June 1986

Features
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.
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.
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.
Baby Calves, children, even the agriculture commissioner: no one is safe from this tiny deamon.
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.
Web
Recipe from Jim Anile, Executive Chef, Melrose Hotel, Dallas.
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,…
Miscellany
Questioning the teachers’ sense—of humor; desperate times breed desperate ideas; a big step toward interstate banking.
Sure, a bride needs a groom, but the most important part of any wedding is the dress.
Toasting tacos; cleaning up the waterfront; replaying the Texaco-Pennzoil case.
Houston’s upper crust and underclass mingle at Jo Abercrombie’s Wednesday night fights.
Columns
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.
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.
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.
Our gadabout gourmet travels three thousand miles to answer the question. Where should you eat on your next Texas highway trip?
Reporter
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.