July 1985

Jun 30, 1985 — By mksimqu

A photographic study gn beating the heat.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Prudence Mackintosh

Is it any surprise that a toddler who goes to sleep clutching a screwdriver instead of a teddy bear grows into a fourteen-year-old with a passion for motorcycles?

Jun 30, 1985 — By Peter Elkind

As an heir to the Dallas Morning News, Robert Decherd has vindicated his father’s name, waged and won a newspaper war, and emerged as the new leader of the Dealey dynasty.

Jun 30, 1985 — By garyclevewilson

It’s the best nickname you could have, even if you’ve never been to Texas.

Jun 30, 1985 — By ellenschuster

Jun 30, 1985 — By Skip Hollandsworth

The small-town orchestra has it all: performers who love the music passionately, audiences who lend their wholehearted support, and even occasional moments when all the instruments are playing the right note.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Paul Burka and Alison Cook

We just rate them. You voted for them.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Texas Monthly

Recipe From Kim Son, Houston 1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breast 2 heaping tablespoons brown sugar 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder honey to taste 1 package rice vermicelli noodles garnish of mung bean sprouts, shredded green lettuce, chopped fresh mint,…

Jun 30, 1985 — By Patrick Earvolino

HANKERING FOR HONEY-ROASTED PIGEON? How about Vietnamese fajitas? With offerings ranging from the frighteningly authentic to the infinitely accessible, Kim Son has paced the Vietnamese food explosion in Houston. Owned and managed by war refugees Tri M. La and family, Kim Son has grown from a hole in a graffitied…

Jun 30, 1985 — By Lawrence Wright

When the time comes for the last child in the family to relinquish her tattered baby blanket, she’s not the only one who’s a little shaky about it.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Speer Morgan

Trying to get a sick word processor fixed is enough to make us think twice about the technological revolution.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Nicholas Lemann

That may sound easy, but the combined constraints of the marketplace and the refrigerator’s contents make it a neat trick to put a satisfying meal on the table.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Gary Cartwright

The dreamiest of the practical decisions.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Michael Ennis

The Kimbell’s exhibit of seventeenth-century Spanish still lifes is dazzling enough to cause a modern photo-realist to look again.

Jun 30, 1985 — By James Wolcott

The Shooting Party hits the bull’s-eye; Rambo: First Blood Part II makes Viet Nam the Club Med of mass death; A View to a Kill should have considered suicide.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Jim Atkinson

Street barricading in Dallas.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Patricia Sharpe

The stars (and stripes) at night are big and bright.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Paul Burka

Singing the blues at the Fort Worth Opera; reversing the Texas Supreme Court; computing the damage at TI; cooking with gas at FERC.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Texas Monthly

Having fun with Shaggy; just being neighborly; debating the problems of the prisons.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Peter Applebone

Cloud seeding in the Hill Country.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Texas Monthly

Points of view

Jun 30, 1985 — By Michael Ennis

Sitcom City on Channel 27

Jan 20, 2013 — By Peter Elkind

Dr Pepper finds itself.