March 1980
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Features
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Hustlers and Fortune Hunters Beware!
When the cable TV salesman comes calling, you should fully expect your city council to sell you down the river. Not that they mean to do it. It’s simply that history shows most city councils don’t know the first thing about cable. People who can barely figure out the briefs for a utility-company rate increase …
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The Law West of the Trinity
Justices of the peace, maligned since the days of Roy Bean, don’t operate like other judges. But if lawyers want to get ride of them, they can’t be all bad.
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An American Family
Pedro Martínez, with only his Mexican heritage, a determination to work hard, and a desire for a better life, brought his family across the Rio Grande to fine a home in a new land.
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Horse Power
Horses are expensive, finicky, and a pain to groom. They are also irresistible.
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Termite Watkins and the Fatal Pancakes
In a big fight you can outwit, outhit, or outlast your opponent. But you’d better not try to outeat him.
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No More Mr. Nice Guy
Straight out of the last century, fists swinging, cutting a swath through the lawless, comes Dick Cockrell.
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Invasion of the Cable Snatchers
In Texas the best way to get rich in cable television is to know just a little about TV and everything about politics.
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Columns
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Theater in a Suitcase
On its Houston stop, the Acting Company unpacked performances for Texas theaters to live up to. Austin’s Center Stage is in the know but lacks the how.
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Alias Miss Moonlight
For Maxine, Texas’ leading gossip, life is all work and no playcation.
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Brains, Beauty, and Braun
The Marriage of Maria Braun marks a second honeymoon for the New German Cinema; it’s hard to see your way through The Fog; this American Gigolo is overpriced and underwhelming.
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One Man’s Music
Harmony begins at home.
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The Egg War
Getting a memorial for Austin’s Viet Nam War dead began as a noble venture but ended in a trivial skirmish.
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Amens and Imams
Pentecostal revivalists bask in the Spirit of the Holy Ghost; Muslims find solace in the will of Allah.
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Behind the Lines
No news is bad news.
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The Secret Life of Chester Seltzer
Gordon Baxter’s Village Creek is just barely navigable. Amado Muro was a bohemian before it was fashionable.
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Russian Orthodox
The USSR today wouldn’t tolerate the radical art that was nurtured during the Russian Revolution.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Del Monte gets steamed up over spinach; an entrepreneur’s scheme goes up in flames; Marlin takes the geothermal plunge; football is hot stuff in Mexico.
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Miscellany
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Touts
Docs, rocks, and flocks.
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State Secrets
Texas witches need regulation; the Killer Bees sting again; a cloud hangs over the Contemporary Arts Museum; the feds insist that minority rules.
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Roar of the Crowd
Baby boom, bum rap, race trap.
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Puzzle
Ticket to write.
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The Inside Story
Black and brown.
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