May 1980
Features
The intrigue behind the building of Houston’s Texas Commerce Tower was almost as monumental as the 75-story structure itself.
The intrigue behind the building of Houston’s Texas Commerce Tower was almost as monumental as the 75-story structure itself.
Fire up! Put some spice back in your life with the amazing chile pepper.
Fire up! Put some spice back in your life with the amazing chile pepper.
Two average, middle-class men risk injury and death patrolling the roughest streets in Dallas. Why do they do it? Because they love the job.
Two average, middle-class men risk injury and death patrolling the roughest streets in Dallas. Why do they do it? Because they love the job.
Columns
Horses of different colors leapt from the bright, bold palette of German abstractionist Franz Marc.
Horses of different colors leapt from the bright, bold palette of German abstractionist Franz Marc.
Wallace Stegner’s love of the West and respect for its history make his works as distinctive as the region that inspired them.
Wallace Stegner’s love of the West and respect for its history make his works as distinctive as the region that inspired them.
In France you can commune with the angels at Chartres or mingle with the home folks at the American Church in Paris.
In France you can commune with the angels at Chartres or mingle with the home folks at the American Church in Paris.
When the San Antonio Symphony fired its brilliant and popular young conductor, it produced a cacophony of artistic and political discord.
A Dallas composer is reviving medieval music in a modern context, while two new classical groups attempt a chamber music renaissance.
A Dallas composer is reviving medieval music in a modern context, while two new classical groups attempt a chamber music renaissance.
John Huston makes the sinners and saviors of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction eerily real in Wise Blood; Little Miss Marker falls short; Nijinsky falls flat.
John Huston makes the sinners and saviors of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction eerily real in Wise Blood; Little Miss Marker falls short; Nijinsky falls flat.
This is the question: is it a crime to be politically inept?
This is the question: is it a crime to be politically inept?
Bringing the world’s most controversial feminist sculpture to Texas turned out to be no picnic - but a rare feast for connoisseurs of the outrageous.
Bringing the world’s most controversial feminist sculpture to Texas turned out to be no picnic - but a rare feast for connoisseurs of the outrageous.
The Alley mourns the passing of Nina Vance; outlanders rustle a Texas-trained playwright; in Houston, Stages spends a Night on Bare Mountain and Hank Williams appears at the Tower.
Reporter
Fighting over a black neighborhood in Austin; corralling the irascible Bull of the Brazos; fussing and feuding with the DAR; monkeying around with the San Antonio Zoo.
Fighting over a black neighborhood in Austin; corralling the irascible Bull of the Brazos; fussing and feuding with the DAR; monkeying around with the San Antonio Zoo.
Miscellany
Plaguing the Panhandle; rebuking the Washington Post; slaughtering the Beeferendum; lusting after the Speakership.
Plaguing the Panhandle; rebuking the Washington Post; slaughtering the Beeferendum; lusting after the Speakership.