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Pilgrims at Turtle Creek

The Dallas Theater Center sets sail for distant and perhaps dangerous shores.

Diversify and Conquer

The oil companies are hedging their bets in the energy crisis by buying other firms.

Coming of Age in the Locker Room

What football does to its people.

The Texas Monthly Guide to Private Schools, Part I

Two questions are crucial: should your child go to private school; and if so, which one.

The Decline and Fall of the Southwest Conference

When was the last time you went to an SMU-Baylor game?

Roux the Day

Crawfish pie is not the only Cajun dish worth sampling.

Contest

Poems to celebrate the new season.

Behind the Lines

Steel Walls Do Not an Art Museum Make

The Houston Contemporary Arts Museum has an acute case of schizophrenia.

Touts

Some recommendations on what to do, see, and buy this month.

The Sport of Rough Gentlemen

Football evolved from rugby, which may show that evolution doesn’t always mean progress.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Waltzing Methuselah

Alternatives to raging against the dying of the light.

Why I Like to Ride the Train

Enthusiastic railway passengers maintain that fast is not necessarily the same as best.

Waiting for the Train

While you’re waiting at the depot, Amtrak bickers with Washington, railway moguls, and itself.

Pappy’s Girls

Separating the dancer from the dance in the world of strip tease.

King of the Hobbyists

What kind of man would establish a museum which exhibits a bottle of dust from the wings of model airplanes and 250,000 three cent stamps?

So You Want to Be a Redneck

Owning a pickup is not, in itself, enough.

Redneck!

Being a Redneck is a lot of things, but it ain’t fun and it ain’t easy.

Dallas’s Restaurants

Our reviewer is well pleased but not ecstatic with three famous establishments.

Contest

Trains did have exotic names. Here’s your chance to invent your own.

Tykes Bearing Gifts

Throwing a birthday party for young children is really a very simple, enjoyable thing—to watch.

Behind the Lines

Among the Ruins

Across Yucatan on pennies a day. An intrepid traveler reports.

Touts

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

The Peter Out Principle

The Texas GOP cranks down for November elections.

Marginal Utilities

Utilities companies’ long range plans didn’t include a fuel shortage. Now they have shortages of a different kind to worry about.

When All the Laughter Turned to Sap

All these movies have something missing; it didn’t take Sam Spade to find it.

Off, Off Damned Coat

Since our wearables often become unbearable, here’­s a bold alternative.

Forgotten Places

Four seldom visited areas of Texas prove to be proudly beautiful and almost inaccessible.

James Helwig is the Heavyweight Champion of Texas

Boxing is the real school of hard knocks. James Helwig, the Texas Heavyweight Champion, hopes he’ll be able to graduate in time.

Six West

Staying alive day by day . . . by day.

Why Jack Valenti Still Sleeps Soundly

Beneath the phony outer schmaltz of Jack Valenti one finds the real schmaltz of a true believer.

Splendor on the Grass

Cooking over an open fire is no mystic art. And it helps if you start everything in your kitchen at home.

Contest

Behind the Lines

Touts

Katie at the Bat

Women’s college sports, after years of atrophy, are getting more attention, but the same amount of financial support—almost none.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

From the Publisher

The Adipose Tissue Issue

There’s a mechanism in the brain that’s supposed to keep you from getting fat. The only problem is you have to eat right and exercise to make it work.

Ashes to Ashes, Trust to Dust

Real Estate Investment Trusts proved that you could lose money in real estate; and nobody ever wrote to thank them for the lesson either.

From Badlands to Worselands

Gatsby is not a complete disappointment while an unheralded little movie about Texas looks great.

A Mighty Fortress is Our Home

It’s easy to lock yourself out of your own home, but keeping someone else out is rather more difficult.

Constructive Criticism

Once again a critical eye is cast on those irregularities along the skyline called buildings.

Rating the Major Dailies

Choosing the best features of Texas newspapers is a thankless job, hard on the spirit, and difficult for all the wrong reasons.