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The Ultimate Sport

Polo? It’s passé. Big game hunting? Humdrum. It’s the pursuit of the wily blue marlin that admits men to the world’s most exclusive club.

Why Is Houston Falling Apart?

Because nobody at city hall is doing his job, that’s why.

Discover Beautiful Beaumont

Okay, we heard that snicker. But give the place a chance. You’ll find plenty to enjoy.

Man on Bass

A double basist leads a singular life.

Teaming With Problems

The Houston Rockets need work; the Dallas Mavericks need help.

Touts

Dress to kill.

Dust on the Golden Spur

When ranchers gathered in Lubbock to celebrate their way of life, they found they didn’t have much cause for celebration.

State Secrets

A ground swell of support for booting Howard Cosell; here come the judges; who will fill the UT power vacuum.

On the Rebound

After a sloppy 1979-80 season, the San Antonio Spurs had no coach, no center, and no end to their problems. But all that has changed.

Roar of the Crowd

Red-hot art, inflation blues, wasted blacks.

Texas Monthly Reporter

Gas pipeline companies are devouring Lee County; border plasma clinics beckon poor Mexicans; oh, deer, what can the matter be?

Puzzle

Roots.

Free Agent

Nostalgic daddies think of schoolboy football as good, clean fun. But kids soon realize it’s more like corporal punishment.

The Inside Story

Putting on Heirs

The story of Howard Hughes and the discredited “Mormon will” is the unlikely subject of a quirky film about rags and out-of-reach riches. Ordinary People is full of woe; Stardust Memories has far to go.

Can the Boy Scouts Save America?

Perhaps. At least they’re on the right track and trying hard.

Rex Cauble and the Cowboy Mafia

The Denton millionaire hated drugs and liked cops. He also liked Muscles Foster, a footloose cowboy who was one of Texas’ biggest drug runners.

Bordeauex Patrol

A loaf of bread, a glass of wine, and though hast a wine bar.

How to Succeed in Opera

At his school in Austria, Texas singer Richard Owens acquaints opera hopefuls with a bravo new world.

Never On Sunday

Why do 61 million adult Americans say “pooh” to the pew?

Behind the Lines

The press keeps telling us how bad Carter and Reagan are, but let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Love’s Labors Found

Sculptor Jim Love makes art look easy—and fun.

Twisting the Night Away

South Texas went into a frenzy preparing for Hurricane Allen, then the guest of honor never showed up.

What Ever Happened to the Storm of the Century?

Hurricane Allen proved that everyone talks about the weather but nobody knows much about it—least of all the National Weather Service.

Feather your vest.

The Sweet Smell of Success

The Price is Right

The days of 40-cent gas are back again; the Astros’ midlife crisis; the state budget is gone with the wind; Baytown’s all washed up.

The Fire Next Time

Firehouse fuming, bullring bawling, onion fields calling.

The Second Wave

Where have all the boat people gone?; money makes UT go round; Dallas blacks lambaste the co ps; Texas lowriders get down.

Show Stoppers

Jumpin’ Joe Flash

Joe “King” Carrasco and the Crowns rock New Wave with a Tex-Mex rhythm.

Ghost Writhers in the Sky

Prince Albert

Although Don Albert’s music was a mainstay of the forties, his obstinate stand against racism put him years ahead of his time.

Lady on the Lam

Dirty Money

The ingredients: a criminal with soiled cash, an ambitious banker, a savvy go-between. The result: an almighty mess for Houston’s Allied Bank.

A Fan’s Notes

Arnold Shoenberg is the century’s most maligned composer, but to know him is to love him.

He Found it!

Behind the Lines

The present against the past: what the New World can learn from the Old, and vice versa.

Measure For Measure

Three Texas poets word their way into print; two new novels trace the adventures of Neanderthals and knights-errant.

Man-child

Leon Box is a retarded artist whose work underscores the beauty and absurdity of a world he has seen very little of.

The $38,000 a Year, Wife and Two Kids, House and a Pool Blues

Is inflation deflating your standard of living? You are not alone.

The Modified Triple-Reverse, Double-Handoff Option

Football has degenerated into a routine encounter between two sets of programmed, steroid-stuffed robots. These trick plays could change all that.

In the Still of the Night

A photographer finds mystery and magic.

Touts

Eat, eat, it’s good for you.

Shock Tactics

Houston’s Equinox Theatre has fine actors and directors, but its raunchy sex and violence can make you squirm. The nineteenth-century Granbury Opera House is a fetching setting for Texas Meg.

Shock Tactics

Houston’s Equinox Theatre has fine actors and directors, but its raunchy sex and violence can make you squirm. The nineteenth-century Granbury Opera House is a fetching setting for Texas Meg.

State Secrets

Texas chic hits bottom; bak error pinches UT law school; carter alienates Texas again; a test for teachers.

Roar of the Crowd

Bettered bests, cultural quests, manhood tests.

Texas Monthly Reporter

A black Houstonian revised the Horatio Alger legend; making a racket in Mason; UT astronomers yearn to conquer the universe; requiem for a reef.

Puzzle

Look! Up In the sky!