Texas Monthly articles from September 2006

Texas Monthly archives from September 2006

This month's code to access stories online: Lufkin.
September 1, 2006... Football Fever Articles editor Brian D. Sweany talks about this month's cover story on football (above, Baylor University assistant coach Wes Phillips, retired Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips, and San Diego Chargers defensive coordinator...

Grand old parry: the Republicans want me to help them set their agenda? Don't mind if I do.
September 1, 2006... To: Ken Mehlman, Chairman, Republican National Committee From: Paul Burka, humble voter Re: Your mailed invitation to take part in the official Census of the Republican Party I'm so glad that you have chosen me to represent all the...

Cover charges.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... I just hope and pray that some child waiting in line at the grocery checkout doesn't say, "Mommy, what does 'mofo' mean?" What were y'all thinking? Joy Martin SAN ANTONIO Just because Governor Rick Perry got away with the comment...

Oh, Ricky, you're so fine.(Roar of the Crowd)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... When you write a piece so slanted for Rick Perry, you should label it an editorial endorsement ("Capture the Flag," July 2006). Obviously, your one-hour sit-down at the Austin restaurant with Perry's handlers did the job: Perry was mentioned in...

On the fence.(Roar of the Crowd)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... I am confused by the story "My Life as an Illegal" (July 2006). As a U.S. citizen, born in Texas, who pays taxes and follows the laws, why am I supposed to care about how hard someone's life is who has entered my country illegally? Why don't we...

Pop tarts.(Roar of the Crowd)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... Thanks for telling me about the Septien Entertainment Group ("School of Pop," July 2006). Now I know where to vent when I turn on my radio and hear nothing but this drivel. America's next, enduring music greats will be found in roadhouses,...

Glory days.(Roar of the Crowd)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... I enjoyed Jan Reid's piece on the "forgotten" Wichita Falls football dynasty ("Seems Like Old Times," July 2006). As a graduate of Irving High School (class of '64), I know all too well how dominating the Coyotes were in the late fifties and...

History in the remaking.(Roar of the Crowd)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... As a historian I commend Michael Ennis for exposing T. R. Fehrenbach's Lone Star for what it is: history as redneck Texas would like it to be ("T. R. Fehrenbach Is History," July 2006). I further commend Ennis for introducing TEXAS MONTHLY...

Points of contention.(Roar of the Crowd)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... Paul Burka's ten steps for saving Bush's presidency are typical liberal BS (Reporter, Topic A, "Operation Rescue," July 2006). Here are some points for Burka: 1. Fire the achievers and the successful people (and tax them). 2. Liberals had two...

Everyone's a critic.(Roar of the Crowd)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... The July 2006 article "ShootingBlanks" left me wanting to shoot myself (Reporter, Hollywood, TX). Every movie I've watched left me thinking either "I loved it" or "I hated it" or "It was okay." Not one movie in forty-plus years has led me to...

Remember the Kinkster.(Roar of the Crowd)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... As a seventh-generation Texan and Son of the Republic, I must protest your statement that an asteroid would have to crush all of the Kinkster's opponents for him to win the governorship (Editor's Letter, "Independent's Day," July 2006)....

Full disclosure.(journalism )
September 1, 2006... I'm conflicted. On the one hand, I feel strongly that the editor of a magazine should be able to have friends, acquaintances, and organizational ties that are occasionally newsworthy. And just because the editor has newsworthy...

Topic A: it is the heat: those triple-digit temperatures are still with us, as ever.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Any Texan knows that good ol' T.S. Eliot was wrong: April is not the cruelest month around here. It's September, of course--that period when weaklings in other parts of the country, recovering from stultifying, suspiciously globally warmed...

The art of shopping.(The Horse's Mouth: EVERYTHING I COULD EVER TELL YOU ABOUT ...)
September 1, 2006... NAME: Kim France AGE: 42 HOMETOWN: Houston QUALIFICATIONS: Founding editor in chief of Lucky magazine / Co-author of The Lucky Shopping Manual: Building and Improving Your Wardrobe Piece by Piece * The biggest mistake you can make is...

