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The agony and the ecstasy of SXSW 2002

"...With John Sayles." But racing down I-35, late, I'm desperately thinking of questions without any foreshadowing -- questions about..."

March 22, 2002 Column by Louis Black

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"...the highways, falling to his knees and grabbing bystanders desperately, asking them what it's like to feel human emotion..."

March 22, 2002 Column

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"...the highways, falling to his knees and grabbing bystanders desperately, asking them what it's like to feel human emotion..."

March 15, 2002 Column

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"...We desperately need real leadership and bold action or Austin will..."

March 8, 2002 Column

Coach's Corner

Poor Nolan Richardson. Why's everybody always pickin' on he?

"...35 degrees in six minutes. So anybody not already desperately ill from allergies will soon fall victim to the..."

March 8, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Scary Stories for the Thinking Man

Director Guillermo del Toro keeps company with the undead in two new films, Blade 2 and The Devil's Backbone.

"...the little girl, the Phantom of the Opera trying desperately to make his love known, or any of those..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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"...We desperately need real leadership and bold action or Austin will..."

March 1, 2002 Column

If It's Thursday, This Must Be Texas

On the morning of January 24, NY Loves America: The Broadway Tour delivered a Big Apple thank you in the form of a dozen beautifully belted show tunes to a small but appreciative audience in the Texas State Capitol Rotunda.

"...lost 15 men on 9/11. "New York," she said, "desperately wants to convey to you how much they appreciate..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Back Room Bangers Vol. 69

"...in Hollywood? No, we're not talking about someone who desperately needs a new agent. We're talking about Ron Jeremy,..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar tells us about how Winona Ryder's troubles just won't go away.

"...The National Enquirer to provide the dirt we so desperately desire. They inform us that Winona's first brush with..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

News Top 10s

"...Improved customer service as fearful clerks and waitstaff cling desperately to their jobs and drop the attitude...."

Jan. 4, 2002 News Feature

Dancing About Architecture

That was the year that was in the Live Music Capital …

"...Motel-type venue its young, loud, and snotty rockers so desperately needed. Also, numerous new clubs are reportedly in the..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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"...being denied the medical care and counseling we so desperately needed that night as we are all entitled to..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Column

Coach's Corner

Here and There: UT basketball is a great entertainment value, Major League Baseball isn't. And neither is the NFL, thanks in large part to the lousy refs, who got what they deserved in Cleveland.

"...winter move by trading a pitcher, a commodity in desperately short supply in Arlington, for Carl Everett, a fine..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

The Hightower Lowdown

John Ashcroft goes on an imperious jihad; King George throws away our Constitution; and corporate greedheads profit from censorship.

"...would go around intruding into the private lives of desperately ill people, bullying doctors, and asserting federal authority to..."

Dec. 14, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Big in Austin, Big in Japan

If a holiday gift trend is big here this year, chances are, it was already big over there

"...the Rising Sun. We Americans love Japanese trends and desperately wish to make them our own, and here in..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Articulations

Memorializing The Public Domain Theatre Company, 1993-2001

"...worked at being a classics company in a city desperately lacking a good classics company. In addition to the..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Corky Romano

Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Critic's Picks

Kids

"...otherwise effervescent pre-teen or teenager's face when you are desperately trying to wrest control from Final Fantasy LXXVII or..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Best of Austin Feature

Naked City

Candidate John WorldPeace wages war on the Dems

"...adopted name -- links the Democratic front-runner in a desperately hyperbolic chain of guilt-by-association, eventually leading to New Orleans..."

Oct. 5, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...of Mac Wellman's Terminal Hip: an hour of often desperately expressed, seemingly vital yet semantically impermeable information, the power..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Coach's Corner

Odds and Ends: NFL referees have an overinflated view of their own importance; the U.S. Open proved that in tennis, as elsewhere, youth will be served; and if people think Coach ignores UT football, well, there are good reasons for that.

"...212 area code, met with relentless busy signals. Most desperately relieved when the friend or family member finally was..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

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Acting decently and continuing to live as we've always lived are the best acts of revenge in response to recent terrorism; our redesign debuts but will take some time to refine.

"...in their car, listening to a different radio station, desperately trying to digest the news. The most familiar things..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...In the early days, as you are no doubt desperately tired of hearing, the Chronicle existed in a warehouse..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...the summer in Austin. I loved the paper and desperately wanted to work for it. I remember stopping by..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Hot Shots

Just as if we'd ordered it that way, another year of fabulous hot sauce festivities drew to a close, the sunbleached crowds left Waterloo Park, and then the skies opened up.

"...skies opened up, dropping more than three inches of desperately needed rain on parched and crispy Central Texas. What..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The World Goes 'Round

With The World Goes 'Round, director Dave Steakley has crafted a gem of a show, one that celebrates the musical team of John Kander and Fred Ebb with the panache and rich feeling of a beautifully crafted, sublimely entertaining musical of old, that makes us want us to come to the cabaret.

"...old-fashioned musicals, the ones with the sweet-faced ingenues falling desperately in love and singing their undying devotion to each..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Economics From the Bottom Up

A profile of Accion Texas, CDC, and other microlenders

"...often, as in the case of child care, in desperately short supply. Like Okoro, the nonprofits' clients are people..."

Aug. 10, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Naked City

A roundup of local news, rumors, and factoids from around Austin

"...meet the demands of Mayor Robert Stluka. City leaders desperately want to diversify the local economy by going after..."

Aug. 10, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

"...wandering alone on a mountaintop in Greece, he searches desperately for the woman he loves. The clues he finds..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Review by Lindsey Simon

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