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April 30, 1990
Padre Hearty
Padre’s spring breakers just want to have fun.
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April 30, 1990
Highway Robbery?
A warning to those who barrel through the wide-open spaces at full throttle: Untold danger lurks in that tiny town you missed on the last blink.
Reporter
April 30, 1990
Money Changes Everything
A $10 million sweepstakes winner wants to run Denton.
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April 1, 1990
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Robert Bass goes after a Florida newspaper’s charitable trust; hikers and bikers go after each other on the fitness trail; a Metroplex entrepreneur goes in for class reunions.
Reporter
March 1, 1990
Smart Parties
Entertainer John Armstrong applies the scientific method to children’s birthday parties.
Music
March 1, 1990
Strike Up the Bands
The bands play on and on and on in Austin.
Reporter
March 1, 1990
Update: Stubb Moves Again
Stubb’s barbecue, with a side order of blues, hits the road again. Destination: Lower Greenville.
Reporter
March 1, 1990
Kimbell Conundrum
Architects are up in arms over plans for the Kimbell.
Reporter
March 1, 1990
Muckraker of The Big Bend
An Alpine weekly digs up all the news that’s fit to print—and then some.
Reporter
February 1, 1990
Juvenile Justice
Peer pressure dispenses juvenile justice in Montgomery County.
Reporter
February 1, 1990
Old Age, New Age
San Antonio’s mail-order Mayans were New Age before there was a new age.
Reporter
February 1, 1990
The Long Dry Spell
Coasta Bend farmers are desperate for a rainy day.
Reporter
January 1, 1990
Upscale Garage Saling
Shopper Ethel Sexton is dressed to the nines in her garage-sale finery.
Reporter
January 1, 1990
Sultan Of Stink
Tim Johnson came out smelling like a rose when San Franciscans detected broken gas lines.
Reporter
January 1, 1990
Bon-Furor
Bonfire-crazed yell leaders Keving Fitzgerald and Brant Ince foresee defeat for fire’s foes.
Reporter
December 1, 1989
Irreconcilable Differences
An airport spat rekindles the Dallas-Fort Worth feud; South Plains farmers cotton to a colorful high-fiber crop; Houston artists collaborate to wish everyone Feliz Navidad.
Reporter
November 1, 1989
Two-Tone Hip-Hop
A coach and student rap it up in Brazosport.
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November 1, 1989
Baby Boomers Unite
Baby boomers get their acts together.
Reporter
November 1, 1989
Filling a Niche
Conquest Airlines flies where few have gone before.
Reporter
September 30, 1989
Animal Fights
The Animal Liberation Front terrorizes Texas Tech: RVs lumber through the Big Bend drug net; eclectic eats served to a boogie beat in the Hill Country.
Reporter
August 31, 1989
Whose Texas Rangers are They Anyhow?
Dallas’ grandstanding irks Arlington; writers jockey for position in the Matamoros book derby; A&M’s bluebonnets show their not-so-true colors; San Antonio goes loco over Lico Lico.
Reporter
July 31, 1989
So Long, Starck; Bye-Bye, Blue Bird
The Starck Club, R.I.P.
Reporter
June 30, 1989
First Author
A Texas Novelist Finds Favor in Washington.
Reporter
May 31, 1989
Texas’ Nuclear Neighbor
Triple threat: Scientists fret that an underground nuclear dump will pollute the Pecos; surveyors set off a storm over the center of Texas; cities sweat safety risks from stolen aluminum.
Reporter
April 30, 1989
Blast from the Past
Houston mayoral candidate Fred Hofheinz has an incumbent and a rumor to defeat; Phil DeVries has a singing caterpillar to find; Zavala County must make a private prison pay its way; and Lori Johns is out to prove she’s the best woman on the drag strip.
Reporter
April 1, 1989
Red Sails in the Sunbelt
Windsurfers add sparkle to Corpus Christi Bay; the Johnson family says a poignant farewell to one of its own; the golden arches attain alpine heights—but come crashing down in Houston.
Reporter
March 1, 1989
Captain Homeless
Austin’s homeless find a home sweet home on the lake; Fort Worth’s impresario of white gospel puts on a no-sweat show; Dallas’ Comet crashes; and Houston’s Orange Show marks a decade of—well, orange.
Music
February 1, 1989
This is Now
Looking forward to Jerry Jeff Walker’s second Luckenbach, looking into a new way to settle feuds, and looking back over the career of Texas’ most prolific unknown author.
Reporter
January 1, 1989
Big Man, Small Town
An East Texas librarian learns the perils of shushing the wrong guy; Houston and Dallas put on the ritz for couture; and Citizen Butt picks the Texas Supreme Court.
