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Interstate 35's worst stretch is also its most politically organized -- and that's a problem for TxDOT.
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Sept. 20, 2002 News Feature by Dave Mann
Queens of the Stone Age
Record Review
"...vocals and Nick Oliveri's wrecking-ball bass. Right off the bat, "Millionaire" goes from lo-fi fuzz into full screaming stereo..."
Sept. 6, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
Short Cuts
Sure, you can call a spade a spade, but the Statesman can't call a dildo a dildo. Try "female sex toys" instead.
"..."Neo Geo," Jacqueline Passmore; Os Confederados, Garry Potts; "The Bat Mitzvah of Lizzie Stein," Julie Sagalowsky; A Yeti in..."
Aug. 30, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov
Naked City
Let's Imprison Everybody!
"...a joint. The CHP and Secret Service guys didn't bat an eye."..."
Aug. 2, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith
After a Fashion
If you ask Stephen out on a date and he tells you that he has to do his Hair, don't be offended, he's just obsessing about the new production at Zach Scott.
"...want to see any dreadlocks, either." Right off the bat, what did we see? Dreadlocks and mullet wigs. So..."
July 19, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Strategic Air Command
In his seventh starring turn with noted alpha-male auteur Anthony Mann, Jimmy Stewart is aging third baseman "Dutch" Holland -- 152 RBI last season and a brand-new $70,000 contract, to boot -- whose country wants him back in the USAF.
"...the rain (or, again, Stewart sporting the birds & bat). No, it's not his best work -- his association..."
July 19, 2002 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley
Coach's Corner
Attending an Astros game with the wife, in the sterility of the new Minute Maid Park, is an iffy proposition. But with the help of a friendly scalper and a lot of Shiner Bock, it's not half bad.
"...or that a walk doesn't count as an at bat, and, by the eighth inning (and the third 99-oz...."
June 28, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton
Townes Without Pity
The battle for Townes Van Zandt's legacy
"...and isn't interested in anything else. Everyone else isn't battling to see who was Townes' closest friend. Their interests..."
June 14, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer
Fever Pitch: The Official Music of the 2002 FIFA World Cup
Record Review
"...(D) Americans get their toughest test right off the bat against No. 5 in the world...."
May 31, 2002 Music Review by Nick Barbaro
Get Your Game Face On
'Tis the season to glue yourself to the PlayStation controller and get in some batting practice.
"...natural became stilted and soulless. Most disturbing is the batting icon the user is now forced to affix to..."
May 17, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Chamy
The Woodman Cometh
In promotion of his new film 'Hollywood Ending,' reluctant traveler Woody Allen appeared briefly in Austin to talk bats, barbecue, and why he'll never go back to stand-up.
"...and lobsters when I told him of the Austin bat colony in residence near his hotel. Woody Allen --..."
May 3, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Looking for Leadership
It takes a community to support the schools.
"...programs are pretty blunt instruments: something like a baseball bat with spikes driven into it. They can do a..."
April 19, 2002 News Column by Michael King
Naked City
Villas Goes to Bat
April 5, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
SXSW Film Reviews
"...than a bunch of grown men dressing up in bat and cat suits, donning face paint, and calling themselves..."
March 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...fleeing occupants? Or, most recently, when they attacked a bat mitzvah, a religious ceremony, shooting six people dead including..."
Jan. 25, 2002 Column
Dancing About Architecture
That was the year that was in the Live Music Capital …
"...co-starring role in the national press with tabloid hero Bat Boy. As sad as it may be, far from..."
Dec. 28, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck
After a Fashion
State Democrats party, David Byrne gets shorn, and "After a Fashion" readers learn more about how to be a good customer and how not to be a fashion victim.
"...And you can almost always tell right off the bat when you get one of those customers, with their..."
Dec. 7, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
The City Council greets the Gus Garcia Era.
"...city staff) who play games. And right off the bat, he will let the citizens know if he wants..."
Nov. 30, 2001 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
Naked City
"...plan-related re-zonings in Hyde Park and Dawson come to bat. Coming soon: the plan for Holly -- largely prepared..."
Oct. 5, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple
KLBJ Freedom Fest @ Auditorium Shores
Live Shot
"...Traveler put lumps in everyone's throat right off the bat with John Popper's solo harp rendition of the national..."
Sept. 21, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Gray
The Original Hipster
Chronicle writer Dick Holland on the comeback of Texan Terry Southern, the all-around bad boy of black humor
"...of the characters (Keenan Wynn played the memorable Major "Bat" Guano) to the prayer that George C. Scott delivers..."
Sept. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland
Postmarks
The Clark-Madison brouhaha continues amidst tributes to Mambo John and more.
"...developers simply grandfather themselves by filing applications during the debate. Thus the "act first, deliberate and amend later" process..."
Sept. 14, 2001 Column
There's Something About Shelley
"...Shelley King band. King swears with a distinctly flirtatious bat of the dark lashes on her velvet brown eyes..."
Sept. 14, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Adapted for film from the off-Broadway musical hit, this movie is a rousing screen spectacle about a surgically botched transsexual from East Germany (played charismatically by John Cameron Mitchell, the show's creator and film director).
"...by a friend) bear a spooky resemblance to the “bat out of hell” style of dramatic power ballads belted..."
Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Day Trips
The subterranean magnificence of Carlsbad Caverns
"...in 1898. At first, he thought the swarm of bats filling the evening sky was smoke rising from a..."
Aug. 10, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
The Sensational Saga of Mr. Sinus
Picking up where Mystery Science Theater 3000 left off, Mr. Sinus Theater 3000 skewers the movies of our childhood to sold-out crowds at the Alamo Drafthouse.
"...know what to do") and picked out the group's bat kite logo -- "simultaneously tough and goofy, cheap but..."
Aug. 10, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Spacey is irresistibly sexy in this film adaptation of John Berendt's book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; the film has an excellent cast and a certain charm, but suffers from a fatally flawed script.
"...of Jim Williams’ legendary Christmas parties. Right off the bat, the story’s famous characters start making their appearances, and..."
July 13, 2001 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Dancing About Architecture
Another Sixth Street club discontinues live original music, as Davíd Garza struggles to get his heard.
"...up. No, he says, the story with that particular batch of alt.country stars is that they've finally gotten out..."
June 15, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Summer Reading
"...New York attorney who took his eldest son's baseball bat and politely (so as to make sure there is..."
June 1, 2001 Books Feature by Suzy Spencer
Postmarks
A fresh melange of reader responses to our recent issues.
"...dead horse, Stephen. You do realize that the Confederate battle flag is just a symbol, right? And being a..."
