May 1987 Issue
Features
Coots: A Field Guide
A crusty, cranky, curmudgeonly species of bird is proliferating within our borders. And maybe that’s good.

The Longest Ride of His Life
When Randall Adams was sentenced to death ten years ago, the Dallas community thought a cop killing had been put to rest. But it hasn’t.

All Aboard for Copper Canyon
Try North America’s best travel bargain—the Copper Canyon train ride. For $9 you can see Indians who run down deer on foot, Mennonites who speak German, and the most spectacular scenery in Mexico.

Heads, We Win, Tails, You Lose
Highly partisan justices are at the center of the Supreme Court scandal.

Blind Justice
Should a judge’s friendships survive his election to the Supreme Court of Texas?

Every Good Boy Does Fine
In the late seventies, celebrated pianist Van Cliburn inexplicably disappeared from public life. No tortured artist in hiding, Cliburn is having the time of his life sitting around his Fort Worth mansion in his bathrobe.
Columns
Trailer Trash
Everyone in Raising Arizona has a libido for the ugly, and the guys in Tin Men can’t see past their hood ornaments; Hollywood Shuffle loses its hip mind; Street Smart has a crazed, electric menace.
The Old Man and the Vines
My father’s Panhandle grape patch gives him a new cash crop and a new pride as a farmer.
Romancing the Stone
Using a circular saw and a shrewd commercial sense, Plano housewife Sandy Stein chiseled a new life for herself as a sculptor.
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
Houston ignores its AIDS crisis, Dallas restaurant gossips chew over hard times, San Antonio headline writers get their due. Plus: Chuck Robb’s blooper, Larry McMurtry’s sniffles, and Shearn Moody’s new taste in nightlife.