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Sound waves.

The Seven-Year Hitch

Conducting the Houston Symphony, Lawrence Foster inspired respect. He didn’t know he needed love too.

Behind the Lines

The uselessness of college.

Rhythm ‘N’ Hues

Riding a color merry-go-round with America’s first modern painters.

Currying Flavor

If you think lamb korma is a wooly creature with good vibes, you’ve got a lot to learn about Indian food.

Touts

A bushel and a pack.

Roar of the Crowd

The Hunts and the hunted.

Texas Monthly Reporter

Taking on the Shah of Iran in Beeville; trying to save an eaglet in Waco; juggling sex in Galveston; flipping the switch on nuclear power; and fighting panjic at monstrous DFW Airport.

Uphill Racer

If the race is to the swift, what’s lefty over for the slow?

The Inside Story

Good sports and green grape cobbler.

Our Bodies, Our Cells

Life is a riffle. Cancer is a riddle. Are they all the same riddle?

Little Bruisers

Fighters from all over Texas slug it out in the Golden Gloves; for most, that’s the only gold they’ll ever see.

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Yellow fever.

Behind the Lines

What energy crisis?

Touts

Frying the midnight oil.

Pennant Wise, Dollar Foolish

The Texas Rangers are spending their way to an American League pennant—or bankruptcy.

Roar of the Crowd

Equal time for farmers, politicians, and handguns.

Texas Monthly Review

Andy Warhol soups up the superstars; dancers do the towns; Beverly Sills still casts a spell; ladybug found with strange bedfellows; and folk music isn’t dead, it’s just in Houston.

The Inside Story

Reporter blooms.

High Risk Policy

An insurance company imbroglio—full of high rollers, big deals and pitched battles—ended with a bang, and a few whimpers.

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Poetic license.

It’s Delightful, It’s Delovely, It’s Decatur

If you’re looking for the best place to live in Texas, think small.

Unfriendly Skies

Braniff is hopping the Atlantic to London; Pan Am is just hopping mad.

Behind the Lines

Why we don’t endorse candidates.

Touts

Take the money and run.

Roar of the Crowd

Championship of Texas cities: rematch.

Texas Monthly Reporter

On the road with Dolph and John; a fatal case of mistaken identity; butterflies on the rocks; Metroplex blood sport; and polled Herefords, polled Herefords, polled Herefords everywhere.

The Inside Story

Writers, pensive and frenetic.

Ooh La Lamb

Texas has always had lamb; now we give you lamb chops.

Stayin’ Alive

Varmints: we can’t live with ‘em and we can’t live without ‘em.

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Down memoir lane.

Behind the Lines

Requiem for a heavyweight.

Touts

Wheelers and dealers.

Roar of the Crowd

A word from friends of Texas women, fire ants, and Close Encounters.

Texas Monthly Review

The best of Weegee is yet to come, alas; DCO season goes out with a bang; more from two Texas-bred rock ‘n’ roll successes; and an electronic opera makes a good birthday present.

Texas Monthly Reporter

Vying for Barbara Jordan’s job, Enchanted Rock on the block, peddling pollution, and don’t the Super Drum beat all?

The Case Against the Farmers

Everybody says they want to help the farmers, but nobody wants to face up to what they really need.

Past Tense

Anybody can make history, but you have to go to a convention to become an historian.

The Inside Story

Tales of our intrepid authors.

The Art West of the Pecos / Design

How a small-town Texas boy turned a taste for Southwestern art into the biggest gallery in Santa Fe.

Fencing Myself In

The best defense is a good fence.

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Roll over, Hank Williams.

Behind the Lines

Crime and punishment.

Touts

The Boys of Winter

At the state touch football tournament, winning wasn’t everything—or was it?

Roar of the Crowd

In defense of maids, COPS, and redfish.

Texas Monthly Review

Vanity thy name is a theatrical success; Tom Taylor conjures the real Woody Guthrie; Dallas Civic Opera misses again, and then again; Mel Brooks has another winner; contemporary photographers send a cold message.

Grasping At Strauss

For Bob Strauss, power is its own reward.

Fire and Rice

Now that you’ve mastered the art of using chopsticks, here’s something fantastic to put between them.

Finders Keepers?

The feds are trying to get our gas again; this time they’ve gone all the way to the Supreme Court.