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In Search of the Better Mousetrap

American ingenuity has produced the telephone, the airplane, and now the breast pillow.

Will Success Spoil Leonel Castillo?

This politician controls the purse strings of the richest city in Texas. And he’s ready for bigger things.

Bringing It All Back Home

Nashville inspired Willie Nelson—to leave.

The Passions of the Common Man

That’s what country music is, and that’s why it plays in Peoria.

An Affair for Gentlemen

A tale of white sails, blue water, and how they turn refined men into barbarians.

The Party’s Over

The Lord giveth the beach and the developer taketh away.

Your Serve

Tipping is a game of give and take. If all goes well, both waiter and diner do a lot of both.

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Poetry in motion.

Barrel of Fun

Introducing the perfect pickle.

Shoot Yourself

Your next home movies may not win any Academy Awards, but at least they don’t have to be rated ZZZZzzzz.

Let’s Make a Deal

When Dad Joiner signed away all his oil leases to H.L. Hunt, all the cards weren’t on the table. Some were still underground.

Behind the Lines

Some days it seems like the complaints about restaurant reviews will never stop: “My family and I drove all the way from * * * on the strength of your good ole Anonymous and, like him, we received no special services—all to the tune of $35.15 for four of us.

By Patricia Sharpe

Patricia Sharpe

Patricia Sharpe writes a regular restaurant column, Pat’s Pick, for Texas Monthly.

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Sourcery and Whichcraft

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's latest book "The Final Days" is just too much hocus-pocus.

Making Tracks

The great Canadian railway bizarre.

Making Tracks

The great Canadian railway bizarre.

Touts

Mondo cane.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Fiendly Persuasion

What LBJ did best was wheel and deal. So what’s wrong with that?

Footloose and Fancy

Nine Texas choreographers keep regional ballet on its toes.

French Twist

Cajun music is one good reason to live in a swamp Are there any others?

Trading on Thin Ice

Wanted: financial alchemist to turn liquid paper into hard cash.

Yes Men

Sound mind, sound body is an old maxim but a new approach to cancer treatment.

Buffaloed Bill

Hollywood techniques may have worked for the Wild West shows, but we expected more from Robert Altman.

The Girl, the Con Man, and the Massage Parlor King

The girl wanted love, the men wanted money, and when they all got together it was murder.

The Best of Texas

You may disagree, but we know we’re right.

Nobody Loves a Rattlesnake

Especially not in Sweetwater: the score at last count was Humans 10,000, Rattlers 0.

The Great Coverup

Some rugged individuals are called to the carpet.

Deutsch Treat

A lesson in the essence of Essen.

Contest

Strange bedfellows.

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Passions of the Mine

Start fooling around with Mother Earth and you end up getting accused of rape.

Physician, Heal Thyself

How a doctor got hooked on drugs, and how he got off.

How Suite It Is

If there’s no room at these inns, you might as well stay home.

Touts

Stein, time, dine.

The Screening of America

Free at last! Free at last! from the junk you see on TV.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

It Ain’t Necessarily So-So

New recordings of Treemonisha and Porgy and Bess will do, but on the whole we prefer Puccini.

Where’s My Line?

Is one man one vote just another numbers racket?

Paw Knows Best

Your dog may be not only your best friend but your best financial advisor as well.

Plain Filming

Liv Ullmann is at her best when she’s at her worst.

Our Town

Every small town is different; every small town is the same.

Unsolved Crimes

Whodunit?

The Voice from the Tower

The weirdest student demonstration ever.

The Newest Americans

Pity the poor Vietnamese: so far from home, so close to Beaumont.

The World’s Most Despicable Bug

The cockroach. What else?

Cold Feat

When we say these recipes aren’t so hot, we don’t mean what you think.

Contest

Roots are all evil.

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