October 1991

Sep 30, 1991 — By Paul Burka, Patricia Hart and Ellen Williams

We bring you the heroes and the villains of the Capitol circus. Guess which list had more contenders?

Sep 30, 1991 — By Gary Cartwright

Sure, they were gangsters, but they were our gangsters.

Sep 30, 1991 — By Geoff Winningham

All I wanted to do was photograph the running of the bulls. I never intended to risk my life.

Sep 30, 1991 — By Patricia Sharpe, Joe Nick Patoski, Paul Burka, Helen Thompson, Susan Chadwick and catherinechadwickflato

We cleaned our plate at restaurants across Texas. Here are the results: 66 irresistible specialties of the house.

Sep 30, 1991 — By Joe Nick Patoski

Jim Wright is passing out copies of his book again-and this time it’s required reading.

Sep 30, 1991 — By Helen Thompson

Brown’s formula for success guarantees a happy ending.

Sep 30, 1991 — By Joe Nick Patoski

Where else but Texas would a rocker go to record Buddy Holly?

Sep 30, 1991 — By Helen Thompson

A private club’s prolonged turf war of the sexes leaves everyone teed off.

Sep 30, 1991 — By Joe Nick Patoski

It seems like only yesterday that media czar and San Antonio Express-News owner Rupert Murdoch rallied his troops in Texas’ most heated daily newspaper war with the battle cry “Bury the bastards.”

Sep 30, 1991 — By Joe Nick Patoski

Recognition has come very late for Texas’ oldest living artist.

Sep 30, 1991 — By Joe Nick Patoski and Helen Thompson

We’ve Never Been Licked, the World War Two vintage drama starring the Texas Aggies.

Sep 30, 1991 — By Paul Burka

Sep 30, 1991 — By Texas Monthly

Paris-based Sebastião Salgado was among the international corps of photographers who converged on Kuwait last February to document the oil-field inferno that the retreating Iraqis left behind. On assignment for the New York Times Magazine, Salgado also captured the crushing weariness of the firefighters, many of whom worked for Texas…

Sep 30, 1991 — By Texas Monthly

Jan 20, 2013 — By Patricia Sharpe

LocuStreet Bakery, San Antonio

Sep 30, 1991 — By Skip Hollandsworth

How a Fort Worth glass manufacturer became a modern-day medici.

Sep 30, 1991 — By Gary Cartwright

Sep 30, 1991 — By Gary Cartwright

Oilman, sports-man, high liver, Clint Murchison also knew how to write a good letter.

Sep 30, 1991 — By Alan Tennant

Austin’s Kevin Schwantz is one of the world’s most famous and highest-paid athletes, and no one in Texas knows who he is.

Sep 30, 1991 — By Michael Ennis

Sifting through stored collections, the Dallas Museum of Art discovers a tradition of spiritual subtlety among Texas artists.

Sep 30, 1991 — By Mimi Swartz

Like Houston, the Galleria was hit hard by the bust. Now savvy marketing and a face lift have brought back its glamour.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Texas Monthly

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