The Great Rockdale Football Mutiny

What happens when a high school football team tries to bench its coach?

by Gene Lyons

Dallas Is Better Than Houston

Big D is not called Big D for nothing.

by A. C. Greene

Houston is Better Than Dallas

It is boorish, cluttered, aggravating, rich, beautiful, explosive, titillating, cosmopolitan, endearing, and has a full head of steam.

by Harry Hurt III

San Antonio is Better Than Houston, Dallas, or Anyplace Else

Some disagree. They are wrong.

by Gregory Curtis

Open House / Design

Now for something completely different: a house that’s not rectangles or squares.

by Sandy Sheehy

The Streets of Laredo

The real Nuevo Laredo isn’t George Washington’s Birthday, Boystown, or throngs of tourists; it’s the street life.

by Geoff Winningham

Behind the Lines

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of this magazine.

by Michael R. Levy

Politics

Grasping At Strauss

For Bob Strauss, power is its own reward.

by Stephen Chapman

Sports

The Boys of Winter

At the state touch football tournament, winning wasn’t everything—or was it?

by Paul Burka

Dining Out

Fire and Rice

Now that you’ve mastered the art of using chopsticks, here’s something fantastic to put between them.

by W. L. Taitte

Dealing

Finders Keepers?

The feds are trying to get our gas again; this time they’ve gone all the way to the Supreme Court.

by Robert Barnstone

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

Trying to save: energy, red wolves, Lake Conroe, and Lo-Vaca; oil companies in trouble; poor Aggies and rich lawyers; the world’s most expensive scotch; rodeo, rodeo, wherefore art thou, rodeo?

Review

Texas Monthly Review

Vanity thy name is a theatrical success; Tom Taylor conjures the real Woody Guthrie; Dallas Civic Opera misses again, and then again; Mel Brooks has another winner; contemporary photographers send a cold message.

Roar of the Crowd

In defense of maids, COPS, and redfish.

Touts

by Patricia Sharpe

Contest

Are you from Blewett? Don’t enter this contest.

by Paul Burka