Subject: San Angelo

• More Trouble for the Eldorado Tipster

  July 15, 2008

• Death of a Family

  Lee Brewer started stepping out on her husband of 30 years. She told him it was over. But Pete Brewer had other endings in mind.

  October 19, 2000

• A Figure to Die For

  Community Health Systems cashed in big on the stomach stapling rage. It almost cost Kaye Parsley her life.

  January 2, 2003

• Barbecue in Black and White

  May 1, 2003

• Playbill

  July 22, 2004

• John Whitmire was on a roll coming into the 1995 Legislature. But how the mighty have fallen. Tim Fleck examines the mounting troubles of the state senator known as "Boogie."

  July 13, 1995

• Trench Warfare

  July 23, 1998

• News of the Weird

  October 15, 1998

• Fare Thee Well, Giff Nielsen, Maker Of No Waves

  Photo courtesy KHOUGiff Nielsen, the sports anchor at KHOU who's been at the station 25 years, is leaving.And, ummm, there's not much to say because Nielsen might be the single most boring television personality in Houston history.Not that's a bad thing -- Nielsen capably delivered the news, conducted interviews and analyzed events -- but he did it utterly without shtick. Which, seeing how some clownishly some Houston sports achors have performed (Hellloooo, State Senator Dan Patrick!!) is proba

  March 31, 2009

• A Mainstream Mormon's Test of Faith

  October 30, 2008

• Prodigal Hijos

  Nashville was no place for Los Lonely Boys, the future of Texas roots rock

  July 25, 2002

• Texas Woman Fights Abuse at the State's Schools for the Mentally Retarded

  Her son was beaten up by an angry caregiver at Denton State School

  July 31, 2008

• Los Lonely Boys: Forgiven

  July 3, 2008

• Down-Home Brew

  Learning to speak wino, and other lessons from the road, with Eleven Hundred Springs

  November 14, 2002

• Galán Gala

  June 1, 2006

• Freedom, Now!

  Get banged this Fourth

  June 29, 2006

• Funny Business

  Once upon a time Houston was a hot spot for comedy clubs. Now it's anybody's guess on who'll turn out on any given night

  May 24, 2007

• Parish Predators

  Despite the bishop’s remarks to the contrary, the Galveston-Houston Roman Catholic Archdiocese had child molesters and let them go. But don’t blame just the Church.

  August 17, 2006

• Big Love, Texas-Style

  Polygamists live in a compound on our state's dry western plains

  April 27, 2006

• Todymania!

  Houston's scene sees the release of its second great pop-rock CD in six months; also: March Music Madness hits town on the touring front

  March 10, 2005

• Crapped Out

  After his latest CD, few of Pat Green's fans are feeling like Lucky Ones

  January 6, 2005

• O Little Town of West Texas

  Lee Friedlander goes to homes for the holidays

  December 23, 2004

• Escape Artists

  Rennies stay on after the gates close at the Texas Renaissance Festival each night, living lives from centuries ago

  November 11, 2004

• Outside the Box

  In keeping with the Halloween spirit, we bring you the tale of George Russell, who buries people in cardboard on his property. Welcome to his neighborhood.

  October 28, 2004

• A Nashville Star Is Born

  Former Richmond Strip denizen Sheila Marshall makes it all the way to Music City

  March 18, 2004

• Monica Hits Midtown

  Pope's new restaurant is flat-out brilliant

  March 11, 2004

• Robert Earl Smith

  Rearview Mirror (Muleshoe)

  April 11, 2002

• Prose and Cons

  Crusading convicts turned the docile Echo newspaper into a voice for prison reform. Fellow inmates cheered, but alarmed TDCJ officials preferred silence.

  August 23, 2001

• Making a Point

  Rodney Hulin died after hanging himself in prison. Three years later, his family gets some money from the state.

  June 3, 1999

• Farm to Market

  Kody Ellis shows pigs. What have pigs shown him?

  March 18, 1999

• San Angelo Mayor Springs A Hell Of A Surprise On His Town

  Photo courtesy City of San AngeloMayor JW Lown, in the middleOut there in West Texas, they know how to do things right. Like spring surprise mayoral resignations.The mayor of San Angelo, J.W. Lown, abruptly announced his resignation just days before he was to be sworn in for his fourth term as mayor, the San Angelo Standard Times reports.Surprise Number One: He made the announcement from Mexico, where he had suddenly bolted to.Surprise Number Two: He was resigning because he is in a relationship

  May 21, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: My Son, the Guitar-Slinger

  William Michael SmithLance Smith (left) and Mike Stinson​ LOM grew up in the oil patch, made a good living in it, saw the world because of it. So it made sense to want our son, Lance, to grow up to be a petroleum engineer. Alas, it was not to be. Now he's a guitar player. Two years into the petroleum engineering program at University of Houston, LOM and the wife pulled the plug on Lance's financing. The logic? Exxon doesn't hire engineers with C averages who majored in frat party and skirt-cha

  August 5, 2009

• Gubernatorial Candidate Kinky Friedman: My Dog Could Run This State As Well As Rick Perry

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty​ "Going from musician to politician is definitely a step down," says Kinky Friedman, who announced his Texas gubernatorial candidacy Tuesday morning. "But I'll take it for Texas." Of course, it's a step that Friedman, author of songs such as "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Any More" and "The Ballad of Charles Whitman," as well as numerous mystery novels, took once before in 2006, when he took about 13 percent of the popular vote as an independent. Running as a Democr

  September 2, 2009

• Gubernatorial Candidate Kinky Friedman: My Dog Could Run This State As Well As Rick Perry

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty​ "Going from musician to politician is definitely a step down," says Kinky Friedman, who announced his Texas gubernatorial candidacy Tuesday morning. "But I'll take it for Texas." Of course, it's a step that Friedman, author of songs such as "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Any More" and "The Ballad of Charles Whitman," as well as numerous mystery novels, took once before in 2006, when he took about 13 percent of the popular vote as an independent. Running as a Democr

  September 2, 2009

• Why the Hell Not — Again?

  September 10, 2009