Roar of the Crowd
July 31, 1983
Roar of the Crowd
Beach, beach, beach.
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Reporter
July 31, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
A tale of tree cities in the Panhandle; upscale fitness at the new Dallas Y; a return to those thrilling days of yesteryear with Riders in the Sky; another new plan to unclog Houston’s arteries.
Puzzle
July 31, 1983
Puzzle
Letter perfect.
The Culture
July 31, 1983
Texas Primer: Conjunto
Tex plus Mex plus electric guitar plus accordion equals... art.
Movies
July 31, 1983
Slower Than a Speeding Bullet
The third time is not always the charm. In Superman III our hero finds himself in a blue funk, and his melancholia is the liveliest part of the show. The Survivors doesn’t make it. Escape your little gray cells and enjoy The Man With Two Brains. Trading Places exchanges wit
True Crime
July 31, 1983
The Death Shift
The three-to-eleven evening shift, Bexar County Hospital, San Antonio: nurse Genene Jones was on duty in the pediatric intensive care unit, and for months babies kept having mysterious—sometimes fatal—emergencies. Why?
Classical Music
July 31, 1983
Something for Everyone
The ambitious San Antonio Festival went all out, with 73 acts-everything from Dallas ballet to Berlin opera, from Robert Merrill to Sarah Vaughan. Houston Grand Opera and Leonard Bernstein both made mistakes in A Quiet Place.
Business
July 31, 1983
Anyplace But Texas
Texans may secretly yearn to live east of the Mississippi or across the Atlantic, but the next best thing is a subdivision named Yorktown, Nottingham County, or village Green West.
Behind the Lines
July 31, 1983
Behind the Lines
The revelation of the geese.
Art
July 31, 1983
Personal Space
Houston’s brash “alternative spaces” are doing more than the city’s mainstream galleries to keep Texas art fresh, rich and diverse.
Food & Drink
July 1, 1983
Chilly Scenes of Dinner
The old tin tray, it ain’t what it used to be. Today’s TV dinners have become “frozen cuisine.”
Touts
June 30, 1983
Touts
Go with the flow; made in the shade.
State Secrets
June 30, 1983
State Secrets
Briscoe’s beef; new wave health care; a bright idea for Houston Lighting & Power; the case of the lagging law school.
Roar of the Crowd
June 30, 1983
Roar of the Crowd
Behind bars.
Reporter
June 30, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
Saving the Fort Worth Stockyards; remembering the Hondo Hurrican; suing for peanuts’ rotting your brain on MTV.
Puzzle
June 30, 1983
Puzzle
Seeing spots.
Being Texan
June 30, 1983
Texas Primer: The Ranch Gate
These days it seems every five-acre ranchette flaunts a gate worthy of the XIT.
Movies
June 30, 1983
Wookiees on Parade
Return of the Jedi is a star shower of new creatures and old favorites that leaves you wowed but underwhelmed. Breathless is suffocating. WarGanes starts out with a bang and ends with a whimper. Flashdance has a certain twinkle.
Jazz
June 30, 1983
Jazz in Camouflage
The music of tenor saxman John Handy is rooted in Texas and the blues, and he uses his distinctive sound to lure more listeners to jazz.
Best and Worst Legislators
June 30, 1983
1983: The Ten Best and The Ten Worst Legislators
We just rate them. You voted for them.
Energy
June 30, 1983
The Journeyman
Ed Jones rode the oil boom to a white-collar job. It was a short trip.
Energy
June 30, 1983
And Yet the Dream Endures
Don’t give up! There’s still money to be made finding oil. Up in Graham the Creswells are striking it rich with the help of Jesus and, er, creekology.
Energy
June 30, 1983
Ask Jett Rink
The quintessential wildcatter fills you in on free enterprise and Texas after oil.
Energy
June 30, 1983
The Gambler
Jack Young was the eighties’ oil boom in the flesh. Unfortunately, he also personifies the aftermath of the bust.
