Lock ‘Em Up
Mandatory sentencing means every felon gets the same sentence for the same crime - and for the rest of us it means a lot of crimes that won’t happen.
Mandatory sentencing means every felon gets the same sentence for the same crime - and for the rest of us it means a lot of crimes that won’t happen.
Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are two centuries apart, but their ideas about music are exactly the same.
The millennium is nigh, according to some evangelists, and when Jesus returns, Texans will experience either rapture or hell and high water.
Gaudy, drawling, filthy rich.
In Painted Dresses Shelby Hearon tries to plumb the depths of love, but her characters turn out to be too shallow.
It IS whether you win. And these eight Texans are winners.
The most expensive, amazing, dynamic, futuristic, and sexy way not to solve a transit crisis.
A tale of passion in the double-knit aristocracy.
Bill Clements, unmasked at last.
On the ball and off the wall.
Fines for political signs; big changes in the Valley; UT bursting at the seams; the failure of consultants; Arlington, an unlikely newspaper town.
The Hendricks brothers are pros at making money - for themselves as well as for the pros they represent.
Studying the hard truths of Dallas politics; learning the ropes as a commercial driver; teaching kids to think; remembering the lessons of the oil patch.
High gear.
Small-label recordings prove that whether Texans are singing ballads, blues, or punk, they make their best music at home.
Small-label recordings prove that whether Texans are singing ballads, blues, or punk, they make their best music at home.
Without embalming you can have a simple, inexpensive funeral. That’s just what Texas morticians don’t want.
Lion in the Desert is like a breath of hot air. In Death Hunt, the Mounties take forever to get their man. Nighthawks never takes flight. In The Last Metro, Truffaut’s film about wartime Paris, he plays it a little too safe. The Postman Always Rings Twice doesn’t ring true.
In the southeast corner of Texas, more people get cancer than anywhere else in the state. Why?
Schrenkeisens’ is so elegant you’ll think you’re in the big city, but the fish is so fresh you know you’re on the coast. Ninfa’s runs thirteen Mexican restaurants across Texas, and amazingly, they can all cook.
A chant-happy Buddhist sect puts on a dazzling pageant in praise of the Texas cowboy. Pastor Barry Bailey lives up to his reputation as a bulwark of Fort Worth Methodism.
Two men from Dallas.
Evangelist James Robison is using the pulpit, prime time television, and Cullen Davis to try to save the world.
How you can—and why you should—go camping in the middle of the week.
Today’s high-tech camping gear has stolen a march on your old kit bag.
Camping gets you back to the basics: blisters, chiggers, and, yes, deep satisfaction.
Someone endured weeks of hard work, loneliness, and seasickness to land that lovely pink delicacy on your plate.
Bed and breakfast.
Cutting up in the Big Thicket Association; uranium mines get the shaft; the Light at the end of the tunnel; how to make Yankees pay for our oil.
Zookeeper, take care; burglar, beware; physician, declare.
Meet Texas’ staunches liberal crusader, biggest trade show, slickest drug peddlers, and canniest mall builders.
Lockup.
In a city known for its tough ethnic politics, Henry Cisneros is out to prove that a Mexican Emerican can be elected mayor of San Antonio.
When a youn woman found out she was slowly going deaf, she had to struggle not only with the handicap but also with her refusal to admit the loss.
In Eyewitness things are never what the seem; Roman Polanskifailed to take a novel approach to Tess; a heroine of Cattle Annie and Little Britches keeps the movie from fading into the sunset; the producers of The Dogs of War should have let sleeping dogs lie; American Pop is kitsch
In her darkest, final hours, a young mother turns to a new kind of medical care for help.
Le Select gives Houston fine French cooking in simple surrounds and at unbeatable prices; Hedary’s, a Lebanese outpost in Fort Worth, offers adventurous Cowtowners some exotic alternatives to beef.
Is your family safer with a gun in the house?
Strange bedfellows.
While other U.S. museums sought Rembrandts and Cészannes, Fort Worth’s maverick Amon Carter Museum collected an astound assortment of paintings and photographs of the American West.
For a man and his daughter out for a pleasant day’s fishing, the first sign of danger was a man’s hat floating silently down the stream.
And hello to high prices, high interest rates, high rents, and a new low for the American dream.
Onstage, all happy lounge acts are alike; offstage, all unhappy lounge acts are unhappy in their own ways.
What to eat, how to shop, and where to boogie in the most enchanting corner of Texas.
State highway patrolmen hate the 55 mph speed limit almost as much as other Texas motorists do, and for better reasons.
Burn, baby, burn
On a soap opera sound stage in Brooklyn the state of Texas lives and loves.
Sex in the classifieds; looking out for farmer’s welfare; everybody wants to be land commissioner; what ever happened to the tax revolt?
Lamar University’s hotshot basketball team makes lost of hoops, little hoopla.
Aggies are more than the corps, fashion is more than couture, teaching is mostly a chore.