October 1997

Sep 30, 1997 — By Joe Nick Patoski

The secrets of Big Bend Ranch State Park.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Patricia Sharpe

What happens when the modern world gets its hands on the lowly burrito? A food fad is born.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Robert Draper

Up on federal drug charges for the second time in fifteen years, the impresario of Antone’s nightclub in Austin may finally have to face the music.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Pamela Colloff

So few people, yet so many feuds.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Helen Thorpe

The life and legacy of a Texas icon.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Robert Draper

It’s still the best little town in Texas.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Kathy Lowry

Has the best-known Latina writer of our day painted herself into a corner?

Sep 30, 1997 — By Paul Burka

High peaks, scant rain, and hardpan soil—but also high art, hip hotels, and a new telescope that’s a star in its own right: Snapshots from a remote region of our state unlike anyplace else on earth.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Joe Nick Patoski

How I survived a course in desert survival. 

Jan 20, 2013 — By Joe Nick Patoski

A drive that’s unforgettable to the end.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Jamie Fields

Beaumont’s Tracy Byrd may be a hunky, hitmaking hat act, but if it’s all the same, he’d rather be singing an old Bob Wills tune.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Helen Thorpe

Conflicting accounts of the killing of German immigrants in the Hill Country during the Civil War are creating a certain amount of dis-Comfort.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Spike Gillespie

Thanks to his penchant for classic literature, Wishbone is the new top dog in kids’ entertainment.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Keith Kachtick

Getting published was supposed to be a cure-all, but for Austinite Louise Redd, it was just another chapter in the life of a struggling novelist.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis

Should Texas execute a woman? You could debate that question to death.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Pamela Colloff

Why is it so hard for cities like Austin to hire a police chief?

Jan 20, 2013 — By Pamela Colloff

What is ex–football star Bill Glass’s plan for reforming hardened prison inmates? God is in the details.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Evan Smith

For Robert James Waller, life imitates art—and irritates wife.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Texas Monthly

Hot CDs Few voices evoke the pathos of country and western tragedy as genuinely as the rich, honeyed timbre of George Jones. By 1962, the year Jones signed with the United Artists label, the East Texan had been divorced, jailed, and was already as legendary for his hard drinking as…

Sep 30, 1997 — By Paul Burka

George W. Bush faces a dilemma. What’s a poor front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination supposed to do when all anyone in the media wants to talk about is when he’s going to announce his intentions? Why don’t interviewers ask him about shoes or ships or sealing wax—anything but that?…

Sep 30, 1997 — By Jordan Mackay

A new sports bar inspires Abilenians to get something off their chest.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Anne Dingus

Stanley Marsh 3’s mobile autos.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Paul Burka

The plane truth about airline surcharges.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Erin Gromen

Their mission is to save the world, not conquer it, but the stars of Xena: Warrior Princess are winning television-ratings battles from San Angelo to Slovakia. The two-year-old syndicated show airs in more than eighty countries, making Lucy Lawless, who plays Xena, the first leather-clad TV lead since the Fonz—and…

Sep 30, 1997 — By roseanaauten

Is the most outspoken member of the State Board of Education a selfless public servant or simply a prima Donna?

Sep 30, 1997 — By Renee Boensch

MY MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER, Grandma Page, was up at three-thirty or four o’clock in the morning to bake and churn and get ready for the cotton fields on our family farm in Bloomington. At night, after all the cooking and sewing, there was energy left for her reading. “Come, Danny, I’ll…

Sep 30, 1997 — By Anne Dingus

Which Tex sang “High Noon” and which was a member of the Manson family?

Sep 30, 1997 — By Jordan Mackay

Senior editor Joe Nick Patoski provides readers with what you used to get at your local gas station: full service. Writing so-called service pieces—mini-guidebooks that offer readers do-it-yourself instructions and suggestions for trips and other leisure activities—has taken the 46-year-old resident of Wimberley all over Texas. Says Patoski: “I’ve climbed…

Sep 30, 1997 — By Texas Monthly

The ins and outs of Saks appeal.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Patricia Sharpe

Pesto, change-o: Luigi’s in Galveston serves up a magical veal dish.

Sep 30, 1997 — By Patricia Sharpe

How to stuff a wild tortilla.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Texas Monthly

Tomato Pesto Pesto 1 cup chopped pecans 4 medium garlic cloves 3/4 cup olive oil 25 large fresh basil leaves 10 sprigs Italian parsley, leaves only 10 leaves fresh mint salt and pepper to taste 1/2 to 1 tablespoon red-pepper flakes 1…