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Danger: Low Voltage

The Electric Horseman got its wires crossed. Kramer vs. Kramer is an above-average film taken from a below-average novel.

The Foreign Legion

Dallas Civic Opera is a grand old lady who knows her European opera. But sometimes she gets a little senile.

Lord, Won’t You Buy Me Some Time on TV?

Preachers Robert Schuller and Rex Humbard have zeroed in on the modern way to reach a congregation: electronically.

Behind the Lines

Why Houston has the best schools in the state.

Ramblin’ Rose

Eminent art critic Barbara Rose has assembled an exhibit of paintings of the eighties. Oh, yeah? Where did she get them?

Life Got You Down? Getting Nowhere? Wishing for Wealth? For Success? For Happiness?

My friend, you have come to the right place.

The Vanishing Steak

Beefing and chewing the fat about a rare pleasure that’s almost done for.

Elegant Fossils

Once Texas was a land of fabulous, ornate county courthouses. It still is, but today they’re flamboyant relics in our streamlined urban landscapes.

Touts

Night stalkers and day walkers.

Life After SMU

When Stage #1 opened as a halfway house for theater graduates from SMU, the participants weren’t pitied but applauded.

Doing the Greenville Avenue Boogie

By reputation Dallas is a staid city. But there is one strip where Dallas is fevered, excessive, and lascivious, and where every night is party night.

State Secrets

A helicopter plague descends on Dallas; is the Texas environmentalist an endangered species?; cattlemen won’t be cowed.

Roar of the Crowd

Movers and fakers.

Texas Monthly Reporter

George Bush wants to shake your hand; Rita Clements wants to paint your Governor’s Mansion; Dallas wants to bring you art, lots of art.

Puzzle

Letters please.

Willie and the Power Boys

New records from Texas’ die-hard country, rock, and punk musicians.

Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven . . .

The Panhandle is home for the country’s only H-bomb assembly plant. Aren’t you glad we told you?

Love For Sale

The Midland Jazz Classic wasn’t cheap, but it was worth the price.

The Inside Story

Steering Bum Steers.

Catch a Riding Star

A boy and his horse reach great heights in The Black Stallion. The Rose, with Bette Midler, is no American beauty.

The Baby Factory

At Houston’s Jefferson Davis Hospital, the wonders of modern medicine collide with the raw realities of birth, poverty, neglect and hope.

Terminal Case

Galveston has withstood tidal waves, hurricanes, gamblers, and tourists. Can it survive a superport?

The Trill of It All

Houston and Dallas opera companies could fudge on shoe sizes when it came to casting Cinderellas, but the voices had to fit just so.

Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen

A Dallas rabbi says Christmas is a form of persecution for Jews; a Disciples of Christ pastor discusses suffering with equanimity.

Behind the Lines

Two questions about school desegregation: Is busing the only way? Are integrated schools inferior?

Dr. Updike

John Updike’s problems are our pleasures. Mean Scrooge McDuck returns in a nostalgic comic-book collection.

The Real Mean Green

Talk to coaches and team owners about AstroTurf and you’ll hear all its advantages. Talk to the players and you’ll hear a different story.

My Life and Hard Times in the Junior League

“In the League, you’ll run into a little tradition, some noblesse oblige, and a lot of talk about diets, dyslexia, designer dresses, and divorce.”

Smokers Are People Too

You can always spot a smoker. He fiddles with matches, his shirt pocket bulges in a tiny rectangle, and fumes emerge from his mouth and nose. But what should we do about him?

Picking Up the Pieces

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get? Ask your garbageman.

The Best Little Hotels in Mexico

We’ve found them: nine of Mexico’s best colonial inns and lodges. All you have to do is make reservations.

Tiny Texas

If you want big, we’ve got big. If you want small, we’ve got that, too.

Touts

Heart warmers, house warmers, and nose warmers.

Why the Alley?

For the sake of the audience, it’s a question that needs to be asked. College productions of A Doll’s House show why actors go to school. Fort Worth has good actors and good producers—but not, alas, in the same theater.

The Long Nights of Preston Jones

A remembrance of the late Texas playwright who spent his days and nights pondering imponderables.

Zandra and the Laughing Elk

Al Neiman’s Fortnight the attractions varied between eccentric Americans and somnambulant British.

State Secrets

Will the feds hijack out power? Will Akers slip off to LSU?

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Whose blonde, curly scalp are the farmers after how do the rich and powerful run? Why, pray tell, does Houston need parks?

Tune into the Eighties

New stars in sight are big and bright—deep in the heart of Texas.

The Inside Story

Wee people.

The Vampire Killer

Werner Herzog reverently remade the classic 1921 version of Nosferatu. He should have left scary enough alone.

Looking on the Bright side

The Ultimate Croissant

With open arms—that is, mouths—Texas welcome a new breed of bakery.

The Big Loser

A young Russian defector blows his chance to win the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and goes on to find fame and fortune.

Go-Getters and Holders-On

The difference between jogging with the Lord and just walking along behind.

Behind the Lines

If the eighties are here, where did the seventies go.

Memoir of the Soil

A.C. Greene’s singular, exquisite vision of West Texas; a thriller that’s better than it should be; and a historical novel with too much history.

The Thin Man

Albert Giacometti’s sculptured figures, now at the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, are tall, emaciated, uncomprehending—and breathtaking.

Grand Indulgences

Whether you have $2 to spend or $25,000, our Christmas gift selections show how to have a wonderfully indulgent holiday.