Texas Primer: The Collins Purse
In the sixties a small company in Medina produced a wooden box decorated with rhinestones. It became a Texas tradition.
January 1984
Features
Feature
Gambling on the Gamblers
Jerry Argovitz made himself unpopular with NFL management as an abrasive player's agent. Now that he owns Houston's new football team, he finds himself on the other side of the table—and the issues.
Feature
Western Art: Urbanization
Feature
All the Better to See You With, My Dear
Are eye surgeons miraculously changing the lives of folks with glasses as thick as Coke-bottle bottoms, or are they just making themselves rich?
Feature
1984 Bum Steer Awards
Presenting Carolyn Farb, worthy to Dolph Briscoe, Farrah Fawcett, J. R. Ewing, Mike Martin, and Jackie Sherrill as Bum Steer of the Year—and 107 other fascinating foibles.
Feature
Love and Death in Silicon Prairie, Part I: Candy Montgomery’s Affair
Urban refugees fleeing high-tech Dallas have created ersatz rural communities in the nearby countryside. This isolated, pastoral life sometimes erupts into adultery and murder.
Columns
Behind the Lines
Behind the Lines
In an ugly box of a building near the center of NASA in Houston, a phalanx of technocrats with photo ID cards pinned to their limp shirts sat at an array of radio and computer consoles imposing enough to make George Orwell, were he alive here at the dawn of…
Architecture
That’s a Metal Building?
The greening (and redding, and yellowing, and blueing) of the prefabricated warehouse.
Theater
Caravan of Pipe Dreams
From the city that brought you the Stockyards and Billy Bob's Texas comes a bizarre nightclub run by the shock troops of the avant-garde.
Movies
The Godfather Goes Slumming
Al Pacino carries on the gangster tradition in Scarface; the mystery in Gorky Park is not whodunit but who'll survive the investigation; Tentl is a Barbra Streisand tour de force.
Jazz
Unabridged Webster
You may not have heard saxman Ben Webster when he was around, but his recordings with Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, and Gerry Mulligan are a treasure trove not to be missed.
Miscellany
State Secrets
State Secrets
Storm damage from Alicia may include the public's right to use the beach; Texas pecan growers go nuts over the feds; Mexico's ruling party turns up the heat on the opposition; why there may be an NCAA football play-off sooner than you think.
Reporter
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
Damming the Rio Grande; cruising the streets of Houston; building the nation's biggest organ; remembering the Alamo.
