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The Scales of Injustice
About a year ago, it was reported that Randall Dale Adams had died, bringing to a close one of the more tragic stories in recent Texas history. A construction worker from Ohio, Adams (pictured here, in...
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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’ Waylon West Texas is the Texas of...
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The Birding Drive
The Birding Drive By Patricia Sharpe ROUTE: Mission to South Padre IslandDISTANCE: 89 milesNUMBER OF COUNTIES: 2WHAT TO READ: David Allen Sibley’s The Sibley Guide to Birds Hugging the U.S.-Mexico...
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The Lighthouse Drive
ROUTE: Port Arthur to Port AransasDISTANCE: 308 milesNUMBER OF COUNTIES: 11WHAT TO BRING: A pair of binoculars I started as far east as you can go on the Gulf Coast and still be in Texas. And since the...
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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 Heat A drive whose sole purpose is to experience the simple pleasure of being...
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The Hill Country Drive
ROUTE: Bandera to Concan (and back)DISTANCE: 125 milesNUMBER OF COUNTIES: 3WHAT TO LISTEN TO: 104.3 FM, the Ranch A great drive may be about slowing down and clearing your head, but who can resist...
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The Backwoods Drive
ROUTE: Uncertain to JasperDISTANCE: 140 milesNUMBER OF COUNTIES: 6WHAT TO LISTEN TO: Jim Reeves’s “Welcome to My World” If you want to see, smell, and taste the Deep South, look no further than East...
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Miles and Miles of Texas
The “Drive” Drive By Joe Nick Patoski ROUTE: West of Ozona to Sanderson DISTANCE: 85 miles NUMBER OF COUNTIES: 3 WHAT TO READ: James H. Evans’s Crazy From the Heat A drive whose sole purpose is to...
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The Cattle Trail Drive
ROUTE: Fort Belknap to Red Bluff ReservoirDISTANCE: 505 milesNUMBER OF COUNTIES: 15WHAT TO READ: J. Evetts Haley’s Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman In the rolling country northwest of the Palo...
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The Old-Fashioned Drive
ROUTE: Paris to DecaturDISTANCE: 148 milesNUMBER OF COUNTIES: 6WHAT TO READ: Michael Andrews’s Historic Texas Courthouses Whenever I start to suffer the ill effects of traffic overload and endless...
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Larry Hagman’s Curtain Call
There’s nothing like watching the real J.R. Ewing in action. It’s an early November Friday night, and Larry Hagman is shuffling across the hardwood floor of a rented Dallas loft furnished with...
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Return to Southfork
Watch a few hour-long drama series on television, and you’ll quickly get a sense of the categories that define most shows these days. First, there are the grisly, twitchily edited procedurals, like The...
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The Survivors
Kerry Cahill paced the floor of a classroom at Nazareth College of Rochester, in New York, explaining to the group of fidgety teenagers in blue Rochester Global Citizenship Conference T-shirts why she...
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Laura Wilson’s Studio
In 1979 Laura Wilson, a married mother of three, began working with the photographer Richard Avedon. While assisting with the celebrated portraitist’s now-iconic book In the American West, Wilson...
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James Turrell’s Skyspace, Houston
Houston and that brilliant artist of light James Turrell have proved to be an enduring couple, what with the California native’s inspiring work at the Live Oak Friends Meeting house and the Museum of...
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Heroes
These days, WILLIE NELSON albums come in two varieties: quickies knocked out as favors to friends and those that he puts some real effort into. During Willie’s past few years of untethered...
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Mary Karr and Rodney Crowell
Before Mary Karr began working on Kin (Vanguard), the 57-year-old poet and author of the celebrated memoirs The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit had never written a song in her life and was reluctant to...
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Big Station
As ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO’s BIG STATION (Fantasy) demonstrates, even inveterate rockers eventually face their mortality. The album’s opener, “Man of the World,” sets the tone: “Duct-taped together for one...
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Austin Mahone is sixteen years old. He has no record contract, no tour bus, no backing band. But San Antonio’s answer to Justin Bieber does have an enormous fan base; he’s amassed more than 675,000...
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Girls Love Me
Pretty much everything Austin Mahone does—sing, dance, smile, smirk, wink, wave, laugh, sigh, cough, breathe—drives girls completely nuts. Unlike most sixteen-year-old boys, he never disappoints them,...
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Austin Mahone, a sixteen-year-old from San Antonio, is riding the wave of viral videos and mass Twitter followings up to the ranks of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez. Though still learning the basics...
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Trials and Errors
It’s hard to imagine a more terrifying experience than being wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder. You’re innocent, you don’t know anything about the crime. Yet the police somehow become...
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Hannah’s Prayer
On October 2, 2006, four-year-old foster child Andrew Burd was brought to a Corpus Christi urgent care clinic in cardiac arrest. He had fallen suddenly and acutely ill that afternoon. His soon-to-be...
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Roar of the Crowd
Phases and StagesThank you for your outstanding article about what was for many of us the funnest of times [“That 70’s Show,” April 2012]. I remember one Friday night during that era when Willie was at...
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Miles and Miles of Texas
2,623 miles, in fact, of scenic drives and remote highways and hidden spots just waiting beyond the bend. So get behind the wheel, hit the open road, and prepare to discover a Texas you’ve never seen....
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