Shrimpers

Someone endured weeks of hard work, loneliness, and seasickness to land that lovely pink delicacy on your plate.

by E.L. Gonzales

Grin and Bear It

Camping gets you back to the basics: blisters, chiggers, and, yes, deep satisfaction.

by Stephen Harrigan

Pack Up Your Troubles

Today’s high-tech camping gear has stolen a march on your old kit bag.

by Cyndy Severson

Tenting Tonight

How you can-and why you should-go camping in the middle of the week.

by Suzanne Winckler

Welcome, Mr. Kennedy, To Dallas

Dallas was in an ugly mood in November 1973, and non one had done more to create that mood than H.L. Hunt.

by Harry Hurt III

God’s Angry Man

Evangelist James Robison is using the pulpit, prime time television, and Cullen Davis to try to save the world.

by William Martin

Passing On

In her darkest, final hours, a young mother turns to a new kind of medical care for help.

by Dick J. Reavis

Behind the Lines

Strange bedfellows.

by Gregory Curtis

Politics

Rule, Hispania

In a city known for its tough ethnic politics, Henry Cisneros is out to prove that a Mexican Emerican can be elected mayor of San Antonio.

by Paul Burka

Crime

Up In Arms

Is your family safer with a gun in the house?

by Jim Atkinson

Lifestyle

I’m Listening As Hard As I Can

When a youn woman found out she was slowly going deaf, she had to struggle not only with the handicap but also with her refusal to admit the loss.

by Terry Gallowy

Dining Out

Miracle on Main Street

Le Select gives Houston fine French cooking in simple surrounds and at unbeatable prices; Hedary’s, a Lebanese outpost in Fort Worth, offers adventurous Cowtowners some exotic alternatives to beef.

by W. L. Taitte

Film

Magnificent Deception

In Eyewitness things are never what the seem; Roman Polanskifailed to take a novel approach to Tess; a heroine of Cattle Annie and Little Britches keeps the movie from fading into the sunset; the producers of The Dogs of War should have let sleeping dogs lie; American Pop is kitsch as kitsch can.

by C.W. Smith

Art

Little Big Museum

While other U.S. museums sought Rembrandts and Cészannes, Fort Worth’s maverick Amon Carter Museum collected an astound assortment of paintings and photographs of the American West.

by Michael Ennis

Classical Music

The Unfinished Symphony

Sergiu Comissiona, the Hoston Symphony’s part- time artistic adviser, drops in just often enough to initieate some laudable programs.

by W. L. Taitte

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

Meet Texas’ staunches liberal crusader, biggest trade show, slickest drug peddlers, and canniest mall builders.

Roar of the Crowd

Zookeeper, take care; burglar, beware; physician, declare.

Touts

Bed and breakfast.

Patricia Sharpe

Puzzle

Lockup.

State Secrets

Cutting up in the Big Thicket Association; uranium mines get the shaft; the Light at the end of the tunnel; how to make Yankees pay for our oil.

Edited by Paul Burka