June 1986

May 31, 1986 — By Dick Reavis

May 31, 1986 — By Texas Monthly

All there is to know about Texas baseball, including the best ballpark, the best team ever, why Yogi Berra thinks Houston is like New Jersey, and much, much more.

May 31, 1986 — By Emily Yoffe

A look at Houston’s Meyerland, Dallas’ Munger Place, El Paso’s Sunset Heights, and Austin’s Hyde Park shows that few fights get the blood boiling like a good fight with a neighbor.

May 31, 1986 — By Gary Cartwright

The residents of San Antonio’s King William Historic District saved their neighborhood from bums, bulldozers, and bogus bay windows. Now, if they can only save it from themselves.

May 31, 1986 — By Jan Reid

Baby Calves, children, even the agriculture commissioner: no one is safe from this tiny deamon.

May 31, 1986 — By jimbones

In the early journals of pioneers who described the prairie surrounding their new homesteads, the ocean was the most common metaphor—swells of grass set rippling by the wind.

May 31, 1986 — By Texas Monthly

Recipe from Jim Anile, Executive Chef, Melrose Hotel, Dallas.

May 31, 1986 — By Helen Thompson

The Warwick Melrose Hotel, Dallas is proud to showcase a culinary team led by Chef Jeff Moschetti. This creative team has been honored with the AAA Four Diamond award the prestigious DiRoNA award and the Wine Spectator award. In a city that boasts the highest number of restaurants per capita,…

May 31, 1986 — By Patricia Sharpe

These gifts belong to Daddy.

May 31, 1986 — By Jim Atkinson

Buckle up for your own safety—and save $35.

May 31, 1986 — By Paul Burka

Questioning the teachers’ sense—of humor; desperate times breed desperate ideas; a big step toward interstate banking.

May 31, 1986 — By Mimi Swartz

Sure, a bride needs a groom, but the most important part of any wedding is the dress.

May 31, 1986 — By Texas Monthly

Toasting tacos; cleaning up the waterfront; replaying the Texaco-Pennzoil case.

May 31, 1986 — By Texas Monthly

Don’t get your signals crossed.

May 31, 1986 — By Michael Ennis

Houston’s upper crust and underclass mingle at Jo Abercrombie’s Wednesday night fights.

May 31, 1986 — By Gary Cartwright

The solution politicians fear.

May 31, 1986 — By Jan Reid

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor is more than just journalistic ghostwriting; I the Supreme is robbed of its punch; Bird of Life, Bird of Death peeks behind Central America’s dictators and dominoes.

May 31, 1986 — By James Wolcott

Violets Are Blue is swimming in heavy conflict; Wise Guys is mostly slob humor, Absolute Beginners is an absolute mess; At Close Range is a violent ambush.

May 31, 1986 — By Doug Ramsey

New releases of Duke Ellington’s work give us exquisite music from small bands, a dance band having fun, and stereo recording twenty years before its time.

May 31, 1986 — By Barbara Rodriguez

Our gadabout gourmet travels three thousand miles to answer the question. Where should you eat on your next Texas highway trip?

May 31, 1986 — By William Booth

The boom has quietly ended in Iran; fruitivores live longer, says T. C. Fry; a repo man nabs a truck and a sheriff nabs him.