Any given Saturday: UT without Vince, A&M's bounce back, Tech's offense--and why the BCS is a joke.(The Sports Authorities: STACY HOLLISTER CALLS IN THE EXPERTS)(Interview)
September 1, 2006... PANELISTS: R.C. SLOCUM The winningest football coach in Texas A&M history SPIKE DYKES The winningest football coach in Texas Tech history Hollister: I know this is impolite, given that I've got an A&M guy and a Tech guy...

Cows and bulls are our widgets.(Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch: Part: II: STORIES FROM SOUTH TEXAS)
September 1, 2006... You know, everybody has their widget, their product. Cattle are like any other business; there are different people along the production line to get the steak to the grocery store or the milk to the market. So it's more than just that idyllic...

Cowboys for Jesus Christian Fellowship.
September 1, 2006... Fischer | July 2, 2006 The term "church clothes" has lost much of its meaning in recent years, as seeker-friendly churches have encouraged a come-as-you-are atmosphere, but nowhere do people consistently dress down more than at the cowboy...

Texas myth # 471.(Encyclopedia Texanica: ANNE DINGUS SOLVES THE STATE'S GREATEST MYSTERIES)
September 1, 2006... JAMES BOWIE INVENTED THE BOWIE KNIFE. No, one of his brothers did. Rezin (pronounced "Reason") Bowie designed the big, butcher-style hunting knife in the mid-1820's while the two were living in Louisiana. When Jim started feuding with a local...

Richard and Gina Donovan.(dam construction)
September 1, 2006... In 1998, when Lufkin realtor Richard Donovan and his daughter, Gina, first read of plans to build as many as three dams on the Neches River, they knew this was the cause their budding environmental activism had been waiting for. The most...

Terror alert: how The Texas Chainsaw Massacre introduced us to pure dread.(Hollywood, TX: CHRISTOPHER KELLY ON OUR STATE OF ENTERTAINMENT)
September 1, 2006... Has there ever been an American horror film as profoundly despairing as Tobe Hooper's 1974 cult classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Released in the waning days of the Vietnam/Watergate era, the movie upended virtually every scary-movie trope...

Artist in Residence.(Sound recording review)
September 1, 2006... "Heady stuff." If only by dropping references to painters Basquiat and Rauschenberg into his work, Houston-born jazz pianist JASON MORAN undoubtedly hears that a lot. His latest, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE (Blue Note), based on his compositions for...

These Four Walls.(Sound recording review)
September 1, 2006... With her penchant for storytelling, SHAWN COLVIN delivers songs of subtle simplicity, directness, and universal appeal. Despite the fact that she composes virtually none of her music (her longtime collaborator John Leventhal does that), her...

Workbench Songs.(Sound recording review)
September 1, 2006... One of the revelations of the recent Townes Van Zandt documentary Be Here to Love Me was seeing GUY CLARK in full bloom, undiminished by age. Everything about him--the irascible wit, drunken smile, and back-slapping demeanor--spelled trouble...

Grupo Fantasma.(Adrian Quesada on summer canadian tour)(Interview)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... This eleven-piece Austin band has been captured onstage at Antone's nightclub for its third album, Grupo Fantasma Comes Alive (Aire Sol). We caught up with Adrian Quesada, one of Grupo's two guitarists, in the middle of a summer Canadian tour....

Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent.(Previews+Reviews: Music: ON THE MONTH'S NEW RELEASES)
September 1, 2006... JOHN F. BURNETT proves a new truism--that all news is local--as he reports on the state of affairs in newsworthy locales from Kosovo to Waco in UNCIVILIZED BEASTS AND SHAMELESS HELLIONS: TRAVELS WITH AN NPR CORRESPONDENT. The twenty-year...

The History of Swimming.(Previews+Reviews: Music: ON THE MONTH'S NEW RELEASES)
September 1, 2006... There's an undercurrent of hysteria that threatens to sink KIM POWERS'S memoir, THE HISTORY OF SWIMMING, though the melodramatics have honest roots in the town of McKinney and his classically dysfunctional family: a successfully suicidal...

