When a waiter forgets the customer and the service, even good food can be tough to swallow, as Mick Vann discovered on a recent visit to the Tea House.
How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.
Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.
Review: The Great GatsbyA great American novel does not always a great movie make, but Baz Lurhmann, a director of delirious excess, certainly seems an apt fit for the Roaring Twenties.
Film Review Misses MarkPlease make a note not to print any more movie reviews of big action movies by Kimberley Jones. She gets ...
What's the Big Deal?I'm baffled by this obsession with Mueller. I drove through it out of curiosity and it's a suburban nightmare that ...
No Mystery in School Bond FailuresHow out of touch has the Chronicle become with the voting populace of this city? From the article “Bonds: Death ...
Program Is Vital ResourceI am responding to your article on ACCESS News, the program by and for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. The ...
Finding Rail Route ComplicatedMichael King, in “The Reading Railroad”, while making valuable points, seems to state that finding an initial route for urban ...