The Legacy of Citizen Robert

As an heir to the Dallas Morning News, Robert Decherd has vindicated his father’s name, waged and won a newspaper war, and emerged as the new leader of the Dealey dynasty.

by Peter Elkind

My Son the Biker

Is it any surprise that a toddler who goes to sleep clutching a screwdriver instead of a teddy bear grows into a fourteen-year-old with a passion for motorcycles?

by Prudence Mackintosh

105

A photographic study gn beating the heat.

by M. K. Simqu

Texas Primer: “Tex”

It’s the best nickname you could have, even if you’ve never been to Texas.

by Gary Cleve Wilson

The Ten Best and (Groan) The Ten Worst Legislators

We just rate them. You voted for them.

by Paul Burka and Alison Cook

Music to My Ears

The small-town orchestra has it all: performers who love the music passionately, audiences who lend their wholehearted support, and even occasional moments when all the instruments are playing the right note.

by Skip Hollandsworth

Western Art: Barbed Rose

by Ellen Schuster

Lifestyle

Give Me Back My Paper and Pencil

Trying to get a sick word processor fixed is enough to make us think twice about the technological revolution.

by Speer Morgan

Behind the Lines

The dreamiest of the practical decisions.

by Gary Cartwright

Cooking

Make It Fresh, Make It Simple, and Make It Good

That may sound easy, but the combined constraints of the marketplace and the refrigerator’s contents make it a neat trick to put a satisfying meal on the table.

by Nicholas Lemann

Art

The Golden Age of Apples and Oranges

The Kimbell’s exhibit of seventeenth-century Spanish still lifes is dazzling enough to cause a modern photo-realist to look again.

by Michael Ennis

Movies

Boffo Brits

The Shooting Party hits the bull’s-eye; Rambo: First Blood Part II makes Viet Nam the Club Med of mass death; A View to a Kill should have considered suicide.

by James Wolcott

Fatherhood

No Babies Here

When the time comes for the last child in the family to relinquish her tattered baby blanket, she’s not the only one who’s a little shaky about it.

by Lawrence Wright

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

Dr Pepper finds itself; a Bandera hotel acts larger than life; COPS has an identity crisis.

by Peter Elkind

Back Roads

Cloud seeding in the Hill Country.

by Peter Applebone

Downtown

Street barricading in Dallas.

by Jim Atkinson

Post-Modern Times

Sitcom City on Channel 27

by Michael Ennis

Touts

The stars (and stripes) at night are big and bright.

Patricia Sharpe

Roar of the Crowd

Having fun with Shaggy; just being neighborly; debating the problems of the prisons.

Puzzle

Points of view

State Secrets

Singing the blues at the Fort Worth Opera; reversing the Texas Supreme Court; computing the damage at TI; cooking with gas at FERC.

Edited by Paul Burka