Hunting & Fishing
July 1, 1986
Man to Man
The son’s ultimate selfishness is to see his father only as his father—not as a man. But on our first fishing trip in 25 years, I began to see my father—and myself—as the grown men we’d become.
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Politics & Policy
June 1, 1986
Unionbusters
Hank Milam was a businessman with $20,000 in equipment and a firm faith in the rules of the game.He took on the union that had ruled the Houston docks for fifty years and beat it on its own turf.
Politics & Policy
June 1, 1986
Hate Thy Neighbor
A look at Houston’s Meyerland, Dallas’ Munger Place, El Paso’s Sunset Heights, and Austin’s Hyde Park shows that few fights get the blood boiling like a good fight with a neighbor.
News & Politics
June 1, 1986
The Snootiest Neighborhood in Texas
The residents of San Antonio’s King William Historic District saved their neighborhood from bums, bulldozers, and bogus bay windows. Now, if they can only save it from themselves.
Food & Drink
May 1, 1986
Summer’s First Stand
Yesterday those onions and carrots were in the ground. Today they’re on your table, thanks to Texas’ bountiful roadside fruit and vegetable stands.
Film & TV
May 1, 1986
How Bad Were They?
Larry Buchanan made movies that were so cheap, so incredibly flawed, and so dumb, they’re lovingly celebrated as the worst movies ever made. And he made them all in Dallas.
Health
May 1, 1986
Confessions of an Aging Pothead
I smoked marijuana all day every day for several years. It took me almost a year to quit—and now I wonder if I’ll ever get straight.
News & Politics
May 1, 1986
The Quest That Fizzled
Everyone agreed it was time for greatness at UT. But after a nationwide search for a new president, the only man the regents could agree on was a campus insider who professed no great vision at all.
Art
April 1, 1986
Solace in the Desert
With dogged independence, amazing endurance, and a rugged romantic vision, photographer Laura Gilpin helped create the way we see the West today.
True Crime
April 1, 1986
Swamp Gas
When Jimmy Lee, an unrepentant troublemaker, felt he had taken one insult too many from the powerful Fredeman family, he called in the law. The results of that action have exposed decades of larceny and corruption in Port Arthur and threaten a Gulf Coast empire.
Business
March 1, 1986
A Trust Corrupted, a City Betrayed, Part Two
The continuing saga of the Hermann estate scandal was a shocking lesson in how Houston’s most-respected philanthropists, civic leaders, and biggest deal makers had abused their power.
Arts & Entertainment
March 1, 1986
Turn It Up!
The rudest, crudest, and most obnoxious disc jockeys are on in the mornings. Here’s the best—or the worst—of the lot.
Hunting & Fishing
March 1, 1986
Bass’n Gal
There are bass in Sam Rayburn Reservoir, and the gals were out to hook ’em. And Rhonda Wilcox hoped to hook the biggest one of all.
Business
March 1, 1986
Doin’ the Social Climb
From the heights of the Dallas social heap, they leaped to the national celebrity circuit. Rich, young, and fashionable, Twinkle and Bradley Bayoud are a case study in how to rise to the top.
Travel & Outdoors
February 1, 1986
A Caribbean Escape
From luxury class to no-plumbing primitive, the Technicolor tropics of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula offer end-of-the-world delights. And it’s practically in our back yard.
Business
February 1, 1986
A Trust Corrupted, a City Betrayed, Part One
The Hermann estate scandal exposed Houston’s most powerful deal makers, most respected philanthropist, and leading lawvers to the harsh glare of publicity. It was a shocking lesson in the abuses of power.
Sports
December 1, 1985
Professor of Football
Okay, now, listen up. This story is about Bill Yeoman, a really good football coach. Read it or run three laps after practice.
Being Texan
December 1, 1985
The Week of the Virgin
A doll-like statue of sugar-cane fiber and clay came to San Antonio from a village in Mexico. Twenty-four hours a day, residents of the West Side visited Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos.
Business
December 1, 1985
The Fraying Empire of Bobby Sakowitz
Robert Sakowitz set out to be a retail Renaissance man. Like his hero Leonardo da Vinci, he was going to do everything. And he did—including something he never imagined: fail.
Art
November 1, 1985
The Art-by-the-Truckload School
They’re cheesy, they’re tasteless. But each black velvet painting is a one-of-a-kind work of art.
News & Politics
November 1, 1985
The Hustlers
The genteel practice of law is dead. Nowadays lawyers fight for clients, raid each other’s firms, and bill, bill, bill.
Politics & Policy
October 1, 1985
When the Well Runs Dry
In parts of Texas drought is a steady boarder who may stray but always comes home for supper.
Politics & Policy
October 1, 1985
The Kathy Ratings
Kathy Whitmire’s substantial achievements as mayor of Houston are overshadowed by her bad public image and political ineptitude—not a good situation for a candidate seeking a third term.
Travel & Outdoors
October 1, 1985
Deep in the Heart of Mexico
What’s wrong with Mexico is exactly what’s right with it.
