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Touts

The sky’s the limit.

Up, Up, and Away

This is the Houston Rockets. We have lift-off.

Roar of the Crowd

Sexism, poverty, police supremacy, and Nazis—not to mention apple pie.

Texas Monthly Review

War in the stars; keeping up with Jones; beating old literary horses; acid rock returns; and balletÌ­s small step.

Texas Monthly Reporter

Chicken Ranch revived (would we kid you?); Blood and Money draws blood and—money; Laredo bank takes on world’s largest bank; Dallas’­ $65 million religious shrine.

New Dogs, Old Tricks

The importance of being a prairie dog.

1977: The Ten Best and Ten Worst Legislators

We just rate them. You voted for them.

The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea

The Baja wilderness isn’t a great place to confront one’­s own neuroses, but it’s an even worse place to confront someone else’s.

Hello, Walls

When is a wall not a wall? When it's a work of art.

They’re Playing Their Song

It takes all kinds of ethnic music to make the world go round.

Long Live the Queen

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown of San Antonio’s restaurants.

Contest

The great endorsemen.

Cuisine, Cuisine

Enroll in a school where not matter how tough the final exam is you can still eat it.

Behind the Lines

Those who laugh first at the Texas Legislature do not laugh last.

Cheap in the Heart of Texas

A family vacation, almost a contradiction in terms, is still possible at these old-fashioned resorts.

Touts

Chili for lunch, shark for supper.

Roar of the Crowd

Drug traffic; emergency rooms; high IQs; and various shocking revelations.

Texas Monthly Review

Altman’s women; novelist leaves home; playwright comes home; art looks for home; jazzy TSU; and one odd concerto.

Texas Monthly Reporter

Jacinto City boy makes Doonesbury: Dallas dumps new math; and smoking fertilized pot may give you cancer.

Diamonds Aren’t Forever

Spring cleaning in the house that Zale built.

The Power

Burning a candle a day keeps the hexes away.

Restoration Drama

A Texas farmhouse relives those thrilling days of yesteryear.

From Mexico With Love

Out of the Texas melting pot comes a food hot enough to melt anything.

The Toughest Guys in Court

Anybody who thinks Jones, Jones & Baldwin is just a trio of small-time, small-town attorneys is headed for big-time trouble.

Informed Sauces

We’re encouraging you to hit the sauces this summer.

Goats Need Love, Too.

Once you let a goat in your life, you can never get it out.

Contest

Acronymity.

Clothes Made the Man

Why Willie Farah is taking up slack—not slacks—these days.

Behind the Lines

Jimmy Carter’s energy program wants to bury the age of oil and gas whether it’s dead or not.

Creole Folks at Home

Going native in the city where food is on everybody’s lips.

Touts

Fish and ships.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Birth of a Notion

It’s called competitive childbirth, but no gold medals are awarded for it.

Bombs Bursting in Air

With its latest batch of exploitation movies, Hollywood gets more blood out of old turnips.

Eat, Eat, It’s Good For You

Meet five famous Texans who still listen to Mother.

Unfinished Women

In which our author hints that Texas men are in for a rude awakening.

The Other Texas

Rio Grande City Michael Patrick Houston Suzanne Paul Austin Harry Boyd Rosenberg Joe Baraban Ingram Harry Boyd Hillsboro Nicolas Russell Martindale

The Endless Odyssey of Patrick Henry Polk

Forget all those myths about poverty and welfare. This family is real and they live it.

Grand Hotels

You won’t find Greta Garbo at these classic establishments, but some things that happen there are straight out of a movie.

Adventures Under the Sea

Where is Lloyd Bridges when you really need him?

Contest

Title bout.

Catchy Coup

How to squeeze a multimillion-dollar business out of a ten-second radio jingle.

The Wizard of Oz (Ret.)

Question: What goes on behind the closed doors of the stateÌ­s most elegant restaurant these days? Answer: Nothing.

Behind the Lines

Soldiers of Misfortune

What happens to a mercenary when all the fighting stops?

Stereo Begins at Home

Positively the latest in sound thinking.

A Long Weekend in Houston

A tour of Houston that will take you off the beaten freeway.

Touts

Black and white and bread all over.

Roar of the Crowd