Karen Olsson
Dateline Texas
General Hollowell's Last Stand
GILMER– Rex Shaw, the county clerk for Upshur County, does not harbor any great enthusiasm for vote tabulation, but when the losing candidate in the local state representative’s race asked for a manual recount, it fell to Shaw to take … Read More
Refinery Daze, Part Two
Something there is that doesn’t love a teenage girl, said Mary Karr in an interview last month. I confess I am full of that something, and have been ever since I was a teenage girl—when I disliked other teenage girls … Read More
Three Theories of Monica
Columbia University Press The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America The Human Stain Lately I’ve been thinking about Monica Lewinsky, off and on. This even though, back when she was all over the news, I tried hard not … Read More
Topless in Odessa
Will the Ector County Attorney impose Midland's morals on Odessa's topless dancers?
As the owner of Acapulco Fantasies, a small totally-nude strip club just outside of Odessa, Irma Sagrario Zizzo used to show all her girls how she wanted them to do table dances. Zizzo, who would herself strip on nights when … Read More
Last of the Texas Heroes
THE MAN WHO TRIED TO SAVE THE WORLD:The Dangerous Life and Mysterious In March of 1995, after several weeks of traveling in Russia, a fifty-year-old man named Fred Cuny returned to his small home in the Dallas suburbs. There he … Read More
A Shrub Grows in Midland
They keep getting shorter. Prescott Bush, the investment banker and senator from Connecticut, was 6’4″ and aristocratic looking. His son, President George H.W. Bush, grew to a handsome 6’2″. The man they once called Junior, who currently serves as governor … Read More
What Birds? What Bees?
The Governor's Other Campaign for Voluntary Emissions Reduction
Two incarnations of George W. Bush made appearances during the last week of March. First, Houston Press reporter Tim Fleck revisited the Yalie’s mysterious brief engagement to a Rice student back in 1967, and invoked the received, if somewhat blurry, … Read More