On the Waterfront

by Gary Cartwright

You Can See By My Outfit That I am a Cowboy

If you get an outfit you can be a cowboy too.

by Ann Fears Crawford

Brave New Vacancies

Give us your tired and freezing Yankees, tour studious Arabs, tour ambitious young hustlers just blown into town, and we will rent them one bedroom and a bath for $215.

by Harry Hurt III

The Last Sister

Modern nuns have left the convent and entered the world. If they don’t like what they find, can they go home again?

by Michael Haggerty

Lifestyle

Just Baby and Me

A mother’s job offers no vacations, no holidays, and lousy pay, but it’s a noble profession.

by Judy Benson

Behind the Lines

The uselessness of college.

by William Broyles

Country Notes

Building Fever

It’s a chicken coop. I built it myself.

by John Graves

Dealing

Asset Hound

When rusty Rose talks, people with money listen.

by Robert Barnstone

Dining In

Tots and Pans

So your kids struck out in baseball, tripped up in tap, and camp won’t take them back this summer? Try teaching them to cook.

by Linda West Eckhardt

Theater

A Little Spring Madness

Maybe There’s no cure for insanity, but two new plays offer some provocative treatments.

by W. L. Taitte

Classical Music

The Seven-Year Hitch

Conducting the Houston Symphony, Lawrence Foster inspired respect. He didn’t know he needed love too.

by W. L. Taitte

Popular Music

Fiddler on the Loose

Back in the forties Gatemouth Brown took Texas blues uptown,. Now he’s taking C&W to New Orleans.

by Joe Nick Patoski

Dance

Hullabaloo In Ragtime

Mix together Scott Joplin, modern history, and the Prodigal Son and what do you get? A mess of pottage.

by Suzanne Shelton

Art

Rhythm ‘N’ Hues

Riding a color merry-go-round with America’s first modern painters.

by Michael Ennis

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

Psychiatrists send men to death row; Texas’ loop coasters give up-side-down joyride; Diablos play baseball with Kleenex and kazoos.

by John Bloom

The Inside Story

Horsefeathers and other plumage.

by Gregory Curtis

Roar of the Crowd

The rich and the powerless.

Touts

Frock and roll.

by Patricia Sharpe

Contest

Sound waves.

by Paul Burka