Family
February 1, 1988
I Fathered a Yuppie
There he was in his high chair, drinking lemonade-flavored mineral water and watching LA Law.
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Business
August 1, 1986
Free Enterprise U.
Let’s hear it for Dallas’ Northwood Institute, where entrepreneurialism is second only to high society fundraising.
Books
December 1, 1985
Nights of Figs and Other Mysteries
Charles Portis’ Masters of Atlantis is anything but believable and nothing if not enjoyable. A Small Town, Shelby Hearon’s ninth novel, is a hit-and-miss proposition.
Back Roads
December 1, 1985
Back Roads
Next time you want to go from Wichita Falls to Paris, take the Red River Bus Line.
Back Roads
November 1, 1985
Back Roads
They said it couldn’t be done, but Larry Brumfield built Texas’ largest indoor bass aquarium.
Business
October 1, 1985
The Chips Are Down
The real Texas technology picture is much more intricate than either the mad hype of two years ago or the dire headlines of today make it out to be.
Back Roads
September 30, 1985
Back Roads
Robots in feedlots, Krishnas as cowboys, Nowhere but Texas.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 1985
The Texas Six-Pack
The six freshman Republican congressmen from Texas are young, angry, and energetic. The only question is, can they be effective too?
Best Thing In Texas
April 1, 1985
The Best of Texas
We’ve gone from one end of the state to the other to bring you the best-ever list of Texas Bests.
Business
February 1, 1985
When Grandma Talks…
Rich old ladies who hoard their securities set the best example for managing your stocks.
Reporter
February 1, 1985
Reporter
Beauteous burgers in Bells and Springlake; tough times in Tyler; ringside raving in Fort Worth; avid aspirations in Lubbock.
Media
September 30, 1984
Is All This News Fit to Print?
Inspired by last summer’s media mania in Dallas, our expert offers a few suggestions for spicing up future nonevents.
Travel & Outdoors
August 1, 1984
Little D
Dallas, Scotland: the city that’s everything Big D isn’t.
Politics & Policy
August 1, 1984
Excuse Me, But Where Can a Free-Enterpriser Get a Drink in This Town
Where to find a life-size statue of businessmen shaking hands, the best right-wing burgers, and other landmarks of Republican life.
Style & Design
May 31, 1984
Texas Primer: The Resistol Hat
Whether it’s made of straw or ermine, this is the cowboy hat.
Crime
April 30, 1984
Just Friends
The story of Lenell Geter’s release from prison is unfinished without the tale of the conservative engineers who stuck their necks out to help a friend in trouble.
Being Texan
March 1, 1984
Perfect Texas
There’s no point in grousing about Texas’ minor shortcomings. Why not just roll up our sleeves and make it perfect once and for all?
Sports
February 1, 1984
The America’s Team Caper
Someone had done in the Cowboys and I had to find the killer, but there were too many suspects.
Theater
January 1, 1984
Caravan of Pipe Dreams
From the city that brought you the Stockyards and Billy Bob's Texas comes a bizarre nightclub run by the shock troops of the avant-garde.
Business
November 1, 1983
Twofers
They are the quirky enterprises that offer two things under one roof—like shrimp and guns, steaks and loans, or eggrolls and gasoline.
Books
August 31, 1983
Catcher of the Awry
Frederick Barthelme’s Moon Deluxe is a collection of cockeyed tales about stucco camels, supermarket sec and other modern curiosities. In Short Circuit Michael Mewshaw finds fault with the nasty world of professional tennis. The urban vignettes of Laura Furman’s Watch Time Fly range from skillful to so-so.
Reporter
July 31, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
A tale of tree cities in the Panhandle; upscale fitness at the new Dallas Y; a return to those thrilling days of yesteryear with Riders in the Sky; another new plan to unclog Houston’s arteries.
Reporter
June 30, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
Saving the Fort Worth Stockyards; remembering the Hondo Hurrican; suing for peanuts’ rotting your brain on MTV.
