Bad News

Local TV news has as much to do with show biz as journalism. Unfortunately, most viewers take it seriously.

by Gary Cartwright

At the Scene

The best local news programs in Texas make big bucks for their stations, but so do the worst ones. Here’s how they stack up.

by Gary Cartwright

The Training Ground

To wind up on top in the news business, it pays to start at the bottom.

by Dan Rather

Love and Death in Silicon Prairie, Part II: The Killing of Betty Gore

Candy Montgomery thought her affair with Allan Gore was over, until she found herself fighting for her life against Allan’s wife.

by Jim Atkinson and John Bloom

Lasting Love

In honor of Valentine’s Day, a gallery of folks who found the real thing.

Texas Primer: The Texas Timex

Ever since LBJ’s gold Rolex appeared next to his gall bladder scar in news photographs, Texans have been buying the pricey timepieces by the carload.

by Mark Seal

Come On, Walter—Smile!

Austin’s Roy Spence parlayed his success in Mark White’s campaign into a job selling Walter Mondale to the American people.

by Paul Burka

Western Art: Service Road

by Thomas Woodruff

Art

Venetian Finds

Five Texas artists are among those selected for “Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained”, this year’s American entry into the Venice Biennale.

by Michael Ennis

Behind the Lines

The Alamo? I can’t remember what that was.

by Gregory Curtis

Sports

The America’s Team Caper

Someone had done in the Cowboys and I had to find the killer, but there were too many suspects.

by Peter Applebome

Movies

Silkwood’s Blight

Dread is the main character in Silkwood; To Be or Not to Be can’t make up its mind; The Dresser is a fussy failure; The Man Who Loved Women doesn’t.

by James Wolcott

Architecture

A Museum That Works

Edward Larrabee Barnes’ quietly elegant new Dallas Museum of Art is a delight for museumgoers and curators alike.

by Eleni Constantine

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

Great expectations for oilmen; sartorial bargains for Brownsville; a medical controversy for Alpine; vexing questions for hunters; the ultimate who’s who for chickens.

by Harry Hurt III

Roar of the Crowd

Galveston as it is, dammit; and the Post as it will be, maybe.

Touts

Breaking up is hard to do.

by Patricia Sharpe

Puzzle

You are what you eat.

State Secrets

Mark White’s campaign promises come back to haunt him; Arthur Temple gets rich(er) off Time Inc.; who got burned when the torch was passed at First City; a Pyhrric victory for the oil industry.

Edited by Paul Burka