Dark Angels.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... It was twenty years ago that Houstonian KARLEEN KOEN'S fiction debut, Through a Glass Darkly, enjoyed a five-month stay on the New York Times best-seller list. The eighteenth-century historical novel eventually tallied about $2 million in...

Alan Weisman.(CBS Broadcasting Inc.'s )(Interview)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... A 33-year career in broadcast news, including lengthy stints with CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes, gave this writer and producer an ideal perch from which to view Texas-born newshound Dan Rather, the subject of Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life...

Hit parade.(Buy This Now: AMY PRINCE ON THE THINGS YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT)
September 1, 2006... There's a joke among musicians that goes What's the difference between a drummer and a large pizza? The pizza can feed a family of four. Well, don't repeat that one to Tommy Robertson, the Austinite who's built an empire with the instrument,...

Cosmic wonder: a slice of humble pie beneath the West Texas sky.(Go: SUZY BANKS HITS THE ROADS LESS TRAVELED)
September 1, 2006... I've never had so much fun feeling insignificant. All it took was a clear, moonless night at the University of Texas McDonald Observatory, in Fort Davis, and a knowledgeable guide to the cosmos. I'm sure my self-importance could have been...

Betty Buckley.(the singer )(Interview)
September 1, 2006... This summer you performed for several nights at the Blue Note jazz club, in New York. It's easy for all of us out here in the world who've seen you act for so many years in TV shows and movies and plays to forget that you're first and foremost...

Coach class.(State of the Art)
September 1, 2006... There are more than 1,300 high school football teams in Texas, and each of them has a born leader on the sidelines--a friend, mentor, surrogate parent, and father-confessor to the stars of tomorrow, Here are some of our favorites, Eddie...

The satanic versus: at her retrial this summer, Andrea Yates once again insisted that the devil made her do it. In a way, the devil did.(Letter From Houston)
September 1, 2006... When I dropped in on this summer's retrial of Andrea Yates at the Harris County courthouse, two rows of the courtroom were taken up by a group of Chinese law students visiting from Shanghai. They were spending part of their summer in Texas with...

The recount: in early September we'll learn how the Mexican government plans to paper over the controversial outcome of this summer's presidential race. As I saw for myself, it won't be easy.
September 1, 2006... The telephone rang in my Mexico City hotel room at about l0:30 p.m. on July 4. The caller was a young woman I've known since she was a child: Aleida Alavez, a city councilwoman representing the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (PRD), the...

Thank God it's Friday.
September 1, 2006... And Saturday. And Sunday. The arrival of fall means weekends spent watching football, up dose and on-screen, mad yet another opportunity to love the greatest game on each for all the usual reasons. Forty-nine of them, in fact.

Not that we have a problem with tunnels, per se.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... What we like, in particular, about the one at the Cotton Bowl is that at the Red River Rivalry, both UT and OU players and coaches enter from and exit through the same tunnel, with fans crowding around each side. The jostling and trash talking...

Throwing a great pass.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... I can tell right away when I let the ball go if it's going to be a good one. I can almost turn around and tell you if it's going to be a good ball or not. Even if the guy's 40 or 50 yards down the field, I'm pretty sure if it's going to hit him...

The voice.(radio programs)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Some announcers have more games on their resumes; others have been at it longer. But for our money, the best in Texas is Ace Little, of the Weatherford Kangaroos. The 42-year-old has called 750 sporting events on the radio over the past 24...

Road trip!(TGIF)
September 1, 2006... Five towns that turn into ghost towns when the high school football team has an away game: 1. Converse 2. Ennis 3. Lufkin 4. Odessa 5. Southlake

At least one marching band has a sense of humor.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The most important thing to understand about Rice University's Marching Owl Band (more familiarly known as the MOB) is that it doesn't march. Ever. To achieve the desired formation, MOBsters run to their appointed destinations, or scatter,...

Dragon nation.(football )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... When Southlake's Carroll Senior High School beat Katy High School on December 17, 2005, it won not just the state 5A Division II football title but bragging rights as the best Texas high school team of the decade and one of the very best...

Rivalries. We've got rivalries.(TGIF)
September 1, 2006... Eight classics at the high school level: 1. Lufkin vs. Nacogdoches 2. Sherman vs. Denison 3. Dallas Carter vs. Dallas Kimball 4. Longview vs. Marshall 5. Odessa Permian vs. Midland Lee 6. Garland vs. South Garland ...

