F1, Take One
Learning to love the foreign, overcharged, crowded, obsessive, and actually pretty exciting world of Texas’s newest major sport.
March 2013
Features
Lance Armstrong
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.
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.
Longreads
Trouble in Mind
Andre Thomas is deeply mentally ill. He is also a vicious murderer. How should he be punished?
Reporter
Still Searching
A new book looks at the links between Cynthia Ann Parker and an iconic John Ford western.
Money Makes the World Go Round
Money makes the world go round - Susan Combs on budgets, borrowing, and race cars.
It’s All Relatives
How a Dallas gospel-funk band reunited after thirty years of silence to set the world on fire.
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…
Columns
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.
The Texanist
Offering Fine Advice Since 2007
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…
Touts
East Side Story
Among the hipsters, galleries, food trucks, and old-timers in Austin’s trendy enclave.
