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July 26, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura
Book Reviews
"...Perpetuity Blues and the short novel Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus, in his ability to make readers care for these..."
July 5, 2002 Books Feature by Marc Savlov
Eat, Drink, Watch "La Strada"
"...Strada, Italian director Federico Fellini's poignant film about traveling circus performers. Chef Harvey Harris of Siena will present a..."
July 5, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood
Paradise
Ten years after Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo finds his "Paradise."
"...Nellcote. The Riviera villa where the Rolling Stones family circus rolled a music history seven (the hard way) in..."
June 28, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
The Hightower Report
George W. puffs out his chest over Cuba, and Dick Cheney invites Jim to dinner.
"...dropping a big beach ball into a group of circus clowns, prompting the White House to flail furiously and..."
May 31, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower
Articulations
A grand operatic production of Turnadot by the Chinese National Opera has been canceled, playwright C. Denby Swanson receives a McKnight Advancement Grant, Davy Crockett gets caught in the Web, and Peter Pan receives his own Amy's Ice Cream flavor.
"...a couple of seasons back look like a flea circus set around a plastic parakeet. It was a production..."
May 10, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Naked City
"...the Beehive Collective's anti-war and Plan Colombia posters, and circus acts. Don't forget snacks for the pet chickens...."
May 10, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Pop Beloved
Revisting the Reivers
"...city where natives are treated with a curiosity befitting circus freaks. History has a tendency to be ephemeral, but..."
April 26, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin
After a Fashion
"...wedding to Michael Jackson's best friend David Gest. The circus-like event, unfettered by taste, resembled a three-ring big-top joke...."
April 19, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
The Hightower Lowdown
Disney shows its commitment to journalism with the Koppel-Letterman flap; the Bushites are Bozos.
"...Then there's Bush's hilarious underground government, reminiscent of the circus stunt in which a tiny car drives out to..."
March 29, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower
Day Trips
"...the Space Center through May 1, followed by Robot Circus through the summer...."
March 15, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Never Mind the Bollocks
Ray Benson decides to cut a solo album
"...onstage, because I've been there.' It was a fucking circus. I had no desire to have beer cans thrown..."
March 15, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin
Austin Music Awards
"...and an appearance by Nancy Scott rounded out the circus after an unusually long set. Which must have been..."
March 15, 2002 Music Feature by Christopher Hess
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Picks & Sleepers
"...like their hometown in that they're what? Goth? Electronica? Circus clowns? Singer Bleu Prolly gets compared to Gwen Stefani..."
March 15, 2002 Music Feature
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
"...Morales of former Trance Syndicate group Starfish fronts this circus of power. (Elysium, midnight) -- Michael Chamy..."
March 8, 2002 Music Feature
Lion in the Streets
In its staging of Judith Thompson's play Lion in the Streets, the tale of a ghostly girl who wanders the streets searching for her life, Kia Productions mines some deep material, with a passionate cast that takes the work to the edge -- and sometimes, unfortunately, too far over it.
"...play are surreal as well; it begins with a circus-like dance in which masked actors swirl around the open..."
Feb. 22, 2002 Arts Review by Barry Pineo
25 Minutes and Nothing to Lose
Onstage, as in life, the impulse to be adventurous is often curbed by Practical Concerns, but FronteraFest is a performance jamboree that gives artists the freedom to go for broke.
"...part of the colorful, exhilarating mix, the party, the circus...."
Jan. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Double Down
Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn goof around and discuss the making of Made.
"...say, what to do, sort of put on some circus pleasantries. But ultimately you realize the highest power of..."
July 27, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola
Almost Famous
Three years after leaving Austin for Hollywood, comics Chip Pope and Howard Kremer still aren't celebs, but with pilots for HBO and Comedy Central and a willingness to schmooze, they've come agonizingly close.
"...CP: Our characters will hunt down circus freaks who have gone into hiding and integrate them..."
July 20, 2001 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare
Coach's Corner
The Masters and Wimbledon
"...The brown grass of Wimbledon has become a dressed-up circus -- a game of chance where a sharply conditioned..."
July 13, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton
Capitol Chronicle
No Mercy: Perry to Decide If Texas Will Continue to Execute Mentally Retarded
"...so it does nothing to end the inflammatory judicial circus that is the political heart of the process. "I..."
June 8, 2001 News Column by Michael King
Coach's Corner
Coach rates the announcers on the NBA playoff broadcasts.
"...impossible to imagine Ahmad Rashad running such a freewheeling circus. In order to have drama, a group needs some..."
May 25, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton
BATMAN RETURNS
One of the best comic adaptations ever produced as well as one of Tim Burton's most understated fantasy efforts.
"...Nonetheless, it's still superior in some ways. A criminal circus is terrorizing Gotham City. At the heart of this..."
May 4, 2001 Screens Review by Mike Emery
E/R Emergency Room
The smallish stage of the Mary Moody Northern Theatre is effectively transformed into the downright bloody, intense and exciting emergency room at a Chicago hospital when the Organic Theatre Company's E / R Emergency Room is brought to life at St. Edward's University under the tourniquet-tight direction of Ev Lunning.
"...and ailing citizens coming in for help, a three-ring circus of triage and treatment that's leavened, just like life,..."
April 27, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
Public Notice
Hey, what's going on this week in Austin, public service-wise? Just read this!
"...Across Borders Party/Benefit, which will also feature a Cyclown Circus and Drag Bike Races (in drag) this Friday, April..."
April 27, 2001 Column by Kate X Messer
Dancing About Architecture
Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...
"...out that a "highlight" on Tim McGraw's Set This Circus Down is Bruce Robison's "Angry All the Time," with..."
April 13, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Mr. Smarty Pants
More nuggets from information's mother lode.
"...in Auckland, New Zealand, they often play in a circus tent set up in a rugby stadium car park...."
April 6, 2001 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants
In God's Country
Why U2 is the best band ever
"...accompanied Achtung Baby turned rock concerts into quasi political circus maximuses of the new-media age, U2's own stage setup..."
March 30, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray
Dancing About Architecture
A flood of weather (and music) following SXSW
"...Stewart on June 22; the Brooks & Dunn Neon Circus on July 1; Dave Matthews Band on July 17;..."
March 30, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck
The Remembered City: Fitzpatrick's Day
Chicago printmaker and poet Tony Fitzpatrick shares memories of his hometown in a show of his intaglio prints at Slugfest Gallery, and the images and stories make it a powerful place to visit.
"...in each print. A faceless White Sox hitter, a circus elephant bewildered by barbed wire, a well dressed lady..."
