Politics & Policy
July 1, 1991
The Ghosts of the Freedmen
Dallas is a city that has prided itself on having escaped the hostility of the civil rights years—until now.
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Film & TV
July 1, 1991
Texas Movies: Tender Foote
Oscar-winning screenwriter Horton Foote continues to capture ordinary people coping with life’s difficulties.
Being Texan
June 1, 1991
Voices From the Dark
Before Dawn was caught in the terrifying grip of schizophrenia, she had been a talented jazz singer. Now her son-in-law tells her story of no place to go.
Sports
May 31, 1991
The Real Deal vs. The Real Meal
Boxing caught its second wind when George Foreman went the distance with the champ, Evander Holyfield.
Politics & Policy
May 1, 1991
Ann of a Hundred Days
Things around the Legislature are looking bleak, but so far, Governor Richards is having the time of her life.
Sports
May 1, 1991
Armed and Considered Dangerous
The only thing scarier than facing a great pitcher is facing a hothead like Roger Clemens.
Arts & Entertainment
April 30, 1991
The Cheerleader Murder Plot
To understand Wanda Holloway’s dark and desperate story, you have to start with where she came from.
Music
April 30, 1991
Poor Willie
When the IRS seized all that Willie Nelson had, it was a case of the man who can’t say no meeting the men who won’t take no for an answer.
Health
April 1, 1991
Calm After the Storm
Stormie Jones’s historic transplant gave her four and a half good years. But at what cost?
Health
April 1, 1991
Arrival of the Fittest
Nice-guy bodybuilder Larry North has muscled his way into Dallas’ power circles.
Art
April 1, 1991
Looking at Mexico
Visitors may suffer from culture shock upon seeing the artistic riches of “Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries.”
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1991
Meaner Than a Junkyard Dog
“Guys like me like Iraq,” says Houston oilman Oscar Wyatt. “That’s the way the real world works, baby.”
News & Politics
March 1, 1991
The Greek Way
Are good times and fun pranks giving way to racial slurs and ritualized violence? An inside look at UT’s fraternity row.
Health
March 1, 1991
The Ornish Treatment
His unconventional regimen—and his media savvy—have made him the latest of the Texas celebrity heart doctors.
Film & TV
February 1, 1991
Sissy Spacek’s Long Walk Home
You can take the girl out of East Texas, but you can’t take East Texas out of the girl.
Politics & Policy
February 1, 1991
Is the Legislature for Sale?
To reassure a skeptical public, members must pass an ethics reform bill this session. And here’s what it should say.
News & Politics
February 1, 1991
More Precious Than Oil
Pipeline leaks, unplugged wells, toxic drilling materials, and a virtually unregulated oil industry are leaving a legacy of polluted groundwater.
News & Politics
February 1, 1991
“I’m Not a Bad Girl. I Just Do Bad Things”
Kristin Bauman, the 21-year-old with a $1.2 million trust fund, learned early on that notoriety is far more seductive than propriety.
True Crime
January 1, 1991
The Hyde Park Rapist
In a venerable Austin neighborhood, the laid-back residents are tormented by a menacing presence—neither they nor the police—can defeat.
Business
January 1, 1991
God’s Jeweler
Piety or passion: The trials of James Avery, craftsman.
Texas History
January 1, 1991
Highway 1
Retracing the trail that tamed the Texas wilderness—the Camino Real.
Politics & Policy
December 1, 1990
“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.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1990
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.
Politics & Policy
October 1, 1990
Meet the Governor: Clayton Williams
Onward to the past.
Art
October 1, 1990
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.
Politics & Policy
September 30, 1990
Meet the Governor: Ann Richards
How perfection led to failure.
Business
September 1, 1990
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.
True Crime
August 1, 1990
A Soldier’s Secret
In the farming town of Whitewright, stolen tenth-century illuminated manuscripts and ivory reliquaries weren’t all that Joe Meador had to hide.
Travel & Outdoors
August 1, 1990
The Battle for Barton Springs
A determined developer’s big plans for Austin’s cool, clear water hole is bringing out extremes on both sides.
