
June 1980 Issue
Features


An Insider’s Guide to San Antonio
There’s more for the traveler in San Antonio than meets the Alamo.


Lawn Boy
Here’s how to achieve inner peace, perfect serenity, spiritual calm, and a nice, neat lawn.
Columns
Behind the Lines
None of the old clichés about voluntarism are true except this one: it works.
Two Roads to Calvary
On Palm Sunday Episcopalians at St. David’s in Austin rekindled their faith in the life and teachings of Jesus. At nearby Greater Mt. Zion on Easter, Baptists relived the miracles of His resurrection.
The Little Symphony That Could
The Texas Little Symphony’s April concert was no whistle-stop - it was Carnegie Hall. Two chamber groups, Voices of Change and Syzygy, take the Twentieth Century Limited.
Whose Woods Are These?
As more and more city dwellers tread on the landscape, farmers and ranchers are less inclined to forgive those who trespass against them.
Stir-fried and Refried
You can find the spice of your life at Uncle Tai’s in Houston; you don’t have a choice at Joe T. Garcia’s in Fort Worth - except good, reliable Tex-Mex.
Once More With Fonda
When NBC televised The Oldest Living Graduate, it broadcast the flaws of live TV drama. Theatre Three’s Second Stage Festival deserved a larger viewing audience.
The Bean Squawk
A lot of farmers and gardeners think Congressman Kika de la Garza is a pest.
Three’s Company
Not even a freak April snow could keep the glittering multitude from the Y.O. Ranch’s one-hundredth birthday party.
Miscellany
Roar of the Crowd
Light at the end of the tunnel, frost on the top of the mountain, brass knucks in the lunchbox.
State Secrets
A controversial nuclear plant moves to Texas; Clements costs us $11 million; making census out of Houston; the Senate moves toward the center.
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
Exploding the myth of the long-haul trucker; half a million Texas students get snookered; beating the IRS - maybe; praise the Lord and pass the ballot.