Arts & Entertainment
July 1, 1990
Texas Humor
From Pecos Bill to nightclub comics, we’ve got lots to laugh about.
Arts & Entertainment
Business
May 31, 1990
A Ride On the Wild Side
Conquering Arlington’s Texas Giant.
Art
May 31, 1990
Sacred Meets Profane
Benito Huerta reconciles the religious and the worldly in powerfuul new works at Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum.
Books
April 30, 1990
Shock Treatment
Three new books deliver sordid stories of drugged-up cops, kinky murderers, and a real-life drug kingpin.
Books
April 1, 1990
The Man Who Never Stops
Robert A. Caro has spent fifteen years writing his monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson. He is halfway through.
Music
March 1, 1990
Strike Up The Bands
The bands play on and on and on in Austin.
Film & TV
February 1, 1990
Lost in Space
Locked away in NASA’s storage vaults was some of the most glorious footage ever filmed. I thought turning it into a movie would be a snap. Ten years later I’ve revised my opinion.
Film & TV
December 1, 1989
Liz and Me
Memories of the filming of ‘Giant’ in Marfa, as recalled by a fan who had the best seat in the house.
Art
December 1, 1989
Get Along, Little Doggies
Well-shod supermodel Fay Ray steps out in true Texas style.
Sports
November 1, 1989
Hotter’n Hell
Cycling a hundred miles is a hard enough way to spend a Saturday. It’s even harder in Wichita Falls in August.
Arts & Entertainment
August 1, 1989
Parish the Thought!
FYI: The Houston Post’s new society sleuth has great connections, a phone in her purse, and the complete attention of Houston’s haut monde.
Music
July 1, 1989
The Semi-Reluctant Rock Star
How did shy, sweet Edie Brickell become America’s hottest new performer? By sticking to her vision —and doing what the record company told her.
Art
June 30, 1989
Texans Versus Shapes
Heroes in the shade.
Sports
May 1, 1989
The World’s Greatest Poker Player
Johnny Chan became a champion through nerve and dedication—and every now and then a few good hands.
Music
April 1, 1989
Beyond the Blues
The unlikely twosome of eccentric rocker Doug Sahm and blues champion Clifford Antone has rescued from obscurity a distinctively rhythmic, indisputably raunchy regional sound.
Music
March 1, 1989
Songs of Innocence
In Joe Scruggs’s music Everymom evicts under-the-bed monsters, Everykid remembers on Monday morning the fifteen things he needs for school that day, and Everybody delights in Scruggs’s corny but sensitive portrayal of childhood.
Music
February 1, 1989
This is Now
Looking forward to Jerry Jeff Walker’s second Luckenbach, looking into a new way to settle feuds, and looking back over the career of Texas’ most prolific unknown author.
Style & Design
November 1, 1988
Can You Take a Hint?
Heloise, America’s best-known homemaker, has a dirty little secret: she hates to clean house. If you hate it too, she’s convinced that you need her more than ever.
Music
October 1, 1988
One Brick Shy of a Load
Not your run-of-the-mill pickers and singers, these performers are determined to carve out new territory.
Music
October 1, 1988
The Fall of Country, the Rise of Country
As Nashville pandered to the lowest common denominator, Texans found a new audience hungry for old traditions.
Music
September 30, 1988
The Good, The Bad, and The Country
In the small world of country’s New Traditionalism, George Strait and Steve Earle still manage to be worlds apart.
Sports
September 1, 1988
Football? What’s the Big Deal?
As much as I hated playing football, I hate watching it more.
Music
August 31, 1988
Off the Road Again
Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic at Carl’s Corner was the picnic to end all picnics. It did just that.
Music
August 1, 1988
The Big Squeezy
Get hip to zydeco, the born-on-the-bayou sound with the accordion accent. Ready for it red hot? Check out a Saturday-night church dance in Houston.
Sports
June 1, 1988
Hope and Glory
A salute to Texas athletes trying young: seven hearts set on the Summer Olympics.
Film & TV
May 31, 1988
Extra! Extra!
In which the author becomes a star—for three seconds.
