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A Date with Leatherface

Is there romance after a starring role in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? A leading man reveals all.

Touts

State Secrets

Love game at Texas Commerce; Phil Gramm versus Jim Wright in East Texas; a storm over a port for Mark White; some good news—maybe—about a nuke.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Battles at the border; weirdos at the Starck Club; monument at the end of the tracks; Mr. Migra goes after Zopilote; Baptists at each other's throats.

Puzzle

Texas Primer: The Western Shirt

Today’s cowboy can thank Hollywood designers for the shirt on his back.

Resident Rockers

Five new albums show that Texans can get any kind of music they want from local labels.

Fish Story

Alamo Bay gets in over its head; Lost in America finds itself through comedy; The Slugger's Wife strikes out.

Unwelcome Guest, Reluctant Host

Like the killer bees, Montezuma's revenge is moving north.

How They Ruined Our Prisons

Before Ruiz v. Estelle, prisons in Texas were the safest, most productive, and most economical in the nation. Now—after costs have quadrupled—our prisons are the most dangerous in the U.S.

Help! We’re Surrounded!

Of course we know that Texas is an oasis in the midst of a wasteland. But some unenlightened folk from our neighboring states beg to differ. We let them talk, then set them straight.

The Shaggy Club

In a mixed-up world, mixed-up kids need somebody who really understands. In Dallas that somebody is a punk DJ called Shaggy.

Operatic Adventures

A little gimmickry goes a long way toward making the Fort Worth Opera's current season a success.

Behind the Lines

Public Gestures

Dallas' Fifth Texas Sculpture Symposium proves it's time for us to look to our sculptors for public artworks.

Why Boone Can’t Lose

An old hand at Pickens-watching reveals the key to the Amarillo oilman’s corporate-takeover antics.

Life, Art, and the Wackiest Politician in Texas

San Antonio city councilman Bernardo Eureste took a paltry arts budget and built it into a $3 million power base. Then he got mad and tore it all apart.

Going Back for Seconds

Can there be too much of a good thing? Five of Texas’ favorite restaurants have duplicated themselves in other cities, and now they’re finding out.

Ambient Color

As these photographs show, in Mexico the strange is commonplace, and the commonplace, strange.

Mikey

He left his parents’ house in search of a world where things were black and white, where there were heroes and villains. What he found in the slums of Port Arthur was a world that would tolerate people like him-and take advantage of them.

The Best of Texas

We’ve gone from one end of the state to the other to bring you the best-ever list of Texas Bests.

Touts

Wet and Wonderful

State Secrets

If Lubbock gets a riverwalk, can a river be far behind?; previewing the mayors’ races; can Texas consultants make PAN dulce?; the Chronicle kills a story.

Move Over, Nancy Drew

Now young, adventuresses can do more than just read about excitement. A new computer game for girls requires them to use their wits for survival.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

The Max factor of Dallas; the tacos of Paris; the tales of Urrutia; the Hemingway of Texas; the good word from Houston; the mysteries of the Hueco Tanks.

Puzzle

The Bluebonnet Snapshot

Okay, so photos of cute kids in fields of bluebonnets aren’t great art. That’s not the point at all.

Birth of a Lobby

The computer industry in Texas has a new lobby organized by three lobbyists who were in the right place at the right time—and knew it.

Zombie Heaven

Into the Night leaves you in the dark; The Breakfast Club’s teenagers are out to lunch, Witness is a solemn eyeful.

Lingering Blues

John Hardee and Budd Johnson were two legendary Texas tenors who had their own ways of making peace with the rigors of the jazz life.

Where’s the Lamb?

After extensive taste tests, our reporter concludes that the best lamb is to be found in our own back yard.

Contemporary Classic

The octogenarian whom many believe to be the greatest living composer pays a long-awaited visit to Texas.

Behind the Lines

The road into town

Looking for Trouble

Fred Cuny, sixth-generation Texan and uncompromising disaster-relief consultant, takes his expertise to the ends of the earth.

Bring ’Em Back Alive

In darkest South Texas roam two of the world’s most endangered species—the black rhino and the Great White Hunter.

Touts

Get an earful of this.

State Secrets

Coors and Hispanics make peace; Mexico’s flash in the pan; Gramm’s GOP crusade; Mayor Kathy emerges unscathed.

Roar of the Crowd

Beating around the Bush; remembering an old friend; rethinking high school days.

Texas Monthly Reporter

Can gas become oil? Can a Lubbock institution become an Austin one? Can preservation become exploitation? Can Houston become Austinized? Can Amarillo escape Pottergate?

Puzzle

Slices of life.

Texas Primer: The Trail Ride

It began in 1952 as a nostalgic recreation of the old cattle drive. Now it’s a grand annual party stretching across Texas.

New Music Man

A producing career, a hit video, a record company, successful sound tracks: Austin’s Patrick Keel is having it all.

Liquid Shimmer

In The Purple Rose of Cairo, Woody Allen takes a cold look at movie-fed dreams; the late, great Sam Peckinpah gave us an impassioned view of a violent world.

On Your Way Home, Dear…

Tired and hungry, but not broke? A bevy of gourmet-to-go shops in Texas’ major cities provide a classy alternative to the TV dinner.

The Silver Lining

Age is a matter of mind. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

My Son, The Violinist

The failed ambitions of the father become the triumphs of the son, or so most fathers would hope.

Behind the Lines

The dupe’s triumph.

Persistent Vigor

The impressive canvases that make up “Fresh Paint” at the Museum of Fine Arts prove that Houston has finally arrived as a significant art-making center.