Subject: Lyndon Johnson

• Bubba Roese, the Mayor of Graball, Speaks of BBQ

  May 27, 2008

• Ike, You Are A Sadistic Bastard

  September 18, 2008

• The Year of Living Anxiously

  Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?

  December 29, 1994

• Barbecue in Black and White

  May 1, 2003

• Clash Course

  Warriors of the right take their battle against the left to the streets of New York

  September 9, 2004

• The Case Against Kay

  June 23, 1994

• The Children's Crusade

  January 5, 1995

• Sayles' Pitch

  June 27, 1996

• What's Driving Miss Shelia?

  February 20, 1997

• Letters

  March 20, 1997

• Terrible News For Lovers Of Texas History, Or Just Biography In General

  Anyone who considers themselves a Texan -- one that likes to read, at any rate -- should be federally mandated to read the three volumes in which Robert Caro traces the life of Lyndon Johnson.The first book, Path to Power, is a fascinating primer on the Hill Country, on Sam Rayburn, on farm life in 1930s Texas when electricity was just a dream, and, of course, on LBJ's early life too. (The power-mad college years at San Marcos are a hoot.)The second, Means of Ascent, introduces (somewhat controv

  February 13, 2009

• Lost in the Cause

  May 29, 1997

• The Insider

  July 17, 1997

• The Insider

  October 16, 1997

• Jack Valenti, Gay Blade?

  Was the late Jack Valenti -- famous Houstonian, former Lyndon Johnson aide, former head of Hollywood's MPAA, namesake of the Valenti School of Communications at UH -- as gay as a Sondheim song?We don't care one way or the other, but it appears the FBI did.The Washington Post reports this morning that through a Freedom of Information Act request, they got their hands on files showing J. Edgar Hoover (Irony Alert? Self-loathing gay alert?) investigated rumors that Valenti hosted gay parties in Hou

  February 19, 2009

• The President's Analyst

  April 30, 1998

• Do Not Go Gentle

  September 10, 1998

• One Dick's Opinion of Another

  September 10, 1998

• Which Bug Gets the Gas?

  January 7, 1999

• The Secret Life of Bees Is All Honey, No Sting

  Buzz Kill

  October 16, 2008

• Temples of Tex-Mex: A Diner's Guide to the State's Oldest Mexican Restaurants

  July 3, 2008

• Running Mates

  Michael and Nandy Berry are world-class charmers. But what's really behind those two smiles?

  August 28, 2003

• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

  Spike Lee’s look at Hurricane Katrina might be his most important work yet

  February 28, 2008

• Rush to Judgment

  In World War II, Houston attorney Leon Jaworski prosecuted a group of black American soldiers. In a hurried-up trial, they were court-martialed and sentenced to hard labor. The verdict was probably wrong. And Jaworski had a lot to do with that.

  June 22, 2006

• Boogie for Bush!

  Dubya and Franz Ferdinand have made it okay for white guys to dance

  September 9, 2004

• Hail to the Turd Blossom

  A SXSW film takes a look at Karl Rove, a.k.a. Bush's Brain

  March 11, 2004

• Rationality Will Not Save Us

  In the latest documentary from Errol Morris, Robert McNamara considers the lessons of war

  February 26, 2004

• Paying the Price

  Hospital district officials wanted a simple one-sentence policy on immigrant health care. What they got instead was a criminal probe and plenty of politics.

  October 11, 2001

• Foregone Conclusion

  Even those who don't remember the Cuban missile crisis will know how it ends, long before Days does

  January 11, 2001

• Deep-Fried Greenhorn

  Only a dupe believes in such a thing as the "best chicken-fried steak in Texas"

  November 30, 2000

• The Private Trial of Donald Davis

  A Houston attorney who specialized in saving killers' lives couldn't handle his own. So he took it.

  November 30, 2000

• Combination Plates

  Legendary restauranteur Felix Tijerina mixed Mexican food and Texas politics

  August 31, 2000

• Virtual 'Cue

  Lyndon's Pit Bar-B-Q serves an excellent approximation of the real thing

  July 20, 2000

• The Good, the Bad, the Imprisoned

  Houston's best politicos were not always the ones elected -- or the ones who stayed in office

  December 30, 1999

• Houstowne, Texas

  Shrouded by mists and unrecovered documents, the history of Houston is still worth a probe

  December 30, 1999

• Brave Talk, Bleak Prospects

  Outgunned county Dems feast before famine in 2000

  November 25, 1999

• Junior or Joke?

  Bob Wills' family disowns the man claiming to be the prince of Western swing

  July 27, 1995

• Cutout Bin: The Goldwaters' Liberal-Baiting Folk Songs

  The Goldwaters Sing Folk Songs to Bug the Liberals (1964, Greenleaf)​The 1964 presidential election was a pivotal point in our nation's history. After years of the liberal leadership and acronym names of JFK and LBJ, Republican Senator Barry Goldwater sought to take the country in a new direction. Could he win the presidency in the shadow of John F. Kennedy's massively popular legacy? He would need help. The Goldwaters were the brainchild of two brothers from Nashville, Mark and Buford Bates

  August 20, 2009

• Montrose Is One Great Neighborhood, Experts Say, Despite The Things That Are Gone

  Photo by @Hella​The American Planning Association, an organization that no doubt takes planning very seriously, has named Montrose one of the ten "great neighborhoods" in America.Says the APA: One of Houston's original streetcar suburbs, Montrose has a sliver of everything. Eclectic and urbane, the neighborhood is a fusion of architectural styles, land uses, and people (former residents include President Lyndon Johnson and billionaire Howard Hughes). The neighborhood has a thriving art, museum

  October 7, 2009