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"...out of their employees and customers. Austin is trying desperately to become so damn upscale and PC, but for..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Column

Elektra

In Austin Lyric Opera's production of 'Elektra,' conductor Richard Buckley succeeds in conveying the complexity, richness, cruelty, and humanity of this work

"...as one possessed, a wide-eyed soul in torment, grasping desperately for relief. In her terror, we grasp the brutality..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Has Lost Something

"...out of their employees and customers. Austin is trying desperately to become so damn upscale and PC, but for..."

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"...a great benefit 'cause you say what needs so desperately to be said to me, and the rest of..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column

Top 10 Media Stories

The year in print and broadcasting

"...alternative to the right wing in a state that desperately needs it, and – despite the very public disagreements..."

Jan. 7, 2005 News Feature

The Hightower Report

The Pentagon bills an injured soldier, and Home Depot gets a tax break

"...frantically hurling huge sackfulls of taxpayers' money at them, desperately hoping that our sacks are fuller than those being..."

Jan. 7, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Bring Us Back Closer Together

"...a great benefit ’cause you say what needs so desperately to be said to me, and the rest of..."

Jan. 4, 2005 Postmarks

Dancing on Main Street

Lorenzo Thomas of Houston is a thinking-man's writer. His critical studies of folklore, modernism, and music are substantial works, and in both prose and poetry he always addresses the difficult issues.

"...he was ... a prodigal://The kind of man who desperately/Needs the vise of suffering/And hurt and desolation/Some eccentricity to..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Books Review by Dave Oliphant

Roadside Playboys and Texana Dames

The Hancock Family's long, strange, supernatural musical journey

"...who just received a platinum album for his song "Desperately" on George Strait's Honkytonkville, got his first stage exposure..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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"...Appreciatively, and increasingly desperately,..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Column

After a Fashion

Stephen shaves his head and goes Southern ... or at least South Austin. And this time, it's not even SoCo!!!

"...minutes. The hairdresser was crying drunkenly; the manager was desperately afraid Id go over her head with my complaints..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Soldier's Heart

Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to face serious psychological problems and a system unready to help them

"...does not have many of the essential services veterans desperately need. "I don't know how many people are going..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Dan Frosch

Dialing for Dollar$

Austin radio stations scramble to keep the money flowing in a strange new media world

"...of the Big Three are tinkering with their formats, desperately trying to find the right combination of music and..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Increasingly Desperate

Dec. 16, 2004 Postmarks

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The right's most troubling victory may be its brilliant subversion of the language of political debate

"...the realists, and although realistic, Republicans are the idealists, desperately trumpeting what they need to believe...."

Nov. 26, 2004 Column by Louis Black

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"...the Heatherwood subdivision near Dripping Springs. And they're trying desperately to maneuver out of the quagmire they created by..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Column

Holiday Wish Lists 2004

Presents for Public Service

"...our fingertips, some of our own still need. Our desperately and deliberately crumbling social service structure reminds me of..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Features Feature

Hays County Troubles

"...the Heatherwood subdivision near Dripping Springs. And they're trying desperately to maneuver out of the quagmire they created by..."

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In Person

BookPeople, Thursday, Nov. 11

"...been shoveled to gay marriage proponents, instead of to desperately needed services such as health care, shelter, youth services...."

Nov. 19, 2004 Books Feature by Abe Louise Young

Two Lives Lost

Danielle Martin and Jackson Ngai shared a close friendship, a passionate love for music, and mental illness. They cared for each other as best they could. And then he killed her.

"...for the next day. In the meantime, he looked desperately for someone to stay with his brother until he..."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Naked City

Being a write-in reduces Dems' chances from slim to none

"...presidential race are true Yellow Dogs and would also desperately want a Democrat congressman. Yet, those counties produced 14,010..."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Clerks. X (10th Anniversary Edition)

This officially marks a decade since the term 'snowballing' was popularized in our ever-expanding sexual vernacular

"...outtakes, and commentary by co-writer/director Brian Dannelly, who tries desperately to explain why the ending is so weak...."

Nov. 12, 2004 Screens Review by Eli Kooris

The Texas Five Minus Four

The Congressional races perform almost as the GOP designed

"...aggressive campaigner, the better debater, the man who so desperately wanted to prove House Majority Leader Tom DeLay wrong..."

Nov. 5, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Master of the Improbable

When someone says something can't be done, trust Turk Pipkin to say 'Wanna bet?'

"...they can provide the rest of humanity with a desperately needed wake-up call...."

Oct. 29, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

As we approach the most pivotal election since 1860, the work of Stirling Silliphant comes to mind because he shows that our present situation was not created by 9 / 11 but has been brewing for a long time

"...is this promise that many will vote for. Passionately. Desperately...."

Oct. 15, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

The Global Test

Whatever happens next month, we all have plenty of work to do

"...about it" – and though the president is still desperately flogging this nonsense to his prescreened campaign extras, the..."

Oct. 8, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Meet the New Bosses

Long Center director Cliff Redd and ALO director Richard Buckley compare notes on leading an arts institution, the challenges they face, and being new to Austin

"...– I was born in 1951 – who are desperately clinging to a city that they don't want any..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2004 ACL Fest Guide

Everything you need to know

"...can thank George Strait for his latest No. 1, "Desperately." "What Would Willie Do?" He'd be right here at..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature

Naked City

How radical! A station that plays several different kinds of music!

"...country, including several with country formats, as radio companies desperately look to infuse stations with something resembling a personality,..."

Aug. 27, 2004 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Short Cuts

Austin ups its indie status by an icon; Moore misses out on his own party, kind of; and Jesus is a film fanatic

"...programmed a broad range of films that slip some desperately needed compassion and bedrock humanity – not to mention..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

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