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Reading Bush, spinning Baker, regarding Henry, investigating Ross, explaining Ann, and toasting LBJ.

Profile: Senator Spite

Phil Gramm’s unrelenting partisanship has changed Texas politics, but it may cost him the presidency.

Essay: Last of the Line

When Lloyd Bentsen joined the Clinton cabinet, Texas lost not only its senior senator but a link to its political past.

Focus: Local Color

With the suddenness of a revolution, Texas changed from a cultural colony to a hot spot for homegrown artists.

On Assignment: Picture This

The Standard Oil Collection captured details of everyday life in the forties and, in 1981, helped us to understand modern Texas.

Scrapbook

Remembering the Alamo, Candy Barr, J. Frank Dobie, and Farrah. Forgetting James Michener’s Texas.

Return of the Native Son

For years he renounced his Texas ties. Now Larry McMurty is once again calling Archer City home.

Essay: Remembrance of Things Primitive

Some Things Never Change: Power Hungry

In Texas, lunch is for gossip and dinner is for dates. Breakfast, however, is for wheeling and dealing.

Focus: Withdrawn

In the heady days of banking, Texans ran the state’s biggest, most profitable institutions. Not anymore.

On Assignment: Prime Pickens

Up close and extremely personal with Boone Pickens, the takeover titan who changed Texas business.

Scrapbook

Temple of doom, Spence for hire,, deals that won’t Hunt, Blount analysis, and the King of the ranch.

Profile: Food Fight

Last summer, restaurateurs Shannon Wynne and Gene Street bragged about their new partnership, but now they’re eating their words.

Essay: A Wild Ride

Once, you needed the price of oil to predict our ever-changing economic future. Now you need the want ads, the stock tables, and a whole lot more.

Great Days

Twenty and counting.

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Greetings From Dogpatch

Bill Clinton’s Arkansas isn’t the backwater you might think.

Cole Day in Hell

Brother J.H. Lewis and His Church

Political Pretexts

A Natural Phenomenon

A Hill Country ecobusiness discovers that green is also the color of money.

Engraved in Stone

An ancient cache of pebbles and flints yields North America’s oldest art.

Bunker Mentality

A small town hunkers down for a court fight with Bunker Hunt’s bankruptcy trustee.

The Sound of Música

Texas’ tejano radio stations dish out a spicy mix of music and patter in English and Spanish, and the ratings are magnifico.

Border Bonanza

Look for Texas to win big with North American free trade, as U.S. exports boom and Mexican companies migrate north.

Water Babies

Deepwater Gulf shrimp get all the press, but the sweetest, most succulent shrimp in Texas come from the bays.

Shooting Stars

With wit and grit, Amarillo-born photographer Mark Seliger persuades reluctant celebrities to show their true selves.

Scarred

Not long after she made her trek from Texas to New York, Marla Hanson saw her modeling career end at the hands of a razor-wielding thug. Six years later, the cuts on her face have healed, but the emotional wounds remain.

The 1993 Bum Steer Awards

It was a year of absent Alamos, buried Barbies, castrated calves, derriere drawings, errant escalators, filching frats, grid-iron graduates, hightailing hoopsters, income-tax immigrants, jailed joggers, Keating kudos, lascivious linksters, mercenary morticians, nonoffensive nachos, overdrawn officials, Perot pumpkins, querulous quackers, relaxed Rangers, safe-sex students, testosterone teeth, undersea upraisings, visionary vacuumers, wounded

Frozen Assets

Amy Miller built an Austin ice cream empire based on equal parts business savvy and zaniness. But will her winning formula travel?

A Mighty City

Hooray for Big Hair!

A strand-by-strand look at the roots of a Texas phenomenon.

Bill’s Bungle

By not contesting Texas in the presidential campaign, Bill Clinton did more than throw away votes in 1992. He hurt the prospects of Texas Democrats in 1994 and beyond.

Life of a Salesman

He’s no longer at the helm of Neiman’s, but 87-year-old Stanley Marcus still knows how to run a successful business. Just ask him.

A Texas-Style Christmas: You Gotta Have Hearth

The secret to a well-appointed Texas Christmas.

Date-Nut Chews

Recipe from Dean Fearing of Dallas’ Mansion on Turtle Creek.

Unfriendly Skies

Petrouchka Discovers the Ballerina with the Moor

Lady or Tiger?

Flamboyant philanthropist Wendy Reves showered her hometown with money for a makeover—but she wanted to run the show.

They Lovett

Tandyland

The biggest, most boisterous Radio Shack in the universe lands in Arlington.

Seed Fee

Cottonseed was delicious and nutritious, but it was only for cows—until now.

Bombs Away

The Pantex H-bomb plant prepares to mothball the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Uncommon Market

San Antonio’s Farm to Market looks like an overgrown produce stand, but inside are some of the classiest groceries in the state.

Growing Pains

When the young daughter of a friend walked sooner than my son, my feminist politics collided with my loyalties as a mom.

Sludge Happens

New York sludge is being spread across West Texas. Opponents insist it’s evil filth; others say the smell means jobs.

Behind the Lines

The Same or Better?

Keyboard Kops

Hacker Crackdown tells how the feds busted employees of a Texas games company for a crime they didn’t commit.

Merry-go-round

AUSTIN POLITICS ARE the nuttiest in the state. It all stems from an obsession with quality of life, and nothing quite brings out the daffiness like a threat to the city’s beloved Barton Springs. Even as a two-year legal battle continues to rage over development upstream on Barton Creek, a

The Cowboy Boot Book

This fall, photographer Jim Arndt and Western props supplier Tyler Beard visited the annual event in Burnet to chew the fat with many of the craftsmen featured in The Cowboy Boot Book (Peregrine Smith Books), their pictorial guide to fancy footgear. Arndt and Beard have dressed Western