December 1990
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Features
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Scene of the Crime
It all looked so different 27 years ago.
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Native Nativities
All is clam, all is bright in folk-art manger scenes.
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“I’m Just Me”
When country singer Charley Pride isn’t on the road, chances are he’s puttering around a Dallas golf course—or riding herd on his business holdings.
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Earley Texas
Dallas painter Sean Earley moves to Italy and learns to paint Texas.
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Fine Tuning
From the Panhandle to the Bayou City, homegrown classical music ensembles are our best-kept secret.
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I Was Mandarin…
Clues left behind by a former Dallas cop convinced his son that he killed President Kennedy—but that’s just the beginning of the mystery.
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Boomtown
Don’t give up on oil yet, Texas. Come along to Pearsall, deep in the brush country, and learn how the new oil boom is different from the old.
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Columns
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Mr. March
By running-and-gunning down opponents in the NCAA tournament, Tom Penders has jump-started UT basketball.
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Growing Pains
My daughter’s first day of kindergarten was hard—on me.
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The New Santa
A Christmas story for all you kids out there.
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Back in the Saddle
Larry McMurtry returns to the mythic West and spins a thoughtful and touching tale.
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Golden Oldies
San Antonio’s new ancient-art gallery takes you back a few millennia.
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Reporter
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Killer Buzz
The Africanized bees have arrived, and Anita Collins can’t wait to take them on.
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Combo Invasion
Nuclear polka blasts Japan! Brave Combo basks in the radioactive afterglow.
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State Wide: Lookin’ Back, TX
PR and nostalgia keep the legend alive. But will the town survive?
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Web
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Bouche de Noelle
Cake 1 1/3 cups flour 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 pound butter 1 cup sugar 3 eggs 1/2 cup milk Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line bottom of 16- by 11-inch jelly roll pan with parchment paper. Butter paper and sides of pan. Dust lightly with flour. Sift together flour, salt, …
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Miscellany
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Two-way Radio
With a sweet leasing deal, Austin sister stations KASE and KVET pack a one-two punch on the FM dial.
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Dressed in Peace
When it’s time for that final fashion statement, a Fort Worth clothier has just the thing—complete with Velcro.
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Man at Work
Now that Drayton McLane has sold his family company to Wal-Mart, he has no intention of retiring from the daily grind.
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Still The Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
Photograph by William Coupon
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State Fare
After Bruce and Susan Molzan bought the Ruggles Grill four years ago, they revitalized the menu at the sleepy Montrose landmark with his brash cooking style and her luxurious desserts. Both Molzans are graduates of the prestigious Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, and their approaches to food are complementary. Bruce cooks …
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