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The Coming of Redneck Hip
This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. Austin’s...
View ArticleGlory Days
THE GRANDEUR OF TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL is fading fast. “All the way to State”? For most Texans the pep rally cry is a yawner. District championships are almost irrelevant, and the ratio of champion...
View ArticleLegends of the Fall
Nobody on the small plane rising in the air above Austin glances down at the stadium. It’s on all the passengers’ minds though. Even Doak Walker and John David Crow, who won their Heisman trophies at...
View Article2. Ronnie Earle
One morning in December, a district judge named Mike Lynch stepped on a courthouse elevator in Austin and gawked at the last hero and hope of Texas Democrats. Ronnie Earle, the Travis County district...
View ArticleGruene Peace
IF YOU’RE IN NEED OF A BARGAIN GETAWAY, come along some weekend to the Texas ghost town that was saved by a beer joint. Gruene—pronounced “Green”—occupies a bluff overlooking the Guadalupe River near...
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