March 1986
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Features
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Texas Primer: Cedar Fever
When cedars start to mate, Texans start to suffer.
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A Trust Corrupted, A City Betrayed, Part Two
The continuing saga of the Hermann estate scandal was a shocking lesson in how Houston’s most respected philanthropists, civic leaders, and biggest deal makers had abused their power.
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Turn It Up!
The rudest, crudest, and most obnoxious disc jockeys are on in the mornings. Here’s the best—or the worst—of the lot.
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The Tree-ear, The Comb Tooth, & The Destroying Angel
Alice in Wonderland never discovered a mushroom half as exotic as Texas’ own native fungi.
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Bass’n Gal
There are bass in Sam Rayburn Reservoir, and the gals were out to hook ‘em. And Rhonda Wilcox hoped to hook the biggest one of all.
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Doin’ the Social Climb
From the heights of the Dallas social heap, they leaped to the national celebrity circuit. Rich, young, and fashionable, Twinkle and Bradley Bayoud are a case study on how to rise to the top.
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Columns
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Falling Star
T. R. Fehrenbach’s Lone Star is now a series on public television. Watch it and sleep.
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Dizzy Spin
Down and out in Beverly Hills is Mazursky magic; Clan of the Cave Bear is Sheena of the Stone Age; Trouble in Mind is—never mind.
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My Intergalactic Champion Yodeler
“Hiiidee yodelo oh, hodeleh dee whoo,” sang Randy, and I knew I’d found the man for me.
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Kwell or Be Kwelled
Cradle Cap was nothing, diaper rash was a breeze. But when my son brought home head lice—well, it made the plague look good.
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Changing the Tune
Some new recordings of old symphonies reveal how the composers really wanted things to sound.
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Behind the Lines
Muddling along in Dallas.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Rio Hondo’s Broadway producer; Boys’ Life’s ripe old age; etiquette’s ups and downs.
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Web
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Chicken Fried Steak
Recipe from Threadgill’s, Austin.
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Aunt Onie’s White Soda Cornbread
Recipe from Threadgill’s, Austin.
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Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie
Recipe from Threadgill’s, Austin.
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Salty Cracker Pie
Recipe from Threadgill’s, Austin.
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Creole Sauce
Recipe from Threadgill’s, Austin.
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Threadgill’s Meatloaf
Recipe from Threadgill’s, Austin.
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On the Menu: Threadgills
One of those places that a city has to have if it’s got any gumption at all.
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Miscellany
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Touts
Five-finger exercises.
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State Secrets
How much will $15 oil coast Mark White?; two new R’s for school districts: resistin’ reform; the truth about those bank rumors.
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Roar of the Crowd
Sesquicentennial notes.
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Puzzle
Look sharp!
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Post-Modern Times
At the singles bar of the eighties, is it’s not love, it could still be a good investment opportunity.
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Downtown
Look into the Houston sky—those helicopters are full of commuters who are having fun.
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Back Roads
Ted Krechel, honorary winter Texan mayor of Pharr, oversees a culture as arcane as a Melanesian cargo cult.
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