January 1987

Jan 1, 1987 — By Joe Nick Patoski

The world’s hottest restaurant chain turns into Texas’ hottest restaurant feud.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Texas Monthly

A year of anguished Arabs, bigshot bankrupts, crazy cookbooks, despoiled dinosaurs, exhibitionist editors, foiled fugitives, greens-eating graduates, half-cocked hashish, in flagrante inmates, jolly jailers, kinky kilocycles, late lobsters, moistened mayors, and northbound Nicaraguans.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Stephen Harrigan

In Texas, survivors of this life-and-death operation wear their scars like medals of honor.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

I’ve long dreamed of driving every highway in Texas. This year I’m doing it—all 32,000 miles worth.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Mimi Swartz

For eight years, I had a love affair with Houston. When the good times ended, we drifted apart. But while it lasted, we had the time of our lives.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Gary Cartwright

One morning last August, a San Antonio patrolman told his superior officer that his best friend was a killer cop. By that afternoon, the killer cop was dead, the patrolman was claiming self-defense, and a city infamous for strange killings was in the midst of one of the strangest of all.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Patricia Sharpe

Ranking the files.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Patricia Hart

A gloomy prediction for Texas banks; the oil crisis becomes a steel crisis; how Lloyd Bentsen’s new chairmanship can help Texas.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Texas Monthly

Battle of the Alamo, Part Two

Jan 1, 1987 — By Mark Seal

Celebrating the Day of the Dead with David Byrne; digging for Texas dirt with snoop queen Kitty Kelley; playing nuclear war games in San Antonio.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Texas Monthly

Take a Seat

Jan 1, 1987 — By W. L. Taitte

A series of world premieres commissioned by the Houston Symphony Orchestra has brought a dash of fanfare to Jones Hall.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Gregory Curtis

The law that changed nothing.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Mimi Swartz

Arresta is a toy store for grown-ups, where every item is selected to seduce the slavishly stylish.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Paul Andrew Hutton

UT historian William Goetzmann traces America’s belief in endless possibilities to the boundless curiosity of its earliest explorers.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Michael Ennis

An innovative folk art exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of Art affirms the irrepressible spirit of the Mexican people.

Jan 1, 1987 — By William Martin

John Toler switched from advertising to Zen, Emerson to Buddha, and Lubbock to the Land of the Lotus.

Jan 1, 1987 — By James Wolcott

Crimes of the Heart is a warm spill of sunshine, but Betty Blues is a mindless lump of misery and ¡Three Amigos! isn’t friendly at all.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Alison Cook

Admit it. The first courses always seem more interesting than the entrées. Why not make a meal of them?

Jan 1, 1987 — By Peter Elkind

The citizens of Muleshoe lose their only hospital, thanks to a California chain; the citizens of Houston learn the value of caution, thanks to a local developer; the citizens of the world get a chance to improve their potency, thanks to the Aggies.