Two average, middle-class men risk injury and death patrolling the roughest streets in Dallas. Why do they do it? Because they love the job.
May 1980

Features
Fire up! Put some spice back in your life with the amazing chile pepper.
The intrigue behind the building of Houston’s Texas Commerce Tower was almost as monumental as the 75-story structure itself.
Columns
A Dallas composer is reviving medieval music in a modern context, while two new classical groups attempt a chamber music renaissance.
When the San Antonio Symphony fired its brilliant and popular young conductor, it produced a cacophony of artistic and political discord.
In France you can commune with the angels at Chartres or mingle with the home folks at the American Church in Paris.
The Alley mourns the passing of Nina Vance; outlanders rustle a Texas-trained playwright; in Houston, Stages spends a Night on Bare Mountain and Hank Williams appears at the Tower.
Bringing the world’s most controversial feminist sculpture to Texas turned out to be no picnic - but a rare feast for connoisseurs of the outrageous.
Wallace Stegner’s love of the West and respect for its history make his works as distinctive as the region that inspired them.
Horses of different colors leapt from the bright, bold palette of German abstractionist Franz Marc.
This is the question: is it a crime to be politically inept?
John Huston makes the sinners and saviors of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction eerily real in Wise Blood; Little Miss Marker falls short; Nijinsky falls flat.
Miscellany
Plaguing the Panhandle; rebuking the Washington Post; slaughtering the Beeferendum; lusting after the Speakership.
Reporter
Fighting over a black neighborhood in Austin; corralling the irascible Bull of the Brazos; fussing and feuding with the DAR; monkeying around with the San Antonio Zoo.