August 1987
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Features
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Texas Primer: The Tar Ball
There’s one place where you can still find plenty of oil in Texas: the beach.
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What the Stranger Saw
Nobody remembers his name, but the photographer who passed through Corpus Christi in 1934 left behind an unforgettable series of images.
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Who Says Never Trust a Skinny Chef?
Meet Bruce Auden of San Antonio, the fairest of the Fairmount.
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Cities in Bondage
When eighty-year-old Decker Jackson gives financial advice to Texas public officials, nothing in life is certain but debt and taxes.
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The Booming Business of AIDS
For some entrepreneurs, the dark cloud of AIDS has proved to have a silver lining.
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The Time It Always Rained
The wettest spell in memory has given the people who live in West Texas an unfamiliar topic of conversation.
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The Sleaziest man in Texas
The rich and eccentric heir to a rich and Galveston family, Shearn Moody, Jr., craved an empire all his own. But his lack of self-restraint cost him his bank, his insurance company, his fortune, and now, perhaps, his freedom.
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Columns
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Revenge of the Retrorockers
The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Mason Ruffner, and Omar and the Howlers all got the same message from album-oriented-rock radio: Wrap it up, we’ll take it.
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Hollywood on the Rio Grande
Brownsville has everything Mexico’s leading filmmaker could want—except visas.
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What’s in a Name?
Maybe as much as $20,000, if Lee Ballard of Dallas has anything to do with it.
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Behind the Lines
Should we have an income tax?
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Subjects of the Realm
Hans Holbein’s life drawings are a tantalizing glumpse into the lusty court of Henry VIII. And courtesy of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, they’re on view at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Let’s play pretend by swapping out Houstonians for Dallasites. Plus: Battling books, good Mex-Mex where you’d least expect it, and our guide to the latest legislative phrases (use ‘em three times and they’re yours!)
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Miscellany
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State Secrets
Playing fast and loose with the new speed limit; an oil drilling technique gets the shaft; dam builders strick back—with Authority; how the budget battle is changing the Legislature.
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Roar of the Crowd
Behaving yourself in the eighties; keeping the faith in the parish; winning Pulitzers with penguins.
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Puzzle
Sixteen ways to make an entrance.
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The National Tour of Texas
Passing (slowly) through Kendleton. Then on to Houston, where student murals record the march of time and Vietnam vets gather; to a meal so good it’s kept under lock and key; and finally to the (formerly) Golden Triangle.
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