King of the Swing Fiddle
Honoring country music's second most famous fiddle player, Johnny Gimble
"...The world has changed a great deal since 1938. That..."
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April 5, 2002 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri
Words on the Wall
The Mexic-Arte Museum exhibition "Brazilian Visual Poetry" is an ambitious attempt to trace a history of visual poetry among Brazilian artists since the Fifties, but the show feels fragmentary, defining poetry in the broadest of terms and presenting the work in an inconsistent manner.
"...So, what is visual poetry? To tell the truth, after seeing the exhibition "Brazilian Visual Poetry," I'm..."
Feb. 22, 2002 Arts Feature by Merchant Adams
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
A Dream Collaboration: Richard Linklater and 30 animators team up to produce a startling, surreal new film.
"...Richard Linklater is on the stage of Austin's Paramount Theatre introducing his new animated..."
Oct. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Tenth Annual "Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest Results
"...in right lanes only, afraid that to venture into the unprotected left would cause me to separate from my..."
Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature
The Hightower Lowdown
Microsoft and Sara Lee buy justice; Americans work too much.
"...Microsoft Tips the Scales of Justice..."
Sept. 21, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower
Chapter 4: The Nineties!
March 1991 -- December 2000
"...Austin: The recovery blossoms into the second boom. The first half..."
Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature
The Score
"...Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett, Gary Farmer and Paul Soles. The possibilities were frightening. No one knew exactly what to..."
July 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Big Picture
"...An open letter to the Austin City Council:..."
July 6, 2001 Arts Feature
Ruling the Roost
Austin Preeminent Concert Promoter Ponders Retirement
"...If he hadn't been driving the getaway car, Tim O'Connor might have punched Willie Nelson...."
June 1, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer
Cinema of the Americas
A Festival of Latino Films Showcases New Visions of an Old and Resurging Culture
"...When you look at a map of the Americas, you see the United States first. Right at..."
April 13, 2001 Screens Feature by David Garza
The Art of Being Dagoberto Gilb
What's a successful writer like Dagoberto Gilb got against the establishment?
"...to be in Austin, he wanted to get to the bottom of something that had been bothering him for..."
March 23, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith
Crafting the Song
Austin theatre actor Robert Fisher has the heart of a rock & roller, the work ethic of a medieval craftsman, and the style of a Bob Fosse. Either he's in the wrong business or he is, as playwright Kirk Lynn calls him, "a wonder."
"...Fisher's Austin acting résumé includes stints in productions like the Public Domain Theatre Company's tense, dark staging of Howard..."
March 16, 2001 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson
The Cell
"...Christmas: He's far more interested in messing about with the pretty, shiny wrapping than he is with the actual..."
Aug. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Whole Woman
The profound underexposure of women among Austin's food luminaries causes one to wonder whether a certain locker-room mentality still prevails in kitchens around the city.
"...York chef who reportedly has more than 100 people working in his kitchen. As a matter of course, she..."
May 5, 2000 Food Feature by Rachel Feit
Survival of the Fittest?
The unlikely story behind the Austin-based black comedy, Natural Selection.
"...It is, by all accounts, an unlikely story: During the 1996 Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference and Film..."
Feb. 4, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
The Bone Collector
"...and David Fincher gave a party and nobody came? They'd probably be stuck bandying about script ideas and --..."
Nov. 5, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Blame It on the Bossa Nova
"...Brazil has one of the richest and most varied pop music scenes in the..."
July 2, 1999 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar
The Thing Unspoken
"...A feeling stirs in the deepest chambers of your heart. You recognize it by..."
May 14, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Rock Around the Biological Clock
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
"...a singer-songwriter in Dallas before moving to Austin in the early Nineties. Her increasingly more frequent gigs please her..."
May 7, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Risen From the Ashes
"...When Austin has a winner, everybody knows it, right? The local newsrags trumpet the achievements of the hometown champion..."
March 19, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
The Other Sister
"...Joon to Angel Baby to Forrest Gump and beyond, there has been no shortage of recent movies addressing the..."
Feb. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Status of the Original
"...his garage in 1984, and four years later, with the help of two business partners in Massachusetts, opened BookLab,..."
Feb. 12, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith
A Painter's Work
"...with Debbie, his wife of four years, and Zack, their impossibly large Doberman pinscher. The 38-year-old painter is mild-mannered..."
Jan. 22, 1999 Arts Feature by Sam Martin
Love Is the Devil
"...Maybury. Starring: Derek Jacobi, Tilda Swinton and Anne Lambton. The late Francis Bacon was one of the most important..."
Dec. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Austin Musical Theatre Hits the Heights
That's Show Biz!
"..."The Farmboys" in Austin Musical Theatre's Gypsy. photograph by Kenny..."
Nov. 20, 1998 Arts Feature
The House That PAC Built
"...In the children's rhyme that takes its name from a domicile..."
Oct. 2, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Art Fights the Power
The Liberating Artwork of Malaquías Montoya
"...I Pledge Berkeley, California,1968: The Chicano Movement is born. Cesar Chavez and his newly..."
Aug. 28, 1998 Arts Feature by Sam Martin
How the West Was Sung
The Newton Boys Soundtrack: An Oral History
"...THE NEWTON PLAYERS..."
March 20, 1998 Music Feature
The Great Critic Test
How Much Do You Really Know About These Freaks?
"...one likes a critic. Largely, critics are viewed as the killjoys, the tomato lobbers, the heartless shrews who dare..."
Feb. 27, 1998 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini
In the Middle of It
Where Tapestry's Acia Gray Likes to Be ó and Is
"...photograph by Kenny Braun It isn't exactly the best time to be talking with Acia Gray. As..."
