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Post-Modern Times

Houston’s upper crust and underclass mingle at Jo Abercrombie’s Wednesday night fights.

Slow-motion Dilemma

Violets Are Blue is swimming in heavy conflict; Wise Guys is mostly slob humor, Absolute Beginners is an absolute mess; At Close Range is a violent ambush.

Treasure from the Vault

New releases of Duke Ellington’s work give us exquisite music from small bands, a dance band having fun, and stereo recording twenty years before its time.

Eating Up the Miles

Our gadabout gourmet travels three thousand miles to answer the question. Where should you eat on your next Texas highway trip?

Root, Root, Root for the Home Team

All there is to know about Texas baseball, including the best ballpark, the best team ever, why Yogi Berra thinks Houston is like New Jersey, and much, much more.

Downtown

Buckle up for your own safety—and save $35.

Behind the Lines

The solution politicians fear.

Nine Days of Solitude

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor is more than just journalistic ghostwriting; I the Supreme is robbed of its punch; Bird of Life, Bird of Death peeks behind Central America’s dictators and dominoes.

Guinness Beer Braised Lamb Shanks

Recipe from Jim Anile, Executive Chef, Melrose Hotel, Dallas.

On the Menu: The Landmark Restaurant

The Warwick Melrose Hotel, Dallas is proud to showcase a culinary team led by Chef Jeff Moschetti. This creative team has been honored with the AAA Four Diamond award the prestigious DiRoNA award and the Wine Spectator award. In a city that boasts the highest number of restaurants per capita,

Summer’s First Stand

Yesterday those onions and carrots were in the ground. Today they’re on your table, thanks to Texas’ bountiful roadside fruit and vegetable stands.

How Bad Were They?

Larry Buchanan made movies that were so cheap, so incredibly flawed, and so dumb, they’re lovingly celebrated as the worst movies ever made. And he made them all in Dallas.

Confessions of an Aging Pothead

I smoked marijuana all day every day for several years. It took me almost a year to quit—and now I wonder if I’ll ever get straight.

The Quest That Fizzled

Everyone agreed it was time for greatness at UT. But after a nationwide search for a new president, the only man the regents could agree on was a campus insider who professed no great vision at all.

Touts

Here are some pin pals you’ll want to get to know.

State Secrets

A boondoggle for coal means more trouble for natural gas; the Houston Chronicle doesn’t rate with HL&P; defense lawyers judge a judge.

Shopping

True tales from the world of junking.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Somervell County suffers an identity crisis; an Alamo freak takes twenty years to build a diorama; Merlin Tuttle is batty.

Puzzle

Texas Primer: The Stock Tank

Without these funky watering holes, where would we—much less our cattle and sheep—be today?

Post-Modern Times

At the Crescent’s opening, old, excessive Texas came face to face with new, designer Texas.

Marching Off to War

In 1969 a young man from Baytown decided, after a struggle, to fight in Vietnam.

Pokey Romance

A Room With a View takes in edifying sights; Gung Ho settles for schmaltz; Just Between Friends makes glib chat.

The Greatest Fashion Show On Earth

Chanel boaters! Street bras! Step right up for a peek at this summer’s French-inspired fashions.

The Oil Revolution

So long, OPEC. So long, $27 oil. The Merc is king now.

Downtown

The Dallas movie board is antiquated and eccentric, like a wacky uncle.

Behind the Lines

Southern Discomfort

Bobby Jack Nelson—roughneck, cowhand, prospector, and Australian talk show host—is also a fine novelist; Larry L. King writes about writing.

The Anxious Witness

Photographer Robert Frank held up a mirror to America. Now Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts turns the mirror on him.

On the Menu: Las Manitas Avenue Cafe

Las Manitas Avenue Cafe is closed while the sisters prepare to open in a new location.

Las Manitas Fajitas

Recipe from Las Manitas Cafe, Austin.

The Great Texas Taco Tour

From El Paso’s ingenious taco trays to Austin’s uplifting breakfast tacos, each Texas city celebrates this noble creation in its own way.

Eighteen Minutes

Unlike the Alamo, which can seem as remote and mysterious as Stonehenge, the San Jacinto battlefield has few secrets. Its history lies close at hand.

Solace in the Desert

With dogged independence, amazing endurance, and a rugged romantic vision, photographer Laura Gilpin helped create the way we see the West today.

Hot Springs Eternal

Going to Hot Springs was once a Texas rite of passage steeped in the ways of old sin. Today this Arkansas resort is still worth the trip.

Touts

On the road again—accoutrements for savvy traveling.

State Secrets

Southwest and Continental make war, knot Love; make way for natural gas on the commodities market; a taxing situation for Speaker Gib.

Shopping

A Houston boutique enjoys the high cost of growing up.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Will Shelby Coffey lead the Dallas Times-Herald to victory? Will Muse aficionados ever find happiness aloft again? Will Tommy Pierce keep real-estating and a-rocking?

Puzzle

Texas Primer: The Rig Count

At first, Hughes Tool used the count to plan its own future. Now an entire industry uses it to plan theirs.

Post-Modern Times

Want to unload your business? With Stan Hazelwood, it’s not much harder than getting a date.

Manchild in Musicland

Charlie Sexton. Austin’s guitar-playing boy wonder, is now dream fodder for the masses; Eric Johnson is our latest contender for guitar hero.

Upper West Side Story

Hannah and Her Sisters is Woody gone schmaltzy; F/X is implausible but entertaining; 9 1/2 Weeks is an eternity; Power is oppressively didactic.

Calling His Own Tune

On San Antonio’s Riverwalk the Jim Cullum Jazz Band plays jazz the way it was meant to be played.

Swamp Gas

When Jimmy Lee, an unrepentant troublemaker, felt he had taken one insult too many from the powerful Fredeman family, he called in the law. The results of that action have exposed decades of larceny and corruption in Port Arthur and threaten a Gulf Coast empire.

Taco Capital, U.S.A.

You want tacos with carnitas or cactus pads? Beef barbecue or bacon and eggs Come to San Antonio, where tacos aren’t just an afterthought on a Tex-Mex munue—they’re a way of life.

Downtown

The DA in El Paso may do a lot of things, but there’s one thing he doesn’t do—plea-bargain.