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A Day At The Real People’s Court

Mike Shropshire

Weekday afternoons at four, the leisure class is locked in front of the television screen,...

ALSACE

THE STYLE An intensely floral style. Impeccably dry. Anything-but-shy. These light- to...

Dark Shadows And Jackie 0. Plague A Dallas Contractor In New York

Teena Gritch McMills

Dallasite Ron Brame, president 6f Dallas-based Harwood K.Smith & Partners Inc. (HKS), is...

What’s Wrong With Dallas Drivers

Preston Lerner

MY FATHER IS ONE OF the nation’s foremost experts on bad drivers. Oh, he’s not with the National...

BEST & WORST: What Do You Think?

Don’t forget, the deadline for entries for January’s 11th annual Best & Worst Issue is October 15....

TRAVEL Jerusalem, City of Pilgrims

Richard West

Less than twenty-four hours after arriving in Jerusalem an object of conquest for twenty-five...

UPDATE Look Out-OI’ Zauss Is Back In Town

C.S.

Gene Zauss, the swimming pool contractor ("Beware of Pool Sharks," May 1987) who stiffed many a...

Ro Blackman-A Mav For All Seasons

Cecil Sharp

When the last basket was sunk eliminating the Dallas Mavericks from the league play-offs early on,...

BOURGOGNE

THE STYLE These are the thoroughbreds of France. Sensual and exciting wines, basking in the purity...

EATING AROUND LIFE IN THE EXPRESSO LANE AT LOMBARDI’S

LIZ LOGAN

Lombardi Expresso ★★★★ The latest outpost in Alberto Lombardi’s local Italian-food empire is an...

Blood Ties

Sally Giddens

ELIZABETH GONZALES HUGGED HER KNEES CLOSE TO HER body and crouched lower in the front seat of the...

HOT PROPERTY

Sally Giddens

We’ve been hearing it for years: "The Japanese are coming! The Japanese are coming!" Well, they’re...

DALLAS City of Winners PROMISE OF THE BELLS

D.F.M.

Halfway between earth and heaven They hang suspended, Symbols of a warning, a striving by man To...

THUMB AWARD Was Tony Over The Hill?

Thumbs down to Dallas Cowboys coaches Tom Lan-dry and Paul Hackett for giving ten-year star Tony...

COTES DU RHONE

THE STYLE Intensity tempered with a silky texture: A lush, violet-scented style traced with zesty...

WINE & FOOD

shared passions; Wine enhances food, and vice versa. But the match you make determines just how...

Are AIDS Survivors Victims Too?

Pat McCombs

Collin Smith and Bud Jones (not their real names) couldn’t believe it was happening to them. As...

Redefining The Dallas MALE

SKIP HOLLANDSWORTH

I KNOW THAT THE STATEMENT I’M ABOUT to make regularly appears in women’s magazines every couple of...

Bad Fuel Gives Drivers A Pain In The Gas

Jeff Posey

If you’re still worrying about getting bad gasoline from Stop N Go. relax. The gasoline at all of...

Catfish, Beware: "Big Brother" Is Catching You

Brad Bailey

John Willaby lives, breathes, catches, fries, dreams-and promotes-catfish. And, thanks to attempts...

DALLAS EXPLAINED

L.N.

For seventeen days this month, Big Tex, a fifty-two-foot cowboy, will stand ready to welcome an...

The Selling Of Style

REBECCA O’DELL

There is a mini-revolution going on in Dallas and your home is on the front line. Fueled by cries...

Kids From "Across The Tracks" Fight To Attend HP Schools

Len Bourland

The Dallas North Tollway runs where railroad tracks once lay. For some residents of Highland Park,...

LOIRE VALLEY

THE STYLE Light as air. Pastelpale. Romantic, refreshing, and remarkably diverse. From whispering...

LETTER FROM FORT WORTH Is Anne Bass Still Keeping The Ballet On Its Toes?

Lisa Kestler

Anne Bass, one of Fort Worth’s leading arts patrons, has been getting a lot of press this year-and...

EDITOR’S PAGE

Terry Murphy

In late August I received a telephone call from a business writer at one of the local papers. "I’m...

