The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens

"...is not only to provide visibility to those who desperately crave it, but also to dispense grace where it..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Books Review by Melanie Haupt

No Place Like Home

The new Garden Terrace development takes a small but serious step toward housing Austin's homeless.

"...market, that Garden Terrace is unique and innovative and desperately needed, and that it took its developers -- Foundation..."

Jan. 9, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

After a Fashion

Who was tops in 2003? Who will last into 2004?

"...for Eminem With self-consciousness and misdirected sentiment, an organization desperately trying to get cool transforms itself into a bastion..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

New Year's Eve Events

"...y la Luna, providing the pick-me-up you will so desperately need upon awaking five minutes to checkout. Austin Motel:..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Features Feature by Wells Dunbar

Is Economy Really Improving?

"...his administration flounder and drown in Iraq and consequently, desperately, are contriving positive, though misleading, spins on this issue..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Postmarks

Page Two

Our political differences are rarely as black and white as partisan politicking makes them seem.

"...the morality that had preserved the individual freedom they desperately wanted to crush."..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Boy Scouts and United Way Agree to Disagree

Despite calls for a boycott, local reaction muted to split between United Way and Boy Scouts

"...but we'll be fine. United Way serves people that desperately need help, and they'll be hurt the most. A..."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

The Middle of the Night

With its isolated farmhouse and unseen menace, The Middle of the Night may look like a conventional thriller, but playwright Lowell Bartholomee refuses to play by the rules, creating an offbeat drama that keeps us perpetually off-balance by playing against our expectations.

"...we've brushed against one and, like the bloodied visitor, desperately want to defend ourselves from attack. Or like the..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

ACL Prime Time

Blurbs to ACL Music Fest by.

"...songwriter: George Strait recently released a version of Robison's "Desperately," while the precontroversy Dixie Chicks took "Travelin' Soldier" to..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Music Feature

Sharpening the Claw

"...applause, and the rest of the magicians were trying desperately to find something that would outdo the great Houdini...."

Sept. 5, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"Splitting Aguas: The Eighth Annual Young Latino Artists Exhibition"

Throughout "Splitting Aguas," Mexic-Arte's eighth annual showing of works by young Latino artists, there's a sense of our planet being trashed, but the show is far from a downer, as its featured artists boast a fierceness of voice that is invigorating and a wit that is refreshing.

"...thing, they appear like freakish ghosts, haunting and haunted, desperately reaching for some connection to life. The figure in..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Capitol Chronicle

Here come the constitutional amendments, propositioning you.

"...of the House, these 22 amendments -- including such desperately needed proposals as confirming the tax exemption covering nonresidential..."

Aug. 15, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Letters at 3AM

Ralph Nader's stubborn refusal to acknowledge any difference between the Republican and Democratic political platforms cost the Democrats the election.

"...disease to newborn infants are not available there. She desperately wants to avoid bearing the child. But the doctor..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Salon of the West

They may not notice us every time we go to Barton Springs -- after all, they are thinking, passionate men, deep in conversation. But we sure notice them: the men at Philosophers' Rock. Who are they? And why does Austin owe them such a debt of gratitude?

"...column eloquently condemns fascism, blacklisting, censorship, when those things desperately needed condemning. The arguments Dobie made bear Bedichek's stamp..."

July 4, 2003 Books Feature by Steve Moore

TCB

Everybody's hurtin' unless they're on Friendster

"...to continue booking Antone's for Direct Events and hoping desperately to spend more time with his wife and young..."

June 27, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Fun With Carole, Rick, and Greg

The budget standoff provides a snapshot of the new Texas politics.

"...Now the governor is not very coyly suggesting that desperately needed medical funding for the poorest regions of the..."

June 27, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Postmarks

"...what I have always known is true. The world desperately needs peacemakers. The first step toward peace is understanding...."

June 20, 2003 Column

Hedda

In the dirigo group production Hedda, director Laura Somers reimagines Henrik Ibsen's classic as a perverse and sometimes brilliant Doris Day / Rock Hudson flick, coupling late 1950s zip -- party dresses and sweater vests, manhattans and vodka martinis, breezy entrances and exits -- with a forbidden sexuality that ratchets the tensions of Ibsen's play to a whole new level.

"...little substance to give her life the beauty she desperately seeks; her only power is to effect wretched change...."

June 13, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Outfitting the Stars

It's all in a name: suiting up the stars at Star Costume and Clothier.

"...front of the washing machine for three hours trying desperately to get the flags back to the way they..."

June 13, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

"In a New Light" Programs

"...8, Daniel Mann's soapy saga of a high-class prostitute, desperately looking to get out of the biz and find..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature

Bill Passalacqua / Mike Nicolai

Texas Platters

"...and as evidenced by their new albums, both are desperately in need of a producer, or at least someone..."

May 16, 2003 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

After a Fashion

"...well. The lighting was a problem, and the emcee desperately needed improvement, but fortunately the microphone failed a number..."

April 18, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion: SXSW Wednesday

Ka-plam! Your Style Avatar is out and about and making the scene at SXSW. It's just begun, y'all.

"...doesn't. It brands you as an idiot who's trying desperately to be something you're not, and it offends the..."

March 14, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...on obtuse, Gang of Four-style rhythmic patterns that sound desperately prescient in wartime. The Athens-based quartet's debut, The Symptom..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature

Earthly Delights

La Follia's musical guide to love during the Baroque period included some masterful playing by the group's instrumentalists, but it was the haunting voice of soprano Jenifer Thyssen that really reached out to the audience with love's beautiful soundtrack from 300 years ago.

"...more than that, her often haunting delivery -- sometimes desperately soft, sometimes yearning and open -- really set the..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Elegance Never Forgets

Jazz is certainly sensuous music, and a couple of finely fashioned drinks followed by a good meal could work wonders for lovers: Reed's Jazz and Supper Club has it all and offers a terrific spot for romance this Valentine's Day.

"...the drapes completely muffle the sounds, something the place desperately needed. But don't think that means a stuffy, serene..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Food-o-File

What's cooking in the Central Texas food scene.

"...If you're still desperately seeking that one-of-a-kind Valentine, may we suggest you look..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Culture Cash

Austin's artists and arts groups are working hard to survive the economic downturn, and now more than ever it's essential for the city that they do.

"...Whether you feel Austin is weird enough or desperately needs to be weirder, the fact is the city..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Personals

While the material in Personals, a revue built around the ads placed by men and women desperately seeking soul mates, suffers somewhat from age, Naughty Austin's production makes a fine match with a cast that is exceedingly appealing and extremely adept at musical comedy.

"...just that: the ads placed by men and women desperately seeking soul mates -- or barring that, someone not..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Page Two

Expect the next decade to be dominated by a weak economy and precarious international politics -- the consequences of Bush's successes.

"...way to work, he is not attacked by the desperately poor. Unlike in many Third World oligarchies, his glass..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column by Louis Black

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