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Articles in August, 2003 issue of Texas Monthly

• Making waves: Kenny Braun's surfing photographs pay homage to the sport's resurgence in Texas--and to his favorite place on earth.
  by Katy Vine
• Restaurant guide: a selective guide to food and drink
  by Patricia Sharpe
• About a girl: she can barely see, she doesn't like to be hugged, and she's already forgotten most of what happened last winter. Which is why, just maybe, Audra Thomas has such a strong sense of the world around her--and of herself.
  by Karen Olsson
• No justice. (Roar of the Crowd)
• Clifford Antone: the Austin music impresario on life in prison, his reading list, and the rising stars of Texas blues. (A Few Words With ...)
  by Evan Smith
• Allen Tyler had a good job looking after corpses that had been donated to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He stored them, chopped them up, packed and shipped the parts. Then he got a wonderful idea: he would start his own enterprise o
  by Katy Vine
• Around the state: a selective guide to amusements and events
  by Patricia Busa McConnico
• Scout's honor: their mothers are in prison (or have been), but my favorite girls in uniform won't end up there themselves. (The Last Roundup).
  by Kinky Friedman
• Ten years ago, before he came to Texas and established himself as a world-class marathoner, Gilbert Tuhabonye cheated death at the hands of tribal warriors by running for his life. Now he wants you to run for yours
  by Michael Hall
• Rice and shine: my alma mater has its first national title and the NCAA's best graduation rate. If president Malcolm Gillis could reform college athletics, we'd be unbeatable. (Behind the Lines)
  by Paul Burka
• Killing time: two young novelists offer compelling portraits of serial murderers--one skin-crawlingly odd, the other surprisingly sympathetic. (on Books)
  by Mike Shea
• Tex-Mex 101: nachos, tomatillo sauce, chile con queso--will the real Mexican food please stand up? A crash course in Texans' favorite fusion fare. (on Food).
  by Patricia Sharpe
• For the good times. (Straight Talk)
  by Katy Vine
• Back to the future. (Nostalgia).
  by Patricia Busa McConnico
• Rain of error: dry enough for you? It was for General R.G. Dyrenforth, whose bizarre attempts more than a century ago to solve Texas' little drought problem precipitated only ridicule. (Texas Monthly reporter: the state of our state).
  by S.C. Gwynne
• No bull. (Word of Mouth)
  by Stacy Hollister
• Bad air days: in 1981 we ran a story about pollution and disease in Southeast Texas. I went back to see if anything had changed. It had--but not for the better. (on Health).
  by Jim Atkinson
• Get outta here! You know you want to. After all, it's summer in Texas, when the cool thing to do is to go someplace else for a couple of days. Here are five of our favorite getaways, including a Vegas golf-a-thon, a New Mexico spa weekend for people who h
  by Suzy Banks
• Shut out: the Texas Rangers have never made it to the World Series. Neither have the Houston Astros. Two baseball veterans talk about what went wrong--and how our favorite teams can fix it. (Conference Call)
  by Paul Burka