August 1985
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Features
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Texas Primer: The Two-step
Forget about waltzing across Texas. Let’s two-step instead.
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Western Art: Ghost Rider
An interpretation of a classic genre.
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My Three Sons
Maybe the mayhem generated by a trio of battling boys is just their idea of brotherly love.
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The Wee World of Golf
Looking for a sport that offers plenty of cheap thrills and wacky challenges but requires no training, no equipment, and no big bucks? Try miniature golf.
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Operator, Give Me Information
It seems practically impossible to choose the best deal from the multitude of services offered by all the new long distance phone companies. But we’ve got their number.
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An Aggie’s Revenge
Starting with his alma mater and using little more than charm, Robert Hicks conned the college fund-raising industry out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. His name is mud at A&M.
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Isle Without End
An early castaway described Padre Island as “a wretched, barren sandbank.” It’s better known today as the Gold Coast of Texas, but its identity is still rooted in wildness and age-old solitude.
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Columns
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Don’t Do What They Did to David Clyde
Though he fought against bad management, bad coaching, and bad habits, he finally struck out at baseball, the victim of too much too soon.
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All in the Family
Prizzi’s Honor is a macabre satire of the two-career marriage; Cocoon can’t burst free of its nice-guy limitations; Pale Rider recycles all the wrong western riffs; St. Elmo’s Fire should have been doused from the start.
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Short and Sweet
Sometimes the opera is over before the fat lady sings. Consider the successful debut of sixteen brief and eclectic works commissioned by the Texas Opera Theater.
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The Pink People
A new recruit to the ranks of Mary Kay beauty consultants struggles valiantly to do his part in reaching the woman of the eighties and keeping the company in the pink.
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Behind the Lines
Labor’s nuke.
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A Concrete Romance
One man’s whim-turned-obsession is changing Houston’s McKee Street Bridge and its faded environs into one of the few really original artistic images of the city.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Hungry ants in the Panhandle; cocky dispatchers in Dallas; tiny trees near San Antonio.
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Web
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Portobello Tricolor in Pesto Vinaigrette
Recipe by Chef Victor Garcia, Cafe Highland Park, Dallas 1 large portobello mushroom 8oz spinach leaves 1 Roma tomato (1/4 inch slices) 2oz goat cheese Brush portobello mushroom with olive oil and sprinkle with 1 ounce chopped basil, salt, and pepper. Place on a baking sheet and bake in 350 degree oven for 10 minutes. …
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On the Menu: Cafe Highland Park
ALL SO OLD-WORLD, the menu is a sort of compendium of the Mediterranean’s greatest hits. Even a standby like Shrimp Scampi, sauteed in a tangy garlic lemon butter sauce, comes off with flair. The delicate phyllo basket stuffed with steamed spinach, mushrooms, crab, and shrimp on a bed of tomato coulis is a pretty presentation …
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Miscellany
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Touts
Go ahead—thing big!
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State Secrets
Every phone a pay phone; look out, Clinton Manges; the GOP donnybrook; party realignment in San Antonio.
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Roar of the Crowd
Taking the plunge; defending Diana; grading the tests; reforming the system.
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Post-Modern Times
Triathletes converge upon Lake Lavon to compete in the sport of the eighties.
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Downtown
Houston police chief Lee Brown is doing things right; crime is down, public approval is up.
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Back Roads
Through his small, simply produced literary magazine, poet David Yates made his mark—both in Texas and beyond. Peter Applebome
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