Light Switch
Turning off the juice to Texas utilities.
Turning off the juice to Texas utilities.
Day of the Locust, French Connection II, The Passenger: doing some hard traveling.
The intricate dietary laws of Kosher cooking have a latke going for them.
Frederick Exley shows how to get too much of a good thing.
Will Tex-Mex music gain the world but lose its soul?
How some of the world’s best dancers ended up in Texas.
How real estate syndications can make (and lose) money for you.
Polish up your statues of Adam Smith: supply and demand is back!
A guide to restaurants in the Hill Country.
Bringing up father is harder these days than it used to be.
Exploring the heavy price of Empire.
Why going public is not the stock market killing it once was.
Frank Perry used a lot of hackneyed material in his new film, but Neil Simon just ripped off his own.
In Charleston they haven’t forgotten one of the things the Old South was famous for: good cooking.
Some good reasons for collecting rare books and some good places to do it.
Coupling takes many forms, as John Updike and Shelby Hearon can tell you.
Canoeists battle more than white water when they run the Guadalupe.
The times, they are a’ changing. Fine, but how?
In Lubbock Buddy Holly was just a skinny kid with glasses, but to rock-and-roll fans he was—and is—a whole lot more.
The Alamo was only the first step in the Arabs’ attempted takeover of what’s sacred to us Texans. The Customer’s Man
Both Warren Beatty and Ellen Burstyn are going to wash that malaise right out of their hair.
Found at last! Highway cuisine to save you from Stuckey’s.
Washington-on-the-Brazos is a little run-down for a Texas shrine; but then, it was run-down in 1836 too.
Two books on why you can’t go home again.
Fort Worth’s art museums are a bigger attraction than the stockyards and, what’s more, most art doesn’t smell.
Is the new Congress out to strip the Texas delegation of its power?
In Texas, the fandom of the opera is surprisingly large.
A funny thing happened on the way to the gold boom.
The new Frankenstein is a horror movie. Unfortunately, it wasn’t intended to be.
How to avoid sugar at any price.
Two old Houston buildings stand in the way of what some people call progress.
Two well-known authors prove that knowing the subject matter doesn’t necessarily guarantee a good book.
Price Daniel, Jr. begins his premature retirement (maybe).
Waylon Jennings in the dark corners of stardom’s light.
A new approach to an old problem.
Godfather II is one sequel that’s as good as the original.
The unfulfilled promise of San Antonio River dining.
Some dancing schools are out of step.
There’s nothing wrong with sibling rivalry. Keep telling yourself that.
Can the legislature’s black caucus hang together?
Dinner theaters offer the roar of the greasepaint and the smell of the kraut.
Awful. That’s what it was.
Both human and natural eruptions inspire some disasters, but a quietly poetic film moves the most.
In Middle Eastern cuisine, oil is something that’s mixed with chick peas.