We Texans have always seemed to drive more, and farther, and for perhaps stranger reasons, than just about anyone else. Young people in the bleak and monotonous landscapes of West and North Texas grew up accustomed to endless, aimless rides around the countryside and to regular trips into the cities
Doug Sahm’s music is his own, but what luck that he plays it for everybody.
What you eat affects the way you think; and what you think affects the way you eat.
Senator Bentsen is proposing legislation to end the two-tiered market. It might work; then again the market might take care of itself.
Cops, sci-fi, and westerns get served up as leftovers, and only one still tastes good. Meanwhile, Robert Altman has another dazzling film.
We visit restaurants in Houston where lunches are the specialty.
Daddies can’t have babies, but they can sure help their wives. This is a guide to where and how.
After an aggressive ad campaign, attendance was up at the Houston Ballet; the performances were also up... and down.
This answers every question about getting married outdoors buy why.
In the past people have made a pretty penny from initial offerings. No more.
Lots of spooky movies this month as a new reviewer takes the wheel.
You know about Tex-Mex cooking, but what about German-Tex? Its beauty lies in the stomach of the engulfer.
Our reviewer, whose capacity for punishment is apparently boundless, reports on ten best-selling paperback books.
Writing about Larry L. King is a difficult task that leaves me feeling like some sweating country jeweler stooped over a fine stone trying to fashion an appropriate setting out of tin. Some good writers have craft; others have soul and spirit. Larry has what great writers have: he has
Try something different next time you head West.
As long as you're cleaning up the environment, start with your own body.
The energy crisis has caused a crisis of nerves for the Chicken Littles of Wall Street.
Whether evading the law, loosening the bonds of marriage, or traveling to the future, escape is the watchword for this group of films.
There are some restaurants in Austin that could coax wary gourmets out of their kitchens.
Securing the Perfect Babysitter isn't always possible, but there are some alternatives.
IBM and friends could soon be steping down from their pedestals.
Neither fish nor fowl, filmed theater is a whole new art form.
Tex-Mex food is as indigenous to Texas as beefsteak. Here are some recipes which will water your eyes and wow your guests.
Mothers and fathers in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston can explore an exciting concept with their children: the city as playground.
INMATES OF THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT of Corrections have made 181 new desks for about $34 a desk. Rockford Furniture Associates of Austin has fashioned matching chairs for $180 a chair. A new electronic voting board has been installed for $33,500 ($200 more than the total cost for the chairs). These
The path to haute culture in Texas is regularly trodden by opera buffs in four cities. Although no La Scalia or Bayreuth, the opera companies of Texas are offering some unique and innovative productions.
When inflation hits the international scene the gnomes of Zurich and the goldbugs start racing for the ingots. But how smart an investment is gold these days?
Turffaut does it again, Polanski leaves a lot to be desired, and Losey wins and loses at the same time.
The toys your children play with might make them one of the 19,000 dead or 40,000 crippled by playthings this year.
GOOD REPORTING SOMETIMES INVOLVES RISKS. Most people see the world outside their immediate vision through the eyes of the media, and much of the world contains people and situations that are unpleasant, distasteful, and downright dangerous. Wars fit in this category. So do murders. Becoming intimately involved in either can
Our well meaning volunteer other meets up with some hard-nosed realists in the public schools.
SENIOR EDITOR GRIFFIN SMITH JR.‘s comprehensive study of the great law firms of Houston (page 53) ranks among the most important writing ever printed by this or any other Texas publication. It goes to the heart of a group of institutions whose influence upon our state is incalculable, and
Jaded film buff? Try spending next Saturday night at the movies. The Spanish language movies.
October is the month to pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and head to the sea.
How to keep your options, stock that is, open during Phase IV.
Austin does it again, an exciting new pas de deux for balletomanes: ballet and beer.
ALL OF US ARE GOING to have to stop Arthur Temple if he decides to move the headquarters of Time, Inc., to Diboll. We don’t care if Diboll is a nicer place to work than Manhattan, Arthur, you should have thought of that before you went ahead with the deal.The
There are ten, count 'em, ten, places to eat in the Galleria. Some are good, others. . .
Institutions give the little guy the squeeze.
RARELY DOES A WRITER PARTICIPATE as a major actor in the events he reports, although from time to time writers of more ego than effectiveness posture as characters injected into the dramas they cover, much as coloring is injected into an apple to make it red. Last spring Griffin
MANY OF THE ARTICLES IN this issue are, in one way or another, about crime. It seems we have opened Pandora’s box. Returning from lunch one day we found that the offices next to ours had been burglarized. The next afternoon we got a call from Al Reinert, who
Fantasy finds it hard to compete with reality.
What to do with your quarters.
Don't look now Dow-Jones, but white collar crime is becoming a major growth industry.
Beans are. . .well, beans.
TWO MONTHS AGO IN OUR story “Sex and Politics” we took an affectionate, if irreverent, look at a side of our political traditions that is as old as politics itself, but which has rarely been discussed in public. This month we wrap up the latest session of the Texas Legislature
Turn off the T.V. and read a spell. These books are fun.
Ryan O'Neal, Adolph Hitler and Tom Sawyer have a lot in common. Trust us, you'll see.
Another Texan stuns the New York art and theater world.
How to invest when the market gets wild.