Music
November 1, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
Texas’ greatest rural sheriff, oddest permutation of democracy, unlikeliest punk heroes, and hottest airline dogfight.
Reporter
Reporter
September 30, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
The harsh truth about Mexican corruption; the twilight zone of Houston journalism; the instant $82 million oil bust; the tastemakers of art-to-eat.
Reporter
August 31, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
Dallas a haven for mystics and misfits? La Raza Unida just a memory? Plus: a real, live train robber reminisces; public TV fades in and out; C.A. Doerge gets all pumped up.
Reporter
July 31, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
Austin’s Bourbon Street; San Antonio’s food fight; the governor’s mystery museum; Green Lizards in Concan; truffles in paradise.
Reporter
June 30, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
A job crunch hits Odessa; an all-business mayor shakes up El Paso; the Rangers fold (again); a Houston homeowner wars with his neighborhood association; grads commemorate an all-black high school.
Reporter
May 31, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
The secret of making money; the cutest vandals you ever saw; the lowdown on high tech; the little trains that couldn’t; the champ with shear magic.
Reporter
April 30, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
A Texas farmer’s bitter harvest; a trucker’s paradise; Louisiana’s tastiest emigrant; NASA’s lunar fringe; the media’s favorite oilman.
Reporter
April 1, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
The countdown begins in the Dallas newspaper fight; Victor Garza is going your way--if you’re going to Laredo; one of Houston’s legal monoliths cracks; Clements has a lukewarm record, but the Democratic challengers aren’t so hot, either.
Reporter
March 1, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
Private eyes are peeled for oil thieves; Lightnin’ Hopkin’s death left Houston singin’ the blues; Zenter’s steakhouses hoof it across Texas; folks are MADD as hell about DWI; Places Rated Almanac flunks the rating game.
Reporter
February 1, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
A lawyer takes aim at handgun makers; Texas journalism gets hugh on society; politicians see red over fire ants; Dallas tries to master its aversion to master plans.
Reporter
January 1, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
Football fever in Wink; political prognostication in Houston; gustatory grotesquerie in Austin; building bonanza in Fort Worth.
Reporter
December 1, 1981
Texas Monthly Reporter
Robots take over Dallas; sports talk shows take Houston by storm; border bridges take forever to get built; John Tower takes the lead in the defense debate; a Corsicana bakery takes the fruitcake.
Reporter
November 1, 1981
Texas Monthly Reporter
Mercedes crisis looms; farm computer biz booms; Mavericks’ potential zooms. Plus, regional brokerages take stock; black colleges get a shock.
Reporter
September 30, 1981
Texas Monthly Reporter
Raising cain over Sam Houston’s house; searching for the face that will sell a million blue jeans; going bust in the refinery business.
Reporter
August 31, 1981
Reporter
Four great Texas discoveries: world-class barbecue in Taylor, gold fever in Brock, psychic delvings in San Antonio, historical triage in Canyon.
Reporter
July 31, 1981
Reporter
Mr. Boll Weevil goes to Washington; Dallas scholars go to the Sunbelt’s defense; Houston’s public abortion clinic goes down the drain.
Reporter
June 30, 1981
Reporter
McAllen mayor Othal Brand fights for his political life; a killer storm ravages Austin; a Highland Park matron trades fancy parties for farming.
Reporter
May 31, 1981
Reporter
Kirk Crocker’s radiation nightmare; Texas International tries to swallow Continental Air Lines - and chokes; Panhandle farmers confront the M-X missile folly; can Houston have its park and oil wells, too?
Reporter
April 30, 1981
Reporter
Studying the hard truths of Dallas politics; learning the ropes as a commercial driver; teaching kids to think; remembering the lessons of the oil patch.
Reporter
April 1, 1981
Texas Monthly Reporter
Meet Texas’ staunches liberal crusader, biggest trade show, slickest drug peddlers, and canniest mall builders.
Reporter
March 1, 1981
Texas Monthly Reporter
Uncle Same wants Texas prison reform; Ma Bell wants your news dollar; Governor Bill wants Mexican workers; killer mosquitoes want you.
Reporter
February 1, 1981
Texas Monthly Reporter
Cultural triumph in San Antonio; mayoral high jinks in Matamoros; electoral tableau in Austin; political protest in Dallas.
Reporter
January 1, 1981
Texas Monthly Reporter
Rounding up rustlers in North Texas; shaping up mind and body at the Houstonian; chalking up a victory against infant deaths in the Valley.
Reporter
December 1, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
Cable TV has Dallas in its coils; acupuncture has its day in court; sex education has parents up in arms.