Classical Music
June 30, 1983
Those Raucous Babylonians
This spring both of Texas’ top symphonies staged the late William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Fest. Dallas held back, but Houston made merry with the splashy biblical spectacle.
Behind the Lines
June 30, 1983
Behind the Lines
The tardy teachers.
Books
June 30, 1983
A Knell for Eric
An Abilene man recalls the pluck and pain of his stricken son in This Is the Child. An El Paso professor creates a lovably uncool detective in Dancing Bear. An Austin meteorologist blows hot on Texas Weather.
Art
June 30, 1983
Lady on the Edge
Photographer Carlotta Corpron moved to Denton in 1935, and the burst of avant-garde work she produced is, so far, unsurpassed in Texas.
Being Texan
June 1, 1983
For Names’ Sake
Life is tough all over, but especially for Juniors.
Being Texan
June 1, 1983
It’s Just Another Day
Kids, house, husband—these are the natural enemies of a well-ordered day.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1983
Phantom Cat of the Valley
Meet the ocelot, not as pet, not as fur coat, but in its best role—an elusive remnant of Texas’ wild past.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1983
Funky Riviera
Discover another side of the Texas coast—its peerless beachcombing, legendary beer joints, odd birds (feathered and otherwise), and lovable year-round scruffiness.
Touts
May 31, 1983
Touts
Hit the deck, shoot the breeze.
State Secrets
May 31, 1983
State Secrets
Big banks have interest in Delaware - but so far no principle; a price-fixing suit puts realtors out of commission; why some teachers don’t deserve a pay raise; a new kingmaker emerges in South Texas.
Roar of the Crowd
May 31, 1983
Roar of the Crowd
Reporter
May 31, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
Hard times in Port Arthur; the lost art of nasty correspondence lives on in Big Spring; the woes of Kathy Whitmire; the Newlywed Game comes to Midland; gloves off in the book business.
Puzzle
May 31, 1983
Puzzle
Stoned at home.
Style & Design
May 31, 1983
Texas Primer: The Name Belt
Wearing one won’t make you a real live cowboy, but it sure will brand you as a modern Texan.
Music
May 31, 1983
The Sphinx Who Sings
Austin blueswoman Angela Strehli is an enigma, but there’s no secret to her success: she writes great material and sings it with unbeatable style.
Kids
May 31, 1983
Three Feet Six, Blue Tights, Red Cape
Forget firemen and cowboys, Today’s kid wants to be a superhero.
Health
May 31, 1983
Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest
For many of Texas’ mental patients, the world outside the state hospital is what’s keeping them sane.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 1983
The Long Boyhood of George H.W. Bush
Like the hero of a boys’ novel, George Bush moved from the East to the wild and woolly West. He wanted to prove himself, by golly, to Yale, Procter & Gamble, and the old man.
Classical Music
May 31, 1983
Midland on a String
From out of the West Texas plains comes the rich, beautiful sound of the Thouvenel String Quartet.
Behind the Lines
May 31, 1983
Behind the Lines
On the team, off the team.
Art
May 31, 1983
The Retrograde Sophisticate
Danny Williams of Dallas has a clear grasp of the modern masters and unequaled ambition and skill.
Art
May 1, 1983
Larger Than Life
Tom Lea, the grand old man of Texas painting, grew up among giants. No wonder he always used a big canvas.
Travel & Outdoors
May 1, 1983
The Cow’s in the Corn
Or, my life as a Texas gardener.
Politics & Policy
May 1, 1983
Mark White’s Coming-Out Party
The new governor’s first hundred days were great theater, but now come taxes.
Touts
April 30, 1983
Touts
Of loaves and fishes.
State Secrets
April 30, 1983
State Secrets
TV’s path to riches for Robert Caro’s The Path to Power; a big Texas howdy to PCBs; Reagan and Castro’s map wars; another prison reform idea turns sour.