The path to haute culture in Texas is regularly trodden by opera buffs in four cities. Although no La Scalia or Bayreuth, the opera companies of Texas are offering some unique and innovative productions.
When inflation hits the international scene the gnomes of Zurich and the goldbugs start racing for the ingots. But how smart an investment is gold these days?
Turffaut does it again, Polanski leaves a lot to be desired, and Losey wins and loses at the same time.
The toys your children play with might make them one of the 19,000 dead or 40,000 crippled by playthings this year.
Future-Shocking ExhibitionHouston’s Contemporary Arts museum takes the prize again for the new and different in experimental art. Beginning sometime in mid-December (the opening date had not been selected at press time) the museum will present the combined efforts of the futuristic-oriented Ant Farm, NASA, and the Texas Medical Center, in
In Texas the bookies go where the action is and in Texas the action is with football.
Dallas and Fort Worth boosters may have pushed their cities into the 21st century when they opened the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport this September.
Our travel guide, in search of the perfect taco, wanders along the 1248 mile border between Texas and Mexico. He wines, dines, and occasionally sightsees.
When John Neely Bryan built his cabin he didn't know what would happen to Big D as it grew, or why it would happen. A. C. Greene searches through old photographs and records to give us the answer.
TEXAS ON THE POTOMACTHE TOSTADAS WERE (LET’S BE honest now) kind of stale, and the chile con queso was soggy, but, well what the hell, it sure was good to find some real Tex-Mex food.Purists could grumble if they wanted to and point out that the frijoles were little more
GOOD REPORTING SOMETIMES INVOLVES RISKS. Most people see the world outside their immediate vision through the eyes of the media, and much of the world contains people and situations that are unpleasant, distasteful, and downright dangerous. Wars fit in this category. So do murders. Becoming intimately involved in either can
Some recommendations on what to do, see and buy this month.
RETURN OF THE OLD PUCKERTHE ASTRODOME HAS REALLY OUTDONE itself. They had the help, though, of Hollywood press agentry and one of the bigger mouths in professional sports, so the Dome can’t take all the credit. Irregardless of culpability, it was an impressive show, that King-Riggs tennis match, and it
Our well meaning volunteer other meets up with some hard-nosed realists in the public schools.
SENIOR EDITOR GRIFFIN SMITH JR.‘s comprehensive study of the great law firms of Houston (page 53) ranks among the most important writing ever printed by this or any other Texas publication. It goes to the heart of a group of institutions whose influence upon our state is incalculable, and
Jaded film buff? Try spending next Saturday night at the movies. The Spanish language movies.
Those who enforce our narcotics laws often use the stuff themselves.
Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother wants to tell the world how she got out from under Jackie’s shadow.
Behind the mask is a man of God, a man devoted to the all-American goal of winning the all-American game as few have done before him.
A law firm of almost 200 attorneys becomes an institution with massive power and life of its own. Three such firms are in Texas, including two of the four largest in the U.S. We open them, for the first time, to the public.
Some recommendations on what to do, see and buy this month.
MAYBE BABYABOUT THREE YEARS AGO, DR. Joseph Goldzieher, a researcher at San Antonio’s Southwest Foundation for Research and Education, set out to determine if numerous side effects reported by women using oral contraceptives might be psychological in origin.He recruited 76 women to use as a control group, some of whom
Those Jesus Freaks are your children. But what's the colony like in Dallas?
From underwear to trenchcoats, everything you never knew about men's fashions answered.
Two women on a shopping trip in Dallas and San Antonio reveal the fashion secret rarely told--how to develop your own style.
An Aggie views the closing of the Chicken Ranch. George Washington didn’t sleep there, but many famous and unfamous Texans did.
October is the month to pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and head to the sea.
How to keep your options, stock that is, open during Phase IV.
Austin does it again, an exciting new pas de deux for balletomanes: ballet and beer.
ALL OF US ARE GOING to have to stop Arthur Temple if he decides to move the headquarters of Time, Inc., to Diboll. We don’t care if Diboll is a nicer place to work than Manhattan, Arthur, you should have thought of that before you went ahead with the deal.The
Some recommendations on what to do, see and buy this month.
There are ten, count 'em, ten, places to eat in the Galleria. Some are good, others. . .
CARRASCO REVISITED(IN AUGUST,TEXAS MONTHLY PUBLISHED an account of drug trafficking between Mexico and San Antonio. Much of that article concerned the activities of Fred Carrasco, at that time at large. Since then, he has been apprehended. Our correspondents sent us this account of his capture.)Around midnight July 22 a portly,
Institutions give the little guy the squeeze.
RARELY DOES A WRITER PARTICIPATE as a major actor in the events he reports, although from time to time writers of more ego than effectiveness posture as characters injected into the dramas they cover, much as coloring is injected into an apple to make it red. Last spring Griffin
Sam Corey runs a chain of massage parlors. He says they're all on the up and up.
Old Glory is a long way from Madison Avenue, and Bigun Bradley probably knew it.
In which Texas comes into the 20th century, barely.
A veteran hunter and guide tells how it's done.
Llano, Texas, is about to become the heart of our missile defense system.
There is a right way and a wrong way, whether eating grilled cheese or running for president.
The Real ThingWhile billows of smoke encircle the Holmes Road dump, the City of Houston atones somewhat for its ecological sins by its production of Hou-Actinite, a remarkable 100 per cent organic fertilizer which is recycled at the Northside Waste Water Control Facility from city waste water and raw sewage.
THE SPACEMAN’S LAST GASPCRAIG RASPBERRY IS NINE YEARS OLD and strikingly reminiscent of Mr. Peabody’s pet boy Sherman on the old Bullwinkle show, down to an air of scientific detachment which seems to be a trait he shares with his fellow citizens of Aurora, Texas, of whom there are not
MANY OF THE ARTICLES IN this issue are, in one way or another, about crime. It seems we have opened Pandora’s box. Returning from lunch one day we found that the offices next to ours had been burglarized. The next afternoon we got a call from Al Reinert, who
Big-time poker players don't worry about luck; they don't need it.
Crime is a craft and has its secrets.
Tired of running, he let himself be caught; then he busted right out again.
At least 90 are already dead as drug lords fight for routes into Texas.
High-speed chases, murder investigations, and window-peeping are all in a day’s work.
Fantasy finds it hard to compete with reality.
