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Rum-Glazed Grilled Pineapple and Banana Split
The backyard feast that Paul Petersen created at our invitation is grilled all the way. “I am the self-proclaimed grill master,” he says, with the modesty of Muhammad Ali. “I live it and love it.” A...
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Sichan Siv
It took the San Antonio resident thirty years to write the memoir Golden Bones—a reasonable time, perhaps, to assess a life that includes an escape from Cambodia’s killing fields and stints as both a...
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Books: A Memoir
More than forty years into his career as an antiquarian bookseller (not to mention his other job as a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist), Larry McMurtry has paused to reflect on a life hawking secondhand...
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Alive in Necropolis
The real-world town of Colma, California—home to about 1,600 residents and more than two million corpses in seventeen cemeteries (motto: “It’s great to be alive in Colma”)— provides an odd but...
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Beltway Park Baptist Church
DENOMINATION Baptist PASTOR David McQueen ADDRESS 4009 Beltway South (FM 707) PHONE 325-692-6540 ON THE INTERNET beltway.org MAIN SERVICE Sundays at 8:10, 9:40, and 11:20 A.M.More than twenty...
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The Cable Guy
Ten years ago I spent the winter alone at the ranch watching cable news with my five dogs, the Friedmans. In the beginning I preferred CNN, but the Friedmans became viscerally addicted to the rabid...
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Water World
I went to Athens to check out Ray Price’s tour bus. Of course, Ray wasn’t in this particular bus, since it broke down long ago and now sits at the bottom of a 35-foot-deep, eight-acre reservoir at...
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Please Go Away
Dear Cormac,A couple of years ago the Texas Book Festival “Bookended” you. (They will Bookend anybody, so it’s nothing to feel cocky about.) Since you famously do not appear in person to receive awards...
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Keeper of the Flame
When you visit chef Paul Petersen at the historic Gage Hotel, in the West Texas town of Marathon, it isn’t long before he escorts you out back to see his favorite toy: a mammoth, soot-blackened smoker...
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Tour de Farce
Sam has made it very clear that he is on his way out. Our son is seventeen now, and though he tries to be nice about it—“Did you guys have a good time [all alone, without me] last night?” he asked last...
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Ricardo Sanchez
Evan Smith: Your memoir, Wiser in Battle, is bracingly candid. For somebody who spent 33 years in the Army, you’re fairly critical of many of the people you worked with and their prosecution of the war...
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Twin Wells
Don’t go anywhere, the deputy had said, but as Baldwin dressed he decided that the deputy meant in the general sense of “don’t leave town.” A city-limits sort of proscription, which suited Baldwin...
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Kevin Hutchison, Fly-fishing Guide
Hutchison, standing, owns Hill Country Flyfishers and is the fly-fishing manager at Sportsman’s Finest, in Austin, where he has lived for twenty-plus years. He guides more than one hundred trips a...
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A Loss for Words
After the home team wins a big game, fans are likely to say, “We beat the [bleep] out of those [bleep]!” But the coach takes a more elliptical approach. He runs away from definitive statements the way...
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Peter YangContributing photographer Peter Yang may have grown up in the suburbs of Dallas. And he may have left Texas for New York four years ago. But that doesn’t mean he has lost the frontier spirit,...
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Porn Yesterday
How do you capture XXX-rated lightning in a bottle? In the case of Debbie Does Dallas, you start with a title—one so splendidly alliterative, so lusciously evocative, that it hardly matters that, over...
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Soldier
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001I sit in the formation area packed with two hundred other cherry recruits. Here it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from. We are all equally worthless. We are all named...
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You’re Rick Noriega. Do You Approve This Message?
M E M OTo: The Honorable Rick Noriega From: John Spong Re: Your campaign for the U.S. SenateEvery two years or so, an assignment comes up for grabs at Texas Monthly that is inevitably greeted by the...
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Everything We Could Tell You About . . . A Happy Marriage
NAMES: Melvin and Minnie Lou Scott | AGES: 101 and 100 | HOMETOWN: Frankston | QUALIFICATIONS: Married eighty years ago on November 11, 1927 / The first of five living generations (one son, three...
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Forgiven
After the stunning success of their 2003 self-titled release, San Angelo’s Los Lonely Boys settled in for a world-class sophomore slump. Sacred, in 2006, was formulaic and felt like a rush job; the...
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Grilled Sweet Potato, Chorizo, and Corn Hash
Grilled Sweet Potato, Chorizo, and Corn Hash Photograph by Beth Perkins4 medium sweet potatoes 3 ears corn, shucked 4 tablespoons olive oil, divided 1 pound Mexican chorizo, removed from casing 1/2 cup...
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Grilled Romaine, Endive, and Tomato Salad
Grilled Romaine, Endive, and Tomato Salad With Lemon-Basil Vinaigrette and Point Reyes Blue CheeseVinaigrette4 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil 1/2 cup sherry vinegar 1 1/2...
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Dallas, Our Dallas
When our favorite boozy, greedy, love-to-hate TV family, the Ewings, first entered our homes, in 1978, Jimmy Carter was in office and oil was just shy of $40 a barrel. Led by the scheming J.R., the...
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True Grit
There was a time when the word “cowboy” evoked respect, even envy. In ranching circles it was an honorable label that had to be earned. One proved himself worthy of it through character, deed, and...
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Sichan Siv Interview
It took the San Antonio resident thirty years to write the memoir Golden Bones—a reasonable time, perhaps, to appraise a life that includes an escape from Cambodia’s killing fields and stints as both a...
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