Gangs, guns, and getting in trouble are a way of life for too many teenagers in San Antonio’s projects.
October 1994

Features

Anna Nicole Smith got her man: the full story on the big gal’s marriage to octogenarian oilman J. Howard Marshall.

In the final weeks, the governor’s race is too close to call. Here’s an analysis of what it will take to win.
One night the pastor of Dallas’ all-powerful First Baptist Church mysteriously resigned. To this day, no one is sure why.
Columns
Fred Zain was once a star witness for the prosecution, but his testimony may have sent innocent men to jail.
Edward Blum ran for Congress in 1992, lost, and then decided to change America. He has succeeded. He was one of six plaintiffs in a Texas case that, along with similar cases in North Carolina and Louisiana, will help reverse the racial separation and antagonism that infects our public life.
A saga of lust and revenge with a corpulent heroine establishes Carol Dawson as Texas' most promising new writer.
With love, discipline, and old-time religion, Kirbyjon Caldwell has built one of Texas’ most vital churches.
Diverse styles and a shared devotion to fold music mark new releases by Nanci Griffith and Robert Earl Keen.
The law says customers can file their own car papers and save fifty bucks. In practice, forget it.
The troubled imagination that fuels Daniel Johnston's powerful new album could also prove his undoing.
Miscellany
October in Texas doesn’t always mean cool weather, but it does mean the beginning of quail season. At Anthony’s in Houston, chef Bruce McMillian stuffs the small succulent birds with seasoned wild rice and couscous, roasts them to a turn, and finishes them with a garnet-hued blackberry sauce. Hunters may…
Reporter
Entrepreneurs in Donna are saving the good name of the real Texas tomatoes that come in a can.
A ban against hunting dogs is turning some East Texas hunters into backwoods pyros.
Web
Stuffed Quail 1 tablespoon butter 1/4 cup diced celery 1/4 cup diced onion 1/4 cup diced carrots 1 cup cooked wild rice 1 cup cooked couscous 1 1/2 teaspoons rubbed sage Salt and pepper to taste 4 deboned quail 1/4 cup…