Sports
August 31, 1979
Hooping It Up
Pickup basketball is not a pastime for the lily-livered or the lackadaisical.
Columns
Music
August 31, 1979
Dust Off Your Blue Suede Shoes
Then grab your platters and step into the golden era of rock ën’ roll.
Politics & Policy
August 31, 1979
Up the Creek
Everyone in Austin loves sparkling Barton Creek—especially the developers.
Jazz
August 31, 1979
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Charles Mingus was a great jazz musician with a sharp mind, an impeccable sense of rhythm, and a mighty powerful fist.
Film
August 31, 1979
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.
Dance
August 31, 1979
Unfancy Dancer
Some have said that life is a dance, and Deborah Hay makes you believe it.
Church
August 31, 1979
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.
Politics & Policy
August 31, 1979
Behind the Lines
Waltzing across Texas.
Books
August 31, 1979
Mexican Mystery Tour
Charles Portis’ new novel belongs to the tradition of great frontier yarns, but this time the young man goes south.
Art
August 31, 1979
Another Roadside Attraction
Houston National Bank’s ìLarger Canvas Twoî takes it to the streets.
Theater
July 31, 1979
The Zest is History
Texas, our Texas, all hail the mighty state-audiences applaud history plays in Galveston and Palo Duro Canyon.
Travel & Outdoors
July 31, 1979
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.
Sports
July 31, 1979
Pennant Fever
At midseason, long-suffering Astros and Rangers fans were having visions of grandeur. We hope they weren’t delusions.
Religion
July 31, 1979
Let My People Pray
Were the words of Russian exile Georgi Vins heard over the din of the Southern Baptist Convention?
Film
July 31, 1979
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.
Classical Music
July 31, 1979
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.
Church
July 31, 1979
Sausage and Salvation
A Lutheran pastor in New Braunfels challenges his congregation; a Methodist minister in Dallas soothes his.
Politics & Policy
July 31, 1979
Behind the Lines
Running on Empty.
Art
July 31, 1979
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.”
Working
June 30, 1979
Type Caste
Staying up all night setting type may not sound like the good life, but it is.
Theater
June 30, 1979
After the Honeymoon
Talent marries business sense at Dallas’ Theater Onstage.
Travel & Outdoors
June 30, 1979
Haute as a Pistol
A Paris fashion show and the cotton-eyed Joe, nowhere but Texas.
Music
June 30, 1979
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.
Jazz
June 30, 1979
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.
Health
June 30, 1979
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?
Film
June 30, 1979
Eagle’s Eye
The Whole Shootin’ Match is a Texas film with Texas actors that took a year to get shown in Texas.
Classical Music
June 30, 1979
Talent Clout
Houston Opera Studio’s students learn their way into the limelight.
Church
June 30, 1979
The Lord is in His Temple
Congregation Beth Israel in Houston remembers the Holocaust quietly; Allandale Baptist Church in Austin isn’t quiet about anything.
Politics & Policy
June 30, 1979
Behind the Lines
Fill ‘er up, but don’t spill any gas on my Ralph Lauren boots.
Books
June 30, 1979
Wind, Winter, and Waste
Five new books: three thrillers, one chiller, and a swan song.
Art
June 30, 1979
The Collector
Did Helmut Gernsheim make a mistake when he sold his priceless photography collection to UT?
Health
May 31, 1979
A Stitch in Time
A husband and wife decide sterilization is the best answer for birth control; the question is-who does it?
Theater
May 31, 1979
They Must Pay the Rent!
Melodrama Theatres in Austin and San Antonio keep the popcorn flying. Coward and Shaw play Dallas and Houston.
Sports
May 31, 1979
Strike! They’re Out
Who’s calling the balls while the major league umpires are out on strike?
Film
May 31, 1979
U.$.A. Film Fe$tival
Filmmakers hoped to be money-makers by the end of the ninth annual U.S.A. Film Festival in Dallas.
Dining In
May 31, 1979
Soup On Ice
Summer and gazpatcho—you shouldn’t have one without the other.
Dance
May 31, 1979
Missing the Pointe
At the Southwestern Regional Ballet Festival in pre-tornado Wichita Falls, the politics were hotter than the dancing.
Classical Music
May 31, 1979
Boys Will be Sopranos
And, if they’re the Texas Boys Choir, pretty good ones at that. San Antonio opera gets an overhaul.
Cityview
May 31, 1979
An Ill Wind
April is the cruelest month, and tornado-struck Wichita Falls knows why.
Church
May 31, 1979
Count Your Blessings
Will the Episcopalians inherit the Methodists and Baptists? Will the Pentecostals inherit some tact?
Books
May 31, 1979
A New Old West
Two novels with novel views of frontier days. And, Howard Hughes revisited by two reporters who leave no stone of his rocky history unturned.
Art
May 31, 1979
The Camera Knows
Photographer Harry Callahan gets the picture. Painter Robert Levers gets his message across loud and clear.
Theater
April 30, 1979
This Little Play Goes to Market
Dallas Theater Center’s third Playmarket offers a crop of fresh plays. Plus, short musings on other Texas treasures.
Religion
April 30, 1979
Persecution Complex?
Sherman’s First United Pentecostal Church believes persecution is good for the soul.
Music
April 30, 1979
Say Uncle
You may have to bar hop to find Austin’s best-kept musical secret-Uncle Walt’s Band. And, presenting the annual Buddy magazine music awards, sealed with a kiss.
Lifestyle
April 30, 1979
Cooks Tour de Force
Who cares about the food when the cook is Truman Capote?
Film
April 30, 1979
Adults Only
The Innocent isn’t really for innocents. Hair isn’t really for anybody.
Country Notes
April 30, 1979
All That Litters
Trash collectors are not necessarily garbage men.
Classical Music
April 30, 1979
A Fright At The Opera
Houston Grand Opera took the sugar out of La Traviata. Fort Worth Symphony’s John Giordano does modern music Rite.
Church
April 30, 1979
In the Beginning
We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing; we chasten and hasten to tell you all about it.