Oil Boom
“Y’all Smell That? That’s the Smell of Money.”
A son of the oil patch chases the new boom in South Texas.
November 2013
Features
The Energy Hunter
George Mitchell didn’t set out to launch one of the biggest oil and gas rushes in world history—he just wanted to coax some more gas out of an old well near Fort Worth.
What Is Art?
When Playboy Enterprises—yes, that Playboy Enterprises—erected a forty-foot-tall sculpture near Marfa, it was convinced the town would appreciate its take on the local art scene. Instead it started a revealing debate.
“May God Be With You, My Dear Mrs. Kennedy”
After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, scores of Americans wrote letters to the first lady to express their grief. The most heartbreaking were those with a Texas return address.
Reporter
Reporter
The Man Who Was There
For fifty years, journalist Hugh Aynesworth has been one of the foremost authorities on the Kennedy assassination for one simple reason: he saw it all.
The Class of ’63
The good, the bad, and the most self-indulgent of this year’s JFK assassination books.
Claus Pummer, Sleep Coach
“Our bedrooms are no longer bedrooms. They are offices and living rooms and playrooms.”
Suffer, Dude
Matthew McConaughey plays a bigoted man dying of AIDS in Dallas Buyers Club—and proves once again that he should be taken seriously.
Are You Experimented?
When Robert Glasper won a Grammy for Best R&B Album, no one was more surprised than the Houston-born jazz pianist himself.
5 Things You’ll Be Talking About in November
1. NASHVILLE, TEXAS Even if Kacey Musgraves wins none of the six Country Music Association awards she’ll be vying for on November 6, she’ll still be the Nashville story of the year. No female debut artist has ever before topped the CMA nominations list, and Musgraves achieved that honor with…
Columns
Road to Nowhere
Oil money’s nice, but actually funding our infrastructure needs is even better.
Advice
The Texanist
How do a husband and wife resolve backyard barbecuing duties? Illustration by Jack Unruh Q: My wife has recently taken a keen interest in my backyard barbecuing duties. In fact, last weekend she asked me if I wanted her to start cooking the beans from…
Editor's Letter
The Assassination at 50
In November 1973, Texas Monthly, which was still in its first year of existence, marked the tenth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy with a profile of Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother, Marguerite; the cover, however, went to Tom Landry. Two years later, in November 1975, the…
Roar of the Crowd
Readers respond to the October issue.
Touts
By the Starlight
You may go for the solitude, but in the stark expanses of far West Texas, you’ll still find plenty of friends.
