May 1986
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Features
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Texas Primer: The Stock Tank
Without these funky watering holes, where would we—much less our cattle and sheep—be today?
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Summer’s First Stand
Yesterday those onions and carrots were in the ground. Today they’re on your table, thanks to Texas’ bountiful roadside fruit and vegetable stands.
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How Bad Were They?
Larry Buchanan made movies that were so cheap, so incredibly flawed, and so dumb, they’re lovingly celebrated as the worst movies ever made. And he made them all in Dallas.
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The Greatest Fashion Show On Earth
Chanel boaters! Street bras! Step right up for a peek at this summer’s French-inspired fashions.
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Confessions of an Aging Pothead
I smoked marijuana all day every day for several years. It took me almost a year to quit—and now I wonder if I’ll ever get straight.
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UT Versus the Superstars
Texas universities take their knocks and learn their lessons from the best in the country.
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UT Versus A&M
They’re the oldest foes and the biggest rivals. Now the contest has moved into the arena that really counts—the classroom.
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The Quest That Fizzled
Everyone agreed it was time for greatness at UT. But after a nationwide search for a new president, the only man the regents could agree on was a campus insider who professed no great vision at all.
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The Oil Revolution
So long, OPEC. So long, $27 oil. The Merc is king now.
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Columns
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Marching Off to War
In 1969 a young man from Baytown decided, after a struggle, to fight in Vietnam.
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Pokey Romance
A Room With a View takes in edifying sights; Gung Ho settles for schmaltz; Just Between Friends makes glib chat.
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Southern Discomfort
Bobby Jack Nelson—roughneck, cowhand, prospector, and Australian talk show host—is also a fine novelist; Larry L. King writes about writing.
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The Anxious Witness
Photographer Robert Frank held up a mirror to America. Now Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts turns the mirror on him.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Somervell County suffers an identity crisis; an Alamo freak takes twenty years to build a diorama; Merlin Tuttle is batty.
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Web
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On the Menu: Las Manitas Avenue Cafe
Las Manitas Avenue Cafe is closed while the sisters prepare to open in a new location.
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Las Manitas Fajitas
Recipe from Las Manitas Cafe, Austin.
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Miscellany
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Touts
Here are some pin pals you’ll want to get to know.
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State Secrets
A boondoggle for coal means more trouble for natural gas; the Houston Chronicle doesn’t rate with HL&P; defense lawyers judge a judge.
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Shopping
True tales from the world of junking.
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Post-Modern Times
At the Crescent’s opening, old, excessive Texas came face to face with new, designer Texas.
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Downtown
The Dallas movie board is antiquated and eccentric, like a wacky uncle.
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