July 1986

Jun 30, 1986 — By William Booth

Their business may read like a sci-fi script, but these aging astronauts, former NASA engineers, technocrats, and high-risk junkies are serious about selling space.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Jan Morris

To Texan’s, it’s the border. To Mexicans, it’s la frontera. It’s a hot, dazzling world where cultures clash and you’re never sure just where you stand.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Paul Burka

Subtract Democratic voters, add new Republicans, and it equals realignment.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Alison Cook

Proprietors of some of Texas’ priciest restaurants are spinning off more-economical eateries that are giving the originals a run for their money.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Susan Chadwick

You don’t have to be born here to qualify. The mark of a true native is an undying passion to be one.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Arnie Weissman

It’s eight to five. It’s in Brenham. And all she has to worry about is getting an ice cream headache.

Jun 30, 1986 — By William Broyles

The son’s ultimate selfishness is to see his father only as his father—not as a man. But on our first fishing trip in 25 years, I began to see my father—and myself—as the grown men we’d become.

Jun 30, 1986 — By garymele

An interpretation of a classic genre.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Texas Monthly

Roasted rosemary chicken and jicama slaw.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Texas Monthly

FOOD HAS PLAYED prominent role in some of history’s most momentous upheavals — mention tea and the American Revolution comes to mind. Or cake: Marie Antoinette’s snide directive, “Let them eat cake,” symbolizes the issue around which the French Revolution swirled. It may not be going too far to say…

Jun 30, 1986 — By Patricia Sharpe

Perk up your bath hour with these liquid refreshments.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Paul Burka

Fighting and feuding in the Mexican Lions Club; HL&P loses a lawsuit, and everybody will pay for it; the new math of politics; where’s the beef? on a diet.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Jim Atkinson

The cure for San Antonio’s inner-city malaise may be worse than the disease.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Texas Monthly

We find a successful guy in Dallas who doesn’t dress like Ross Perot!

Jun 30, 1986 — By Texas Monthly

Jun 30, 1986 — By Texas Monthly

Jun 30, 1986 — By Michael Ennis

A Texas lab that look s like the set for a Buck Rogers movie is actually the frontier of the Star Wars weapons research effort.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Gregory Curtis

The unbudgeted carpet.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Vance Muse

George Bernard Shaw wrote a quarter of a million pieces of correspondence and never mailed one to San Antonio. So where does his editor choose to live?

Jun 30, 1986 — By Michael Ennis

“Art Among Us/Arte Entre Nosotros” reveals the delightful madness of San Antonio’s barrio art.

Jun 30, 1986 — By John Morthland

North Texas bands face a tough choice: living to make music or making music for a living.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Dick Reavis

Pancho Barrio, an ex-accountant, a charismatic Catholic, and the mayor of Juarez, hopes to topple the ruling party in a July governor’s race.

Jun 30, 1986 — By James Wolcott

Top Gun is just a high-tech skeet shoot; Alan Alda shows a wet blanket over the fun in Sweet Liberty; Desert Bloom has a bittersweet significance; The Manhattan Project needs an attitude adjustment.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Jan Reid

Wild mustangs roam home; attorney race to Houston’s bankruptcy court; UT students get rich.