And for these 8 one-hit wonders, including Balde Silva, of Toby Beau, that’s a good thing: Thanks to wildly successful singles they released many years ago, what might have otherwise been forgettable careers are anything but.
By Michael Hall
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
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February 1, 2007
The livestock show.
By Tonnyre Joe
Well, first and foremost, Dallas, since four of the year’s ten best new restaurants—including the top three—are there. But if you’re hip and hungry in Houston, Austin, or San Antonio, my list won’t disappoint.
By Patricia Sharpe
Faith Bases
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February 1, 2007
William Martin Reviews our places of worship.
By William Martin
The best golf holes in Texas, according to the legends of the game.
By Drew Webb
Dan Patrick is causing nervous breakdowns of various size and duration—and he’s not even in the Texas Senate yet.
By Mimi Swartz
Looking to feed your indie-rock jones? San Antonio’s SNOWBYRD may be just what you’re seeking. Hard-driving, chugging guitar rhythms, melodic songs with off-kilter Phish/Meat Puppets/Grateful Dead (pick your generation) harmonies, a flair for weird turns, and, of course, a proud lo-fi aesthetic are all combined on the band’s self-titled debut
By Jeff McCord
What the Hispanic vote tells us.
By Paul Burka
Jordan’s PickNHL All-Star CelebrationDallasHOCKEY WILL NEVER BE FOOTBALL. In Texas, at least, this truth is self-evident: No matter how many hockey fans rise up in defense of their sport (or write letters to a certain magazine’s editor decrying yet another football cover, as the case may be), the puck will
By Texas Monthly
Street Smarts
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May 31, 2006
The eclectic artiness of San Antonio’s Southtown.
By Pamela Colloff
The Sports Authorities
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April 30, 2006
The Spurs versus the Mavs.
By Brian D. Sweany
With the military stretched thinner than ever, Staff Sergeant Christopher Schwope’s skill as an Army recruiter is undeniably important. And it’s a thing to behold.
By John Spong
How can I be a Christian and support legalized abortion? Tough question, but after weeks of soul- searching, I have an answer.
By Gary Cartwright
Is Clear Channel, the San Antonio-based radio behemoth, as patently evil as everyone says? Don't touch that dial.
By S. C. Gwynne
Texans love to say that everything’s bigger here, but when it comes to the waistlines in one in four of our largest cities, that’s nothing to brag about.
By Jim Atkinson
Is the Dallas Mavericks' Mark Cuban a pushy billionaire with a lust for publicity, or is he an energetic owner who has saved the team? Do we have to choose?
By Brian D. Sweany
Mimi Swartz sizes up the legacy of Stanley Marcus.
By Mimi Swartz
We Remember
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January 1, 2001
The life and accomplishments of Henry B. Gonzalez.
By Jan Jarboe Russell
Inside the election's numbers.
By Patricia Hart
Y’all Street
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January 1, 2001
The Texas stock to avoid right now.
By Alexandra Biesada
Profile
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January 1, 2001
When San Antonio restaurateur Mario Cantú died last November, he left behind a legacy of political activism along with fine Mexican fare.
By Dick Reavis
Around the State
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January 1, 2001
Dallas rolls out the red carpet for dance, theater, sports, and opera. Plus: San Antonio puts photographer Kathy Vargas on display; Beaumont gushes about the one hundredth anniversary of Spindletop; Mission juices up its Texas Citrus Fiesta; and East Texas shines under the lights of Broadway.
By Texas Monthly
• EXXON, IRVING, $4.45 MILLION More than $3.4 million in unrestricted gifts to 69 Texas colleges and universities, including Abilene Christian University, Rice University, in Houston, Trinity University, in San Antonio, and the University of Texas at Austin. The gifts were made under the Exxon Education Foundation’s matching gift program,
By Ann Castle
With this year’s induction of Seguin native Smokey Joe Williams, one fourth of the Negro Leaguers in baseball’s hall of fame are Texans. Unfortunately, there may not be any more.
