Support Your Local Police

If you ever go to Houston, you’d better walk right. You’d better not gamble, and you’d better not fight.

by Tom Curtis

I Was a Spy in the Second Grade

I escaped once, but they sent me back.

by Stephen Harrigan

Minnesota Fats, Where Are You?

There’s more at stake than money when two hustlers cue up.

by Gregory Curtis

The House That Art Built/ Design

What do you do when you have more paintings than walls to hang them on?

by Cyndy Severson

If They Don’t Win It’s A Shame

In the bush leagues, rooting for the home team can be a humbling experience.

by Gene Lyons

The House Is Not A Home

A freshman in the Texas Legislature finds everything from the sublime to the ridiculous—well, maybe not the sublime.

by Chase Untermeyer

Behind the Lines

Houston has the healthiest urban economy in the nation, but money can’t buy happiness.

by William Broyles

Lifestyle

Masculine/ Feminine

Renewing the old adage of child rearing—you can’t fool mother nature.

by Prudence Mackintosh

Country Notes

Meat

The raw truth about out steaks and chops.

by John Graves

Energy

The Heretic

It’s been Us and Them in the deregulation fight, but one of us has become them.

by Paul Burka

Dining In

To Herb Is Human

Bored? Lonely? Put some herbs in your life.

by Frank Bailey

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

Willie movin’ on; Erhard moving in; Hofheinz cleared; Gloria hacked; brown pelicans perking up; Chileans kicking off.

Review

Texas Monthly Review

Good news/ bad news about Shakespeare; Doug Sahm controls his destiny; San Antonio gets jazzed up while Dallas goes crazy for pops; Texas poets in and out of their elements.

Contest

Commentations.

by Paul Burka

Roar of the Crowd

Best/ Worst legislators: everybody loves somebody sometime.

Touts

A far far eastern trip; a place in the country; one hundred ivory-ticklers.