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The Texas Documentary Tour presents festival hit Trembling Before G-d, in which Orthodox Jews try to reconcile religion with their homosexuality.

Our readers talk back.

The UT symposium "From Text to Performance: Law and Other Performing Arts" proved to be a stimulating blend of scholarly thought, intellectual inquiry, thoughtful performance, amicable conversation, fiery debate, and amusing anecdotes.

The events of the week form themselves into a kind of poetry.

Mack Brown or Rick Barnes jump to the pros? Not likely, when just the hint of a threat will get them a fat renegotiated contract.

What with the computer crash and the gas grill fiasco, you're lucky you're even getting a column from The Coach this week. Random thoughts are a bonus.

Defense against one's enemies presents a conflict for individuals who identify themselves as members of a Christian society instructed to turn the other cheek.

Shadows on the wall of your mind's fleeting cave

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

Our readers talk back.

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

In Corpus Christi, Terrence McNally's retelling of Jesus' life, the playwright's provocative spin on the tale -- setting it in 20th-century Texas and making its protagonist a gay man -- never obscures the Gospel story's essence or message of love, and as staged by Real Rain Productions, it succeeds in bringing us to this old, familiar story by a new path, through theatricality, modern idioms, irreverence, and a winning ensemble.

That a man from San Antonio named Richard Santos has as much to add to the world of Jewish intellectual pursuits as an attorney named Rosen is as fascinating as it should be obvious, David Garza writes after he attended the Texas Jewish Historical Society's 22nd annual gathering. For the first time, perhaps, an entirely constructive revision may be taking place in the history of those we call the "people of the Book."

First-time publication is like a cotillion for writers, Martin Wilson writes as he reviews five new first novels. And debut novelists are the gussied-up belles at the ball, with butterflies in their stomachs, dreaming of the glorious future that awaits them.

The union's due, the boys in blue, The Sopranos' view, and Miracle Mike takes it on the, um, chin.

Easter is a time for resurrectiing Hollywood's biblical epics.

Painter-Director Julian Schnabel's 'Before Night Falls'

Politics & music & the politics of music.

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.

Who gets punished when George W. Bush comes home to Austin after losing the election.

Writer-performer Brian Shapiro opens And You Come From Where ...? with a bang -- a solid, vivid tale of family that's enough to make you fall hard for the show. But the rest of this multiple-character one-man show never quite achieves the same excitement, and you may find your love waning.

Philip Roth's strength as a novelist, Tom Grimes says, is that he never writes as if he's finally reached a point of permanent self-definition. He's always searching for that definition, as a writer, as a Jew, and now, through the aging, reclusive Nathan Zuckerman, as an American.

SXSW 2000 Film Festival and Conference

How Nathan Englander Survives His New Fame