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The Inside Story

Photo jock; teacher’s pest.

The Truth Hurts

North Dallas Forty scores but misses the extra point, Dracula bites off more than it can chew, and Peppermint Soda recalls with accuracy the bittersweet days of adolescence.

Unfancy Dancer

Some have said that life is a dance, and Deborah Hay makes you believe it.

Hearts and Minds

Welcome to Dallas’ first Baptist, the largest Baptist church in the world, with a pastor and a service to match; a more modest path to religious enlightenment leads you to Houston’s Emerson Unitarian.

Behind the Lines

Waltzing across Texas.

Mexican Mystery Tour

Charles Portis’ new novel belongs to the tradition of great frontier yarns, but this time the young man goes south.

Another Roadside Attraction

Houston National Bank’s ìLarger Canvas Twoî takes it to the streets.

Say, Have You Heard the One About Cactus Pryor?

Don’t look now, but the rather odd gentleman with the suspicious accent and outlandish military getup may not be exactly what he seems.

Down to the Sea in Buses

Grab your beach towel and bathing suit, but leave your car in the garage.

Ten Giant Steps to Disaster

How did we get into this sorry energy mess? By making sorry decisions.

I Solve the Energy Crisis

Or, how we can all stop worrying and learn to love the crunch.

Touts

Stars and stripes forever.

The Zest is History

Texas, our Texas, all hail the mighty state-audiences applaud history plays in Galveston and Palo Duro Canyon.

Next on Dallas: J. R. at the Ball

Dallas is both a television show and a city, but at the Cattle Baron’s Ball you couldn’t tell which was which.

State Secrets

Crying over spilt oil, greedy doctors, and disappearing millionaires.

Pennant Fever

At midseason, long-suffering Astros and Rangers fans were having visions of grandeur. We hope they weren’t delusions.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Valley politicos block minority TV; Dairy Queens reign in small-town Texas; woman diver yearns for Acapulco cliffs; Houston takes its lumps.

Let My People Pray

Were the words of Russian exile Georgi Vins heard over the din of the Southern Baptist Convention?

Puzzle

The Inside Story

A cabal of eighteen.

I Left My Guard in San Francisco

Clint Eastwood makes a break from Alcatraz; Barbra Streisand makes another silly movie; John Wayne is remembered as a consummate actor.

Smiling Through it All

When gasoline is scarce, it’s not the end of the world.

Ask Jett Rink

Straight talk about gasoline supplies, prices, and profits from Texas’ most famous wildcatter.

Who to Pin It On

If you’re sitting in a gas line and wondering who to blame for all this, here are some candidates.

The Throwdown

Houston police said they shot Randy Webster because he pointed a gun at them. Randy’s father set out to prove they were lying.

Who Needs Nelson Eddy?

Houston Grand Opera’s spring festival of operettas proved that golden-voiced, handsome men aren’t out of style. Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Mahler festival had its good days and its bad days.

Sausage and Salvation

A Lutheran pastor in New Braunfels challenges his congregation; a Methodist minister in Dallas soothes his.

Behind the Lines

Running on Empty.

The Resurrection of Patrick Henry Bruce

Houston Museum of Fine Arts exhibits the works of an unsung American artist. UT-Austin gathers the best contemporary art for “Made in Texas.”

Counter Culture

Strawberry sodas, vanilla Cokes, grilled cheese sandwiches. That’s what we love about soda fountains.

To Each His Own

Famous people, obscure people, fat people, skinny people all have to eat. That’s what we love about people.

All God’s Chitlins

Simmering pots of soul food. That’s what we love about the South.

Speed Freak

Fast food is tasteless and vulgar. There are other good things about it, too.

Conspicuous Consumption

China, crystal, waiters in tuxedos. That’s what we love about Tony’s.

Haute as a Pistol

Houston welcomes a classy Paris fashion designer with a rootin', tootin', ripsnortin' wild West show.

Type Caste

Staying up all night setting type may not sound like the good life, but it is.

Touts

Card tricks and vintage flicks.

After the Honeymoon

Talent marries business sense at Dallas’ Theater Onstage.

Haute as a Pistol

A Paris fashion show and the cotton-eyed Joe, nowhere but Texas.

State Secrets

Texas real estate up for grabs; will Houston get a third daily newspaper?

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Suffering the lines at the gas pump; gambling in the magazine business; a dragnet for the Southwest’s sneakiest thief; what’s Dallas’ secret?

Puzzle

For the Good of the Country

Neither the Lone Star Café nor Debby Boone is what country music is all about, and a few Texas citizens are trying to set the record straight.

Breeden Ground

Leon Breeden’s jazz students at North Texas State University are already pros, and they have recorded two new albums to prove it.

The Inside Story

Space cadet.

Baby and Me and DDT

Experts say that the chemical residues in mother’s milk aren’t enough o harm a nursing baby, but how much poison is too much?

Eagle’s Eye

The Whole Shootin’ Match is a Texas film with Texas actors that took a year to get shown in Texas.

“Hi, Mabel. Give Me the Usual.”

Friendly faces in friendly places. That’s what we love about our old favorites.