December 1984

Dec 1, 1984 — By Texas Monthly

Holiday clothes go to the Longhorn Ballroom as easily as to charity balls.

Dec 1, 1984 — By Texas Monthly

Honky-tonks: how to get in, how to get out.

Dec 1, 1984 — By Peter Elkind and Alison Cook

Tales of Houston as it faces life after the boom.

Dec 1, 1984 — By David Seeley

If marriage means commitment and trust, that’s fine. If it means never dancing in front of a Billy Idol video again, that’s no so fine.

Dec 1, 1984 — By Susan Chadwick

It’s not quite a lie and not quite the truth. It’s a patriotic duty.

Dec 1, 1984 — By Catherine Chadwick

For a perfectly decorated tree, call Tom Osborn. But only if money is no object.

Dec 1, 1984 — By Gary Cartwright

Now that alligators aren’t endangered, they’re game. So are Texas hunters.

Dec 1, 1984 — By Andrzej Dudzinski

An interpretation of a classic genre.

Dec 1, 1984 — By Paul Burka

The inside skinny on the elections.

Dec 1, 1984 — By Texas Monthly

Dec 1, 1984 — By Paul Burka

A new law takes the driving out of DWI; a new battle brews on the Texas Supreme Court; Exxon gets rid of an old burden; so does Clinton Manges.

Dec 1, 1984 — By Texas Monthly

Dec 1, 1984 — By Texas Monthly

Dec 1, 1984 — By Dick Reavis

Three Texas Trivia games separate Lone Star zealots from ordinary believers.

Dec 1, 1984 — By Lawrence Wright

I took my son fishing because I wanted him to love the sport—and me.

Dec 1, 1984 — By larryherold

After winning seven straight state basketball championships, the Snook Bluejays are learning that success has a flip side.

Dec 1, 1984 — By Jim Atkinson

Selling crime self-help devices has become a booming business. But do any of these gadgets really make us safer?

Dec 1, 1984 — By Scott Lubeck

The Word Processor reveals the wisdom of the Good Book with a few keystrokes.

Dec 1, 1984 — By W. L. Taitte

The Houston premiere of Phillip Glass’ Akhnaten was a grand opera.

Dec 1, 1984 — By Gregory Curtis

Clap, clap, clap, clap.

Dec 1, 1984 — By James Whitaker

Frederick Barthelme’s first novel, Second Marriage, is a wondrous tale of love and absurdity set in the Gulf Coast suburbs.

Dec 1, 1984 — By James Wolcott

Body Double settles for facile thrills; Comfort and Joy offers moments of magical bliss; The Little Drummer Girl is off-pitch.

Dec 1, 1984 — By Harry Hurt III

Kung’s underground hideaway; Dallas’ Cadillac wars; the Panhandle’s art terrorists; Houston’s poet-laureate; Austin’s airport quandary.