She was a hooker. He was a race car driver. They fell in love. She moved in. He put on his three-piece suit and went to work. She was always on call. They fought. She moved out. Then she found out that his real job was bank jobs.
The Baptist guerrilla.
Dallas novelist C. W. Smith takes a long, hard look at a subject with a painful history.
For years, the Dallas Museum of Art sought prestige by following the mainstream. The new director thinks it’s time to change course.
Wealthy Texans have been heard to say that money is just a way of keeping score. Here's the scoreboard.
Once upon a summer, children whiled away their twilight time with outdoor games like Piggy Wants a Whistle, Witch o’ Witch, and Fox Across the River.
FYI: The Houston Post’s new society sleuth has great connections, a phone in her purse, and the complete attention of Houston’s haut monde.
Previewing the legislative battle over abortion.
Following spirit religions.
The Starck Club, R.I.P.
How we calculated the fortunes of the richest Texans.
A legacy of the Great Depression, murals in Texas post offices inspire reflection on the state’s splendid history and its grand potential.
Silver or Mickey Mouse?
In downtown Mexico City are the ruins of the great Aztec pyramid, the site where one empire ended and a new world began.
Jim Wright’s attorney Steve Susman is living proof that clients may lose, but lawyers don’t.
Kids in T-shirts bearing political slogans, ideological confrontations in the supermarket, skirmishes at the PTA. Welcome to the battle between moms who work and moms who don’t.
Two nice guys with financial troubles thought they found the perfect solution to the bust. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
How did shy, sweet Edie Brickell become America’s hottest new performer? By sticking to her vision —and doing what the record company told her.
Texas cleans up its act with natural gas.
Sharing our treasured spots
A Texas Novelist Finds Favor in Washington.
Dallas’ KERA discovered that music that’s good for you doesn’t have to be boring.
We just rate them. You voted for them.
Having a billion dollars isn’t everything, unless you’re Harold Simmons.
Heroes in the shade.
A fresh look at the U.S. war with Mexico shows that the effects of this forgotten conflict are still being felt today.
Interesting things can happen when a man with an unusual vision also has an unusual amount of money.
An excursion through the best part of Texas, featuring sleepy little towns, clear little streams, pluperfect biscuits, and two-headed goats.
A series of terrible decisions and bad breaks ruined Gibraltar Savings. Is rescuing it another mistake?
A barbecue shrine is rescued from the pit of despair; Boone Pickens gets gasses in an Amarillo political war; Bill Clements blocks a wildlife refuge for Texas.
Flying high on low tech; facing a painful but complex issue; waging war on pests.
Triple threat: Scientists fret that an underground nuclear dump will pollute the Pecos; surveyors set off a storm over the center of Texas; cities sweat safety risks from stolen aluminum.
The disappearance of a University of Texas student in Matamoros led police to the discovery of a drug-dealing cult whose rituals were not only unholy but unthinkable.
Not so hard-core.
Dave Hickey’s fine short stories are enhanced by the scarcity; Texas expatriate William Humphrey takes on the Cherokees’ Trail of Tears.
In a Fort Worth exhibit of Russian and American paintings, two groups of artists use the same vocabulary to express profoundly different views of life and art.
In some Texas establishments it’s hard to tell the boys’ from the girls’.
Rice was created to be a “university of the first rank.” Is it? Will it ever be?
Johnny Chan became a champion through nerve and dedication—and every now and then a few good hands.
The ideal caretaker for your children is a warm, nurturing person who brings order to your chaotic life—and drives you up the wall.
Why NASA uses old-fashioned computers; Exxon points the finger at the feds over the oil spill cleanup; Jim Wright’s real crime.
Rewriting history, bugging the big guys, acknowledging a threat.
Houston mayoral candidate Fred Hofheinz has an incumbent and a rumor to defeat; Phil DeVries has a singing caterpillar to find; Zavala County must make a private prison pay its way; and Lori Johns is out to prove she’s the best woman on the drag strip.
In early 1836, after the fall of the Alamo, a small episode in Texas history revealed an aspect of our character we’d just as soon forget.
Representative Mike McKinney, the only doctor in the House, is battling for legislation to keep country hospitals alive despite a poor prognosis.
They were elderly people, flattered by the attention of a nice young man. But sometimes it’s a mistake to depend on the kindness of strangers.
What do the city of Lubbock, a defunct restaurant, and a submerged neighborhood have in common? They’re all places in somebody’s heart.
In most Texas cities, tortilla making is an endangered family business; in Austin, it’s a thriving family rivalry.
Bad salaries make good politicians.
When the St. Johns returned to their house after having it sprayed for bugs, they discovered why those friendly pest-control people are called exterminators.
