February 1978 Issue
Features

The Streets of Laredo
The real Nuevo Laredo isn’t George Washington’s Birthday, Boystown, or throngs of tourists; it’s the street life.

San Antonio is Better Than Houston, Dallas, or Anyplace Else
Some disagree. They are wrong.
Houston is Better Than Dallas
It is boorish, cluttered, aggravating, rich, beautiful, explosive, titillating, cosmopolitan, endearing, and has a full head of steam.

The Great Rockdale Football Mutiny
What happens when a high school football team tries to bench its coach?

Open House
Now for something completely different: a house that’s not rectangles or squares.
Columns
Fire and Rice
Now that you’ve mastered the art of using chopsticks, here’s something fantastic to put between them.
Finders Keepers?
The feds are trying to get our gas again; this time they’ve gone all the way to the Supreme Court.
The Boys of Winter
At the state touch football tournament, winning wasn’t everything—or was it?
Reporter
Texas Monthly Review
Vanity thy name is a theatrical success; Tom Taylor conjures the real Woody Guthrie; Dallas Civic Opera misses again, and then again; Mel Brooks has another winner; contemporary photographers send a cold message.