January 1980
Features
At Houston’s Jefferson Davis Hospital, the wonders of modern medicine collide with the raw realities of birth, poverty, neglect and hope.
At Houston’s Jefferson Davis Hospital, the wonders of modern medicine collide with the raw realities of birth, poverty, neglect and hope.
Once Texas was a land of fabulous, ornate county courthouses. It still is, but today they’re flamboyant relics in our streamlined urban landscapes.
Once Texas was a land of fabulous, ornate county courthouses. It still is, but today they’re flamboyant relics in our streamlined urban landscapes.
Beefing and chewing the fat about a rare pleasure that’s almost done for.
Beefing and chewing the fat about a rare pleasure that’s almost done for.
Don’t despair, learn to Think Positive! Success and happiness are only a seminar, a cassette library, and several hundred dollars away!
Don’t despair, learn to Think Positive! Success and happiness are only a seminar, a cassette library, and several hundred dollars away!
Columns
John Updike’s problems are our pleasures. Mean Scrooge McDuck returns in a nostalgic comic-book collection.
John Updike’s problems are our pleasures. Mean Scrooge McDuck returns in a nostalgic comic-book collection.
Two questions about school desegregation: Is busing the only way? Are integrated schools inferior?
Two questions about school desegregation: Is busing the only way? Are integrated schools inferior?
A Dallas rabbi says Christmas is a form of persecution for Jews; a Disciples of Christ pastor discusses suffering with equanimity.
A Dallas rabbi says Christmas is a form of persecution for Jews; a Disciples of Christ pastor discusses suffering with equanimity.
Houston and Dallas opera companies could fudge on shoe sizes when it came to casting Cinderellas, but the voices had to fit just so.
Houston and Dallas opera companies could fudge on shoe sizes when it came to casting Cinderellas, but the voices had to fit just so.
Galveston has withstood tidal waves, hurricanes, gamblers, and tourists. Can it survive a superport?
A boy and his horse reach great heights in The Black Stallion. The Rose, with Bette Midler, is no American beauty.
A boy and his horse reach great heights in The Black Stallion. The Rose, with Bette Midler, is no American beauty.
The Panhandle is home for the country’s only H-bomb assembly plant. Aren’t you glad we told you?
The Panhandle is home for the country’s only H-bomb assembly plant. Aren’t you glad we told you?
New records from Texas’ die-hard country, rock, and punk musicians.
By reputation Dallas is a staid city. But there is one strip where Dallas is fevered, excessive, and lascivious, and where every night is party night.
By reputation Dallas is a staid city. But there is one strip where Dallas is fevered, excessive, and lascivious, and where every night is party night.
When Stage #1 opened as a halfway house for theater graduates from SMU, the participants weren’t pitied but applauded.
Reporter
George Bush wants to shake your hand; Rita Clements wants to paint your Governor’s Mansion; Dallas wants to bring you art, lots of art.
Miscellany
A helicopter plague descends on Dallas; is the Texas environmentalist an endangered species?; cattlemen won’t be cowed.