August 1986
Features
It’s big, it’s fast, it’s powerful, it eats gas, it’s the Suburban.
Tapped by destiny, one man in Austin is forging an unlikely alliance between Texas oilmen and the friends of Israel.
Let’s hear it for Dallas’ Northwood Institute, where entrepreneurialism is second only to high society fundraising.
Its passionately loyal following may make this drink the last Texan soda pop on the planet.
In a ninety-minute reign of terror, gunshots rang out that still echo in the history of Texas.
Columns
At the heart of this ancient culture were cruelty, self-mutilation, and ghostly visions.
The characters in Prize Stories and South by Southwest often dwell on the past while living out their lives in an anxious present.
Legal Eagles is guilty of being humdrum and hokey; Mona Lisa has some fine, gracing touches; Vagabond finds purity within the dirtiest packaging.
Dallas’ new late-night club scene is daring and diverse, a showcase for pioneering bands.
Cradled on the Brazos, this central Texas town yields its pleasures ever so grudgingly.
Reporter
Life after TECAT in North Forest; Joe Rinelli gives his beauties a shot at the crow; Kerrville residents have a winter’s worth of tall tales.
Miscellany
UT is testing this device that works like a BB gun, only it’s a little more powerful—it’ll be able to shatter a Soviet warhead speeding through space.
A cap for San Antonio that wouldn’t look good on Henry Cisneros; long-term pessimism hits the oil market; Texas cities finagle their way around the tax reform.
Desperately seeking the Cadillac Couch; reading Carolyn Farb’s mail; cowboy cologne strikes again.
Elliott’s is the Louvre of hardware stores—it’s got flyshooters, fan blades, and three aisles of screws. In other words, it’s heaven.

