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Informed Sauces

We’re encouraging you to hit the sauces this summer.

Goats Need Love, Too.

Once you let a goat in your life, you can never get it out.

Contest

Acronymity.

Clothes Made the Man

Why Willie Farah is taking up slack—not slacks—these days.

Behind the Lines

Jimmy Carter’s energy program wants to bury the age of oil and gas whether it’s dead or not.

Creole Folks at Home

Going native in the city where food is on everybody’s lips.

Touts

Fish and ships.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Birth of a Notion

It’s called competitive childbirth, but no gold medals are awarded for it.

Bombs Bursting in Air

With its latest batch of exploitation movies, Hollywood gets more blood out of old turnips.

Eat, Eat, It’s Good For You

Meet five famous Texans who still listen to Mother.

Unfinished Women

In which our author hints that Texas men are in for a rude awakening.

The Other Texas

Rio Grande City Michael Patrick Houston Suzanne Paul Austin Harry Boyd Rosenberg Joe Baraban Ingram Harry Boyd Hillsboro Nicolas Russell Martindale

The Endless Odyssey of Patrick Henry Polk

Forget all those myths about poverty and welfare. This family is real and they live it.

Grand Hotels

You won’t find Greta Garbo at these classic establishments, but some things that happen there are straight out of a movie.

Adventures Under the Sea

Where is Lloyd Bridges when you really need him?

Contest

Title bout.

Catchy Coup

How to squeeze a multimillion-dollar business out of a ten-second radio jingle.

The Wizard of Oz (Ret.)

Question: What goes on behind the closed doors of the stateÌ­s most elegant restaurant these days? Answer: Nothing.

Behind the Lines

Soldiers of Misfortune

What happens to a mercenary when all the fighting stops?

Stereo Begins at Home

Positively the latest in sound thinking.

A Long Weekend in Houston

A tour of Houston that will take you off the beaten freeway.

Touts

Black and white and bread all over.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Hearing Voices

All we are saying is give opera a chance.

The Old Indoorsman

How to stale the wild house cat and other tips for indoor survival.

Their Bodies Themselves

Even for muscle men, a sound min is as necessary as a sound body.

The Eggheads and I

In which our author finds it’s one thing to be a genius; it’s another to be smart.

The Lifesavers

Every night at Ben Taub Hospital’­s emergency room is a night of the living dead.

Forgotten Places

Of canyons, creeks, and craters: the Big Bend as few have seen it.

All Roads Lead From Roma

What’s good for marijuana is good for Starr County.

Spilling The Beans About Coffee

If you have to pay outrageous prices for coffee, you might as well get your money’s worth.

Good as Gold

For most treasure hunters, the hunt is more important than the treasure.

Contest

Some transplanted evening.

Allah In the Family

In the middle of the booming Houston economy are some new movers and shakers.

Behind the Lines

Right On

In their hearts, these conservative writers knew they were right. Now the rest of us know it too.

The Great Border Bazaar

We walk the line for you—from Matamoros to Juárez—to bring you the best of Mexican shopping.

Touts

Fair, faucet, and F major.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Liberal Education

For years, liberals have been the biggest critics of Austin city government. What happened when the got the power to do something about it?

Alley Up

Why are Houstonians starting to talk about the Alley Theater again?

Seeing Red

The only way Red Garland could make us mad would be to quit playing piano.

The Coast of Living

We thought that after Earthquake, Los Angeles was gone for good. But no, here it is, back again and the same as ever.

The Family Way

Some boarding house-style restaurants where they can dish it out if you can take it.

The New Adultery

Those who haunt the singles bars aren’­t always what they seem—namely, single.