June 1986
Features
The residents of San Antonio’s King William Historic District saved their neighborhood from bums, bulldozers, and bogus bay windows. Now, if they can only save it from themselves.
A look at Houston’s Meyerland, Dallas’ Munger Place, El Paso’s Sunset Heights, and Austin’s Hyde Park shows that few fights get the blood boiling like a good fight with a neighbor.
All there is to know about Texas baseball, including the best ballpark, the best team ever, why Yogi Berra thinks Houston is like New Jersey, and much, much more.
In the early journals of pioneers who described the prairie surrounding their new homesteads, the ocean was the most common metaphor—swells of grass set rippling by the wind.
Baby Calves, children, even the agriculture commissioner: no one is safe from this tiny deamon.
Columns
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor is more than just journalistic ghostwriting; I the Supreme is robbed of its punch; Bird of Life, Bird of Death peeks behind Central America’s dictators and dominoes.
Our gadabout gourmet travels three thousand miles to answer the question. Where should you eat on your next Texas highway trip?
New releases of Duke Ellington’s work give us exquisite music from small bands, a dance band having fun, and stereo recording twenty years before its time.
Violets Are Blue is swimming in heavy conflict; Wise Guys is mostly slob humor, Absolute Beginners is an absolute mess; At Close Range is a violent ambush.
Reporter
The boom has quietly ended in Iran; fruitivores live longer, says T. C. Fry; a repo man nabs a truck and a sheriff nabs him.
Miscellany
Houston’s upper crust and underclass mingle at Jo Abercrombie’s Wednesday night fights.
Toasting tacos; cleaning up the waterfront; replaying the Texaco-Pennzoil case.
Questioning the teachers’ sense—of humor; desperate times breed desperate ideas; a big step toward interstate banking.
Sure, a bride needs a groom, but the most important part of any wedding is the dress.