But no rivalry is as big as this one.(universities and colleges)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Texas A&M versus Texas is about a lot more than football. It's about class and values and different ways of looking at the world. For more than a century, Longhorn loyalists have regarded the Aggies as a bunch of rubes straight off the farm....

Our football blogs are better than everyone else's.(TGIF)
September 1, 2006... Ten we like: 1. RECRUITING BUZZ (recruitingbuzz.beloblog.com) 2. BURNT ORANGE NATION: A TEXAS LONGHORNS BLOG (burntorangenation.com) 3. BEVO BEAT (statesman.com/blogs/content/ shared-gen/blogs/austin/longhorns/ index.html) 4....

Five--five!--bowl games.(TGIF)
September 1, 2006... Except for Florida, no other state has that many. 1. Vitalis Sun Bowl, El Paso 2. AT&T Cotton Bowl, Dallas 3. Master Card Alamo Bowl, San Antonio 4. EV1.net Houston Bowl, Houston 5. Alltel Wireless Bowl, Fort Worth

Pee Wees' playhouse.(TGIF)
September 1, 2006... Thirty years ago, a boy growing up in Dallas needed only two things to transform a dirt field into Texas Stadium: a plastic Cowboys helmet and a silver-and-blue jersey with his favorite number on it (mine was "12"). Today, kids who worship...

Hitting someone hard.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The first thing I do after the huddle is study the formation of the offense and the defense and think about what play is going to be called. After the snap, everything else is downhill. I want to get to the ball quickly and give the runner as...

Even our noise-makers are bigger.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... When the Celina Bobcats score a touchdown, make an extra point, or execute a big play, Rick Willis mans the ear-piercing, earth-shaking, heavens-trembling custom-made horn that blows. The secrets to his success: No air. Willis uses four...

The coach of the state's winningest team is someone you've probably never heard of.(Hardin-Simmons University appoints Jimmie Keeling )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... When Jimmie Keeling became the head football coach at Abilene's Hardin-Simmons University in 1990--after the football program ended a self-imposed 27-year hiatus--he glanced around a locker room and felt his confidence sink through the floor....

Intestinal fortitude.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... In early to mid-August, the lazy days and dog days of summer collide violently in the age-old ritual of two-a-day practices. Brutal sessions where the absence of profuse sweating, muscle cramps, mental confusion, and vomit--collectively known...

Preparing for a big game.(football )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The most important thing is to keep your routine the same, because the biggest enemy that I've found is distraction. So if you can develop a routine at home and on the road and try to keep it as close to status quo as possible from one week to...

Six guys who played every single down of their lives for Texas teams.(TGIF)
September 1, 2006... 1. Don Meredith 2. Mike Renfro 3. Harvey Martin 4. Kevin Smith 5. Cody Carlson 6. Dat Nguyen

Five wacky Aggie football traditions.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... 1. Midnight yell practice. It takes place at Kyle Field the night before home games, involves upward of 20,000 students, and is moderated by five yell leaders: three seniors and two juniors who tell jokes about the other team and lead the...

Our heroes have always been cowboys--and still are, even though they've hung up their cleats.(TGIF)
September 1, 2006... Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irvin played on the last Dallas Cowboys team to win the Super Bowl (1996). The three were inducted last year into the Cowboys' Ring of Honor. Today, Aikman is an NFL commentator for Fox, a partner in Hall...

The wisdom of Dave Campbell.(Interview)
September 1, 2006... The state's reigning football guru first published his must-read annual, Dave Campbell's Texas Football, 46 years ago. When you think of how the game has changed over the years, what positive or not-so-positive things stand out to you? ...

Animal magnetism.(Texas State University's Jerome Bartlett)(Interview)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Jerome Bartlett, a.k.a. Boko the Bobcat (above, left), Texas State University's mascot, was recently named2006 USA National Mascot Champion. Congratulations on your recent honor. I didn't do it alone. During all of my routines I do...

