam
Leadership is lacking in Texas. O Houston, where art thou?
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It’s All Relatives
How a Dallas gospel-funk band reunited after thirty years of silence to set the world on fire.
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Dazed and Amazed
Has Richard Linklater just completed the greatest trilogy in film history?
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6 Things You’ll Be Talking About In March
1. Bills,Bills, Bills The calendar says that the Eighty-third Legislature began on January 8, but insiders know the real action doesn’t begin until 59 days later. Oh, there are plenty of speeches and resolutions during the first two months, recognizing groups like the Texas Association of Health Underwriters. But the tone changes on March 8, the …
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Touts
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Hunger + Games
At Houston’s theatrical Pass, to dine is to be entertained.
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Migas
The breakfast antidote to whatever needs fixing.
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East Side Story
Among the hipsters, galleries, food trucks, and old-timers in Austin’s trendy enclave.
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Datebook
Five must-attend events for March.
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Knives
Five handmade (and heirloom-worthy) blades for all your whittling needs.
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