July 1982
Table of Contents
Features
ImmigrantsFrom all over the world, people are coming to Houston to find a better life. For a few of them—immigrants from Poland, Nigeria, and El Salvador—this is what it’s like. Texas Primer: The Ghost TownThe lost hopes of places like Belle Plain haunt Texas’ prairies. The Texas EdisonA Dallas engineer you’ve probably never heard of has done more to change our daily lives than almost anyone else alive. How? He invented the silicon chip. |
The Store That Made Jonesville FamousAnd other great country stores of Texas. The Man Who Killed BraniffHarding Lawrence was obsessed with making Braniff great. Maybe too obsessed. What Texas Means To MeGod created Texas, and then He created people who would love it. |
Columns
Behind the LinesSongs of innocence. FoodAngst Amid The Kiwi FruitYoung caterers in Dallas are vying to hire the preppiest staff to serve the spiffiest food at the classiest parties. LifestyleThe Way To A Woman’s HeartJust say these three little words: “Shall we dance?” TheaterA Generous HelpingHouston’s Stages theater gave new writers a push and established writers a pat when it put on a Texans-only playwrights’ festival. |
MoviesLittle Alien LostNo one should pass up a close encounter with E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid doesn’t wear well. Conan the Barbarian is nothing but muscle: Annie is nothing but bustle. JazzThe Kid Is Blowing Them AwayIn the footsteps of Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and other trumpet greats comes twenty-year-old Wynton Marsalis. Judging by their latest albums, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and fellow veterans are doing all right too. ChurchMain Street ReligionThe power and charm of the Reverend Charles Allen go beyond his own church, First United Methodist of Houston. Simple, standard churches like First Presbyterian in Brownsville are the solid rock of American religion. |
Reporter
ReporterTexas Monthly ReporterA job crunch hits Odessa; an all-business mayor shakes up El Paso; the Rangers fold (again); a Houston homeowner wars with his neighborhood association; grads commemorate an all-black high school. |
Miscellany
Roar of the CrowdLies and whispers. |
State SecretsSlums for sale, hardball at the Herald; bye-bye, Nueces Bay; hello, mudslinging. |
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