D Magazine January 1987

You are not alone.
This year three million parents will see a son or daughter head off to college.
Millions more are planning – perhaps joyously, perhaps nervously-for that empty nest feeling. All over the country parents, step-parents, grandparents, godparents, are saving money for education, talking, perhaps wistfully, per-haps forcefully about their school years.
Parents are encouraging their sons and daughters to consider a variety of options, visit college campuses, study catalogs, think about the fut

Here we go again. It’s our tenth annual batch of cheers and jeers on the year past. Out of Dallas’s treasure trove of extremes, we bring you the saints and sinners, the rarities and rip-offs, the wonders, and blunders of our city. We’ve gone to the line-the county line, that is – to find the funniest, the sleaziest, the hokiest happenings of 1986. You celebrated and abominated all-year, too. But once again, we remembered….

Those damn Yankees thought they had buried us in negative press. But that was before Dallas figured out how to fight.

Drawing a blank? Some very important dates for your new calendar.

Also Actuelle, Copeland’s, and Everyday Gourmet

On hate mail and bad predictions: D’s own Bests Worst OF ’86.

King-Sized Carnage: That’s About the Size of it.

Money will dominate the ’87 session of the Texas legislature. And with seven new faces, the Dallas delegation is pretty green itself.

Not much. Here’s why The Game has been more snore than roar-and how Super Sunday can live up to its name.

Here’s how to tune up your tone-up

Probing the dark depths of the monotone wardrobe

New books to make you at home on the range

A Morality Play in Five Acts, featuring a venom-spouting preacher, his enemies, a fierce battle over church and state, and, in the end, a miracle.

In Perth and Fremantle, it’s all hands on deck for the World Series of Yachting.

A new cable channel for oldies and related goodies

Can watching your p’s and q’s make you a CEO?