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Dealing Dirt

How real estate syndications can make (and lose) money for you.

Exile’s Return

Polish up your statues of Adam Smith: supply and demand is back!

The Graduates

A portfolio of the Class of 1975.

Don’t Think It Won’t Happen Just Because It Hasn’t Happened Yet

Killer bees, acid from the sky, and exploding railroad cars may all be in your future.

The Deadly Smell of Success

A new method of oil recovery means more energy, more wealth, and . . . death.

Not Guilty

John Connally on trial.

Family Affairs

Coupling takes many forms, as John Updike and Shelby Hearon can tell you.

Touts

Yeast is yeast and fest is fest.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Sweet and Low

High-brow music doesn’t have to be high priced.

Private Pleasures

Why going public is not the stock market killing it once was.

It’s a Steal

Frank Perry used a lot of hackneyed material in his new film, but Neil Simon just ripped off his own.

This Man Loves Car Wrecks More than Anyone Else in the World

For A.O. Pipkin, happiness is a head-on collision he wasn’t in.

Southern Charms

In Charleston they haven’t forgotten one of the things the Old South was famous for: good cooking.

Contest

Blood and irony.

So Rare

Some good reasons for collecting rare books and some good places to do it.

Behind the Lines

Touts

Silver threads and golden needles.

On the Waterfront

Canoeists battle more than white water when they run the Guadalupe.

Roar of the Crowd

Laredo: Fuel’s Paradise

Everybody in Laredo is being excessively kind to Tony Sanchez, Sr., these days, quite a change from several years ago when Sanchez took in ten to twelve thousand a year selling office supply furniture and trading oil and gas leases on the side to help make ends meet. Kindest of

Future Rock

The times, they are a’ changing. Fine, but how?

This‘ll Be the Day

In Lubbock Buddy Holly was just a skinny kid with glasses, but to rock-and-roll fans he was—and is—a whole lot more.

Sold Arabian

The Alamo was only the first step in the Arabs’ attempted takeover of what’s sacred to us Texans. The Customer’s Man

Cleaning Up the Act

Both Warren Beatty and Ellen Burstyn are going to wash that malaise right out of their hair.

Road Hogs

Found at last! Highway cuisine to save you from Stuckey’s.

Contest

Getting your words’ worth.

The Way We Weren’t

Washington-on-the-Brazos is a little run-down for a Texas shrine; but then, it was run-down in 1836 too.

Behind the Lines

Waltz Across Texas, March Into Zion

Two books on why you can’t go home again.

Three for the Show

Fort Worth’s art museums are a bigger attraction than the stockyards and, what’s more, most art doesn’t smell.

Touts

Cheese and crackers.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Off with Their Heads

Is the new Congress out to strip the Texas delegation of its power?

Putting on Arias

In Texas, the fandom of the opera is surprisingly large.

Stolid Gold

A funny thing happened on the way to the gold boom.

Doiní the Monster Mashed

The new Frankenstein is a horror movie. Unfortunately, it wasn’t intended to be.

Sampling the Stations

What’s on the dial around the state.

A Taste of Honey

How to avoid sugar at any price.

Contest

Not figuratively speaking.

The Way We Were

Two old Houston buildings stand in the way of what some people call progress.

Behind the Lines

Old Dogs, Old Tricks

Two well-known authors prove that knowing the subject matter doesn’t necessarily guarantee a good book.

Give Me Liberty

Price Daniel, Jr. begins his premature retirement (maybe).

When Whiskey Sours

A new approach to an old problem.

An Offering You Can’t Refuse

Godfather II is one sequel that’s as good as the original.

Preparing the Fatted Calf

America is alive and well at the Houston Livestock Show.

Cuisine Down the River

The unfulfilled promise of San Antonio River dining.