
May 1981 Issue

Features


The Subway That Ate Houston
The most expensive, amazing, dynamic, futuristic, and sexy way not to solve a transit crisis.

The Cancer Belt
In the southeast corner of Texas, more people get cancer than anywhere else in the state. Why?
Columns
The Lion Sleeps
Lion in the Desert is like a breath of hot air. In Death Hunt, the Mounties take forever to get their man. Nighthawks never takes flight. In The Last Metro, Truffaut’s film about wartime Paris, he plays it a little too safe. The Postman Always Rings Twice doesn’t ring true.
Buddha In Boots
A chant-happy Buddhist sect puts on a dazzling pageant in praise of the Texas cowboy. Pastor Barry Bailey lives up to his reputation as a bulwark of Fort Worth Methodism.
A Good Catch
Schrenkeisens’ is so elegant you’ll think you’re in the big city, but the fish is so fresh you know you’re on the coast. Ninfa’s runs thirteen Mexican restaurants across Texas, and amazingly, they can all cook.
Extreme Unctuousness
Without embalming you can have a simple, inexpensive funeral. That’s just what Texas morticians don’t want.
Wall, Croon, and Thrum
Small-label recordings prove that whether Texans are singing ballads, blues, or punk, they make their best music at home.
Wall, Croon, and Thrum
Small-label recordings prove that whether Texans are singing ballads, blues, or punk, they make their best music at home.
The Pitcher’s Right Arm
The Hendricks brothers are pros at making money - for themselves as well as for the pros they represent.
Reporter
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.
Miscellany
State Secrets
Fines for political signs; big changes in the Valley; UT bursting at the seams; the failure of consultants; Arlington, an unlikely newspaper town.