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Upward Nobility

How to tell what you‘re looking at: a guide to architectural Texas.

1975: The Ten Best and (Sigh)…The Ten Worst Legislators

Guess which list had the most competition.

If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Oakland

When Billy Martin takes his Texas Rangers on the road, the games are among the least of their worries.

Sometimes a Great Noshing

The intricate dietary laws of Kosher cooking have a latke going for them.

Contest

Just having a little pun.

Behind the Lines

The Hungry I

Frederick Exley shows how to get too much of a good thing.

Tortilla Flats

Will Tex-Mex music gain the world but lose its soul?

Touts

Much ado about nothing.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

The Russians Are Here

How some of the world’s best dancers ended up in Texas.

Dealing Dirt

How real estate syndications can make (and lose) money for you.

Exile’s Return

Polish up your statues of Adam Smith: supply and demand is back!

The Graduates

A portfolio of the Class of 1975.

Don’t Think It Won’t Happen Just Because It Hasn’t Happened Yet

Killer bees, acid from the sky, and exploding railroad cars may all be in your future.

The Deadly Smell of Success

A new method of oil recovery means more energy, more wealth, and . . . death.

Retreat from Liberation

A different sort of women’s movement has this basic belief: give in and ye shall receive.

Not Guilty

John Connally on trial.

Country Kitchens

A guide to restaurants in the Hill Country.

Contest

Seeing triple.

Pop Art

Bringing up father is harder these days than it used to be.

Behind the Lines

White Man’s Burden

Exploring the heavy price of Empire.

Touts

Yeast is yeast and fest is fest.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Sweet and Low

High-brow music doesn’t have to be high priced.

Private Pleasures

Why going public is not the stock market killing it once was.

It’s a Steal

Frank Perry used a lot of hackneyed material in his new film, but Neil Simon just ripped off his own.

Power Politics

How Coastal State Gas pulled the plug on the Texas consumer.

This Man Loves Car Wrecks More than Anyone Else in the World

For A.O. Pipkin, happiness is a head-on collision he wasn’t in.

Under the Rug

Some embarrassing (and perhaps illegal) aspects of Dolph Briscoe’s campaign.

The Greatest Experience of Your Life

Climbing the social ladder, and other exercises at Hill Country summer camps.

Pray for Sharks

Cuddling up to a thousand pounds of ravenous hunger.

Southern Charms

In Charleston they haven’t forgotten one of the things the Old South was famous for: good cooking.

Contest

Blood and irony.

So Rare

Some good reasons for collecting rare books and some good places to do it.

Behind the Lines

Family Affairs

Coupling takes many forms, as John Updike and Shelby Hearon can tell you.

Touts

Silver threads and golden needles.

On the Waterfront

Canoeists battle more than white water when they run the Guadalupe.

Roar of the Crowd

Laredo: Fuel’s Paradise

Everybody in Laredo is being excessively kind to Tony Sanchez, Sr., these days, quite a change from several years ago when Sanchez took in ten to twelve thousand a year selling office supply furniture and trading oil and gas leases on the side to help make ends meet. Kindest of

Future Rock

The times, they are a’ changing. Fine, but how?

This‘ll Be the Day

In Lubbock Buddy Holly was just a skinny kid with glasses, but to rock-and-roll fans he was—and is—a whole lot more.

Sold Arabian

The Alamo was only the first step in the Arabs’ attempted takeover of what’s sacred to us Texans. The Customer’s Man

Cleaning Up the Act

Both Warren Beatty and Ellen Burstyn are going to wash that malaise right out of their hair.

Carousel

Taking a nostalgic turn around some old merry-go-rounds.

Greetings From the Eighth Wonder of the World

A candid celebration of ten years of the Astrodome and Astrothink.