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Alive and Kicking
Like so much else in Texas these days, apparel—the kind that proudly proclaims our Western heritage—ain’t what it used to be. Jeans were co-opted 25 years ago, when Gloria Vanderbilt designer-labeled...
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The Next 25 Bootmakers
AMARILLOBeck Cowboy Boots 6666 W. Amarillo Boulevard 806-356-6626 www.beckboots.com The current father-daughther team carries on the family tradition that twins Earl and Bearl started in 1916....
View ArticleHabeas Corpus
AS VACATION DESTINATIONS GO, the rap on Corpus Christi is that it’s the Oakland of Texas: There’s no there there. The heart of the city doesn’t have the rich history or the distinct architecture of...
View ArticleJust Say Snow
Texas likes to think of itself as having it all, but when it comes to climate and topography, the state’s otherwise hugely varied terrain lacks one major feature: big, old mountains glistening with...
View ArticleUnderground Round
On the first Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in August for the past 61 years, thousands have converged on a park on the outskirts of Dalhart for the XIT Rodeo and Reunion, celebrating the history of the...
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Fan Fare
As sure as a summer heat wave, Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine is a seasonal ritual. The only publication exclusively devoted to covering every high school, college, and professional football...
View ArticleThe Power Couple—Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellan
THEY ARE THE POWER COUPLE OF Texas film. He writes, directs, and edits. She produces and takes care of the most-minute details. He’s a shining hope of the do-it-yourself filmmaking ethic, totally...
View ArticleSome Things Never Change: Doug Deep
Listen to Doug Sahm sing and play guitar, fiddle, or piano, and you’ll learn all you need to know about country, rock, blues, conjunto, Cajun, and other indigenous sounds, how they are part and parcel...
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The Queen Is Dead
Black FridayThe tragic news arrived the way tragic news often does: by phone. The call came just after lunch from my friend David Bennett, a reporter at the San Antonio Express-News. “Selena has been...
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Boone Pickens Wants To Sell You His Water
“Look! Look down there!” Boone Pickens leans across the narrow aisle, pointing toward a window of his corporate jet as it banks over the rolling plains of the Panhandle on its final approach to Pampa....
View ArticleDead On Deadline
Robert Halpern, the publisher and editor of the Big Bend Sentinel, was in his Marfa office not long ago when John MacCormack, an investigative reporter for the San Antonio Express-News, dropped in. He...
View ArticleTelevision • Hank Hill
TO MOST OF THE TV NATION, Arlen’s Hank Hill is the star of the most watched cartoon show on prime time, Fox’s Emmy-nominated King of the Hill. To us Texans, Hill is one of the most recognized good ol’...
View ArticleChili Relations
I came to the weird world of chili cookoffs rather late in life—last year on the first Saturday of November, to be exact. I’d been invited to judge the twenty-fifth annual Terlingua International Chili...
View ArticleMoney in the Making
IT’S FIVE-THIRTY ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN HOUSTON, and the challenge has been issued by the Madd Hatta, the afternoon drive-time deejay on 97.9, the Box: Wassup ya’ll? Whatcha gotta say? Who’s on the...
View ArticleBill, Due
On a Saturday night in early March, 41-year-old Bill Paxton stood at the entrance to the Paramount Theatre in downtown Austin greeting VIP guests attending the premiere of Traveller, a film he...
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The Music Drive
ROUTE: Turkey to Lubbock (the long way) DISTANCE: 366 miles NUMBER OF COUNTIES: 13 WHAT TO LISTEN TO: Buddy Holly’s That’ll Be the Day and Waylon Jennings’s Ol’ WaylonWest Texas is the Texas of...
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The “Drive” Drive
ROUTE: West of Ozona to Sanderson DISTANCE: 85 miles NUMBER OF COUNTIES: 3 WHAT TO READ: James H. Evans’s Crazy From the HeatA drive whose sole purpose is to experience the simple pleasure of being...
View ArticleStill ZZ After All These Years
EARLY ON A THURSDAY EVENING IN OCTOBER, PAUL SHAFFER’S CBS Orchestra materialized stage left of the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York to rehearse a taping of the Late Show With David Letterman. The...
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Why the Cowboys Should Go Socialist
Editor’s Note: Another week, another Cowboys loss, and another round of fan unrest with Jerry Jones. This time, no doubt inspired by all of the secession talk in Texas, a desperate and disgruntled fan...
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Pro Football’s Biggest Star
The passing of Jack Eskridge on Februrary 11 was noted by one of his former employers, the Dallas Cowboys Football Club, which cited Eskridge as the team’s first equipment manager and one of Tom...
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