One man, 45 years, 750 teams, 2000+ games.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... So you think you're a football fan. You'd skip a family funeral before you'd miss even one Friday night under the lights. On weekends you're in the garage, spray painting your industrial-sized, coin-filled noisemaker. You stay up until the wee...

The greatest football photograph ever.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... It's of a Texan: Marshall native Y. A. Tittle, with broken ribs and a bad concussion, kneeling in his own end zone after throwing an interception that was returned for a touchdown. His team, the New York Giants, lost the 1964 game to the...

Bar stool arguments.(football fans)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... A guy walks into a bar. Maybe he intends to gripe about his ex-wife or his job, or maybe he just plans to pour quarters into the jukebox. But with the slightest provocation, his bar stool becomes a soapbox in the Great Football Debate--no...

The essentially ridiculous but somehow still heart-stirring rewarding of well-behaved 'boys.(TGIF)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The seventeen inductees into the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor have two things in common: All of them were good football players, and none of them sassed the general manager. So it was that Lee Roy Jordan's name wasn't added until 1989, a year...

The all-time Texas team.(pro football hall of famers )
September 1, 2006... One state has been birthplace to more Pro Football Hall of Famers than Texas, and that's Pennsylvania. But of their 26 enshrinees, 6 were quarterbacks and 3 were front-office guys. Texas's 24 Hall of Famers played all over the field. If some...

The six-man version of the game.(TGIF)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Ten reasons we love it: 1. Because from your "stadium" seat you're more likely to look out upon cattle or cotton than a Jumbo Tron. 2. Because "coach" also means "teacher," "bus driver," and "uniform launderer." 3. Because even...

Texas tech knows what to do when it's third and long.(TGIF)( Mike Leach )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Head coach Mike Leach runs the "Y-Sail" play. The quarterback takes the snap in the shotgun formation, drops back three steps, and throws along pass to the outside receiver; or, failing that, throws a 10-yard pass to the inside receiver, who...

We all have a part to play.(college football)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Ready for the Friday pep rally? Okay! Cue band. At this early hour, the brass section may not quite yet have their chops, but the percussion is on--and they will rock you. Cue cheerleaders. Enthusiastic cheers, jumps, chants,...

Potential.(UTEP Miners )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Oftentimes it's a blessing; just as often it's a curse. But it's why we watch, and it's why we'll all be watching the UTEP Miners this season. After several sorry decades of football, the Miners hired a good coach (Mike Price), landed a QB with...

Every underdog has his day.(Texas Christian University)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... TCU fans, repeat after me: It's not about the BCS. Sure, it would be fun to jam a stick in the system's wheels and play in one of the big-boy bowls come January. But the season's real coup won't be played out on the national scene. No, the...

The unknown pioneer.(John Westbrook )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Only forty years ago, if you were a black teenager, you couldn't play football in the Southwest Conference. And then John Westbrook came along. Like Jackie Robinson, Westbrook didn't set out to break a color barrier. The Groesbeck native, who...

Never having to say we're sorry for ...(TGIF)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... 1. JACKIE SHERRILL. So long as A&M beat Texas and made the Cotton Bowl each year, the Aggie faithful didn't care if Coach Sherrill's players made more money than the regents. 2. BARRY SWITZER. If you Google "Switzer," "Cowboys," and...

Friday night lights is a franchise.(TGIF)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Buzz Bissinger's classic, first published in 1990, remains a one-of-a-kind sports book: a biting, fearless study not just of Odessa Permian High School's football team but of a small town that pins its outsized hopes and dreams on the shoulders...

It's not unusual for the TV to cost more than the beer, the cooler, the grill, the lawn furniture, and the tickets.(TGIF)
September 1, 2006... Ah, the joys of tailgating.

Mecca for recruiters.(TGIF)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Held every year in San Antonio, the U.S. Army All-American Bowl is the one sporting event that comes close to justifying the existence of the Alamodome. More than five hundred of the best high school players in the country participate: They're...

James street still can't eat in public without someone telling him, "great game".(TGIF)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Small-town high school quarterbacks have always known that Saturday's Hungr-Buster at the Dairy Queen will be paid for--or at least interrupted by a slap on the back and an atta-boy--if they had a big night on Friday. Former Longhorn...

