March 1979 Issue
Features
Have Guns, Will Travel
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.
The Texan and His Gun
In frontier Texas, guns helped bring civilization out of chaos; today they’re creating chaos out of civilization.
Hey Kid, Shape Up
And Prairie View A&M will ship you out of the ghetto straight into the middle class.
Columns
You’ve Come a Long Way, Biscuits
The breads that won the West aren’t getting older, they’re getting better.
A Tale of Two Coasts
The best thing about a trip to Florida is coming back to Padre Island.
Who Needs Jones Hall?
Austin and Corpus Christi like their symphony orchestras just fine, thank you. Texas Opera Theater tries to break the language barrier.
The Ice Cometh, Man
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.
See No Evil
Dallas Theater Center welcomes Nazis to its stage. Houston’s Theatre Under the Stars turns Dickens into a funky musical.
Heavenly Hosts
Forget the church, forget the steeple, turn on the tube to see all the people.
Barthelme the Scribbler
Barthelme is a humane writer, but in Great Days he erased al his humans. Also, a look at two novels of the Texas hinterlands.
Golden Oldies
Look, but don’t touch-three museums with glittering antiques from Pompeii, India, and Peru.