May 1980

Apr 30, 1980 — By Jan Reid

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.

Apr 30, 1980 — By Dick Reavis

Nuevo Laredo’s red-light district abounds with raw sex and broken dreams.

Apr 30, 1980 — By Ed Ward

Fire up! Put some spice back in your life with the amazing chile pepper.

Apr 30, 1980 — By Richard West

You can still find it in these great small towns.

Apr 30, 1980 — By John Bloom

The intrigue behind the building of Houston’s Texas Commerce Tower was almost as monumental as the 75-story structure itself.

Apr 30, 1980 — By W. L. Taitte

A Dallas composer is reviving medieval music in a modern context, while two new classical groups attempt a chamber music renaissance.

Apr 30, 1980 — By W. L. Taitte

When the San Antonio Symphony fired its brilliant and popular young conductor, it produced a cacophony of artistic and political discord.

Apr 30, 1980 — By William Martin

In France you can commune with the angels at Chartres or mingle with the home folks at the American Church in Paris.

Apr 30, 1980 — By Texas Monthly

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.

Apr 30, 1980 — By Paul Burka and William Broyles

Democracy in America

Apr 30, 1980 — By Michael Ennis

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.

Apr 30, 1980 — By Stephen Harrigan

Wallace Stegner’s love of the West and respect for its history make his works as distinctive as the region that inspired them.

Apr 30, 1980 — By Michael Ennis

Horses of different colors leapt from the bright, bold palette of German abstractionist Franz Marc.

Apr 30, 1980 — By Paul Burka

This is the question: is it a crime to be politically inept?

Apr 30, 1980 — By George Morris

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.

Apr 30, 1980 — By Patricia Sharpe

Comin’ in on a wing and a mare.

Apr 30, 1980 — By Paul Burka

Plaguing the Panhandle; rebuking the Washington Post; slaughtering the Beeferendum; lusting after the Speakership.

Apr 30, 1980 — By Texas Monthly

Barrio blues, cable cares, coddied eggs.

Apr 30, 1980 — By Gregory Curtis

Restless, rustless.

Apr 30, 1980 — By Gene Lyons

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.