Film & TV
April 1, 1988
Is J.R. Shot?
The tenth anniversary of the most popular nighttime series begs the question. How long can the Ewing’s doings hold are attention?
Music
February 1, 1988
With Strings Attached
Willie Nelson’s true love may have a body that’s worse for the wear, but woe to the man who tries to pick it up.
Film & TV
December 1, 1987
The Trip to Paradise
Small Texas towns live either in our memory or in our imagination. The ones with the storybook names live in both.
Books
December 1, 1987
Growing Up With George and Martha
By turning two tiny dots into two huge hippos, James Marshall made an indelible mark on children’s literature, and little people laughed happily ever after.
Sports
November 1, 1987
Spur of the Moment
San Antonio put a full-court press on basketball superstar David Robinson in hopes that he wouldn’t forget the Alamo City.
Film & TV
October 1, 1987
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: Dwarf
The Hollywood epics have left Texas, to be replaced by miniatures like ‘Nadine.’
Business
October 1, 1987
Every Bar but Hershey’s
We have seen the future of Dallas nightlife, and it is called Dallas Alley.
Sports
September 1, 1987
Unsportsmanlike Conduct
When he played for the Dallas Cowboys, Hollywood Henderson had everything. Here he tells how he lost it.
Texas History
August 31, 1987
A Texan Looks at Lyndon
On the eve of the 1964 national elections, Texas historian J. Evetts Haley published a scathing attack on President Lyndon B. Johnson. The book sold seven million copies, but Johnson still won the race.
Sports
July 1, 1987
Donald Curry vs. the World
All boxers are wary in the ring, where defeat is only a well-placed punch away. But Donald Curry knows that the real terrors of boxing lie beyond the ropes.
Sports
June 1, 1987
Texas Primer: Clint Murchison, Jr.
He was one tycoon who enjoyed the hell out of his money.
Music
June 1, 1987
Culture Club
Once San Antonio’s elite took pride in their support of the city’s fine symphony. When the cream of that elite, the Symphony Society board, abruptly canceled the upcoming season, it was time for some soul-searching
Art
May 31, 1987
New Kid on the Block
The Menil Collection has received so much attention that its opening this month may seem anticlimactic. The only unknown is what the director plans to do with it all.
Music
May 1, 1987
Every Good Boy Does Fine
In the late seventies, celebrated pianist Van Cliburn inexplicably disappeared from public life. No tortured artist in hiding, Cliburn is having the time of his life sitting around his Fort Worth mansion in his bathrobe.
Film & TV
November 1, 1986
The Ballad of Fess Parker
He was the definitive Davy Crockett, and with good reason.
Books
October 1, 1986
Texas Primer: The Texas Institute of Letters
Belonging to this literary club is a lot like becoming a Texan; you can be a newcomer for only so long.
Art
October 1, 1986
The Eye of the Beholder
A museum in Texas is the last place Jacques-Louis David would expect to find his late masterpiece, but we’re glad it’s here.
Film & TV
October 1, 1986
After the Tears
Cambodian Lay Bun Sun escaped the terrors of the Khmer Rouge to film his dreams in Houston.
Arts & Entertainment
September 1, 1986
Requiem for a Roller Coaster
The state fair’s Comet: will it rust in peace?.
Sports
September 1, 1986
The Cowboys, the Indian, and the Computer That Fumbled
The most important new addition to the Dallas Cowboys is a veteran from the team’s early years —computer genius Salam Qureishi.
Music
August 1, 1986
Why I Didn’t Attend Farm Aid II
Thank God I’m sort of a grown-up.
Music
June 30, 1986
The Denton Dilemma
North Texas bands face a tough choice: living to make music or making music for a living.
Film & TV
May 1, 1986
How Bad Were They?
Larry Buchanan made movies that were so cheap, so incredibly flawed, and so dumb, they’re lovingly celebrated as the worst movies ever made. And he made them all in Dallas.
Art
April 1, 1986
Solace in the Desert
With dogged independence, amazing endurance, and a rugged romantic vision, photographer Laura Gilpin helped create the way we see the West today.