Dining Out is Fun

If mother doesn’t make food like she used to, there are still a few great cafes in Texas that will.

by Susan Ellis Kennard and Roadhouse Relics

The Man Who Dreamed up Luckenbach

Hondo Crouch went from being a champion athlete to being the sad clown of Texas’ fun-and-games capital.

by John Davidson

Texas Primer: The Blue Law

On Sunday it is legal to buy beer but not baby bottles, screws but not screwdrivers, disposable diapers but not cloth ones. No place but Texas.

by Michael Ennis

The Man in the Black Hat, Part Two

With the help of a friendly banker and some friendlier politicians, Clinton Manges conquered might Mobil Oil and saved his empire. But not for long—it’s in jeopardy again.

by Paul Burka

Take This Job and Love It

Sandi Barton works from 8:30 to 5 as a secretary in a downtown Dallas office. She knows a lot of women look down on her job, but it suits her just fine.

by David Seeley

Western Art: Cat Dog Man

An interpretation of a classic genre.

Behind the Lines

Plugging in and Plugging Along

by Gregory Curtis

Movies

Temple of Excess

Indiana Jones bashes us with unthinking cruelty: The Natural is a balk; Sixteen Candlesis lit up with tickling teenage talk.

by James Wolcott

Software

A Byte of Life

The Flight Simulator and Heroism in the Modern Age are realistic new computer games that offer a wonderful mix of fantasy and reality; Free Enterprise is too simplistic to be much fun.

by Scott Lubeck

Jazz

Getting Mellow

In the sixties the fee-jazz movement produced music that was defiantly experimental, and the same artists are still playing some of the most stimulating jazz around.

by Doug Ramsey

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

A meditation on the radioactive peril in Juarez.

by Suzanne Winckler

Roar of the Crowd

Austin’s ins and outs. Lamaze’s pros and cons, the sun’s ups and downs.

Touts

Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime.

by Patricia Sharpe

Puzzle

The acid syndrome.

State Secrets

Presenting the Big Bend Condos and Solitario Safari; Mexico finds out what it feels like to have an immigrant problem; Oscar Wyatt and Clinton Manges gird for battle; inside report from the special session.

Edited by Paul Burka