Sports
September 30, 1987
Beating the Elusive Red Drum
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.
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Roar of the Crowd
September 30, 1987
Roar of the Crowd
Taxing circumstances in a family, some cities, and the state.
Reporter
September 30, 1987
Texas Monthly Reporter
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.
Travel & Outdoors
September 30, 1987
The National Tour of Texas
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.
Lifestyle
September 30, 1987
Around the Clock Rock
An all-night deejay takes his listeners on a long night’s journey into day.
Food & Drink
September 30, 1987
Cuisine de Campfire
Where there’s smoke, there’s chef Robert McGrath’s smokebox that works wonders on Southwestern dishes.
Behind the Lines
September 30, 1987
Behind the Lines
The perfect city revisited.
Books
September 30, 1987
Novel Approach
Three novelists discover that a Texas connection need not be a tie that binds.
Art
September 30, 1987
From the Wyeth House to the White House
The Dallas Museum of Art hosts an eighty-year retrospective of Wyeth family art that carries Nancy Reagan’s seal of approval.
Politics & Policy
September 1, 1987
The Time of His Life
Henry Cisneros has the vision and charisma of a born leader. Does it matter that he has the soul of an Aggie?
Sports
September 1, 1987
Unsportsmanlike Conduct
When he played for the Dallas Cowboys, Hollywood Henderson had everything. Here he tells how he lost it.
Style & Design
September 1, 1987
The Fantasy World of Victor Costa
Texas’ most famous dress designer dreamed up the perfect evening gown for the average American woman—it’s frilly, it’s flashy, and it’s a $300 copy of a $15,000 Paris original.
Critters
September 1, 1987
Shark!
Three shark attacks on the Texas coast this summer are making swimmers edgy and chambers of commerce ask one question: what’s going on out there?
Recipes
August 31, 1987
Oyster-Parmesan Popovers
From Cooking: “I, Piscivore” by Gary Cartwright, in the September 1987 issue of Texas Monthly.4 large eggs¾ cup whole milk¾ cup all-purpose flour, sifted¼ cup finely grated Italian Parmesan cheese¼ teaspoon salt2 tablespoons fresh snipped chives, chopped basil, or chopped parsley2 tablespoons unsalted sweet butter (for
State Secrets
August 31, 1987
State Secrets
The new tax bill kicks oil when it’s down; the Houston Chronicle is alive and kicking the Post); the premature end of TranStar: the premature beginning of Jim Mattox.
Roar of the Crowd
August 31, 1987
Roar of the Crowd
Legislative commentary.
Reporter
August 31, 1987
Texas Monthly Reporter
On the cutting edge with Ollie North; Donna Rice on the cutting room floor; cutting corners to find good Vietnamese restaurants; and the gig ‘em gourmet cookbook, the Aggies’ unkindest cut of all.
Texas History
August 31, 1987
A Texan Looks at Lyndon
On the eve of the 1964 national elections, Texas historian J. Evetts Haley published a scathing attack on President Lyndon B. Johnson. The book sold seven million copies, but Johnson still won the race.
Travel & Outdoors
August 31, 1987
The National Tour of Texas
Tales of the Piney Woods: the original kinds of the forest, the Bright way to get a chicken in every pot, the gamble of today’s Tenaha. Plus: an unusual graveyard, a haunting ruin, a chilling church name.
Politics & Policy
August 31, 1987
Cowboys and Iranians
What do Odessa beer joints and the Iran-contra hearings have in common? Everything.
News & Politics
August 31, 1987
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
In 1980 a white girl was raped and murdered at Conroe High School, and the police quickly arrested a black janitorial supervisor. Now it looks as if the case wasn’t so open and shut after all.
Business
August 31, 1987
The Book Stops Here
For 68 years, Rosengren’s Books in San Antonio gave personal service, sought out both arcane and popular titles, and fostered a love of reading. It wasn’t enough to keep the store in business.
Behind the Lines
August 31, 1987
Behind the Lines
White woman, black woman.
Business
August 1, 1987
Cities in Bondage
When eighty-year-old Decker Jackson gives financial advice to Texas public officials, nothing in life is certain but debt and taxes.
Health
August 1, 1987
The Booming Business of AIDS
For some entrepreneurs, the dark cloud of AIDS has proved to have a silver lining
News & Politics
August 1, 1987
The Time It Always Rained
The wettest spell in memory has given the people who live in West Texas an unfamiliar topic of conversation.
