Dallas chef Stephan Pyles redefined Texas cuisine in the eighties, giving a sophisticated treatment to down-home staples and adding the distinctive kick of chiles and Mexican spices. The founder of the dear departed Routh Street Cafe and its more casual offspring, Baby Routh (2708 Routh Street), Pyles shares his pioneering
What’s behind the Bureau’s bashing of its director, former San Antonio judge William Sessions? Go ask Alice.
Even after his baseball career is over, Nolan Ryan will continue to be a role model for my kids—and me.
In these nine Texas towns, produce is more than product. It’s pride.
After years of being alternately judged a great playwright and a great disappointment, Edward Albee has found his footing in Houston, where he teaches, socializes, and gets star treatment.
In Chiapas—Mexico’s wildest state—you can find cowboys, Indians, and ancient cities in the mist.
Far away from the crowded urban courses, there’s an older, saner game. Welcome to the pleasures of nine-hole golf and sand greens.
At an obscure backwoods honky-tonk, Houstonians get a dose of the blues.
A Dallas Lawyer juries with cinematic reenactments of accidents.
In a historic move, the state claims co-ownership of some Brazos Valley farms.
Dallas police say Charles Albright is the coldest, most depraved killer of women in the city’s history. To me, he seems like a perfect gentleman. Maybe too perfect.
The Texas real estate market is healthier than it has been in years, but watch out: The patient could suffer a relaps anytime.
From 1993, a close look at the virtues of Texas's sunset process.
Renowned legal scholar and law professor Charles Alan Wright is deadly serious—about murder mysteries.
From Paris to Dallas, everyone’s asking, Will the bullet train ever get on track?
There’s trouble brewing at the Capitol this spring, and it has lobbyists and legislators foaming at the mouth. The issue? Your right to drink a glass of fresh, tasty beer.
So what if Barney’s New Age niceness annoys some parents? His TV show is a hit with toddlers—and a financial bonanza for the Dallasites who brought him to life.
At Goliad, you can walk among the ghosts of Fannin’s men and the echoes of the rallying cry that history forgot.
A modern surgeon employs a long-discredited cure-all: medicinal leeches.
Houston’s young execs take to the streets on a fleet of shiny Harleys.
In Texas, singer Calvin Russell can barely fill a club. In France, he’s more popular than Willie—and sells more records.
Mother Nature made it impossible to grow azaleas in Dallas’ alkaline soil—unless you mulch with money.
Since AIDS infected their lives, the proud, the deeply religious Allens have been left to ponder the eternal questions of faith and suffering.
Did South-western Bell move its main office to San Antonio strictly for business or because its head honcho is a Texan.
It may be more than 800,000 acres, but you can easily cut Big Bend down to size. Here’s how.
His wives! His lives! A bountiful birthday guide to Sam Houston, Texas’ ultimate hero.
Jimmy Johnson said he’d see us in the Super Bowl, and he was right. Now he is a hero, and his critics are eating crow.
All across Texas, vandals are searching for ancient treasures by looting Indian campgrounds—including the one on my family’s ranch.
He waffled about the Senate seat, then sought safe harbor in Bill Clinton’s cabinet. Why did Henry Cisneros choose HUD over headlines? Only he knows for sure.
NASA scientists ignored amateur Forrest Mims—until he proved them wrong.
A big new Dallas bookstore with amenities is a hit with the reading public.
Will public housing in East Texas be integrated? Not if the Klan has its way.
Twice a week I strip for strange men in a topless bar. I worry about just two things: weirdos and what my mother thinks.
Five years ago, rabies was rare in South Texas. Now nearly three hundred animals have died and the epidemic is not abating.
How a cut of meat from the wrong side of the street rose to culinary stardom, plus a guide to Texas’ most authentic fajitas.
Top-flight wear (from hat to shoes) for rugged adventures on the Texas terrain.
Long before environmentalism was in vogue, attorney Ned Fritz was fighting to keep Texas pristine.
A look back at Roe v. Wade on its twentieth anniversary—and at the key players in Texas who made it happen.
