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Trial by Water

Marathon canoe racing is the toughest sport in Texas. It’s tougher than bull riding, more grueling than pro football. The canoeists say that’s why it’s fun.

Funky Hotels

Why subject yourself to the dreariness of impersonal, prefab hotels when these country hostelries are just down the road?

Touts

The beat of a different strummer.

Three’s Company

Some Texas funny people get serious about their jokes.

East Meets Wet

The Dalai Lama encounters Houston. He finds it good.

State Secrets

Texas Democrats run scared over Teddy; Arkansas bigwigs cry foul over gas lease; Mexican diplomats make waves over salt water.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

A down-home journalist; the privileged pew; gas for a price.

Big D, Big Red, and the Big Apple

The Recovery Room band is at home in Dallas and New York, too.

The Inside Story

Copy cats.

Breaking the Sound Barrier

Silence may be golden, but not to a stutterer.

Over There

Filmmakers flub: Schlesinger’s Yanks, Fellini’s Orchestra Rehearsal, and Jewison’s—And Justice for All.

The Truth About John Connally

There are two questions about John Connally: Is he good enough to be president? Is he too bad to be president?

Kindred Spirits

Don’t both with séances or clairvoyants. There is a much better way to contact the shades of the past.

Semiconductors

The leaders of Houston and Dallas symphony orchestras start off the season with two perplexing concert series.

Onward Christian Soldiers

Joining God’s army at Berachah Church in Houston; joining the fine families of Beaumont’s Trinity United Methodist.

Behind the Lines

A modest proposal for the eighties.

The Little Red Warehouse

Institutional green walls and stuffy classrooms are not a part of Houston architect Eugene Aubry’s Awty School design.

Talking Money/The Heavy Hitters

What’s what and who’s who in Texas real estate.

The Man Who Built River Oaks

Architect John Staub, the forgotten genius of River Oaks, transformed a few nondescript Houston streets into Millionaires’ Row.

A Delicate Balance

Who turned off the melting pot? Vietnamese and Texans fight on the coast.

Mission Possible

Touts

High-flyin’ and highfalutin.

The Spoils of War

ëTis the season for plays about the Viet Nam War. Louisiana’s Huey P. Long is captured (almost) by Texans.

Titles Texans

Beneath certain Stetsons lies a crown.

State Secrets

How will Christo wrap up his trip to Texas?; pooh-poohing Three mile Island; the greatest train robbery of all; shake-up at Houston’s city hall.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

South Padre defiled—and you were there; the joy of six hundred maniacal flute players; Dallas’ love-hate affair with Fair Park.

After the Fall

Nicaragua’s new junta may discover it’s easier to depose a dictator than to rebuild a ravaged country.

The Inside Story

Keep those cards and letters coming in.

This Is The Way The Apocalypse Ends . . .

Coppola’s multimillion-dollar labor of love is finally finished. We think.

Cutups

Can’t hull a strawberry? Can’t boil an egg? Can’t wash leafy vegetables? Relax. Help is on the way.

Sherwood Blount’s First Million

He believed in the American dream and it paid off.

Ghosts

World War II may be over, but the Confederate Air Force will rise again.

It’s a Lulu!

Even incomplete, Lulu was a great opera. Now it’s finished, and Santa Fe Opera got the stage the coveted U.S. premiere.

City Transit Gloria

Hymns and admonitions for the best and worse bus services in Texas.

A Joyful Noise

At St. Patrick’s in San Antonio they sing and dance—during mass. At Lakewood Assembly of God in Dallas they sing and sing and sing . . .

Behind the Lines

Give me land, lots of land . . .

The Right Wings

In his new book Tom Wolfe poses this question: were the Mercury astronauts men or monkeys? Thomas Thompson changes his journalistic setting from Houston to the far East to produce a book about an astonishing criminal.

Football Heroes

The best part of Texas high school football is that it’s the biggest thing in town—and still only a game.

Honey, You’re Still Driving Me Crazy

Wise up: that insipid supermarket sugar-water you’ve been putting on your toast isn’t honey. The real stuff—Texas honey—is as full-bodied and distinctive as the nectars that go into it.

Easy Money

Faster than a speeding Master Charge, funkier than a garage sale, able to leap bad credit ratings at a single bound. Look, up at the sign! It’s a bank! It’s a store! It’s—Super Pawn!

The Promised Land

Work is tarring rooftops in the scorching Texas heat, home is a falling-down shanty visited by rats and roaches, supper is boiled potatoes and tortillas. It's the good life for two illegal Mexican immigrants trying to make it in America.

Touts

To bid or not to bid; aye, there’s the rub.

The Beautiful and the Damned

Town and Country magazine came to Texas to record our sophistication, wealth, and savoir faire—and all hell broke loose.

State Secrets

Not-so-little leaguer finds fountain of youth; schools have to test and tell whether Johnny can’t read; Houston’s new shingle ordinance tries to lock the barn door.

Hooping It Up

Pickup basketball is not a pastime for the lily-livered or the lackadaisical.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

B-a-a-d government meddling irks Texas goat and sheep raisers; something’s rotten in Rotterdam, and it’s driving up oil prices; and the world’s best gymnasts are coming to Cowtown.

Dust Off Your Blue Suede Shoes

Then grab your platters and step into the golden era of rock ën’ roll.