The Body in Room 348
Solving the mystery of the corpse in the Eleganté Hotel.
Solving the mystery of the corpse in the Eleganté Hotel.
Mark Bowden Vanity Fair May 2013 30min Permalink
An oral history of the University of Texas Tower massacre.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Aug 2006 40min Permalink
Grammy-winning liner notes describing the rise, fall, and rebirth of Roky Erickson, who founded the psychedelic rock pioneers The Thirteenth Floor Elevators before a charge stemming from a single marijuana joint landed him in a Texas mental hospital.
Will Sheff willsheff.com Jan 2010 25min Permalink
A history of a small Texas town deep in the Chihuahuan desert:
The isolation is such that if you laid out the islands of the Hawaiian archipelago, and the deep ocean channels that separate them, on the road between Marfa and the East Texas of strip shopping and George Bush Jr., you’d still have 100 miles of blank highway stretching away in front of you.
Sean Wilsey McSweeney's Mar 1999 45min Permalink
One woman’s ordeal with Texas’ new sonogram law.
Carolyn Jones The Texas Observer Mar 2012 10min Permalink
A report from Austin, Texas as it turns into a dot-com hotspot.
Helen Thorpe New York Times Magazine Aug 2000 15min Permalink
The noon chimes in the bell-clock tower rising above him to the building's 307-foot pinnacle sounded: pom-pom-pom-pom . . . 16 notes, high and sweet. Some say the chimes say a poem: "Lord, through this hour "Be Thou my guide, "For in Thy power "I do confide." After the chimes, there is a long pause -- 23 seconds if you hold a wristwatch on it -- time enough for a practiced man to reload three rifles and a shotgun.
“Doc” Quigg’s wire report on the 1966 Texas Tower shooting on the campus of UT-Austin.
H.D. Quigg United Press International Aug 1966 10min Permalink
What really happened between the plaintiffs in Lawrence vs. Texas, the case that ended anti-sodomy laws?
Dahlia Lithwick New Yorker Mar 2012 15min Permalink
The story of Southwest Airlines.
S. C. Gwynne Texas Monthly Mar 2012 25min Permalink
A profile of legendary Houston socialite Becca Cason Thrash.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Sep 2002 25min Permalink
The low-key swingers of sleepy Amarillo, Texas find themselves relentlessly harassed by a militant Christian group.
Forrest Wilder Texas Observer Feb 2010 10min Permalink
Thirty years after the murder in Abilene, the question remains unanswered.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Nov 2011 35min Permalink
In the days after 9/11, Mark Stroman went on a revenge killing spree in Texas. Rais Bhuiyan survived and, a decade later, tried to stop Stroman’s execution.
Michael J. Mooney D Magazine Oct 2011 25min Permalink
In Cleveland, TX, nineteen men and boys gang raped an eleven-year-old girl in an abandoned trailer. This is the story of the victim and her community.
Kathy Dobie GQ Sep 2011 25min Permalink
On the dying city of Port Arthur, Texas, and one man’s fight to save it.
Howie Kahn O Magazine Sep 2011 20min Permalink
The coldest of cases: During 1884-85, seven women and one man were brutally murdered in Austin, Texas.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jul 2000 20min Permalink
The intertwined destinies of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.
Andrew Rice New York Times Magazine Jul 2011 35min Permalink
Early last year, 10 churches were torched in East Texas. The culprits? Two Baptist teens having a crisis of faith.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly May 2011 30min Permalink
Why did a small-town girl have her family brutally murdered?
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Jun 2009 35min Permalink
On the mysterious life story of blues icon Blind Willie Johnson and a half-century of attempts to fill in the blanks.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Dec 2010 30min Permalink
Inside the competitive, lucrative, swashbuckling world of DWI attorneys in Houston.
Mike Giglio Houston Press Nov 2009 20min Permalink