News & Politics
August 31, 1977
Support Your Local Police
If you ever go to Houston, you’d better walk right. You’d better not gamble, and you’d better not fight.
Longreads
Art
August 1, 1977
From Here to Infinity
Smile, you're a candid camera.
News & Politics
July 31, 1977
The Informer
The secret life of the man who tells the Man.
Border & Immigration
July 31, 1977
The Cactus Curtain
The word going across the border is: Uncle Sam doesn’t want you.
Sports
July 31, 1977
The Greening of Cowtown
The most popular club at the Colonial Golf Tournament is the one with barstools.
Politics & Policy
June 30, 1977
1977: The Ten Best and Ten Worst Legislators
We just rate them. You voted for them.
Travel & Outdoors
June 30, 1977
The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea
The Baja wilderness isn’t a great place to confront one’s own neuroses, but it’s an even worse place to confront someone else’s.
Design
June 30, 1977
Hello, Walls
When is a wall not a wall? When it's a work of art.
Business
May 31, 1977
Diamonds Aren’t Forever
Spring cleaning in the house that Zale built.
Health
May 31, 1977
The Power
Burning a candle a day keeps the hexes away.
Food & Drink
May 31, 1977
From Mexico With Love
Out of the Texas melting pot comes a food hot enough to melt anything.
Books
May 31, 1977
The Toughest Guys in Court
Anybody who thinks Jones, Jones & Baldwin is just a trio of small-time, small-town attorneys is headed for big-time trouble.
Being Texan
April 30, 1977
Unfinished Women
In which our author hints that Texas men are in for a rude awakening.
Being Texan
April 30, 1977
The Endless Odyssey of Patrick Henry Polk
Forget all those myths about poverty and welfare. This family is real and they live it.
Texas History
April 30, 1977
Grand Hotels
You won’t find Greta Garbo at these classic establishments, but some things that happen there are straight out of a movie.
Travel & Outdoors
April 30, 1977
Adventures Under the Sea
Where is Lloyd Bridges when you really need him?
Music
April 1, 1977
Stereo Begins at Home
Positively the latest in sound thinking.
News & Politics
April 1, 1977
The Eggheads and I
In which our author finds it’s one thing to be a genius; it’s another to be smart.
Health
April 1, 1977
The Lifesavers
Every night at Ben Taub Hospital’s emergency room is a night of the living dead.
Parks & Recs
April 1, 1977
Forgotten Places
Of canyons, creeks, and craters: the Big Bend as few have seen it.
True Crime
April 1, 1977
All Roads Lead From Roma
What’s good for marijuana is good for Starr County.
Style & Design
March 1, 1977
The Great Border Bazaar
We walk the line for you—from Matamoros to Juárez—to bring you the best of Mexican shopping.
News & Politics
March 1, 1977
The New Adultery
Those who haunt the singles bars aren’t always what they seem—namely, single.
True Crime
March 1, 1977
Rich Man, Dead Man
Profile of a society murder and the woman who lived to tell about it.
Health
March 1, 1977
Oops!
Everybody makes mistakes, but mistakes in the medical profession leave scars on everybody.
Sports
February 1, 1977
Stars and Stripes
The rodeo where it really doesn’t pay to win.
Being Texan
February 1, 1977
The Baptists Want You!
Don’t take this wrong, but they’ve hired Eldridge Cleaver to get you.
Libations
January 1, 1977
Grape Nuts
Some Texans are going crazy over wine. Others are just going crazy.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1977
Little Big Man
Is it worth being a United States senator when you’re on the losing side all the time? Ask John Tower.
News & Politics
January 1, 1977
Howard Hughes Lives!
In pursuit of the elusive billionaire’s final mystery: who’ll get his money?
Health
December 1, 1976
In the Bin
A schizophrenic’s own story of his tour through asylums from Bellevue to Texas.
News & Politics
December 1, 1976
Candy
The life and times of Candy Barr—the woman who made headlines by always being in the wrong place at the right time.
Health
November 1, 1976
Vanity Fair
The Greenhouse is where the rich and the chic go to play I spa.
Travel & Outdoors
November 1, 1976
Why Texans Make Lousy Gamblers
This information may come as news to you, but casino owners have been banking on it for years.
Arts & Entertainment
November 1, 1976
Weirdo Paper Plagues S.A.
In San Antonio, some people feel that no News is good news.
Texas History
November 1, 1976
Whatever Happened to the New Generation?
What are the sixties’ radicals doing for an encore?
Politics & Policy
September 30, 1976
What Does This Woman Want?
Is Barbara Jordan really worth all the fuss?
Politics & Policy
September 30, 1976
The Making of Barbara Jordan
From poor black girl to presidential possibility, in ten not-so-easy lessons.
Hunting & Fishing
September 30, 1976
Bass Fishing in America
Forget Jimmy Carter—this is what the New South’s all about.
Style & Design
August 31, 1976
Sisterhood is Powerful
Especially for sorority sisters.
Border & Immigration
August 31, 1976
Busting Out of Mexico
Two self-styled Texas soldiers of fortune engineered one of the more bizarre jailbreaks in history. Here’s how it happened.
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Music
July 31, 1976
The Passions of the Common Man
That’s what country music is, and that’s why it plays in Peoria.
True Crime
June 30, 1976
The Girl, the Con Man, and the Massage Parlor King
The girl wanted love, the men wanted money, and when they all got together it was murder.
Critters
June 30, 1976
Nobody Loves a Rattlesnake
Especially not in Sweetwater: the score at last count was Humans 10,000, Rattlers 0.
Health
June 1, 1976
Physician, Heal Thyself
How a doctor got hooked on drugs, and how he got off.
News & Politics
May 31, 1976
The Voice from the Tower
The weirdest student demonstration ever.
Critters
May 31, 1976
The World’s Most Despicable Bug
The cockroach. What else?
Business
April 30, 1976
Dealing
Dope sellers obey the law—of supply and demand.
Sports
April 30, 1976
Learning the Ropes
Wrestling isn’t fixed; it was never broken.
Politics & Policy
March 1, 1976
The Man Who Saw Too Much
Hugh Aynesworth can’t escape what he witnessed in 1963.