D Magazine November 1986

Going, going, gone are the days when auctions were for snobs

Wherein a few bad boys threaten to ruin the once amiable relationship between office brokers and developers.

Lacking more people up longer is an approach to crime that has been tried and has failed. Now the Mayor’s Task Force wants to try it again.

a candid conversation with the steak house entrepreneur about his food, his methods, his peers, and his reputation as the “beef master”

Home of Nouveau’ zarks Cuisine

Why Shoot the Messenger for Bearing the Bad News?

Coats from the ranch

Are You A Boy? Or Are You A Girl?

Marian Henley’s discovery of the Maxine within her

A sampling of the prices you pay.

From feasting at Brio to joining the rodeo, here’s the line on cheap eats, seats, and treats.

Now what will the IRS do to your bottom line?

Isaac Tigrett on Elvis Presley’s hat, John Lennon’s sofa, the God Wall, and the leveling of Calluaud for a parking lot.

IS HEAVEN IN EAST TEXAS?

An insomniac endures the hour of the wolf a piece of Fontina cheese, and one tired chicken wing.

SAFER THAN AN X-RAY, KEENER THAN A CAT-SCAN, IT’S BECOMING THE DIAGNOSTIC TOOL FOR THE 21st CENTURY.

Once DJs were told to plug the platter and shut up. Now constant chatter-some of it pretty blue-fills the airwaves.

The Yellow Peril: What price will we pay for a drug-free society?

A critical discourse on the Fuzzy Navel

Once a minister to street gangs, David Wilkerson fell from grace when he began to preach a nuclear Armageddon.

Commodore Hatfield, an early hypester of tall Texana, was the first to see riches and fame in a muddy river.

Real estate limited partnerships can offer investors windfall returns. They can also blow you away.

You gotta tie one on

In a high-stakes. multimillion-dollar race to create a new computer language, two ex-TI whiz kids thought they were close to an answer. Then they were accused of stealing it.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOT-RICH-QUICK, GET-POOR-QUICKER?

The straight dope on the slopes.

COMPANIES ARE GOING ALL OUT TO PROVE THEY DO