September 1986

Aug 31, 1986 — By Alison Cook

Mix election time, South Texas, and barbeque, and you get the pachanga circuit, where politics and barbeque are served with equal reverence.

Aug 31, 1986 — By Geoff Winningham

An enticing portfolio of what makes Houston Houston.

Aug 31, 1986 — By Jan Reid

She unmasked the Klan and worried about the role of women, but she listened more to her husband than to the suffragettes.

Aug 31, 1986 — By Dick Reavis

Houston is famous for medical cures. But when British rock star Ronnie Lane came to town with a crippling disease and $1 million for research, all he got was crippling legal problems.

Aug 31, 1986 — By Joe Nick Patoski

The state fair’s Comet: will it rust in space?

Aug 31, 1986 — By Aaron Latham

The most important new addition to the Dallas Cowboys is a veteran from the team’s early years computer genius Salam Qureishi.

Aug 31, 1986 — By Stephen Harrigan

The Chihuahuan Desert is a place of extremes, where the visitor not only observes but participates in the struggle for life and death.

Aug 31, 1986 — By judypederson

Aug 31, 1986 — By Texas Monthly

1/2 cup vegetable oil 2 onions, chopped 1 clove garlic, mashed 1 32-ounce bottle ketchup 3 tablespoons yellow mustard 2 cups black coffee 1 cup distilled vinegar 1 lemon, cut in half 6 tablespoons chili powder 3 good taps Worcestershire sauce…

Aug 31, 1986 — By Helen Thompson

For more than twenty years, the central Texas town of Brady has staged the World Championship Barbeque Goat Cook-off on Labor Day weekend. Cabrito is a delicacy that has its ardent admirers—and many detractors. To those who have failed to see the merit in a crunchy yet tender piece of…

Aug 31, 1986 — By Patricia Sharpe

Aug 31, 1986 — By Mark Seal

Checking in with Corpus’ famous insurance writer; smelling celebrity flowers with Leonard Tharp; sharing some Jello-O with Dionne Warwick

Aug 31, 1986 — By Paul Burka

Are the Elissa’s sails trimmed for good? The Chronicle finds a possible buyer close to home—very close; mashing the mass transit tax.

Aug 31, 1986 — By Jim Atkinson

Bail bonding is one Texas business that’s recession proof.

Aug 31, 1986 — By Mimi Swartz

From goggle that let you see in the dark to voice changers that you sound like Daffy Duck, the Counter Spy Store is stocked for the age of paranoia.

Aug 31, 1986 — By Texas Monthly

Aug 31, 1986 — By Texas Monthly

Aug 31, 1986 — By Michael Ennis

Two gleaming office towers are going up face to face in downtown Austin. Now their marketing managers have to rent the town asunder.

Aug 31, 1986 — By Ed Ward

A Dallasite enamored of British class gets her sesquicentennial wish—a Texas embassy in London.

Aug 31, 1986 — By Barbara Paulsen

A new class of self-styled experts called prosperity consultants say they have the solution to Texas’ economic bust: the bad times are all in our heads.

Aug 31, 1986 — By Gregory Curtis

Aug 31, 1986 — By James Wolcott

Revenge has seldom been so incendiary, but Heartburn fails to ignite; Blue Velvet is for the brave; Club Paradise is for the jolly.

Aug 31, 1986 — By Doug Ramsey

What’s remarkable about this exclusive jazz party isn’t just that it’s in Midland. The biggest surprise comes when the music starts.

Aug 31, 1986 — By kellyfero

Fashion shifts at Farah; Dave Pelz’s putter problems; will the Dallas establishment’s mayoral candidate please stand up?