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Earley Texas

Dallas painter Sean Earley moves to Italy and learns to paint Texas.

“I Was Mandarin . . .”

Clues left behind by a former Dallas cop convinced his son that he killed President Kennedy—but that’s just the beginning of the mystery.

Boomtown

Don’t give up on oil yet, Texas. Come along to Pearsall, deep in the brush country, and learn how the new oil boom is different from the old.

The New Santa

A Christmas story for all you kids out there.

Rhoads Scholars

Back in the Saddle

Larry McMurtry returns to the mythic West and spins a thoughtful and touching tale.

Golden Oldies

San Antonio’s new ancient-art gallery takes you back a few millennia.

The Island in Winter

Discover the charms of Galveston off-season, when the only visitors are you, the gulls, and the ghosts.

The Lone Ambassador

Henry Catto’s friends knew that one day he would be appointed to the Court of St. James’s. What they didn’t guess is that when the time came, his wife, Jessica, wouldn’t join him.

Downgrading

On the Set of Texasville

Top of the Heap

State Wide: Discount Ashes

Funeral home director Murphy offers a commonsense option.

State Wide: Roky Rocks

Psychedelic pioneer Erickson gets his due.

State Wide: Cowtown Crazies Take Over Paper

Poodle slayer helps “Satan of Journalism” peddle p.m. paper

Silber Lining

Former UT dean John Silber's tough talk is about to make him the next governor of Massachusetts.

Soul Survivors

The dear departed may be gone, but on the Day of the Dead they’re not forgotten.

Venturesome Capital

By taking a cue from smart money, even the small investor can get an angle on modest deals in post-bust Texas.

Ad Men at War

How the battle for the Southwest Airlines account turned into a long-awaited showdown between Texas’s two top agencies.

Vanishing Texas

Searching for tourist courts, fillin’ stations, and other relics of a Texas that is no more.

Pipe Dream

Polybutylene plumbing systems were supposed to be a homeowner’s fantasy; they turned out to be a nightmare.

Empty Seats

State Fare: Parigi’s Penne Pasta with Roasted Garlic

A recipe from Parigi, in Dallas.

Meet the Governor

Revealing profiles of Ann Richards and Clayton Williams raise the question: How about none of the above?

Power Switch

Are customers of the Comanche Peak nuclear plant better off with safety advocate Juanita Ellis on the inside or the outside?

Requiem in Blue

Recollections of guitar great Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Go Fish

See the Gulf Coast from the bottom up at Corpus Christi’s new underwater show.

The Quickest Draw In the West

Not since Remington and Russell has a cowboy artist sold so many works—for so much—as Fredericksburg’s G. Harvey.

To the Brilliant Victor

Southwest Conference trophies, commemorating long-forgotten triumphs, are still winners.

Meet the Governor: Clayton Williams

Onward to the past.

Five-Year Plan

State of the Art

Rich Clarkson brings a new perspective to Texas A&M honor guards “humping it”—Aggies claim the peculiar crouch helps project yells—in game day usa, a survey of college football culture by 22 photographers, just issued by Kodak/Thomasson-Grant.

The Brain Trust

Computers will finally use commmon sense if an Austin high-tech team can make them think like people.

A Crystal Clear Issue

State Wide: Maquiladora Marketing

Nibbe’s Twin Plant News explains border economics to the world.

State Wide: Bluebonnet Happening

Painter Keith Clementson demonstrates how to turn a bluebonnet painting in to a work of art.

State Wide: Disc Golf Versus Ball Golf

Disc freestyle champion John Houck puts a new spin on golf.

State Wide: Highway From Hell

Expressway anxiety? Dallas therapist Richard Carson can help you cope.

Saddam’s Shadow

Iraq’s leader may baffle the West, but he’s even more of an enigma to his own people.

Table Manners

For my grandmother, offering food to hungry relatives meant much more than just serving another meal.

Meet the Governor: Ann Richards

How perfection led to failure.

Domain

Crash Course; Rambling Roses; Absolutely Floored; Bones to Pick

Slinging Dust

That Mojo Season

An outsider exposes the hidden risks in Odessa’s bigger-than-life brand of football.

The Texas 100

Who’s up, who’s down, who’s gone, and who’s new on our second annual study of the state’s superrich.

Flights of Fantasy

There’s primeval magic in ordinary fashions.

Fortune’s Smile

Tevin Campbell, the thirteen-year-old soul sensation, is Texas’ answer to Michael Jackson.

Iraqnophobia I

Art Patron and Investor Stanley Marsh 3

Photography by Wyatt McSpadden

Designs on Texas