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Blood in the Streets

Blood in the Streets. Houstonians and homicide detectives struggle to cope with a deadly crime wave.

Texas Breaks Away

The ceremony was to honor the four-score living Texans who had participated in the Revolution. They were all quite old, of course. It had been 75 years since 1992, when Texas had become a breakaway republic and, like Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and the Ukraine in Soviet Russia, sought independence from a

Billy and Lyndon

Lyndon Johnson understood all too well the advantages of being Billy Graham’s buddy.

Double Visions

Melissa Miller’s latest paintings are a dark departure from her past; a Rauschenberg retrospective examines his youthful eye.

The Eye of the Bull

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

Conflict of Interest

Firefighter at the End of the Day

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

Unsung Hero

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.

Born Again

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

Guard Duty

Let’er Rip!

Brown’s formula for success guarantees a happy ending.

Le Rave On

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

Club Hubbub

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

S.A. Print Wars Revisited

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.”

Late Bloomer

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

Video of the Month

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

Class Speaker

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

1991: The Best and the Worst Legislators

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

What a Dish!

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

This One’s a Beaut!

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

The Catfish Farm

Sincerely, Clint

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

Buried Treasures

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

Benny and the Boys

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

The Texas 100

A fresh look at the state’s rich reveals that their fortunes continue to climb.

Who Says One Man Can’t Change The World?

And now, speaking for the poor and downtrodden, Ernie Cortes.

Sales Pitcher

Whenever sports–souvenir companies look at Rangers ace Nolan Ryan, they see dollar signs.

Plugged In

At Conn Appliances, employees—and customers—are members of the family.

Smog Suit

Bunker Hunt, 1980

Photograph by Harry Benson

New Ball Game

Introducing the Wild West Conference, the ideal league for Longhorn and Aggie football.

The Reel Thing

Jail for Sale

Own a piece of history and get in on the ground floor of the booming penal-corrections-facilities industry.

Howling Success

A racetrack that need not take a bite out of your pocketbook.

Stellar Static

Is the universe too small for two Texas radio star shows?

Fire Power

The habanero chile stokes the burning desire of pepper lovers everywhere.

The Texas 100: Index

Ross Perot is still number one, but here’s where to find the other 99.

Dances With Weaves

Clothes to wear when you know the lay of the land.

Red Tape

To drill for oil in Siberia, you have to overcome three things: the cold, the loneliness, and the Soviet bureaucrats.

Free to Kill

Blues in the Night

Adán Hernandez’s art career was going nowhere. Then Hollywood arrived to make him a star.

Let Me Hear Silence

Once part of a vast South Texas ranch, Lebh Shomea is a spiritual retreat where pilgrims listen to what absolute quiet has to say.

Tex Zen

When urban stress sets the nerves ajangle, it’s comforting to know there is a Japanese garden nearby.

Radio Days

Thirty-five years ago, a Harlingen publisher turned in to Hispanic radio, only to become Texas’ least-known media mogul.

King of Aces

A Dallas insurance firm’s big gamble—backing holes in one at golf tournaments—was right on the money.

State Secrets

Earl Campbell on Mount Bonnell, Austin

Photograph by Michael O’BrienMichael O’Brien put the legendary Heisman trophy winner on the highest available pedestal for this shot. Campbell joins the trio of other famous Texans —Nolan Ryan, George Strait, and former Miss USA Gretchen Polhemus—who have posed looking spiffy for Wrangler’s “Western originals” advertising campaign, created by

Getting My Kicks

How I learned that the toughest job in sports is umpiring girls’ kickball.

Roar of the Crowd

Pop Art

An avid doodler puts a good face on his obsession with snack food.