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April 12, 2002 Screens Feature
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Picks & Sleepers
"...of the guitarist. AIC's influence on nü-metallurgists makes that paradox a welcome return. Equally impressive are bassist Robert Trujillo..."
March 15, 2002 Music Feature
SXSW Film Reviews
"...to use fighting to bring peace -- that's the paradox of Johar Abu Lashin, an Israeli Arab who becomes..."
March 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Robert Faires
Cornelius
Record Review
"...of warmth and harmony. Point trades on this same paradox: a precise, almost robotic sense of timing, stripped down..."
Feb. 1, 2002 Music Review by Brian Barry
To Your Health
Where else can a teetotaler get the benefits of red wine?
"...disease among consumers of red wine. The so-called "French Paradox," the observation that the French can eat lots of..."
Jan. 25, 2002 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.
Hi Mom, I'm Home
On the heels of threatened industry strikes and life-changing world events, this year's Sundance Film Festival in Utah featured more deals, more attendees, and more stars.
"...who is trying to teach table manners to mice. Paradox Lake sets a mystery story afoot among autistic children;..."
Jan. 25, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Re: Resisting Evildoers
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.
"...what they do" (Luke 23:34). It is a troubling paradox: Jesus calls his followers to the most dangerous possible..."
Nov. 16, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura
Revenant Records Discography
"...short essays, "Charlie Feathers: True Rockabilly Cat, or A Paradox Wrapped in an Enigma," accompanying these two CDs. "But..."
Oct. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith
Letters at 3AM
The 21st Century Announces Itself
"...also is necessary or you cannot win. Such a paradox used to be called "the human condition." We are..."
Sept. 21, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura
Look Ma, No Hands!
How the underground press evolved into the alternative press.
"...lived and stood for -- compromised sometimes, full of paradox always -- has not died. We answer to no..."
Sept. 7, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura
Book 'Em
Recent Picks From the Summer Crop
"...the same time he has learned to appreciate the paradox that "butting up against and coming to terms with..."
Aug. 24, 2001 Books Feature by Dave Oliphant
Matthew Shipp
"...bowed "Orbit 3," and his adroitly droning melodicism on "Paradox Y"; the sunburst of "U Feature." Seems that the..."
June 15, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
Who Owns Sixth Street
Is Austin's Sixth Street Entertainment District undergoing an identity crisis? -- and who are the designated shrinks?
"...protests pending in the Sixth Street area -- at Paradox on Fifth, the Colorado Room on Seventh, and Bob..."
May 4, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith
To Your Health
What is conjugated linoleic acid? I found it on the Internet among the new cancer therapies, but I thought linoleic acid was bad if you have cancer.
"...acid (CLA) is not made into any prostaglandin, and paradoxically is a "good" trans fatty acid. Ordinary trans fatty..."
April 20, 2001 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.
SXSW Film Reviews
Peter Sutherland's film about New York city bike messengers is that rare documentary that allows the viewer to live the spectacle rather than view it.
"...they race through Manhattan. The film looks at the paradox of their lifestyle: Messengering is both a passion and..."
March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson
Postmarks
Hyde Park Baptist foofaraw and assorted cultural allegations.
"...a thinly disguised rant against males in general. The paradox is clear when we spell it out: Feminists strive..."
March 9, 2001 Column
E-tail This!
La Frontera is proof that e-commerce has not destroyed traditional retail commerce.
"...numbed and dazed by the traffic, you grasp the paradox. The Net helped make Dell rich, but it's not..."
March 2, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Better Than Nothing
Documentarian Ken Burns' takes on Jazz -- and loses.
"...argue, and fight about it. So there is a paradox."..."
Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar
Postmarks
Light Rail, Green Politics, and much ado about the city's
growing pains.
"...I wonder if the Green Party recognizes the immense paradox they present in this upcoming presidential election. Essentially each..."
Oct. 13, 2000 Column
Judge Chip Kidd by His Covers
"...described by Updike as "monstrously ugly." There is a paradox that Kidd confronts every time he designs a book..."
Sept. 8, 2000 Books Feature by Cary L. Roberts
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three/
Get Carter
Get Carter
"...movie is Carter, though. He's a bit of a paradox, a fussy hypochondriac and neat dresser who is never..."
Aug. 18, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw
West Side Story: Brave, New, Whirled
According to Chronicle writer Wayne Alan Brenner,
West Side Story survives just fine in a
"post-apocalyptic future," thanks to an amazing
production at Zilker Hillside Theatre.
"...you can't have both. It throws up a shattering paradox -- like the crew of the Starship Enterprise journeying..."
July 21, 2000 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History
"...There are touchstones -- such as Zeno's famous paradox about mathematics' relation to reality -- and then there..."
June 23, 2000 Books Review by Ann Guidry
Letters at 3AM
Advice to a high-school graduating class: Face your
fear and take risks.
"...stranger in a strange, strange land. The whammy, the paradox, is this: The only people who feel at home..."
June 9, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura
Truth and Reconciliation
The assertion of the individual is at the heart of the Austin Museum of Art's new show, "Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art From South Africa," which makes it fresh and full of surprises; it resonates with the hungry energy of a country emerging from oppression and brims with experimentation and unique, original perspectives.
"...the artists works from a very different context. The paradox of "Liberated Voices" is the way in which categories..."
June 2, 2000 Arts Feature by Ben Willcott
Letters at 3AM
The music of Tony Fruscella reminds us that art is about an unending attempt to give what we can, where we can, to whom we can.
"...unbearably tender, full of yearning and longing, rended by paradox, and consumed with the child's impossible project of trying..."
May 26, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura
After a Fashion
"...being nagged at. (This reminds me of another favorite paradox -- Men-Seeking-Men personal ads in which the writer of..."
May 19, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
"...The central paradox of Zachary Karabell's engaging new book, The Last Campaign:..."
May 12, 2000 Books Review by Bruce McCandless
Mr. Smarty Pants
Times Square, Whiskey, Joan of Arc
"...Sport utility vehicles present a paradox to consumers -- ads portray them as a way..."
May 12, 2000 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants
Dancing About Architecture
A bitch session about the plight of the Austin music scene is scheduled at Threadgill's; here's hoping Negativland's long-anticpated Austin appearance doesn't dissapoint a la SRL.
"...he said. He can always meet new friends at Paradox's Retro Rage or the Atomic Cafe's Suburbia Sunday-night danceoffs...."
May 12, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum
