D Magazine June 1979

The city thinks the wave of condominium conversion is great. But some tenants view it with alarm.

A little preventive maintenance can save you a lot of money on major home repairs.

How to buy good seafood when there’s not an ocean in sight.

Every weekend, hundreds of kids assemble for an inexplicable ritual known as the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Including his friends, his creditors, the Dallas school board, the taxpayers – and maybe himself.

Dallas, the City of Confidence

The USA Film Festival has lasted a decade. It hasn’t grown up yet.

There are 80,000 people in Dallas who can’t decipher a street sign or a soup can. Lots of them have high school diplomas.

A visit to the heart of Maya civilization.

Fine wine has never been more expensive. Here’s why – and what you’re going to have to do about it.

ven though he is standing in the shadows of a South Austin beer joint, Billy Wayne Clay-ton’s gold-covered teeth are glimmering, casting a reflec-tion that seems as bright as a sunrise. The searchlight effect of Clayton’s dental work is due not so much to the number of gold-capped teeth he has, but to the way he displays them. Tonight, Billy Clayton is smiling a lot. “Oh yes, Dallas,” he says as we are in-troduced. “Real nice town. Glad you came down to see us.”