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Saints Alive

New records, old musicians, and all that jazz.

Buying Power

The new campaign financing law takes all the fun out of fund raising.

Taylor Made

Blues singer Johnnie Taylor worked long and hard to get where he is today—namely Dallas.

Thanks for the Memory

Two rotten apples don’t spoil a good bunch.

Chefs of State

Restaurateurs Guy Calluaud and Camille Bermann can stand the heat.

Contest

Listomania.

Child’s Play

If the sound of children playing is not always music to your ears, don’t worry—you’re normal.

Upwardly Mogul

The tale of the man who made Dallas a film industry capital is no shaggy-dog story.

Behind the Lines

Testing, Testing

Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake find the Limo scene semi-amusing.

Touts

The birds and the beaches.

A Horse Is Not a Home

Why would any woman risk life and limb on the rodeo circuit? Hint: it’s not for the money.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Something Happened

Why kids don’t grow up the way you want them to.

Accept No Substitutions

Nobody does a Hitchcock film like Hitchcock. Unfortunately, somebody else tried.

Fly Me! I’m Delicious!

Sure you are. And we’re the Knights of the Round Table.

Contest

Issues and Questions.

About Face

How to keep your complexion from getting skinned alive.

The Boomsday Book

Why Houston should read it and weep.

Behind the Lines

Pall in the Family

Domestic bliss has seen better days than it sees in Shelby Hearon’s new novel.

Touts

Luster’s last stand.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Shoot the Piano Players

Glenn Gould and Peter Serkin have always beenn far-out, but new recordings suggest a certain mellowing.

Body Politics

Why you shouldn’t lose any sleep over your congressman’s nocturnal habits.

Will’s Testament

Western swing will never die, and Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys will never retire.

Inside Jobs

Your doctor’s got some new ways of getting under your skin.

Easy Outing

Bingo Long is a baseball movie even a non-fan can love.

Mean Greens

How do you know when an artichoke has come of age?

Contest

Getting a head.

Only the Loanly

There are five private banks left in Texas. Why?

Behind the Lines

Lend Me Your Era

Why the best years of our lives weren’t.

Touts

Some recommendations on what to do, see, and buy this month.

Contest

Poetry in motion.

Making Tracks

The great Canadian railway bizarre.

Making Tracks

The great Canadian railway bizarre.

Touts

Mondo cane.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Fiendly Persuasion

What LBJ did best was wheel and deal. So what’s wrong with that?

Footloose and Fancy

Nine Texas choreographers keep regional ballet on its toes.

French Twist

Cajun music is one good reason to live in a swamp Are there any others?

Trading on Thin Ice

Wanted: financial alchemist to turn liquid paper into hard cash.

Yes Men

Sound mind, sound body is an old maxim but a new approach to cancer treatment.

Buffaloed Bill

Hollywood techniques may have worked for the Wild West shows, but we expected more from Robert Altman.

The Girl, the Con Man, and the Massage Parlor King

The girl wanted love, the men wanted money, and when they all got together it was murder.

Deutsch Treat

A lesson in the essence of Essen.