HERE AND NOW Hair Apparent

Liz Logan

I have a friend who thinks the great Dallas novel, when it is written, will be titled Hair Talk....

BERGERAC

THE STYLE Crisply fruity and well-finessed. Bordeaux’s neighbor to the east offers two wine...

A Food Fanatic’s Handbook

LIZ LOGAN

On a trip to Iron Horse Vineyard in California’s Sonoma County with Mansion executive chef Dean...

LETTERS

All the Justice Money Can Buy? After reading Elizabeth Franklin’s story ["Every Parent’s...

SPARKLING WINES

THE STYLE Festive. Sprightly. Greal at parlies. Far from pricey. THE GRAPES Made from grapes...

FILE IT AWAY

According to the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Dallas, individual and corporate donors...

Parimutuel Betting: Off To The Races?

Alan Bogan

Texans go to the polls on November 3 to answer a thorny question: should parimutuel betting be...

THUMB AWARD Caring For The Homeless

Thumbs up to City Manager Richard Knight and Mayor Annette Strauss for supporting a plan to...

More Laughs From Those Wacky Folks At The IRS

Does somebody have a sense of humor at the IRS? Apparently so. Dallas accountant John Ahnert...

HALLOWEEN PRICE INDEX

Lucie Nelka

■ Scare Spray canned air forkids who are scared of theboogie man and want to sprayhim away: $5.95...

VINS DE PAYS

THE STYLE Vins de Pays-or Country Wines-are a step up from Vins de Table (French Table Wines,...

WINE Vino Veritas

Colman Andrews

No, I’m not going; to tell you thatI everything you know about wine iswrong, not even as an...

Confessions Of A Talent Agent: Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You

B.B.

Dallas talent agent Mary Collins, among the city’s most successful actor’s brokers with a...

BEAUJOLAIS

THE STYLE Light-hearted and young. Fruity and fun. These lovable, gulpable wines have won the...

VINS DE TABLE

THE STYLE These are anytime wines with charisma: the essence of easy chic. Easy to drink. Easy to...

BLUE SKIES, LOTSA PROBLEMS’

Brad Bailey

A GAGGLE OF GOGGLE-EYED GOOD OL’ boys, bubbas over the world, Innocents Abroad in the broadest...

Notes From All Over

FERRARI’S ACCLAIMED ENGINEER and designer, Mauro Forghieri, has moved across town to work on a...

VARIATIONS ON A THEME

REBECCA O’DELL

Manstyle for fall ’87 is a rich, earthy balance of modern simplicity and casual sophistication....

PARTING SHOT

Chris Tucker

As the sage Frank Sinatra once observed, people find their faith in varied ways. "Booze or...

BOOKS Inside Jobs

Chris Tucker

One of the questions most often asked of novelists has to do with experience: how, people want to...

Meet the Eyecatching Eighty-eights

Preston Lerner

IF AUTOMOBILES WERE laundry detergent, "new and improved" might be the best way to describe the...

THE SILENT SPRING OF WALKER RAILEY

MIKE SHROPSHIRE

ON A BLEACHED WHITE morning in late August, four months after his wife was strangled into a coma,...

Noted & Quoted

Gene H. Bishop, chairman of the board of MCorp, upon moving into new headquarters last month, on...

OCTOBER EVENTS OPENERS

ALAN PEPPARD

THEATER Dallas Theater Center Season Opens If you’re in the market for fantasy, passion,...

GLAMOUR BY THE GLASS!

WANTED: An easy, breezy way to get a grasp of French wines, fast. FOUND: A fresh, fun focus on...

D DOZEN-Twelve Dallas Ghost Stories

Anne Fullerton

1. The Doll Howe-In the wealthy Bluffview area of Dallas sits ahouse, always darkened at night...

FOR PAINT’S SAKE

REBECCA O’DELL

Panic was a possibility, but Shar-ron Belson and Tony Garrett had done their homework. The search...

BORDEAUX

THE STYLE These are the aristocrats of wine. The sumptuous French sophisticates. Opulent,...