Looking at Mexico
Visitors may suffer from culture shock upon seeing the artistic riches of “Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries.”
Visitors may suffer from culture shock upon seeing the artistic riches of “Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries.”
“Guys like me like Iraq,” says Houston oilman Oscar Wyatt. “That’s the way the real world works, baby.”
His unconventional regimen—and his media savvy—have made him the latest of the Texas celebrity heart doctors.
You can take the girl out of East Texas, but you can’t take East Texas out of the girl.
To reassure a skeptical public, members must pass an ethics reform bill this session. And here’s what it should say.
Love at first bite: Valentine messages that are in good taste.
Pipeline leaks, unplugged wells, toxic drilling materials, and a virtually unregulated oil industry are leaving a legacy of polluted groundwater.
In a venerable Austin neighborhood, the laid-back residents are tormented by a menacing presence—neither they nor the police—can defeat.
Piety or passion: The trials of James Avery, craftsman.
Retracing the trail that tamed the Texas wilderness—the Camino Real.
When country singer Charley Pride isn’t on the road, chances are he’s puttering around a Dallas golf course—or riding herd on his business holdings.
From the Panhandle to the Bayou City, homegrown classical music ensembles are our best-kept secret.
Discover the charms of Galveston off-season, when the only visitors are you, the gulls, and the ghosts.
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.
Onward to the past.
Are customers of the Comanche Peak nuclear plant better off with safety advocate Juanita Ellis on the inside or the outside?
Recollections of guitar great Stevie Ray Vaughan.
See the Gulf Coast from the bottom up at Corpus Christi’s new underwater show.
Not since Remington and Russell has a cowboy artist sold so many works—for so much—as Fredericksburg’s G. Harvey.
Southwest Conference trophies, commemorating long-forgotten triumphs, are still winners.
How perfection led to failure.
Who’s up, who’s down, who’s gone, and who’s new on our second annual study of the state’s superrich.
There’s primeval magic in ordinary fashions.
Tevin Campbell, the thirteen-year-old soul sensation, is Texas’ answer to Michael Jackson.
For a handful of Texas artists, crafting a living comes naturally.
The Tetons are grander and Santa Fe is tonier, but no place is more apropos than Ruidoso.
In the farming town of Whitewright, stolen tenth-century illuminated manuscripts and ivory reliquaries weren’t all that Joe Meador had to hide.
On September 8, 1900, a devastating hurricane blasted Galveston, changing life on the Island forever.
A determined developer’s big plans for Austin’s cool, clear water hole is bringing out extremes on both sides.
A Texas businessman launches his one-man invasion of post-Communist Romania.
Travels with Eric Kimmel, l’enfant terrible of Dallas, Paris, and a Limoges jail.
“The heavens brought the rain, but Man brought the ruin.”
With his bust-a-gut jokes and cornpone tales, backwoods humorist Bob Murphey delivers a time gone by.
It didn’t take me long to learn the ten lessons of stand-up comedy. Number one is, Prepare to die.
From Pecos Bill to nightclub comics, we’ve got lots to laugh about.
For an adventurer in the Yucatán, suspicious bureaucrats and relentless pests stand in the way of tracking down a forgotten Mayan ruin.
With the cultural diversions of a big city and the country comforts of a small town, Fort Worth is the perfect place for a typically Texan weekend.
These seven creatures might be piggy-backed, whale-boned, dog-toothed, goat-eed, elephant-eared, turtle-necked, and bull-headed, but they’re stars just the same.
To those who live on Mexico’s side of the Rio Grande, posing for portraits is not an occasion for smiles.
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.
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.
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.
In education, Texas ranks below (gasp) Mississippi. Here’s how to turn the public schools around without throwing billions of dollars down the rathole.
In her golden years, a lady is free to be imperious, incorrigible, impertinent, and altogether indispensable.
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.
Robert A. Caro has spent fifteen years writing his monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson. He is halfway through.
Whether it wells from the high pine walls of East Texas, the haunted valleys of the Hill Country, the violent uplifts of the Trans-Pecos, or the salty, low-relief vistas of the coastal plains, the Texas myth shapes and claims us all.
For some, work is its own reward. For others it is a compromise, a trade-off to some ulterior purpose. And yet it is the work that defines us. There is something in the doing that gives us stature and makes us whole.
Texas was founded by risk-takers, place-makers, and folks on the run, and their spiritual descendants are our common stock. Our heritage is not a concert for the fainthearted, but if you hear the music, you’ll want to dance.
Our search for identity is really a search for familial bonds. By our children and our parents, by our forebears and our closest friends, by the reflections of those with whom we surround ourselves, so shall you know us.