Freddy Boy
HENRY CISNEROSAs Told To Brian D. SweanyWhen I served on the San Antonio City Council in the late seventies, Freddy Fender came to a meeting to receive an honorary award. It was a particularly...
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NAME: Angie Everett | AGE: 33 | HOMETOWN: The Woodlands | QUALIFICATIONS: Radio City Rockette since 1999 / Will perform in the 2006 Radio City Christmas Spectacular tour (through December 3 in Dallas...
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Weeping Mary
Black-and-white is more than the chosen medium in WEEPING MARY, a photo essay about the tiny Texas town with this unusual name by Texas Monthly contributing photographer O. RUFUS LOVETT. It’s also the...
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Between Heaven and Texas
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND TEXAS is dazzling. In a collection of meticulous prints, WYMAN MEINZER (who was proclaimed official state photographer in 1997 by then-governor George W. Bush) captures the limitless...
View ArticleHis Way or the Highway
Every day I can look out the window of my office in downtown Austin and watch traffic creep along Interstate 35, half a mile away. The time of day doesn’t seem to matter, nor does the weather: morning...
View ArticleHe Peds, She Peds
WE LOVE THE IDEA of his-and-hers holiday gifting. It’s so old-school, like monogrammed towels and matching Mercedes ordered from the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book. So for the Della and Jim of the new...
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The Complete Atlantic Sessions
The liner notes pin it down to a single moment: a 1972 George McGovern rally in Austin’s Zilker Park, when new-to-town country singer WILLIE NELSON found himself on the bill with a lot of hippie rock...
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Rockin’ Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly
ROCKIN’ BONES: 1950S PUNK & ROCKABILLY (Rhino), a reverb-drenched four-CD set of blistering guitar abandon, establishes this Eisenhower-era crew of JDs as the original punk rockers. Assembled with...
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Nashville Rebel
Like his compatriot “outlaw” Willie Nelson, WAYLON JENNINGS had already done a lot of solid work in Music City before reaching his breaking point, one set off by an accumulation of road dates,...
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The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions and Fearless Leader
Detractors of Dallas’s RED GARLAND disdained him as a “cocktail pianist” and claimed he made it into Miles Davis’s first classic quintet (from 1955 to 1957) only because of a stylistic similarity to...
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The Amazing Faith of Texas
Even cynics can find inspiration in THE AMAZING FAITH OF TEXAS, a surprisingly affecting survey of fifty Texans and their beliefs from GSD&M ad agency honcho ROY SPENCE. With brief interviews by...
View ArticleDecember 2006 Contributors
Patricia SharpeSenior editor Patricia Sharpe has done it all at texas monthly, from proofreading restaurant reviews in the seventies to writing celebrated features today (this year she won a...
View ArticleSnakes on a Brain
NETFLIX HAS RUINED me for the movies—at least old-school, get-out-of-your-pajamas-and-go-to-a- theater-filled-with-other-humans kinds of movies. Instead I multitask: I fold laundry, check e-mail, talk...
View ArticleNow Serving
THERE’S A CONTROVERSIAL WAR GOING ON, the aftermath of an election to mop up, the stock market rising, the price of oil falling, famine, pestilence—and our December cover story is about tacos? You bet....
View ArticleCityFest Houston
DENOMINATION None EVANGELIST Luis Palau ON THE INTERNET cityfesthouston.org“MAKE SOME NOISE, YOU GUYS. It’s all about the Kiiiinnnngggg!”The King was King Jesus, and the liturgist sounding the call to...
View ArticleAir Power
Giant wind turbines are popping up all across West Texas. Where do we stand when it comes to wind energy? This has been a banner year for the state’s wind industry, which now has approximately 2,150...
View ArticleThe Greatest Tacos Ever Sold
WHEN I WAS A KID GROWING UP IN AUSTIN in the fifties and sixties, the regulation Texas taco was a single-sized, hard-fried corn tortilla shaped by machine into the form of a U. This was called a...
View ArticleEating A Dead Horse
HERE’S WHAT YOU PROBABLY don’t want to take home from a horse auction. A horse with a big swollen knee or a ringbone on the front of the foot or any kind of enlargement of the ankle. A horse with...
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Books That Cook
Organized by decade (1944—2000), this retro-styled cookbook created by the people at Texas Co-op Power magazine celebrates the combination of food and electricity. A preface written by Sandy Cohen, the...
View ArticleAround the State
Jordan’s PickVictorian Christmas Train Ride PalestineTHERE YOU ARE, ALL BUNDLED UP, climbing aboard the Victorian Christmas Train Ride in East Texas with your loved ones. The antique locomotive picks...
View ArticleBeverly Kearney
IF THEY EVER MAKE A MOVIE about University of Texas women’s track coach Bev Kearney’s life, which they almost certainly will, the last scene will go like this:The year is 2005. It is June 11, a warm...
View Article“You Don’t Want to Know What We Do After Dark”
ON A MUGGY LATE-SUMMER AFTERNOON, I am sitting in my rental car in front of an apartment complex in southwest Houston. A young man named Alex, wearing a blue T-shirt and jeans, opens the passenger door...
View ArticleCrab Cakes
1 pound fresh jumbo lump crab 1 cup mayo 2 tablespoons old bay 1/2 red pepper, roasted 1 teaspoon roasted garlic 2 tablespoons chopped fresh Italian parsley 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives salt and...
View ArticleCentral 214
I don’t know about you, but every time I go out to eat, I say a little prayer to the kitchen gods: “Oh please, oh please, oh please, let there be something fabulous on the menu tonight.” Usually,...
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Ron White Gets the Last Laugh
Ron “Tater Salad” White looked as if he had just been poked in the eye by someone he strongly disliked. Early one evening in August, while walking through the alley behind Austin’s Paramount Theatre,...
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