Business
August 1, 1987
The Sleaziest Man in Texas
The rich and eccentric heir to a rich and eccentric Galveston family, Shearn Moody, Jr., craved an empire all his own. But his lack of self-restraint cost him his bank, his insurance company, his fortune, and now, perhaps, his freedom.
State Secrets
July 31, 1987
State Secrets
Playing fast and loose with the new speed limit; an oil drilling technique gets the shaft; dam builders strick back—with Authority; how the budget battle is changing the Legislature.
Roar of the Crowd
July 31, 1987
Roar of the Crowd
Behaving yourself in the eighties; keeping the faith in the parish; winning Pulitzers with penguins.
Reporter
July 31, 1987
Texas Monthly Reporter
Let’s play pretend by swapping out Houstonians for Dallasites. Plus: Battling books, good Mex-Mex where you’d least expect it, and our guide to the latest legislative phrases (use ‘em three times and they’re yours!)
Puzzle
July 31, 1987
Puzzle
Sixteen ways to make an entrance.
Being Texan
July 31, 1987
Texas Primer: The Tar Ball
There’s one place where you can still find plenty of oil in Texas: the beach.
Music
July 31, 1987
Revenge of the Retrorockers
The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Mason Ruffner, and Omar and the Howlers all got the same message from album-oriented-rock radio: Wrap it up, we’ll take it.
Travel & Outdoors
July 31, 1987
The National Tour of Texas
Passing (slowly) through Kendleton. Then on to Houston, where student murals record the march of time and Vietnam vets gather; to a meal so good it’s kept under lock and key; and finally to the (formerly) Golden Triangle.
Travel & Outdoors
July 31, 1987
Hollywood on the Rio Grande
Brownsville has everything Mexico’s leading filmmaker could want—except visas.
Feature
July 31, 1987
What the Stranger Saw
Nobody remembers his name, but the photographer who passed through Corpus Christi in 1934 left behind an unforgettable series of images.
Food & Drink
July 31, 1987
Who Says Never Trust a Skinny Chef?
Meet Bruce Auden of San Antonio, the fairest of the Fairmount.
Business
July 31, 1987
What’s in a Name?
Maybe as much as $20,000, if Lee Ballard of Dallas has anything to do with it.
Behind the Lines
July 31, 1987
Behind the Lines
Should we have an income tax?
Art
July 31, 1987
Subjects of the Realm
Hans Holbein’s life drawings are a tantalizing glumpse into the lusty court of Henry VIII. And courtesy of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, they’re on view at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
Sports
July 1, 1987
Donald Curry vs. the World
All boxers are wary in the ring, where defeat is only a well-placed punch away. But Donald Curry knows that the real terrors of boxing lie beyond the ropes.
Recipes
July 1, 1987
Hold the Ants!
From smoked chicken salad to Kahlua s’mores, our summer picnic sampler has a spread for you.
Being Texan
July 1, 1987
I’ve Been Rich and I’ve Been Poor
The fond memories and hard times of a postboom oil heiress.
True Crime
July 1, 1987
Drug Lord
There are three secrets to Miguel Felix Gallardo’s multimillion-dollar empire of drugs and power. Corruption, corruption, and corruption.
Books
June 30, 1987
Oil Gluttons
Getty Oil dropped into the market like raw steak into a bay full of sharks: Oil and Honor clarifies the waters. Beverly Lowry keeps the pages turning in her deft and racy roman à clef. The Perfect Sonya.
Feature
June 30, 1987
¡Arriba! Lou Diamond Phillips?
This former Mr. Flour Bluff High School has what Hollywood wants—ethnic diversity.
Best and Worst Legislators
June 30, 1987
1987: The Best and the Worst Legislators
We just rate them. You voted for them.
Travel & Outdoors
June 30, 1987
Go Up, Young Man
These tall office towers, observatories, and revolving restaurants offer inspiring vies of Texas’ cityscapes.
State Secrets
June 30, 1987
State Secrets
Fort Worth factions fight over expanding the zoo; Galvestonians derail a tourist trolley; Mattox’s political plans go awry.
Roar of the Crowd
June 30, 1987
Roar of the Crowd
Coot sightings, judgment calls, AIDS awareness.