Wheal became a guru in the city’s self-optimization scene, hobnobbing with the likes of Elon Musk. But will anyone listen to his warnings about the movement that brought him renown?
In his plainspoken, hilariously vivid vernacular, the Texas oilman constantly spun tales about good times and bad.
Nearly sixty years ago, Funk and twelve other women proved that they could be astronauts too. But they never got to walk on the moon.
His life was as short and sweet as his songs, but who was the Lubbock rocker whose influence over popular music will not fade away?
No kid ever had more fun with his favorite toy than Herb Kelleher has in running Southwest Airlines.
More Lenny Bruce than Jerry Seinfeld, Hicks wins fans by showing them his dark side.
Twenty-five years ago, in the wake of integration, he was the football star at my mostly white high school in Wichita Falls. Not much has gone right for him since.
A cool, brilliantly blue day in early February found me driving north from Austin on a sort of pilgrimage. I was going to see John Graves, the writer and gentleman farmer, now 73 years old, at his place on four hundred acres of rocky blackland prairie near Glen Rose.My visit
Who came first—Indiana Jones of Hollywood or Vendyl Jones of Arlington, the archaeologist who has spent years trying to dig up the fabled Ark of the Covenant?
The head of the Texas Film Commission hustles Hollywood movie-makers into putting more of Texas in the can.
You can take the girl out of East Texas, but you can’t take East Texas out of the girl.
Is she a “saccharine phony”? A closet liberal? A foot soldier—or a rebel—in the culture wars? The truth about Laura Bush is that her ambiguity makes her a model first lady: a blank screen upon which the public can project its own ideas about womanhood.
The moral of Tex Moncrief’s story: Father knew best.
He made his first million before many kids finish college. Less than a decade later, Michael Dell continues to confound conventional wisdom.
As a bitter family feud drags on, Electra Waggoner Biggs if fighting to keep her fortune—and her ranch—intact.
His dreams. His fears. The truth about his love life. A candid chat with Texas’ most misunderstood sports hero.
He invented the boneless breast and made his chicken a household name. But now his critics are out to roast him.
The survivor of a long and torturous journey, George Jones stands alone as the greatest country singer alive.
What’s eating Ann Richards? As her reelection campaign finally gets in high gear, the governor seems to be fighting a case of the mopes.
For years he renounced his Texas ties. Now Larry McMurty is once again calling Archer City home.
With wit and grit, Amarillo-born photographer Mark Seliger persuades reluctant celebrities to show their true selves.
Houston’s favorite bouncer keeps the peace with style and a smile.
When her charitable foundation collapsed amid allegations of mismanagement, the Dallas socialite did the unthinkable: She started a new one.
But he’d rather not leave CBS to return to Texas, at least not yet.
“Guys like me like Iraq,” says Houston oilman Oscar Wyatt. “That’s the way the real world works, baby.”
How Madalyn Murray O’Hair became the supreme being of the American atheist movement.
Meet Bruce Auden of San Antonio, the fairest of the Fairmount.
At first he couldn’t stand the strain of trying to get rich. Then he couldn’t stand the strain of being rich.
He was the definitive Davy Crockett, and with good reason.
As an heir to the Dallas Morning News, Robert Decherd has vindicated his father’s name, waged and won a newspaper war, and emerged as the new leader of the Dealey dynasty.
By her dedication, her rigor, her almost overwhelming enthusiasm, Diana Kennedy forced a generation of cooks to take Mexican food seriously and jolted Texans into realizing that there is life beyond the combination dinner.
Architect John Staub, the forgotten genius of River Oaks, transformed a few nondescript Houston streets into Millionaires’ Row.
A real-life detective caper, complete with surprise ending.
