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February 1992

Table of Contents

Features

A report from the front lines in the battle of the sexes—inside the Aggie corps.

The great polka boycott, Willie’s Sunday school status, the cold trugh abour Vanilla Ice, and other notable moments in Texas Music.

An Alabama Klansman posing as a folksy Texas novelist almost pulled off the literary hoax of the century.

To hear some women tell it, nature created two genders, one nearly perfect and the other badly flawed. I wonder whether they’re right.

Steve Benifiel was an old-fashioned outlaw who practically owned the town of Ranger—until he was busted for running on of West Texas’ biggest drug rings.

The Dallas Times Herald, 1879-1991, R.I.P.

Columns

Behind the Lines

Art

Bert Long comes to Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum by way of the Fifth Ward, the Marines, haute cuisine—and the Prix de Rome.

Sports

The Texas Rangers have been thinking: Can they afford to keep Rubén Sierra, their best player ever?

Food

The latest news in Houston’s booming Italian restaurant scene is the savory cuisine of Tuscany.

Reporter

Reporter

Ken Barnes wants to keep his dinosaur fossils near home.

Reporter

Quick: Name the Laredo brothers who were world bantamweight champs at the same time.

Reporter

Space Center Houston will wow crowds with Disney gimmicks.

Reporter

Whether on the field or on the tube, Steve McMichael’s roughhousing grabs fans.

Reporter

An Austin artist makes a stringed instrument of monumental scale.

Reporter

A state breeding program aims to fatten up the trim, pugnacious bass.

Miscellany

State Secrets

State of the Art

Roar of the Crowd

Recipes

The Hill Top Cafe

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