After years of being alternately judged a great playwright and a great disappointment, Edward Albee has found his footing in Houston, where he teaches, socializes, and gets star treatment.
May 1993

Features

Dallas police say Charles Albright is the coldest, most depraved killer of women in the city’s history. To me, he seems like a perfect gentleman. Maybe too perfect.
What’s behind the Bureau’s bashing of its director, former San Antonio judge William Sessions? Go ask Alice.
Even after his baseball career is over, Nolan Ryan will continue to be a role model for my kids—and me.
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Columns
The Texas real estate market is healthier than it has been in years, but watch out: The patient could suffer a relaps anytime.
In Chiapas—Mexico’s wildes state—you can find cowboys, Indians, and ancient cities in the mist.
Renowned legal scholar and law professor Charles Alan Wright is deadly serious—about murder mysteries.
Far away from the crowded urban courses, there’s an older, saner game. Welcome to the pleasures of nine-hole golf and sand greens.