Between a Hard Rock and a Place
The world’s hottest restaurant chain turns into Texas’ hottest restaurant feud.
January 1987
Features
1987 Bum Steer Awards
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.
The Coronary Bypass
In Texas, survivors of this life-and-death operation wear their scars like medals of honor.
The National Tour of Texas
I’ve long dreamed of driving every highway in Texas. This year I’m doing it—all 32,000 miles worth.
No Promises
I arrived in Houston at the height of the boom, and left just as the bust began. Along the way I learned what it means to grow up.
Total Hit
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.
Miscellany
State Secrets
A gloomy prediction for Texas banks; the oil crisis becomes a steel crisis; how Lloyd Bentsen’s new chairmanship can help Texas.
The Quidnunc
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.
Columns
Enter, With Trumpets
A series of world premieres commissioned by the Houston Symphony Orchestra has brought a dash of fanfare to Jones Hall.
You May Not Need It, But You Gotta Have It
Arresta is a toy store for grown-ups, where every item is selected to seduce the slavishly stylish.
Science Marches On
UT historian William Goetzmann traces America’s belief in endless possibilities to the boundless curiosity of its earliest explorers.
Art of the People
An innovative folk art exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of Art affirms the irrepressible spirit of the Mexican people.
What’s the Sound of One Texan Meditating?
John Toler switched from advertising to Zen, Emerson to Buddha, and Lubbock to the Land of the Lotus.
The Three Sisters
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.
The Left Side of the Menu
Admit it. The first courses always seem more interesting than the entrées. Why not make a meal of them?
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
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.
