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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.

Contest

Happy Valentine’s Day.

Tiptoe Through the Tutus

Some dancing schools are out of step.

Pacem In Terrors

There’s nothing wrong with sibling rivalry. Keep telling yourself that.

Behind the Lines

Touts

A second anniversary selection of our best tips.

Roar of the Crowd

Oil in the Family

In Middle Eastern cuisine, oil is something that’s mixed with chick peas.

Contest

Wrong division.

Behind the Lines

Touts

Of mice and menus.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Sole Brothers

Can the legislature’s black caucus hang together?

The Plate is the Thing

Dinner theaters offer the roar of the greasepaint and the smell of the kraut.

The Year That Was

Awful. That’s what it was.

Talk on the Wild Side

Both human and natural eruptions inspire some disasters, but a quietly poetic film moves the most.

Touts

Offbeat show and burgers to go.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

To Beans or Not To Beans?

It takes guts to fool around with pork bellies and other commodities.

Fiends and Lovers

A love affair that is so real it hurts; and one that hurts so much it’s unreal.

The Perfect Speed Trap

The sign that says “Welcome to Selma” may mean more than you think.

Great Bowls of Fire

Menudo is one soup Campbell’s can forget about canning.

Contest

What’s in a name?

The Public Well Fare

The costs of being sick in Texas keep going up, up, up.

Behind the Lines

The Pick of the Catalogs

Our choices from the best known Christmas catalogs.

The Texas Monthly Gift Guide

A cornucopia of unique Texas gifts and where to buy them.

So You Want to Buy a House?

What a homebuyer gets for his money, if he can get the money.

Children in Shadow

Some children need more help than they are likely to get.

Sweets from the Swedes

Holiday treats from the land where Christmas is always white.

Contest

Typographical errors.

Crossing into Thirty

One of the few things in life that may be more than it’s cracked up to be.

Behind the Lines

Touts

Western stew and a Chinese coup.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

The First Hurrah

The confessions of the second man in a two-man race.

Fool’s Gold

In today’s market all that glitters is not gold.

Go West, Old Man

Gambling and growing old, odd subjects for films, odd films for those subjects.

Contest

Anagrams!

Tea for Texas

The ins and outs of drinking tea in Texas.

Behind the Lines

Touts

To the dogs, and for the birds.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Bursting the Bubble

Examining the Supreme Court’s decision on Nixon’s tapes.

Tight Money, Loose Talk

Belt tightening is in order; the present credit crunch may last and last.