October 1987

Sep 30, 1987 — By Drew Jubera

Three recent scandals in the Methodist church are forcing it to do some serious soul-searching.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Emily Yoffe

The bishop denied until the end that he got AIDS from homosexual contact. But the furor that resulted from his death has opened the door on his life as a gay man.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Suzanne Winckler

Turn off the AC, stop pretending you’re a reptile, welcome the whooping cranes back. It’s fall!

Sep 30, 1987 — By jamesmcgoon

Never say Kant, Socrates it to ‘em, and other collected wisdom from Texas’ Friday-night philosophers.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Lawrence Wright

The Hollywood epics have left Texas, to be replaced by miniatures like Nadine.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Gary Cartwright

Las Colinas was supposed to be Can-Do City. So why couldn’t it?

Sep 30, 1987 — By Paul Burka

These are only aliases. Their real names are Mattox, Mauro, Richards, and Hightower. And they may be leading the Democratic party to its apocalypse.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Joe Nick Patoski

We have seen the future of Dallas nightlife, and it is called Dallas Alley.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Jerry Jeanmard

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when dude ranch décor reigned supreme in the family room.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Paul Burka

What’s black and white and kenaf all over? EDS finds gold in California politics; Texas banks show no mercy for S&Ls; the Fort Worth City Council feels neglected

Sep 30, 1987 — By Texas Monthly

Taxing circumstances in a family, some cities, and the state.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

Across pastoral northeast Texas, where Baptists debate the niceties of immersion, truckers and hookers turn the airwaves blue, and bass have their private lives laid bare by electronic snooping.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Gregory Curtis

The perfect city revisited.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Joe Nick Patoski

What sport requires cunning, stamina, skill, and a fondess for sloshing aroound in the muck? Why, fishing for reds off the coast of Texas, of course.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Jan Reid

Three novelists discover that a Texas connection need not be a tie that binds.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Michael Ennis

The Dallas Museum of Art hosts an eighty-year retrospective of Wyeth family art that carries Nancy Reagan’s seal of approval.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Jody Denberg

An all-night deejay takes his listeners on a long night’s journey into day.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Alison Cook

Where there’s smoke, there’s chef Robert McGrath’s smokebox that works wonders on Southwestern dishes.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Alison Cook

Cities in search of salvation; the new White House (as in Mark); the art of double-Daryled potshots; chile time in El Paso; chile relleno time in Houston.