Flight for Your Life
When a few minutes matter, an EMS helicopter can make the difference between life and death.
When a few minutes matter, an EMS helicopter can make the difference between life and death.
My father loved his job at a Gulf Coast oil refinery. In fact, he loved it to death.
ERIC ANDELL, THE JUDGE OF A JUVENILE court in Houston, peered down from the bench at the small cluster of people before him. In the center stood a lean sixteen-year-old boy in blue jeans and a light-green jersey with a hood. He and a friend had stolen a car to
Dallas professor Mel Bradford thinks that Abe Lincoln was a scoundrel and that equality is nonsense. I had to find out why.
Bob Lanier’s victory in the Houston mayoral runoff guaranteed that all three of the state’s biggest cities will be led by white male political insiders for the first time since 1971. A year ago all three cities had women mayors. But the elections of Lanier, Steve Bartlett in Dallas, and
On assignment for Country America magazine, Dallas freelance photographer Danny Turner traveled to Southern California’s Roy Rogers—Dale Evans Museum to snap a portrait of the singing cowboy. Turner just couldn’t resist grabbing the opportunity for a “me and Roy” photo, and it turned out so well that Turner put it
The Texas Rangers have been thinking: Can they afford to keep Rubén Sierra, their best player ever?
Jan Jarboe’s “Wonder Drug on Trial” [TM, December 1991], on fluoxetine (Prozac), left me disappointed. As an instructor on antidepressant pharmacology for psychiatric residents, I emphasize that antidepressants are neither good nor bad but simply drugs with individual side-effect profiles and efficacies. I am appalled that the article did not
A state breeding program aims to fatten up the trim, pugnacious bass.
An Austin artist makes a stringed instrument of monumental scale.
Whether on the field or on the tube, Steve McMichael’s roughhousing grabs fans.
Space Center Houston will wow crowds with Disney gimmicks.
Quick: Name the Laredo brothers who were world bantamweight champs at the same time.
Ken Barnes wants to keep his dinosaur fossils near home.
The latest news in Houston’s booming Italian restaurant scene is the savory cuisine of Tuscany.
The Dallas Times Herald, 1879-1991, R.I.P.
Steve Benifiel was an old-fashioned outlaw who practically owned the town of Ranger—until he was busted for running one of West Texas’s biggest drug rings.
To hear some women tell it, nature created two genders, one nearly perfect and the other badly flawed. I wonder whether they’re right.
An Alabama Klansman posing as a folksy Texas novelist almost pulled off the literary hoax of the century.
The great polka boycott, Willie’s Sunday school status, the cold truth about Vanilla Ice, and other notable moments in Texas Music.
A report from the front lines in the battle of the sexes—inside the Aggie corps.
If Texas is already overburdened with lawyers, and if, nevertheless, our law schools are still bursting with students, then I have a simple solution. Before submitting an application, all who want to apply to law school must sit down and read every word of the Texas constitution that was passed
Bert Long comes to Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum by way of the Fifth Ward, the Marines, haute cuisine—and the Prix de Rome.
Where is Alfred Hitchcock When You Need Him?The Texas Department of Agriculture fined a crop duster in Wilbarger County $1,250 for spraying pesticide on a family of four in a pickup truck.Drive Friendly—I’m Uninsured.To avoid Texas insurance and safety standards, at least two thousand drivers from El Paso illegally purchased
A year of alternative armadillos, bogus bills, contraband condoms, defecting drivers, eventful endorsements, futile floss, gorgeous golfers, humongous hair, imploding implants, jet joyrides, Kansas City klunkers, licentious libraries, mayoral Mafiosi, N-vaded N-dians, outlaw odors, phighting physicists, queasy quesadillas, royal relatives, shunned Schwarzkopf, tainted teachers, underworld underwear, verbose vasectomies, welfare Willies,
Artist, 1988
As fans of the CBS Evening News and Dan Rather, we believe that Robert Draper’s “Dan Rather Is a Good Ol’ Boy” [TM, November 1991] is a fair and unbiased account. It is a mystery to us that Mr. Rather provokes such controversy. He seems to make
If the National Coalition of Free Men has its way, man-bashing won’t go unprotested.
Candelaria’s only well supplied free water to all until the EPA weighed in.
Gary Bledsoe, the new head of the Texas NAACP, doesn’t dodge the tough questions.
Charm and know-how got Runnels a spot on Ronald’s team.
Triumph at the track comes naturally for a man called Bingo.
Houston’s Young Turk music producers have cut a new groove in the record industry.
“Just how hard can it be to build a playground?” I asked. The answer: Harder than anything I’ve ever tried before.
A Dallas lawyer is urging his colleagues to put rhyme and reason back into legal writing—by using plain old English.
Getting up close and personal with the endangered whooping crane.
A critical appraisal of a local phenomenon by the ultimate insider.
Troubled boys at this Baptist youth home had to eat soap if they said the wrong thing. And that was one of the milder punishments.
When her charitable foundation collapsed amid allegations of mismanagement, the Dallas socialite did the unthinkable: She started a new one.
Today, TGI Friday’s is sedate, but twenty years ago this month, the place started the singles era in Dallas.
Conventional wisdom about education holds that local control, a strong principal, and active, involved parents are crucial ingredients in the mix that makes a successful school. This wisdom is so pervasive that the Legislature has made local control, in the form of “site-based decision making,” a legal requirement in Texas
Director Oliver Stone may not be sure who did it or how, but he is sure he knows why.
Long forgotten, Western artist Till Goodan’s bucking broncs and stalwart cowboys are bringing big money and sparking a revival.
Young girls who want to win an Olympic gymnastics medal have to pay the price, and Bela Karolyi makes sure that they don’t get off cheap.
Why isn’t the Texas state archives trying harder to recover rare historical papers?
What a puff piece! 60 Minutes, which has eviscerated many a victim over the years, gave Ann Richards the royal treatment in its October 27 profile. When interviewer Morley Safer wasn’t rewriting history (blaming Clayton Williams’ rape gaffe for the unraveling of his campaign, when in fact Claytie maintained a
Photograph by George Krause
I had high expectations when I subscribed to Texas Monthly to use in a reception area of our company. I was very disappointed when I saw the “What a Dish!” cover [TM, October 1991]. If I had wanted to put a half-naked, sleazy female in my reception area, I would
Every day is Christmas for Claus clone Carl Anderson.
Urban climbers have all the ups and downs of cityscapes in their grasp.