October 1983
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Features
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Western Art: Stampede
Our new regular feature will reinterpret a much-maligned art form.
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Football, Game of Life
When two high schools in Beaumont-one white, one black-were ordered to merge last fall, the outraged town watched as the drama of integration was played out on the football field.
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Mayor of the Unfinished City
To become more than a perpetual boom town, Dallas needs a foresighted leader and astute politician. Is Starke Taylor the man?
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They Say
Cabeza de Vaca hated it. Georgia O’Keeffe loved it. Seems like Texas leaves no one speechless.
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Ninety Miles From Nowhere
Presidio crouches on the border of Mexico and the extreme edge of life in America. There, Spanish is the language, hundred-degree heat is the norm, and the hoe is the crucial tool for scraping out life on the desert.
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Taking Over
It’s a bank-eat-bank world out there.
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Texas Primer: The Open Container
Texans are sometimes driven to drink.
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Columns
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Daniel’s Lot
In Daniel the hero has to bear the burn of his parents’ treason, while the audience must endure a lot of misery. The Moon in the Gutter is a film in search of eclipse. Education Rita is an enjoyable elective.
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Medicine To Go
Minor emergency centers are fine for those who don’t need much more than a Band-Aid, a throat culture, or a summer-camp physical.
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Rose-Colored Ivories
Is Claudio Arrau the last great Romantic pianist?
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Wal-Marts Across Texas
An Arkansas chain has refused to discount small-town buying power. Now it’s ousting local mom-and-pop operations throughout Texas and even giving K Mart a run for its money.
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Behind the Lines
Playing by the rules.
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Books Only A Mother Could Love
You too can be an author-if you’re willing to publish the book yourself. All you have to have is a stack of paper, a tale to tell, and a couple of thousand bucks.
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In the Boredom of the Storm
Hurricane Alicia roared through Houston, but somehow it seemed much more real on TV than it did outside my hotel room window.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Texas becomes a disaster zone; a magazine empire enters the twilight zone; the district attorney’s office in San Antonio is a war zone; problems crop up in the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport flight zone.
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Miscellany
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State Secrets
The National Weather Service blows Hurricane Alicia; how the storm will blow insurance rates; Texas congressmen vie for a plum committee seal; a suggestion for spending the spare $2 million.
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Touts
Bench warmers and good lookers.
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