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.
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.
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.