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March 16, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
By Any Other Name
The history of Austin's cherished landmarks reveals the extent to which chance plays a part in who among their namesakes we remember and which fade with time.
"...who led the campaign to build an airport. (Similar myths now surround Bergstrom.) He was just a nice guy..."
Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Remembrance of Texas Past
The Year in Texas Lit
"...keen awareness that anyone who tears down the hackneyed myths of Travis, Crockett, and Bowie has to supplant them..."
Jan. 5, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith
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"...Big Myths Revealed: Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Popular Vote..."
Dec. 22, 2000 Column
The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist
"...letters and self-consciously included themes from Greek and Roman myths, poetry, and history into their painting and sculptures. They..."
Dec. 15, 2000 Books Review by Tim Walker
Orfeu
"...modernized reworkings of classic material. Once again, those Greek myths demonstrate their timeless durability.) Anyone familiar with Black Orpheus..."
Dec. 1, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
To Ancient Troy (By Way of Denver)
Ancient Greece and modern Denver may seem an incongruous pairing, but in the new Greek epic Tantalus, produced by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, they prove a striking fit, creating a work that's heroic.
"...be sifting through this experience, these plays and the myths they play off, for some time. And that's as..."
Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Women on Top
The risks and rewards of being a woman in Austin's high tech world
"...nation -- have female executives. Yet a few pervasive myths -- that most women-owned tech companies are "soft" and..."
Nov. 24, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett
Texas Book Festival
Photos by John Anderson
"...God for TV!" explaining that she works off the myths and connections of popular culture through a steady diet..."
Nov. 17, 2000 Books Feature by Robin Bradford
Time to Bounce
Rapping with Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, the funkiest Connecticut Yankees in King Arthur's Court
"...again. I guess there's a point to that. Those myths exist for a real reason. They exist to help..."
Nov. 3, 2000 Music Feature by John G. La Briola
Years of the Dead
The Mexico of now, David Garza writes, is not held only within the borders of Mexico itself. It has spread northward, re-entered its old space, in a sense. For so many of the Mexicans, displaced but still infatuated with the idea of spirit and ghost, the nation itself is a ghost in the back of the head.
"...becomes the very embodiment of it. Like the founding myths of both the seamy La Malinche and the Virgin..."
Oct. 27, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza
Naked City
The protests fizzled, and the speeches were a snooze: an overview of last week's Fortune 500 Conference.
"...call before the next session, titled "Debunking the Genome Myths."..."
Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith
Postscripts
What made Dave Oliphant want to write a long series of thematically linked poems about various places in Texas, especially when quite a few of those places at first glance seem, um, immune to the poetic touch (ever been to Wink)?
"...29, at 7pm... Jan Reid, another commentator on Texas myths, will be at Barnes & Noble Arboretum to read..."
Sept. 29, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith
American Pimp
"...Dead Presidents, resisted the temptation to re-create the modern myths of the urban black ghettos yet maintained their commitment..."
Aug. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Loser
"...Clueless, writer-director Heckerling turned a snarky eye on the myths and maneuverings of high school, creating in the process..."
July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Blood Simple: The Director's Cut
"...movie in early 1985 that not only blew those myths out of the water but also reinvigorated the classic..."
July 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
About AIDS
Durban Declaration Affirms HIV-AIDS Relationship
"...This position will cost countless lives ... Research, not myths, will lead to [better treatments] and, it is hoped,..."
July 14, 2000 Column by Sandy Bartlett
Blood Simple
"...movie in early 1985 that not only blew those myths out of the water but also reinvigorated the classic..."
July 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History
"...sharp, dry wit is requisite for properly discussing creation myths of the Babylonians, the Roman numbering system, and Pythagorean..."
June 23, 2000 Books Review by Ann Guidry
Myth, Blood, and Ink
What people have invested in the debate over the de la Peña diary : which suggests that famed Alamo legend Davy Crockett was executed by Santa Anna and not in the heat of battle : is not some mere fandom or kitsch, but a genuine passion for how the story of Texas is written and how it affects real life. It may no longer matter how Crockett was killed, but it does matter how we now allow him to live.
"...war about how Texas should view its heroes and myths since its first English translation was published 25 years..."
May 5, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza
Postscripts
Texas -- not just the place, but the idea -- is always being celebrated in some way, it seems. But Texas writers are often behind the scenes, which is why last week's spate of events celebrating Texas writers has seemed so odd, and compelling.
"...writers who write about Texas, people who make the myths and destroy them, are often in the background, fêted..."
April 21, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith
Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
"...are not the same thing." The enduring legends and myths of the state, Fehrenbach says, were created a century..."
April 14, 2000 Books Review by Cary L. Roberts
Black and White
"...of the White Negro infused with all the popular myths about sex and virility? And so on. From the..."
April 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Articulations
Touring plans for the Rude Mechanicals; two two shows for theatregoers to see before they close.
"...Suzan-Lori Parks burrows into our national psyche, unearthing the myths we have buried there, about our leaders, about liberty,..."
March 17, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Making History Personal
History is more than a bound collection of facts; it is something personal, something intimate, something that, even in contradiction, demands to be shared. Robi Polgar gleans that immediate sense of history from two plays currently running in Austin theatres: E Pluribus Unum: Barbara Jordan -- One Voice and The America Play.
"...(literally) unearths and re-examines some of America's most cherished myths of history. The plays share an overt and implied..."
Feb. 18, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar
Naked City
Action Items
"...sponsor a screening of Defending Our Lives: Combating the Myths About Domestic Violence, at 7pm on Tuesday, Feb. 15..."
Feb. 11, 2000 News Feature
Letters at 3AM
It's time for the American South to reject its "rebel" hypocrisy of states rights and atone for the sins of the slave economy of the Confederacy.
"...racism if the white South doesn't discard its self-serving myths and face its history? I doubt it. That's why..."
Feb. 4, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a profound existential adventure, twistedly comic and openly bitter, brought to life by those two maniacs: Peckinpah and Oates. An ugly, vicious film about not very glamorous people engaged in ugly, vicious activities, it’s more black comedy than anything. – Louis Black
"...the mythmaker, he was at his happiest blowing those myths apart. A romantic interlude as Oates and Vega drive..."
Dec. 2, 1999 Movie Review by Louis Black
Pauline Kael Remembers Sam Peckinpah
Pauline Kael discusses the myths surrounding the work of Sam Peckinpah in this excerpt from the monograph that accompanies the Peckinpah retrospective sponsored by the Austin Film Society.
"...moral codes and society's bonds. And, furthermore, the popular myths about Peckinpah's work do not fully take into account..."
Nov. 19, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
"...the mythmaker, he was at his happiest blowing those myths apart. A romantic interlude as Oates and Vega drive..."
Nov. 12, 1999 Screens Review by Louis Black
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