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Tube or Not Tube?

What is happening to your children, sitting in front of the TV?

Behind the Lines

Crooked Shooters

Does crime pay?

Leroy’s Revenge

Ringside as two dogs—father and son—fight to the death.

Touts

Getting down to brass facts.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

High Mass

A famous conductor tries again with a recording of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, and this time we think he’s got it right.

You Be the Judge

The battles in John Connally’s trial were fought before the jury, but the war may have been won offstage.

Stormy Weather

Why should Texans worry about New York going broke?

Say It with Music

Nashville, The Fortune, and Jaws: the perils and rewards of making it big.

Being Single: A True-Life Adventure

The loneliness of the long distance bachelor.

Forgotten Places

What Texas once was, so these wilderness areas still remain.

Good News

Cancer treatments, windshield wipers that don’t squeak, and other major breakthroughs on the frontiers of science.

The Last Aggie Joke

Behold the miracles at College Station!

The Hottest Place in the Whole U.S.A.

How the Texas heat can sap your energy, dull your intelligence, send you to an early grave, and make you sweat.

The Old Menu and the Sea

Fresh fish, and other rarities at seafood restaurants.

Contest

A title match.

Menace in the Grass

What you can’t see can hurt you.

Behind the Lines

Tortuga’s Complaint

Peter Matthiessen writes of men pursuing a dying profession and Philip Roth pursues his critics.

Tales of Shrimp

Out on the Gulf in a small boat, searching for the makings of shrimp cocktails, shrimp baskets, and shrimp salads.

AH Current

Cool off this summer with a dip into one of the state‘s best old-fashioned swimming holes.

Touts

The summer hath its joys.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Janis on My Mind

Requiem for a musical heavyweight, the hard-singing, hard-living girl from Port Arthur.

Light Switch

Turning off the juice to Texas utilities.

Wanderers East, Wanderers West

Day of the Locust, French Connection II, The Passenger: doing some hard traveling.

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.