The New Energy Crisis: Opec Versus Opec

Now it’s their turn to cry.

by Harry Hurt III

Texas Primer: The Tract House

It symbolizes either the American dream or the American nightmare—one or the other of which is enveloping Texas.

by Nicholas Lemann

Growing Up Gringo

In Dumas—and all over the state—Mexican Americans are leaving old ways behind and taking to Protestantism, capitalism, and disco.

by Dick J. Reavis

The King of the Forest

He’s Arthur Temple, Jr., ruler of a million acres of East Texas and the last of the timber barons.

by Paul Burka

Underneath Texas

The real lowdown on the Lone Star State.

by Anne Dingus

It Doesn’t Matter That The Riviera Is In France, Because Possum Kingdom Is In Texas.

Pack up the kids, hitch up the boat, and don’t forget the suntan oil. Texas lakes are the place to be this summer.

by Nicolas Russell

Art

The Elegiac Image

Photographer George Krause draws the viewer into a twilight world where jocks, saints, and nudes seem almost mystical.

by Michael Ennis

Behind the Lines

The good book.

by Gregory Curtis

Movies

Kirk And Spock And Scotty And Bones

Everybody’s favorite starshippers battle a bad guy and the bulge in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Author! Author! is nothing to write home about. The Thing is barely human. And there’s The World According to Garp, Firefox, and Blade Runner.

by James Wolcott

Architecture

The Comeback Of The Column

They haven’t designed any Parthenons or Colosseums yet, but architects like Robert Venturi and Michael Graves are bringing a touch of ancient Greece and Rome to Texas.

by Lisa Germany

Classical Music

Ol’ Man Musical

Houston Grand Opera dedicated a lot of its budget and all of its heart to producing not an opera but an American musical—Show Boat.

by W. L. Taitte

Church

The Tongue-Lashing

A host of Pentecostals gathered in Dallas to hug, kiss, sing, babble, and get the chewing-out of their lives.

by William Martin

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

Austin’s Bourbon Street; San Antonio’s food fight; the governor’s mystery museum; Green Lizards in Concan; truffles in paradise.

by Peter Applebome

Roar of the Crowd

State Secrets

Heads-up journalism; expensive mileage; the balkanization of the Sunbelt; wars in the oil patch.

Edited by Paul Burka