Food & Drink
October 1, 1985
Special Delivery
Morsels by mail, potables by post—let Texas’ mail-order food companies set your holiday table.
Travel & Outdoors
September 1, 1985
Roaming the Range
Follow that ribbon of highway to discover the breathtaking River Road, a beer-drinking goat, fabulous fajitas, and the ghostly cavalry of Fort Davis—all in the vast vacation resource known as West Texas.
Food & Drink
August 31, 1985
What’s the Big Deal About Grills?
Hot, hot, hot! Here’s why grills have become the trendiest of the trendy restaurants in Texas.
True Crime
August 31, 1985
The Final Gun
In a small East Texas town a black principal and a white coach loved the same woman. First came the gossip. Next came the strange letters. And then there was a murder.
Sports
August 1, 1985
The Wee World of Golf
Looking for a sport that offers plenty of cheap thrills and wacky challenges but requires no training, no equipment, and no big bucks? Try miniature golf.
True Crime
August 1, 1985
An Aggie’s Revenge
Starting with his alma mater and using little more than charm, Robert Hicks conned the college fundraising industry out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. His name is mud at A&M.
Texas History
August 1, 1985
Isle Without End
An early castaway described Padre Island as “a wretched, barren sandbank.” It’s better known today as the Gold Coast of Texas, but its identity is still rooted in wildness and age-old solitude.
Business
July 31, 1985
The Pink People
A new recruit to the ranks of Mary Kay beauty consultants struggles valiantly to do his part in reaching the woman of the eighties and keeping the company in the pink.
News & Politics
June 30, 1985
The Legacy of Citizen Robert
As an heir to the Dallas Morning News, Robert Decherd has vindicated his father’s name, waged and won a newspaper war, and emerged as the new leader of the Dealey dynasty.
True Crime
June 1, 1985
The Desperate Search for Christi Meeks
When five-year-old Christi Meeks disappeared and the police couldn’t find her, her father turned to Bill Dear, one of the most controversial private detectives in Texas.
Travel & Outdoors
May 1, 1985
I Was a Dude on Tumbling Mare Mountain
My pack trip in Mexico’s Sierra del Carmen wasn't exactly the Gray Line Tour.
Music
April 30, 1985
The Shaggy Club
In a mixed-up world, mixed-up kids need somebody who really understands. In Dallas that somebody is a punk DJ called Shaggy.
Business
April 1, 1985
Why Boone Can’t Lose
An old hand at Pickens-watching reveals the key to the Amarillo oilman’s corporate-takeover antics.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1985
Life, Art, and the Wackiest Politician in Texas
San Antonio city councilman Bernardo Eureste took a paltry arts budget and built it into a $3 million power base. Then he got mad and tore it all apart.
Food & Drink
April 1, 1985
Going Back for Seconds
Can there be too much of a good thing? Five of Texas’ favorite restaurants have duplicated themselves in other cities, and now they’re finding out.
Being Texan
April 1, 1985
Mikey
He left his parents’ house in search of a world where things were black and white, where there were heroes and villains. What he found in the slums of Port Arthur was a world that would tolerate people like him-and take advantage of them.
News & Politics
March 1, 1985
Looking for Trouble
Fred Cuny, sixth-generation Texan and uncompromising disaster-relief consultant, takes his expertise to the ends of the earth.
Hunting & Fishing
March 1, 1985
Bring ’Em Back Alive
In darkest South Texas roam two of the world’s most endangered species—the black rhino and the Great White Hunter.
Politics & Policy
February 1, 1985
Mayor, Council Locked in Bitter Struggle!
Council tells mayor her budget stinks! Mayor tells council to like it or lump it! Both sides twist arms, trade insults! Read all about it!
Health
February 1, 1985
Leaving the Bottle Behind
Like any disease, alcoholism has specific symptoms. Like many religions, drying-out programs require abstinence, blind faith, and confession.
Health
February 1, 1985
My Life as a Drunk
It may be hard to believe that you can drink two fifths a day and not only function but function well. But I did it. For a while.
Critters
December 1, 1984
The Great Texas Alligator Hunt
They told me alligators don’t eat people. But when I found myself face to face with one in a dark East Texas swamp, I hoped they’d told him too.
Style & Design
November 1, 1984
How to Buy a Dress Without Going to the Store
Shopping from catalogs can keep you in fashion and out of the malls.
Business
November 1, 1984
Trashy Business
When Houston’s rich and powerful join forces with environmentalists to battle big corporations, they can be fighting over only one thing. Garbage.
Art
November 1, 1984
Tiptoeing On the Ocean of Storms
What astronaut Alan Bean saw on the moon changed his life. Now, with paint and canvas, he’s trying to let the rest of us see it too.
News & Politics
October 1, 1984
The Politics of Armageddon
W. A. Criswell has spent forty years convincing his huge flock at Dallas’ First Baptist Church that the end of the world is near. He hopes you’ll believe it too.