Business
August 1, 1990
Howdy, Comrades! Let’s Do a Deal
A Texas businessman launches his one-man invasion of post-Communist Romania.
Style & Design
July 1, 1990
Born to Be Naughty
Travels with Eric Kimmel, l’enfant terrible of Dallas, Paris, and a Limoges jail.
Politics & Policy
July 1, 1990
The Unholy Trinity
“The heavens brought the rain, but Man brought the ruin.”
Arts & Entertainment
July 1, 1990
Texas Humor: This Man Can Really Shoot Bull
With his bust-a-gut jokes and cornpone tales, backwoods humorist Bob Murphey delivers a time gone by.
Arts & Entertainment
July 1, 1990
Texas Humor: My Life As Joe Bob Briggs
It didn’t take me long to learn the ten lessons of stand-up comedy. Number one is, Prepare to die.
Health
May 31, 1990
Can Kids On Drugs Be Saved?
Drug treatment seldom works: at many centers, greedy entrepreneurs prey on frightened parents and troubled kids. But one teenager’s parents decided to take one last, desperate step: they sent their son to the toughest program in Texas.
Business
May 1, 1990
Jeff Reynolds, Zillionaire
The mysterious Texan who tried to take over australia’s mighty Bond Corporation last January looked good on paper—but paper was about all he had.
News & Politics
May 1, 1990
The Way Out
A modest Catholic boys’ school in El Paso could teach public schools a lesson or two about how to provide a solid education on a limited budget and send 98 percent of their students off to college.
True Crime
May 1, 1990
The Curse of the Black Lords
Terri Lee Hoffman was a New Age Aunt Bee whose gospel attracted many followers. But some of those believers ended up on a dark, twisted path that led to violent death—and the enrichment of their guru.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1990
Save Our Schools
In education, Texas ranks below (gasp) Mississippi. Here’s how to turn the public schools around without throwing billions of dollars down the rathole.
Being Texan
April 1, 1990
Grande Dames
In her golden years, a lady is free to be imperious, incorrigible, impertinent, and altogether indispensable.
News & Politics
April 1, 1990
Trouble, Trash, and Texas
Twenty years after the first Earth Day celebration, environmentalists are once again trying to get Texans interested in saving the planet. There are good reasons why they may once again fail.
Books
April 1, 1990
The Man Who Never Stops
Robert A. Caro has spent fifteen years writing his monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson. He is halfway through.
Health
February 1, 1990
The Codependency Conspiracy
Codependency leaders preach that we are the victims of a psychological plague. It remains to be seen whether they are selling us a valuable insight or merely a bill of goods.
Business
February 1, 1990
The $76 Million Divorce
The eldest son of Trammell Crow used his money for drugs, guns, and high living. His wife spent a fortune on personal trainers and self-promotion. Now they’re squaring off in an L.A. divorce court.
Film & TV
February 1, 1990
Lost in Space
Locked away in NASA’s storage vaults was some of the most glorious footage ever filmed. I thought turning it into a movie would be a snap. Ten years later I’ve revised my opinion.
Business
February 1, 1990
The Price of Peace
With the cold war fading into history, Fort Worth’s General Dynamics now has to regard peace as not merely an ideal but an economic reality.
Style & Design
February 1, 1990
The Truth About Texas Beauty
She might have long legs, blond hair, and eyes as blue as a Panhandle sky. But a Texas woman isn’t really beautiful unless she works at it.
Critters
January 1, 1990
Swamp Thing
Snapping turtles are cantankerous, grotesque, and savage. And those are just a few of the reasons I like them.
Travel & Outdoors
January 1, 1990
The Call of the Wildman
To find their true masculine selves, wildmen dance and sweat, bond and meditate, renounce their mothers and grunt, “Ho!” I thought, “Hmmm.”
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1990
The Bucks Stop Here
The troubled Parks and Wildlife Department is supposed to protect the state’s natural resources. Instead, it protects its friends and, above all, itself.