By Jeff McCord
CDs by Doctors’ Mob and the American Analog Set, plus a tribute to Bob Wills; booksby James Lee Burke and Louise Redd.
By Texas Monthly
After the killings at Columbine, the world looked disapprovingly at a computer game created in Mesquite. Die-hard players would not be moved.
By John Ratliff
From Poltergeist to the Steel Eel, Texas has five of the nation’s best new roller coasters. And they’re all a scream.
By Texas Monthly
How serial killer Rafael Resendez-Ramirez struck fear in the hearts of the men and women of Weimar, a tiny Texas town that will never be the same.
By Michael Hall
From antique benches to cast-iron planters, a selective guide to the yard art of your dreams.
By Suzy Banks
CDs by the Jiménez brothers, the Old 97’s, and Lee Hazlewood; books by Joni Rodgers and Scott Zesch.
By Texas Monthly
SBC’s generocity.
By Ann Castle
A tejano rift widens.
By John Morthland
Low Talk
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February 1, 1999
Sandra Cisneros’ colorful victory.
By Evan Smith
DIANNE HARDY-GARCIA is so earnest in conversation that you might mistake her for a political novice. Don’t. As the executive director of the Lesbian and Gay Rights Lobby of Texas for the past five years, the 33-year-old San Antonio native has had one of the most challenging jobs in a
By Katy Vine
Feature
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December 1, 1998
How five right-wing members of the State Board of Education are making life miserable for their fellow Republicans—especially George W. Bush.
By Paul Burka
Bruce McGill played D-Day, the biker with the handlebar mustache, in the classic comedy Animal House. Twenty years later, he’s still a character.
By Jordan Mackay
Feature
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November 1, 1998
Texas’ largest nursing home chain says it provides a “better place to live” for more than six thousand elderly men and women. State investigators tell a much different story.
By Skip Hollandsworth
He writes legal thrillers, he is a practicing lawyer, and he has been at it since 1990—one year longer than John Grisham. But even if San Antonio’s Jay Brandon hasn’t matched the success of the author of The Firm and The Pelican Brief, he logs remarkably good sales and keeps
By Jordan Mackay
Poetry in motion.
By Pamela Colloff
These twelve Texas artisans herald the victory of man over machine, carefully crafting wood, metal, or stone into items for your home and hearth that are tomorrow’s heirlooms today.
By Suzy Banks
Since I started taking Viagra, I have had the time of my life. You can too—but there’s more to romance than a little blue pill.
By Gary Cartwright
Hot CDs and Hot Books
By Texas Monthly
Texas Primer
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April 30, 1998
UNTIL A STAR-STUDDED FILM SHOT THEM BACK into the spotlight, the Newton Boys had faded from public memory. Famous during the twenties, the four brothers—Jess, Willis (below left), Doc, and Joe (right)—were part Western desperadoes, part newfangled gangsters. They pulled off dozens of bank and train robberies but, unlike more-notorious
By Anne Dingus
As ever, Texas looms large in the movies’ imagination—large and largely inaccurate.
By Don Graham
Want to see Kuwait, Iowa, and Washington, D.C.? Go to El Paso, Austin, and Houston.
By Paul Burka
While other high school students spend their afternoons running track or singing in the choir, Diana Fox and Josh Zuniga are perfecting their cha-cha and two-step. Actually, the Missouri City duo is doing those other things too, but much of their extracurricular time is spent defending their title as Teen
By Erin Gromen
Hot CDsThis month Texas music shines on the silver screen. The soundtrack for The Horse Whisperer (MCA) not only features cuts from Don Walser, George Strait, and Steve Earle but also a Butch Hancock—Joe Ely— Jimmie Dale Gilmore reunion (long removed from Lubbock, they are now called the Hill Country
By Texas Monthly
In 1979, as an undercover cop in Tyler, I got hooked on drugs. Nearly two decades later I’m clean, but the consequences of my addiction haunt me still.
By Kim Wozencraft
A slam dunk for San Antonio’s economy.
By Brian D. Sweany
Red McCombs, still on the sidelines
By Evan Smith