Feature
July 31, 1986
Dark Victories
Dusky colors and smart shapes are the winners for fall fashion.
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Feature
July 31, 1986
A Midsummer Night’s Gleam
Of fireflies and summer romance.
True Crime
July 31, 1986
The Madman on the Tower
In a ninety-minute reign of terror, gunshots rang out that still echo in the history of Texas.
Downtown
July 31, 1986
Downtown
Dallas cracks the whip on weeds and litter.
Behind the Lines
July 31, 1986
Behind the Lines
Books
July 31, 1986
Texas, In Short
The characters in Prize Stories and South by Southwest often dwell on the past while living out their lives in an anxious present.
Art
July 31, 1986
The Blood-red Maya
At the heart of this ancient culture were cruelty, self-mutilation, and ghostly visions.
Being Texan
July 1, 1986
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.
Business
July 1, 1986
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.
Border & Immigration
July 1, 1986
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.
Politics & Policy
July 1, 1986
Primary Lesson
Subtract Democratic voters, add new Republicans, and it equals realignment.
Food & Drink
July 1, 1986
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.
Hunting & Fishing
July 1, 1986
Man to Man
The son’s ultimate selfishness is to see his father only as his father—not as a man. But on our first fishing trip in 25 years, I began to see my father—and myself—as the grown men we’d become.
Recipes
June 30, 1986
EatZi’s Summer Picnic Menu
Roasted rosemary chicken and jicama slaw.
Recipes
June 30, 1986
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
Touts
June 30, 1986
Touts
Perk up your bath hour with these liquid refreshments.
State Secrets
June 30, 1986
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.
Shopping
June 30, 1986
We find a successful guy in Dallas who doesn’t dress like Ross Perot!
Roar of the Crowd
June 30, 1986
Roar of the Crowd
Reporter
June 30, 1986
Texas Monthly Reporter
Wild mustangs roam home; attorney race to Houston’s bankruptcy court; UT students get rich.
Puzzle
June 30, 1986
Puzzle
Post-Modern Times
June 30, 1986
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.
Music
June 30, 1986
The Denton Dilemma
North Texas bands face a tough choice: living to make music or making music for a living.
Politics & Policy
June 30, 1986
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.
Movies
June 30, 1986
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.
Feature
June 30, 1986
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.
Downtown
June 30, 1986
Downtown
The cure for San Antonio’s inner-city malaise may be worse than the disease.
Behind the Lines
June 30, 1986
Behind the Lines
The unbudgeted carpet.
Books
June 30, 1986
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?
Art
June 30, 1986
Little Masterpieces on the Lawn
“Art Among Us/Arte Entre Nosotros” reveals the delightful madness of San Antonio’s barrio art.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1986
Grasslands
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.
Politics & Policy
June 1, 1986
Unionbusters
Hank Milam was a businessman with $20,000 in equipment and a firm faith in the rules of the game.He took on the union that had ruled the Houston docks for fifty years and beat it on its own turf.
Politics & Policy
June 1, 1986
Hate Thy Neighbor
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.
News & Politics
June 1, 1986
The Snootiest Neighborhood in Texas
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.
Recipes
May 31, 1986
Guinness Beer Braised Lamb Shanks
Recipe from Jim Anile, Executive Chef, Melrose Hotel, Dallas.
Food & Drink
May 31, 1986
On the Menu: The Landmark Restaurant
The Warwick Melrose Hotel, Dallas is proud to showcase a culinary team led by Chef Jeff Moschetti. This creative team has been honored with the AAA Four Diamond award the prestigious DiRoNA award and the Wine Spectator award. In a city that boasts the highest number of restaurants per capita,
Touts
May 31, 1986
Touts
These gifts belong to Daddy.
State Secrets
May 31, 1986
State Secrets
Questioning the teachers’ sense—of humor; desperate times breed desperate ideas; a big step toward interstate banking.
Shopping
May 31, 1986
Shopping
Sure, a bride needs a groom, but the most important part of any wedding is the dress.
Roar of the Crowd
May 31, 1986
The Roar of the Crowd
Toasting tacos; cleaning up the waterfront; replaying the Texaco-Pennzoil case.
Reporter
May 31, 1986
Texas Monthly 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.
Puzzle
May 31, 1986
Puzzle
Don’t get your signals crossed.
Critters
May 31, 1986
Texas Primer: The Fire Ant
Baby Calves, children, even the agriculture commissioner: no one is safe from this tiny deamon.
Post-Modern Times
May 31, 1986
Post-Modern Times
Houston’s upper crust and underclass mingle at Jo Abercrombie’s Wednesday night fights.
Movies
May 31, 1986
Slow-motion Dilemma
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.
Jazz
May 31, 1986
Treasure from the Vault
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.
Food & Drink
May 31, 1986
Eating Up the Miles
Our gadabout gourmet travels three thousand miles to answer the question. Where should you eat on your next Texas highway trip?
Feature
May 31, 1986
Root, Root, Root for the Home Team
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.
Downtown
May 31, 1986
Downtown
Buckle up for your own safety—and save $35.
Behind the Lines
May 31, 1986
Behind the Lines
The solution politicians fear.