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December 1, 1988
Texas Monthly Reporter
San Antonio media indulge in self-flagellation over Henry; Dallas goes gaga over Tom Cruise; Hoston thrills to a Pearl of a blues singer.
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November 1, 1988
Texas Monthly Reporter
Hieromania, the burning curiosity of glyphies; Post time in the race for Houston’s new gossip columnist; an unlikely car and an unlikelier trailer; the parking garage from hell.
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September 30, 1988
Texas Monthly Reporter
Corpus Christi learns to grow through adversity; Houston gives Percy Foreman a rousing send-off; Austin ponders the mystery of the misappearing shoes.
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August 31, 1988
Texas Monthly Reporter
Channel 5 in Fort Worth hits forty; Elvis fever hits Waco; a would-be DA hits a snag in Raymondville; and Hangs Book is a hit with fishermen.
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July 31, 1988
Texas Monthly Reporter
The case of the purloined painting; how to tell the Surf Club from the Yacht Club; cream of the ice-cream crop; people who live in pink houses.
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June 30, 1988
Texas Monthly Reporter
A spree décor: a buying guide to the new Dallas shopping trip
Reporter
May 31, 1988
Texas Monthly Reporter
The bash of the century in Austin; new heights for an Alamo author; slouching toward Jerusalem, Texas; plus designer tomatoes, East Texas ingenuity, and Amazing Car #8.
Critters
April 30, 1988
Funky Chickens
The prairie chickens in Texas’ vanishing grasslands are booming and boyish.
Politics & Policy
April 30, 1988
Just Add Water
The issues in El Paso’s colonias are watery and grave.
Reporter
April 1, 1988
Texas Monthly Reporter
Downtown San Antonio get a makeover; two for T-shirts; a spine-tingling story of a racehorse; the real winners at the Miss U.S.A. pageant; the Brownies go to marketing.
Reporter
March 1, 1988
Texas Monthly Reporter
Grazing cheap and chic in Houston, Austin, and Dallas; tire-kicking at the Fizzlick liquidation boutique; returning a piece of Janis’ heart to Port Arthur.
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January 1, 1988
Texas Monthly Reporter
Down but not out in Bent Tree; dishes only the devil could love; hello, Wal-Mart; stupid napkin tricks; gossip boys and Gorilla girls.
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December 1, 1987
Texas Monthly Reporter
A black and gamy Monday; Wick Allison as low-profile Buckley; heartthrobs Quaid and Swayze; fine food for feedlots; Augie’s Gringo Lingo.
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November 1, 1987
Texas Monthly Reporter
Onward through the fall at SMU; home on the fringe with Rob Paul; good news from the catalog jungle; a taste of Longhorn.
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September 30, 1987
Texas Monthly Reporter
Cities in search of salvation; the new White House (as in Mark); the art of double-Daryled potshots; chile time in El Paso; chile relleno time in Houston.
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August 31, 1987
Texas Monthly Reporter
On the cutting edge with Ollie North; Donna Rice on the cutting room floor; cutting corners to find good Vietnamese restaurants; and the gig ‘em gourmet cookbook, the Aggies’ unkindest cut of all.
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July 31, 1987
Texas Monthly Reporter
Let’s play pretend by swapping out Houstonians for Dallasites. Plus: Battling books, good Mex-Mex where you’d least expect it, and our guide to the latest legislative phrases (use ‘em three times and they’re yours!)
Reporter
June 30, 1987
Texas Monthly Reporter
Not much happened at the Legislature, but that doesn’t mean they left no traces. Plus: Houston’s I’m OK, We’re OK Wortham bash, unlikely Texas TV stars, and Frank Lorenzo’s flight to cushier climes.
Reporter
May 31, 1987
Texas Monthly Reporter
Texas oil patchers bounce back; Houston artist Staley paints the art crowd; goat-gland genius Brinkley’s mansion casts its quirky spell. Plus: Caroline Schoellkopf’s marital woes, Tammy Faye Bakker’s impersonators, and Nancy Negley Wellin’s prodigal daughter.
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April 30, 1987
Texas Monthly Reporter
Houston ignores its AIDS crisis, Dallas restaurant gossips chew over hard times, San Antonio headline writers get their due. Plus: Chuck Robb’s blooper, Larry McMurtry’s sniffles, and Shearn Moody’s new taste in nightlife.
Reporter
April 1, 1987
Texas Monthly Reporter
Marty Wender can’t do anything wrong—and San Antonio loves him for it. Joe Russo can’t do anything right—and Houston loves him for it. Plus: pop paraphernalia, naming Henry’s baby, Poppin’ Pigskins, and Who Killed Mark White?