March 1977

Table of Contents

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Features

The Great Border Bazaar

We walk the line for you—from Matamoros to Juárez—to bring you the best of Mexican shopping.

Oops!

Everybody makes mistakes, but mistakes in the medical profession leave scars on everybody.

Rich Man, Dead Man

Profile of a society murder and the woman who lived to tell about it.

The New Adultery

Those who haunt the singles bars aren’­t always what they seem—namely, single.

The Family Way

Some boarding house-style restaurants where they can dish it out if you can take it.

Columns

Behind the Lines

Politics

Liberal Education

For years, liberals have been the biggest critics of Austin city government. What happened when the got the power to do something about it?

Dining Out

Rio Grande Redux

Our man-about-restaurants finds some old friends on the border of disappointment; other old friends just keep getting better.

Film

The Coast of Living

We thought that after Earthquake, Los Angeles was gone for good. But no, here it is, back again and the same as ever.

Performance

Seeing Red

The only way Red Garland could make us mad would be to quite playing piano.

Books

He’s Got a Secret

The Mexican pyramids are an open book compared to Peter Tompkins’s rambling account of them.

Citywise

Art and Soul

Art for your sake and no one else’s.

Performance

Alley Up

Why are Houstonians starting to talk about the Alley Theater again?

Reporter

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

Miscellaneous

Roar of the Crowd

Touts

Fair, faucet, and F major.

Contest

Foreign aid.