
February 1981 Issue
Features


Old Oil: The Ranger Revival
Ranger was the most romantic field in the early oil boom. Now a major company is risking its future to prove that romance still lives.

Crime Without Punishment
Lock your doors. The police have given up trying to catch burglars.

Total Fabrications
When machine-printed polyester or rayon won’t do, consider the work of Texas’ top textile artists.


New Oil: The Giddings Gamble
Oil patch old-timers said to stay away from the Austin chalk. But a few feisty newcomers refused to listen and cashed in for millions.
Columns
Marty Martin, Marty Martin
A young Austin playwright is making a name for himself by writing plays about famous people.
Blood Luster
Aztec is gripping buts so gory you may have to read it with you eyes closed; Darlin’ Billadds patina to the Wild Bill Hickok legend; as a major American writer, Thomas McGuane has An Outside Chance; Louise Gluck again proves her power as a poet.
Behind the Lines
It’s time to stop taking care of the Arabs and start taking care of ourselves.
Shout If You Love Jesus
Local Church members in Houston make sure God hears them; Trinity Baptist in San Antonio is confident it has God’s ear.
Going for Baroque
Dallas Civic Opera lured audiences back to the eighteenth century with its American premiere of Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso.
An Ounce of Prevention
The doctors who police other doctors are hard on their errant peers-but are they finding all the offenders?
Miscellany
Roar of the Crowd
The rich and famous, the high and mighty, the beginning and the end.
State Secrets
Roughhouse on the Red River; the inside skinny on who’s In and Out; the Census Bureau giveth and the Census Bureau taketh away; circulatory ailments for Dallas newspapers; the last warpath.
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
Cultural triumph in San Antonio; mayoral high jinks in Matamoros; electoral tableau in Austin; political protest in Dallas.