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June 1986

  • Features

    • Feature

      Grasslands

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      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.

    • Feature

      Unionbusters

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    • Feature

      Root, Root, Root for the Home Team

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      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.

    • Feature

      Hate Thy Neighbor

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      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.

    • Feature

      The Snootiest Neighborhood in Texas

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      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.

    • Texas Primer

      Texas Primer: The Fire Ant

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

  • Columns

    • Food

      Eating Up the Miles

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

    • Behind the Lines

      Behind the Lines

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      The solution politicians fear.

    • Books

      Nine Days of Solitude

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      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.

    • Movies

      Slow-motion Dilemma

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      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.

    • Jazz

      Treasure from the Vault

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      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.

  • Reporter

    • Reporter

      Texas Monthly Reporter

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      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.

  • Web

    • Recipe

      Guinness Beer Braised Lamb Shanks

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

    • Web Exclusive

      On the Menu: The Landmark Restaurant

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      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, The Landmark Restaurant is sure …

  • Miscellany