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January 1989
features
1989 Bum Steer Awards!
Smile, Houston
God Help Her
Dad’s Last Home
Superpolitics
Superbonanza!
If These Walls Could Talk
Texas Primer: King Ranch Casserole »
columns
Onward Through the Fog [Lifestyle]
Behind the Lines »
Bringing It All Back Home [Business]
Two-Point Conversion [Sports]
Making Waves [Travel]
Playing It Safe [Classical Music]
miscellany
Roar of the Crowd
State Secrets
reporter
Big Man, Small Town [Reporter] | February 1989
features
The Lost Tribe »
The Wooing of Chairman Wang
Art for Heart’s Sake
“I’m A Nazi Until Death”
A Dirty, Rotten Mess
Chip Ahoy »
columns
Jailhouse Hock [Politics]
Behind the Lines
Spot Market [Environment]
Blithe Spirit [Popular Music]
miscellany
Roar of the Crowd
No TASP, No Play [State Secrets]
reporter
This is Now [Reporter] | March 1989
features
Back In the Saddle Again »
The Second Coming
The Bush League
Forgery, Texas Style
A Brush With Life
Buddy Maedgen Is Bugged!
Search and Destroy
Songs of Innocence
columns
Remembering the Sabbath [Texana]
The Bridge That Went Away. [Behind the Lines]
The Boys of Spring [Sports]
Days in the Country, Nights on the Town [Books]
miscellany
Roar of the Crowd
State Secrets
reporter
Captain Homeless [Reporter] |
April 1989
features
A Boy and His Airline »
Abortion Street »
Eat Sweet
Poisoned By Their Own Home
Side By Side »
Don’t Call Him Junior
Beyond the Blues »
columns
A Developing Art [Art]
Paint and pluck. [Behind the Lines]
Living With the Bomb [Lifestyle]
miscellany
Facing Forward, Facing Back [Roar of the Crowd]
Animal House [State Secrets]
reporter
Red Sails in the Sunbelt [Reporter] | May 1989
features
My Favorite Place »
Poisoned With Love »
The World’s Greatest Poker Player
So Near Yet So Far
Talking Heads
Texas Primer: The Runaway Scrape »
columns
Doing the Legislature a favor. [Behind the Lines]
Masa Marketing [Business]
Move Over, Mom [Lifestyle]
A Terminal Case [Health]
miscellany
Genuine Fakes [Roar of the Crowd]
It Doesn’t Compute [State Secrets]
reporter
Blast from the Past [Reporter] | June 1989
features
The Work of The Devil »
Rock Bottom
It Can Happen Here
The Perfect Hill Country Weekend
Bathing Beauty
The Long, Strange Trip of Ed Bass
Kid with a Gun
columns
Soviet Idealism [Art]
Behind the Lines
Moving On [Books]
miscellany
Fun Fare [Roar of the Crowd]
Sonny Disposition [State Secrets]
reporter
Texas’ Nuclear Neighbor [Reporter] |
July 1989
features
The Semi-Reluctant Rock Star
How Not to Rob a Bank
The Mommy War
On the Defensive
The Temple of Destiny
The Best and the Worst Legislators »
columns
Bach to Basie [Media]
Texans Versus Shapes » [Behind the Lines]
Greed is Good [Business]
Territorial Imperative [Books]
miscellany
Roar of the Crowd
State Secrets
reporter
First Author [Reporter] | August 1989
features
The Big Picture
Parish the Thought!
The Sundown Kids
The Texas 100
The Texas 100: Introduction
The Texas 100: Minor Details
The Texas 100: Close, But No Cigar
The Texas 100: Index
columns
Behind the Lines
miscellany
The Dark Side [Roar of the Crowd]
The Battle Begins [State Secrets]
reporter
So Long, Starck; Bye-Bye, Blue Bird [Reporter] | September 1989
features
“I Loved the Dapper Bandit”
How George Foreman Finally Beat Muhammad Ali
The Wolf Experiment
The All-New, Improved America’s Team
The Man Hollywood Trusts
Little Shop of Hoarders
columns
Mayan Over Matter [Food]
Behind the Lines
New World to Conquer [Art]
The Way of the Buffalo [Books]
miscellany
The Best and The Worst of It [Roar of the Crowd]
Fire Alarm [State Secrets]
reporter
Whose Texas Rangers are They Anyhow? [Reporter] |
October 1989
features
The Soul of East Texas »
Vigil at Treaty Oak
How Do You Say "Perestroika" In Spanish?
Old Salts and Ancient Mariners
The Day Leroy Died »
Texas Primer: The Herkie Jump »
columns
Home Is Where the Art Is [Art]
Behind the Lines
That Brainpower Guy [Education]
Whistling in the Dark [Books]
miscellany
The Haves and the Have-Nots [Roar of the Crowd]
We Wuz Robbed [State Secrets]
reporter
Animal Fights [Reporter] | November 1989
features
The Mythic Rise of Billy Don Moyers »
Can’t Win for Losing
Billie Sol Estes Has a Deal for You
Creature Comforts
So You’re Stuck at the Airport
Cowboy Songs
Hotter’n Hell
columns
John the Catalyst [Politics]
Taking back the neighborhood. [Behind the Lines]
Body Count [Education]
Sound Investments [Classical Music]
TV Guides [Business]
miscellany
A Matter of Taste. [Roar of the Crowd]
Coming to America [State Secrets]
reporter
Filling a Niche [Reporter]
Baby Boomers Unite [Reporter]
Two-Tone Hip-Hop [Reporter] | December 1989
features
Wild Forever
The All-American Crooks
Get Along, Little Doggies »
A Fool and His Money
Liz and Me
Teardown
columns
Images at War [Art]
Texas and the new decade. [Behind the Lines]
Black to Basics [Popular Music]
Continental Drift [Books]
miscellany
Voices of East Texas [Roar of the Crowd]
Courting Disaster [State Secrets]
reporter
Irreconcilable Differences [Reporter] |
