March 1979

Mar 1, 1979 — By Janice Rubin

If she’s your brother’s mother’s other female child, who is she?

Mar 1, 1979 — By Jan Reid

Do you want a rare antique muzzle-loader or a holdup pistol that can’t be traced? You can find them both at a gun show.

Mar 1, 1979 — By Jan Reid

In frontier Texas, guns helped bring civilization out of chaos; today they’re creating chaos out of civilization.

Mar 1, 1979 — By Paul Burka

Oil is a slippery business.

Mar 1, 1979 — By John Bloom

And Prairie View A&M will ship you out of the ghetto straight into the middle class.

Mar 1, 1979 — By Martha Shulman

The breads that won the West aren’t getting older, they’re getting better.

Mar 1, 1979 — By Stephen Harrigan

The best thing about a trip to Florida is coming back to Padre Island.

Mar 1, 1979 — By W. L. Taitte

Austin and Corpus Christi like their symphony orchestras just fine, thank you. Texas Opera Theater tries to break the language barrier.

Mar 1, 1979 — By Prudence Mackintosh

Trees came crashing down, power lines writhed on the ground, the lights went out, and the heat went off. It was Dallas’ trial by ice.

Mar 1, 1979 — By W. L. Taitte

Dallas Theater Center welcomes Nazis to its stage. Houston’s Theatre Under the Stars turns Dickens into a funky musical.

Mar 1, 1979 — By William Martin

Forget the church, forget the steeple, turn on the tube to see all the people.

Mar 1, 1979 — By William Broyles

A farewell to celebrities and to arms.

Mar 1, 1979 — By Gregory Curtis and raymondcarver

Barthelme is a humane writer, but in Great Days he erased al his humans. Also, a look at two novels of the Texas hinterlands.

Mar 1, 1979 — By Michael Ennis

Look, but don’t touch-three museums with glittering antiques from Pompeii, India, and Peru.

Mar 1, 1979 — By Joe Nick Patoski

Houston guitarist Rocky Hill is a rising star; catch him if you can.

Mar 1, 1979 — By George Morris

Mar 1, 1979 — By Patricia Sharpe

The birds and the knees.

Mar 1, 1979 — By Paul Burka

Why doctors don’t like nurses anymore; where is the tax revolt?

Mar 1, 1979 — By Texas Monthly

Something old, something new, something barred, something true.

Mar 1, 1979 — By Texas Monthly

The name’s the game.

Mar 1, 1979 — By Gregory Curtis

A few trusted friends.

Mar 1, 1979 — By Texas Monthly

A Texas train on the right track; Houston annexations derailed.