Night Moves

For legislators in Austin, home is where the bar is.

by Kaye Northcott

I Hate You!

Although Texans make good friends, they make even better enemies.

by Richard West

Clowning Around

Our photographer runs away to the circus.

by Joe Baraban

Ben Barnes is Still Running

The former boy wonder of Texas politics has found a new career. Still, old habits die hard.

by Richard West

Hell on Wheels

Soldiers at Fort Hood agree on one thing: You don’t have to be crazy to be in the Tank Corps-but it helps.

by Michael Haggerty

Chinks in the Armor

If the Soviet Union and the United States fought a nuclear war, no one would win. But who would win a conventional war?

by Jan M. Lodal

Behind the Lines

A tale of two cities.

by William Broyles

Sports

Strike! They’re Out

Who’s calling the balls while the major league umpires are out on strike?

by Jay Stuller

Health

A Stitch in Time

A husband and wife decide sterilization is the best answer for birth control; the question is-who does it?

by Emily Austen

Film

U.$.A. Film Fe$tival

Filmmakers hoped to be money-makers by the end of the ninth annual U.S.A. Film Festival in Dallas.

by George Morris

Art

The Camera Knows

Photographer Harry Callahan gets the picture. Painter Robert Levers gets his message across loud and clear.

by Michael Ennis

Books

A New Old West

Two novels with novel views of frontier days. And, Howard Hughes revisited by two reporters who leave no stone of his rocky history unturned.

by Stephen Harrigan and Harry Hurt III

Dining In

Soup On Ice

Summer and gazpatcho—you shouldn’t have one without the other.

Martha Shulman

Theater

They Must Pay the Rent!

Melodrama Theatres in Austin and San Antonio keep the popcorn flying. Coward and Shaw play Dallas and Houston.

by Nancy Kaufman and W. L. Taitte

Classical Music

Boys Will be Sopranos

And, if they’re the Texas Boys Choir, pretty good ones at that. San Antonio opera gets an overhaul.

by W. L. Taitte

Church

Count Your Blessings

Will the Episcopalians inherit the Methodists and Baptists? Will the Pentecostals inherit some tact?

by William Martin

Dance

Missing the Pointe

At the Southwestern Regional Ballet Festival in pre-tornado Wichita Falls, the politics were hotter than the dancing.

Suzanne Shelton

Cityview

An Ill Wind

April is the cruelest month, and tornado-struck Wichita Falls knows why.

by Jan Reid

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

Who is the mayor of Cowtown? Who is that man in the ski mask? Who wants Caddo Lake’s water?

by John Bloom

Roar of the Crowd

Big-time operators and one-horse operas.

The Inside Story

The Inside Story Nuns and guns.

by Gregory Curtis

State Secrets

Will Arthur Temple take over Time Inc.? A Bergstrom AFB dentist gets the drill.

Edited by Paul Burka

Touts

Baubles, bouillon, and Bach.

Patricia Sharpe

Puzzle

What every secretary knows.

Gazpacho Andaluz

by Martha Shulman

Gazpacho Ajo Blanco

by Martha Shulman

My Gazpacho

by Martha Shulman

White Wine Gazpacho

by Martha Shulman