Reporter
November 1, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
Gas pipeline companies are devouring Lee County; border plasma clinics beckon poor Mexicans; oh, deer, what can the matter be?
Reporter
September 30, 1980
The Second Wave
Where have all the boat people gone?; money makes UT go round; Dallas blacks lambaste the co ps; Texas lowriders get down.
Reporter
August 31, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
A black Houstonian revised the Horatio Alger legend; making a racket in Mason; UT astronomers yearn to conquer the universe; requiem for a reef.
Reporter
July 31, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
Yankee lawyers kick up dust in the Panhandle; maniacal marathon man runs for his life; the redfish that got away; are Dallas’s tax ills contagious?
Reporter
June 30, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
Weathering a year-long drouth in South Texas; Harlingen’s cute little, uh, body builder; adversaries in the bilingual education battle don’t speak the same language; Bastards from Hell terrorize Houston.
Reporter
May 31, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
Exploding the myth of the long-haul trucker; half a million Texas students get snookered; beating the IRS - maybe; praise the Lord and pass the ballot.
Critters
April 30, 1980
A Dog’s Life
Fighting over a black neighborhood in Austin; corralling the irascible Bull of the Brazos; fussing and feuding with the DAR; monkeying around with the San Antonio Zoo.
Reporter
April 1, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
Rice University is up in arms; God is indicted for murder; Blackboard Jungle becomes a political thicket; the golden arm of Nolan Ryan.
Reporter
March 1, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
Del Monte gets steamed up over spinach; an entrepreneur’s scheme goes up in flames; Marlin takes the geothermal plunge; football is hot stuff in Mexico.
Reporter
February 1, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
Old what’s-his-name is the most powerful man in Texas; Simone Beck takes her culinary magic show on the road; duck hunters and conservationists battle over a marsh.
Reporter
January 1, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
George Bush wants to shake your hand; Rita Clements wants to paint your Governor’s Mansion; Dallas wants to bring you art, lots of art.
Reporter
December 1, 1979
Texas Monthly Reporter
Whose blonde, curly scalp are the farmers after how do the rich and powerful run? Why, pray tell, does Houston need parks?
Reporter
November 1, 1979
Texas Monthly Reporter
A down-home journalist; the privileged pew; gas for a price.
Reporter
September 30, 1979
Texas Monthly Reporter
South Padre defiled—and you were there; the joy of six hundred maniacal flute players; Dallas’ love-hate affair with Fair Park.
Reporter
August 31, 1979
Texas Monthly Reporter
B-a-a-d government meddling irks Texas goat and sheep raisers; something’s rotten in Rotterdam, and it’s driving up oil prices; and the world’s best gymnasts are coming to Cowtown.
Business
July 31, 1979
Texas Monthly Reporter
Valley politicos block minority TV; Dairy Queens reign in small-town Texas; woman diver yearns for Acapulco cliffs; Houston takes its lumps.
Reporter
June 30, 1979
Texas Monthly Reporter
Suffering the lines at the gas pump; gambling in the magazine business; a dragnet for the Southwest’s sneakiest thief; what’s Dallas’ secret?
Reporter
May 31, 1979
Texas Monthly Reporter
Who is the mayor of Cowtown? Who is that man in the ski mask? Who wants Caddo Lake’s water?
Reporter
April 30, 1979
Texas Monthly Reporter
Playing chicken on the Houston Ship Channel; jousting with 700-year-old knights; will John Hill run for governor again?
Reporter
April 1, 1979
Texas Monthly Reporter
Striking the right chord with the Fort Worth Symphony and the wrong one with Mexico; grounding Wayland Baptist’s Flying Queens.
Reporter
March 1, 1979
Texas Monthly Reporter
A Texas train on the right track; Houston annexations derailed.
Reporter
January 1, 1979
Texas Monthly Reporter
Taking it off at the last of the real burlesque joints; holy war on Austin’s Baptists; why Texas’ election system is stuck in the Dark Ages.
Reporter
December 1, 1978
Texas Monthly Reporter
The dark side of doing business in Saudi Arabia; an endangered mountain in El Paso; and big profits with small airplanes.
Reporter
December 1, 1978
Texas Monthly Reporter
The dark side of doing business in Saudi Arabia; an endangered mountain in El Paso; and big profits with small airplanes.
Reporter
November 1, 1978
Texas Monthly Reporter
Fighting the foolproof crime, playing games you can’t win, building an ice cream empire, and raising hell in Baylor.
Reporter
September 30, 1978
Texas Monthly Reporter
Bucking the U.S. Air Force, breeding horses for royalty, and hightailing it out of town before the Corps of Engineers gets you.