Vote For Me, Por Favor. Now Let’s Eat
Mix election time, South Texas, and barbeque, and you get the pachanga circuit, where politics and barbeque are served with equal reverence.
September 1986
Features
Texas Primer: Ma Ferguson
She unmasked the Klan and worried about the role of women, but she listened more to her husband than to the suffragettes.
The Faulty Cure
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.
The Cowboys, The Indian, and The Computer That Fumbled
The most important new addition to the Dallas Cowboys is a veteran from the team’s early years computer genius Salam Qureishi.
Wide Open Spaces
The Chihuahuan Desert is a place of extremes, where the visitor not only observes but participates in the struggle for life and death.
Web
Barney McBee’s Texas Goat Sauce
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…
On the Menu: Cabrito
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…
Miscellany
The Quidnunc
Checking in with Corpus’ famous insurance writer; smelling celebrity flowers with Leonard Tharp; sharing some Jello-O with Dionne Warwick
State Secrets
Are the Elissa’s sails trimmed for good? The Chronicle finds a possible buyer close to home—very close; mashing the mass transit tax.
Shopping
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.
Post-Modern Times
Two gleaming office towers are going up face to face in downtown Austin. Now their marketing managers have to rent the town asunder.
Columns
The Anglo-Tex Connection
A Dallasite enamored of British class gets her sesquicentennial wish—a Texas embassy in London.
I Think I’m Rich, Therefore I Am
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.
Getting Even Gets Old
Revenge has seldom been so incendiary, but Heartburn fails to ignite; Blue Velvet is for the brave; Club Paradise is for the jolly.
Midland’s Bebop Bash
What’s remarkable about this exclusive jazz party isn’t just that it’s in Midland. The biggest surprise comes when the music starts.
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
Fashion shifts at Farah; Dave Pelz’s putter problems; will the Dallas establishment’s mayoral candidate please stand up?
