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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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