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The Soundness of Music

How to get cultured and stay in shape at the same time.

The Runaround

The people of No Man‘s Land are wondering whether government really works.

Blue Chic

How Fort Worth‘s gentry learned to love the blues.

Holiday Fare

Introducing our new film critic, who finds this month‘s menu both hot and cold.

Heroes for Post-Watergate America

A retired Marine Corps general takes on the University of Texas System.

The Strange Case of the Missing Parks

Why Texans don‘t get the parks they pay for.

World! Here Is Your Oyster!

Close your eyes and pretend it‘s roast beef.

Is Your Life Dull? Is Your Environment Boring?

Four interior designers tell what they can do within four walls.

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Death

The friendly folks at the morgue speak a body language all their own.

Goosed!

Don‘t be a turkey this Thanksgiving. Try a different bird.

Contest

Labelous.

Every Good Boy Does Fine

Kids should learn early that music is the staff of life.

Behind the Lines

Moving On

Larry McMurtry brings his Texas odyssey to an end.

The Taxman Cometh

The IRS is waging a secret war against big art donors.

Touts

T-shirts and T-bones.

Roar of the Crowd

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Big Mamas

Two women—one a conservative Republican, the other a liberal Democrat—are the best politicians in Houston.

Opsie Daisy

On Wall Street, as in football, the option play isnít the big gainer it used to be.

Man Bites Dog

How the Dallas SPCA got itself indicted for cruelty to animals, and other shaggy dog stories.

European Passage

Will there always be a Europe?

The World‘s Best Basic Record Collection

Building a classical, rock, country, and jazz library on a budget.

Is Texas A New Mecca For Artists?

The word is out among young artists that our state is a good place to work.

Eat Your Heart Out

The perfect European restaurant and some that come close.

Contest

Gridirony.

Book Joints

The irresistible lure of used paperbacks.

Of Mouse and Men

Advocates of new public art symbols for Houston have uncovered a rat.

Behind the Lines

A Sporting Chance

Can college athletics survive? Can short stories?

Touts

To sleep, perchance to scheme.

Roar of the Crowd

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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Willie

If you haven’t met the Red Headed Stranger, maybe you should.

The Music Man

If James Dick has his way, the notes struck at Round Top will echo around the world.

All Systems Stop

It used to be pretty hard to make money on the stock market but at least there were some things you could count on.

Our Favorite Restaurant

From the Mexico Package (September 1975).

Our Favorite Hotel

From the Mexico Package (September 1975).

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Acapulco and Cancún . . .

Presenting Mexico’s newest built-from-scratch beach resort.

The Heartbreak of Turista

Good News for Christian Scientists; bad news for everybody else.

Viva La Tequila!

The best ways to drink Mexico’­s best liquor.

Mexico: An Introduction

Four hundred and fifty years ago Texas was claimed for Spain by an adventurer who was washed ashore, naked and starving, on the beach at Galveston. Cabeza de Vaca was promptly made a slave by the vile, cannibalistic, and otherwise inhospitable Karankawa Indians. For the next 300 years (more than

The Alamo? Sure. Two Blocks, Turn Right, and It’s Right Across From the Five and Ten.

You remember, don’t you? That'­s the place John Wayne died.

Welcome To Boys Town

From the Mexico Package (September 1975).

Wetback

What makes them swim the Rio Grande?

Zapata’s Children

Will the Mexican Revolution ever end?

Mexico City Is the Most Uninhabitable City in the World.

From the Mexico Package (September 1975).

Mexico City Is the Most Exciting City in the Western Hemisphere.

From the Mexico Package (September 1975).

Democracy, Mexican Style

All political parties are equal, but one is more equal than all the rest put together.