Heisman High.(TGIF)
September 1, 2006... Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas is the only public high school in the United States to produce two Heisman trophy winners. Davey O'Brien, class of '35--a short, white quarterback--won the trophy in 1938, the year he led TCU to the national...

There's always a new crop of studs.(TGIF)
September 1, 2006... Five high school seniors to keep an eye on: 1. Tray Allen, OL, South Grand Prairie 2. John Chiles, QB, Mansfield Summit 3. Richetti Jones, DE, Dallas Lincoln 4. Ryan Mallett, QB, Texarkana Texas High 5. Terrance Toliver,...

The real action is off the field.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Play-by-play announcers and color commentators like to talk about "the game inside the game." High school concession stands are home to the game outside the game. When we were fourth-graders, it was where we played two-below games with the...

Some records aren't made to be broken.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Today, it seems, every season produces a player who's hailed as the "greatest" this or the "best" that, but no one has come close to touching the numbers that Ken Hall put up more than fifty years ago as the single-wing quarterback at Sugar...

Main squeeze blues: Phyllis was my soul mate--a smart, sexy, vital woman who organized our lives and those of other people too. A brutal but mercifully short bout with cancer may have taken her from me, but I'll always have the wonderful memories of our thirty years together. And I know I'll be seeing her again.
September 1, 2006... Even as my heart was breaking, I had to acknowledge the magnificent irony of the room where Phyllis lay dying: the Willie Nelson suite. That's what I called Room 11 at Christopher House, the beautiful, serene care center operated by Hospice...

The good book and the bad book: at Austin's elite St. Andrew's Episcopal School, everything from the architecture to the emphasis on tolerance is designed to reinforce a sense of community. But when an English teacher had her senior class read Brokeback Mountain, a fight between parents over the true meaning of Christian values threatened to tear the close-knit campus apart.
September 1, 2006... O God, make the door of this house wide enough to receive all who need human love and fellowship, narrow enough to shut out all envy, pride, and strife. Make its threshold smooth enough to be no stumbling block to children, nor to straying...

Girl walks into an outlet mall: only in Texas would a massive, shade-free shopping center with tons of upscale discount stores be the state's fourth most popular tourist attraction. (And in San Marcos, no less.) But enough of my spin. Where are the best bargains? Who has the coolest stuff? How do you stay hydrated? And--most important--what should you do with your husband?
September 1, 2006... If you are planning a trip to Texas's fourth most popular tourist attraction, the side-by-side Prime and Tanger outlets in San Marcos, my first words of advice are these: Do not take along a Marxist or any other critic of the capitalist system...

King of the Christocrats.(David Barton)
September 1, 2006... DAVID BARTON believes the Founding Fathers opposed the separation of church and state--and he thinks he has the historical documents to prove it. Is it any wonder he's the latest darling of evangelical Republicans everywhere? During prayer...

Trece: Dallas.(Restaurant review)
September 1, 2006... IT HIT ME THE MINUTE I LOOKED at the press release for Trece, Dallas's newest Mexican restaurant. There, emblazoned across the first page, were the words "Trece brings 'Alta Cocina Mexicana' to Dallas" Ha, I thought. "Alta cocina mexicana"...

The Filter: dining.(restaurants)
September 1, 2006... POLICIES AND DEFINITIONS The Filter: Dining is a service to our readers. The magazine accepts no advertising or other consideration in exchange for a listing Reviews are written by resident critics in the cities that we list and are...

Carol Burnett: Austin, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio.(JORDAN'S PICK)
September 1, 2006... YES, CAROL BURNETT is a Texan, and in the most valid sense of the terra (she was born here). Though she moved from San Antonio to Hollywood at age seven, we don't begrudge California for nurturing one of our most talented exports. Bur she'll be...

Rave on.(The Filter: Events: WHERE TO GO, WHAT TO DO, WHO TO SEE)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... LUBBOCK The state's musical psyche owes a lot to Lubbock, which has nurtured a wide swath of native talents and unconditionally welcomed creative outlaws. Bur these days, with most ears tuned to the sounds coming out of Austin and Houston, it's...