July 1986 Issue

Texas Primer: The Native Texan

You don’t have to be born here to qualify. The mark of a true native is an undying passion to be one.

Eat at Junior’s

Proprietors of some of Texas’ priciest restaurants are spinning off more-economical eateries that are giving the originals a run for the money.

Primary Lesson

Subtract Democratic voters, add new Republicans, and it equals realignment.

No-Man’s-Land

To Texans, it’s the border. To Mexicans, it’s la frontera. It’s a hot, dazzling world where cultures clash and you’re never sure just where you stand.

Mining the Moon, Selling the Stars

Their business may read like a sci-fi script, but these aging astronauts, former Nasa engineers, technocrats, and high-risk junkies are serious about selling space.

Marilyn Snell’s Got the Best Job in Texas

It’s eight to five. It’s in Brenham. And all she has to worry about is getting an ice cream headache.

Western Art

This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. From 1983 to 1986, Texas Monthly’s regular feature, “Western Art,” highlighted artists’ takes on the classic

Little Masterpieces on the Lawn

“Art Among Us/Arte Entre Nosotros” reveals the delightful madness of San Antonio’s barrio art.

My Fair Editor

George Bernard Shaw wrote a quarter of a million pieces of correspondence and never mailed one to San Antonio. So where does his editor choose to live?

Behind the Lines

The unbudgeted carpet.

High and Dry

Top Gun is just a high-tech skeet shoot; Alan Alda shows a wet blanket over the fun in Sweet Liberty; Desert Bloom has a bittersweet significance; The Manhattan Project needs an attitude adjustment.

Showdown in Chihuahua

Pancho Barrio, an ex-accountant, a charismatic Catholic, and the mayor of Juarez, hopes to topple the ruling party in a July governor’s race.

The Denton Dilemma

North Texas bands face a tough choice: living to make music or making music for a living.

Texas Monthly Reporter

Wild mustangs roam home; attorney race to Houston’s bankruptcy court; UT students get rich.

On the Menu: EatZi’s

FOOD HAS PLAYED prominent role in some of history’s most momentous upheavals — mention tea and the American Revolution comes to mind. Or cake: Marie Antoinette’s snide directive, “Let them eat cake,” symbolizes the issue around which the French Revolution swirled. It may not be going too far to say

EatZi’s Summer Picnic Menu

Roasted rosemary chicken and jicama slaw.

Downtown

The cure for San Antonio’s inner-city malaise may be worse than the disease.

Post-Modern Times

A Texas lab that look s like the set for a Buck Rogers movie is actually the frontier of the Star Wars weapons research effort.

Puzzle

Roar of the Crowd

We find a successful guy in Dallas who doesn’t dress like Ross Perot!

State Secrets

Fighting and feuding in the Mexican Lions Club; HL&P loses a lawsuit, and everybody will pay for it; the new math of politics; where’s the beef? on a diet.

Touts

Perk up your bath hour with these liquid refreshments.