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Through All Kinds of Weather

The best thing about the weather is complaining about it.

Out with a Bang

‘Twas the season to see Dallas Civic Opera.

Behind the Lines

As New Ulm went, so goes New York.

Just Whistlin’ Dixie

Way down up on the Suwannee River and uptown Saturday night; tracking a few Southern women.

Six Crises

It will be up to the 66th Legislature to solve these problems, and we’ll have to live with the solutions.

In Search of La Salle

The riddle of the French explorer lies buried beneath the Gulf of Mexico, but what is it, where is it, and why, oh why, are we looking for it?

Touts

Days of vines and noses.

Power to the Little People

Why can’t grown-up theater be as good as children’s?

State Secrets

Pop a cork for Château UT; Fort Worth wins American Airlines from New York and “loses” it to Dallas; will Dallas’ law firms catch Houstonitis?

The Joy of Six

The difference between eleven-man and six-man football is a lot more than five men.

Roar of the Crowd

From Mexico with love.

Roar of the Crowd

From Mexico with love.

Texas Monthly Reporter

Taking it off at the last of the real burlesque joints; holy war on Austin’s Baptists; why Texas’ election system is stuck in the Dark Ages.

A Chance of Face

At last the truth about beauty salon make-overs: the new you may not be a change for the better.

Starring Rowles

Last year’s jazz records are this year’s best buys.

The Inside Story

Tastes good.

1979 Bum Steer Awards

A shameless selection of shames, shenanigans, subterfuges, spoofs, smokescreens, and saltimbancos Texans suffered through in ‘78.

Clements for President

Here’s how we cans share our good fortune with the rest of America.

Coup de Foie Gras

French chefs are revolting against classical cuisine, and some of their new creations are definitely revolting.

Conductor Dating

San Antonio Symphony audiences are ready for another rendezvous with François Huybrechts.

Behind the Lines

Stone walls do not a prison make.

The Emperor’s Old Clothes

Old embroidery doesn’t die, it just becomes art.

Hard Time

Ellis prison houses 2400 dangerous criminals, and it’s the safest place to live in Texas.

The Friends of Cloyce Box

With friends like these, Box’s company didn’t need enemies.

Touts

Homes for the holidays.

Blind Alley

Alley Theater’s season opener, Scream, was about Jews and Nazis. It was also about how not to run a regional theater.

State Secrets

Will somebody write the Great American LBJ biography? Is Billy Clayton Texas’ Earl Butz? Will Dolph take care of his flock?

Roar of the Crowd

From pilot to Post.

Texas Monthly Reporter

The dark side of doing business in Saudi Arabia; an endangered mountain in El Paso; and big profits with small airplanes.

Texas Monthly Reporter

The dark side of doing business in Saudi Arabia; an endangered mountain in El Paso; and big profits with small airplanes.

A Call to Farms

The Rockefellers are coming, and J.C. Lewis thinks they’re after the American farmer.

It’s a Small World

Don’t laugh at a model railroader or call his little train a toy.

Polk Salad Days

Music to live in Austin for.

The Inside Story

Take cover.

Celluloid Circus

The New York Film Festival is a movie addict’s biggest fix.

So You Want to Be Chairman of Exxon?

How the world’s largest corporation decides who will make it to the top—and who won’t.

The Graining of America

If Jesus had tried to feed the multitudes with today’s bread, he would have been drummed out of the miracle business.

Sacred Cows

Cows are dumb, they eat a lot, and they cost more to raise than they’re worth. Still, you can’t help loving ’em.

Bella Norma

Now you like it, now you don’t, now you like it again—Houston Grand Opera’s Norma.

Behind the Lines

A funny thing happened on the way to the governor’s office.

Days of the Hocus

Sleazy Holly inspires a book that is sleazier.

The World on an Easel

The modern realist’s motto is what you see is what you paint.

A Country Christmas

Holiday gift ideas with a true rustic flavor.

Touts

A Hole in the Hip Pocket

Hip Pocket Theater keeps taking on challenges it can’t meet.

State Secrets

Some tidbits and outrages under our very nose.

Roar of the Crowd

Honorable pension.

Texas Monthly Reporter

Fighting the foolproof crime, playing games you can’t win, building an ice cream empire, and raising hell in Baylor.

The Sons of Buddy Holly

Wide-open spaces and prairie madness make the special music of Lubbock.

Stop the Presses

That’s exactly what the Mexican government tries to do when journalists get out of hand.