November 1978
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Features
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A Country Christmas
Holiday gift ideas with a true rustic flavor.
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The End of the Trail
At the Fort Worth stockyards, cattlemen buy and sell amid the last vestiges of the Old West.
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The Chew Road to Knowledge
Perhaps, after all, girls should go with boys who chew.
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The Birds of Death
Cockfighting is probably cruel and certainly illegal, which are only two reasons that attract its aficionados.
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Bad Jobs
If working hard builds character, these people must be saints.
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I Still Hate Chili
Fess up now. In your heart of hearts, don’t you hate it, too?
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Old Folks at Home
We will all grow old; but, as Maurice Chevalier says, “That’s not so bad when you consider the alternative.”
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Columns
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Behind the Lines
Good-bye to Main Street.
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Down on the Delta
Emma Blue spins lovely wheels in muddy issues.
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A Hole in the Hip Pocket
Hip Pocket Theater keeps taking on challenges it can’t meet.
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The Sons of Buddy Holly
Wide-open spaces and prairie madness make the special music of Lubbock.
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Stop the Presses
That’s exactly what the Mexican government tries to do when journalists get out of hand.
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Bird Lives!
Once a year the ghost of Charlie Parker reigns in a Dallas lounge.
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Pomp and Happenstance
Custom wedding photography by Robert Altman.
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Waiter, There’s a Tortilla in My Soup
Of course there is. It’s real Mexican food, not Tex-Mex.
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Symphony of Errors
Music from the Dallas Symphony not to read Shakespeare by.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Fighting the foolproof crime, playing games you can’t win, building an ice cream empire, and raising hell in Baylor.
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Miscellany
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State Secrets
Some tidbits and outrages under our very nose.
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Roar of the Crowd
Honorable pension.
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The Inside Story
Laser Eyes.
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Contest
All’s well that ends well.