Reporter
May 31, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
Hard times in Port Arthur; the lost art of nasty correspondence lives on in Big Spring; the woes of Kathy Whitmire; the Newlywed Game comes to Midland; gloves off in the book business.
Reporter
April 30, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
Taking stock of the Dallas mayoral election; defrocking the Legislature’s worst bills; buying stocks in the Trans-Pecos; unlocking the mysteries of the Arklatex; rocking the boat in Odessa.
Reporter
April 1, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
Times are tough in Laredo; specialty advertisers are unveiled in Dallas; some very old bones stir things up in Leander; a wild turkey comes back to West Texas; newspapers go wild in San Antonio.
Reporter
March 1, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
Pecos bucks for the title of world’s oldest rodeo; medical students make us pay now so they can make us pay later; Ground Zero radiates good, atomic fun; Texas’ jails get slammed; Fort Worth’s namesake languishes among Yankees.
Reporter
February 1, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
The unhealthy politics of emergency medicine; according an accordionist his due; sucking it up for Lite beer; the condo boom that went bust.
Reporter
January 1, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
Two newspapers in search of nothing in particular; a fish story with a happy ending; an eleven-letter word for “crossword puzzle whiz”; the cutting edge of Corpus Christi’s minority politics.
Reporter
December 1, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
Sundown’s up and Morton’s down: Dallas is Texas’ most mental city; the Spurs are Texas’ most schizophrenic team; the Aggies are ushering in brave new world; Fort Worth is fixing to challenge Detroit.
Music
November 1, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
Texas’ greatest rural sheriff, oddest permutation of democracy, unlikeliest punk heroes, and hottest airline dogfight.
Reporter
August 31, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
Dallas a haven for mystics and misfits? La Raza Unida just a memory? Plus: a real, live train robber reminisces; public TV fades in and out; C.A. Doerge gets all pumped up.
Reporter
July 31, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
Austin’s Bourbon Street; San Antonio’s food fight; the governor’s mystery museum; Green Lizards in Concan; truffles in paradise.
Reporter
June 30, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
A job crunch hits Odessa; an all-business mayor shakes up El Paso; the Rangers fold (again); a Houston homeowner wars with his neighborhood association; grads commemorate an all-black high school.
Reporter
May 31, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
The secret of making money; the cutest vandals you ever saw; the lowdown on high tech; the little trains that couldn’t; the champ with shear magic.
Reporter
April 30, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
A Texas farmer’s bitter harvest; a trucker’s paradise; Louisiana’s tastiest emigrant; NASA’s lunar fringe; the media’s favorite oilman.
Reporter
April 1, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
The countdown begins in the Dallas newspaper fight; Victor Garza is going your way--if you’re going to Laredo; one of Houston’s legal monoliths cracks; Clements has a lukewarm record, but the Democratic challengers aren’t so hot, either.
Reporter
March 1, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
Private eyes are peeled for oil thieves; Lightnin’ Hopkin’s death left Houston singin’ the blues; Zenter’s steakhouses hoof it across Texas; folks are MADD as hell about DWI; Places Rated Almanac flunks the rating game.
Reporter
February 1, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
A lawyer takes aim at handgun makers; Texas journalism gets hugh on society; politicians see red over fire ants; Dallas tries to master its aversion to master plans.
Reporter
January 1, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
Football fever in Wink; political prognostication in Houston; gustatory grotesquerie in Austin; building bonanza in Fort Worth.
Reporter
December 1, 1981
Texas Monthly Reporter
Robots take over Dallas; sports talk shows take Houston by storm; border bridges take forever to get built; John Tower takes the lead in the defense debate; a Corsicana bakery takes the fruitcake.
Reporter
November 1, 1981
Texas Monthly Reporter
Mercedes crisis looms; farm computer biz booms; Mavericks’ potential zooms. Plus, regional brokerages take stock; black colleges get a shock.